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I am fascinated by the ways that people’s lives intersect on and off-line. Second Life is particularly interesting because of how realistically it is trying to replicate people’s off-line lives. Even more interesting is the racialization in Second Life. When you sign up for Second Life, you get to choose the starting look for your…
Ethical clothing: Merino Ads
Is this ad racist? Or reproducing racist imagery? I saw this ad in fiber options the other day. The person I was with did not initially read the male body as black (or even not white), which I found shocking as it seems obviously racialized as not white to me. This led me to reflect…
Colour Me Blind
Great video I just came across, it totally outs the way diversity gets used to shut down conversations about the impacts of racism …
white associations
I’ve been reading Hazel Smith’s The Writing Experiment, and here’s one of the word association poems that I came up with. white white wash white soap white clean white whale white board white teaching white knowledge white supremacy white people white flowers white goodness white evil white right white rightness white apart white violence white…
Calgary Airport Indians
The luggage collection area in most airports is a pretty boring place. It doesn’t seem to be a part of the airport that gets much attention, despite the expensive renovations and art in many Canadian airports these days. Calgary, however, has decided to liven up their luggage area with a few scenes from the Canadian…
What’s wrong with being an ‘ally’?
On the surface it seems that there could be nothing wrong with wanting to be an ally to a social movement. Being an ally implies wanting to help, and what could be wrong with that? There is definitely nothing wrong with seeing a problem in the world and wanting to change it. However the language…

