you know, I know edmonton, partially, through my Métis family. I know it through the way it marginalized and marginalizes Indigenous bodies. I know it through the cracks in its veneer, through the ugliness of how police treated and treat Indigenous men and women. I know it through the roughness and greed lent to it… Read More
‘Decolonial Dreams: Unsettling the Academy Through Namewak’, a forthcoming essay in ‘The New [New] Corpse’
In November, editor Caroline Picard at Green Lantern Press in Chicago invited me to contribute an essay to her forthcoming volume The New [New] Corpse, which is being published in conjunction with an exhibit of the same name that was shown at Sector 2337 Gallery in Chicago in the autumn of 2014. The piece I… Read More
YOU SHOULD BE READING THESE PIECES
I like the idea of ‘follow friday’, borrowed here from the Twitter realm. Today I want to direct you to some of the influential pieces and thinkers I have been steered towards since I wrote my Ontology blog post back in October. These women are all writing critically about posthumanist/ontological/new materialist thinking, and doing so… Read More
Spin 2.0
Last year my sister took a time-lapse of me spinning at Spanish Banks. https://zoeandthecity.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/spin-baby-spin/ Today she took one of me spinning out here in the lower mainland, on unceded Katzie First Nation land. Sometimes a girl just wants to spin in the sunshine.
the city beyond your gaze
I am taking a break from Twitter to focus on my writing and other projects. However, before I leave the platform completely, let me share one of my last Twitter essays.
news
Thank you so much for all the notes and conversations that you have shared with me throughout the winter and into the spring. I am so delighted to have met so many anthropologists and scholars and activists through my little blog. I have some exciting news: beginning 01 July I will be taking up a… Read More