Best thing about being on hold at @cogecoconnexion.bsky.social is that this is their hold music
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I see the MacDonald monument is now “unboxed” at Queen’s Park and under armed guard. Where are the 🇨🇦 conservative voices crying abt the~ $1m/pa cost to taxpayers to guard a statue 24/7/365 forever?? It’s as if $ doesn’t matter when it’s abt celebrating their fav genocidaire.

It's a basic democratic right for a community, institution (or in this case congregation) to be able to choose to shape and reshape its memory culture—rather than being forced to keep every last memorial to a coloniser or enslaver #EveryMonumentWillFall

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The entire city could be powered by the budding masc, rocker softie energy in town this weekend.

RIP to Douglas Coupland’s Red Canoe sculpture 😢 www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7499898

Are Florida’s Confederate statues & place names coming back? Trump orders restoration of monuments. Unclear how much power Secretary of the Interior can exert at local level, but it will surely inspire or scare officials into compliance. #ReConfederatization www.jacksonville.com/story/news/p...

It’s policy like this recent EO from the US that makes it so important to keep doing tours like “Monumental” that talk abt how artists respond to, and create new sites of memory.

Glad to have the chance to share this with students at @uoft.bsky.social this week

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Great news here! Really important that we start to see more Anishinaabemowin in the Toronto street grid! An important step in reclaiming the Land relations the current street grid obscures.

Funny how this petition to rename Wayne Gretzky Drive that's doing the numbers has no complaints about "cost," "inconvenience," or "erasing history" associated with it. It's almost as if those "concerns" were maybe just something else? 🤔
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As part of his excellent daily #BHM threads @lanrickbennett.bsky.social documents the impacts of the campaign to #RenameDundasStreet what it’s accomplished, and what remains tbd.

Never forget whats possible when ppl work together against racism, colonialism and for positive change! TY LANRICK 🖤✊

Had an amazing last 2 days presenting my research and methods through my new tour of Toronto’s underground PATH system!

Thx 2 all participants, PopeCullen Projects 4 commissioning the tour for their Graduate Research-Creation Residency & to Transart Institute 4 their support too

#walkingart #phd

Flag Day today in 🇨🇦 seems a good time to remind everyone that Tories hated the maple leaf so much that we basically had to invent provincial flags so they could keep licking imperial boots.

STTA when u see posts like this

Important rebuttal by @lanrickbennett.bsky.social to @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social incorrect sug that Sec 37 $$$ were used inappropriately to pay for naming Sankofa Square. 🧵

Gave a short talk abt scenography and @rachelhann.bsky.social ‘s theory of “the scenographic” to a Performance Studies Research Methods class yesterday in the same theatre I watched Crimes of the Future in a couple yrs ago. Thx THF 105 for the invite!

Keep calm and fight residential school denialism until it's gone.

Thrilled that I'll be presenting my paper, "Monumental: Animating Oral History as Creative Memory Activism" at the 9th Annual Finnish Oral History Network Conference at the University of Jyväskylä!

Looking forward to visiting Finland & meeting new colleagues 🇫🇮
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