Carmen Nielson
@carmen-nielson.bsky.social
Historian of Canada, gender, politics, graphic satire. Writing (apparently interminably) about Grip magazine.
Ok, odd question but has anyone been in the confessional in St Michael’s cathedral in Toronto? Or seen a picture of the inside?
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Ok, odd question but has anyone been in the confessional in St Michael’s cathedral in Toronto? Or seen a picture of the inside?
This is Murphy’s tiktok if youd prefer to watch/listen vm.tiktok.com/ZMB4uPUu4/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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April 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is Murphy’s tiktok if youd prefer to watch/listen vm.tiktok.com/ZMB4uPUu4/
This is the best, most logical interpretation I’ve seen about what’s going on
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is the best, most logical interpretation I’ve seen about what’s going on
🗣️ “Carney…fits the constructed image of our reasonable politician: an older, white, male professional who exudes a kind of father-figure appeal to voters who want someone in charge who will protect them during a chaotic time.” thewalrus.ca/mark-carneys...
Mark Carney’s Secret Weapon? Being Reasonable | The Walrus
The power of looking like you’ve got this
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April 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
🗣️ “Carney…fits the constructed image of our reasonable politician: an older, white, male professional who exudes a kind of father-figure appeal to voters who want someone in charge who will protect them during a chaotic time.” thewalrus.ca/mark-carneys...
From the archives: US tariff policy as threatening Miss Canada’s sexual purity, 1891 Conservative campaign poster
April 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
From the archives: US tariff policy as threatening Miss Canada’s sexual purity, 1891 Conservative campaign poster
Reposted by Carmen Nielson
Wilfrid Laurier University’s People Make History lecture series returns with March 26 panel on Canada-U.S. relations, featuring Lara Campbell from Simon Fraser University; Tim Cook from the Canadian War Museum; and Asa McKercher from St. Francis Xavier University
Laurier’s People Make History lecture series returns with March 26 panel on Canada-U.S. relations
Featuring Professor Lara Campbell from Simon Fraser University; Tim Cook, chief historian and director of research at the Canadian War Museum; and Asa McKercher, Steven K. Hudson Research Chair in Canada-U.S. Relations at St. Francis Xavier University
www.wlu.ca
March 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Wilfrid Laurier University’s People Make History lecture series returns with March 26 panel on Canada-U.S. relations, featuring Lara Campbell from Simon Fraser University; Tim Cook from the Canadian War Museum; and Asa McKercher from St. Francis Xavier University
This is a great piece. But it’s also fascinating that the marriage/SA allegory for US/Canada relations still has so much power over us. “Annexation is not marriage. It’s rape.” www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
Why some Canadians are in denial about Donald Trump
Security threats don’t feel close until your windows start to shake.
www.thespec.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This is a great piece. But it’s also fascinating that the marriage/SA allegory for US/Canada relations still has so much power over us. “Annexation is not marriage. It’s rape.” www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
Here’s another much more salacious depiction of Miss Canada and Uncle Sam. Richard Cartwright the Liberal finance minister is an “Arab” selling her into (sexual) slavery. 1891 Conservative campaign poster.
March 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Here’s another much more salacious depiction of Miss Canada and Uncle Sam. Richard Cartwright the Liberal finance minister is an “Arab” selling her into (sexual) slavery. 1891 Conservative campaign poster.
Reposted by Carmen Nielson
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March 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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US annexation of Canada was often imagined as a marital (read: sexual) union by 19th and 20th c cartoonists. Bengough uses the motif in this 19 Jan 1889. It’s funny b/c Miss Canada (who’s particularly comely in her toque and blanket coat) rebuffs US’s come on. Girl just wants to shop.
March 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
US annexation of Canada was often imagined as a marital (read: sexual) union by 19th and 20th c cartoonists. Bengough uses the motif in this 19 Jan 1889. It’s funny b/c Miss Canada (who’s particularly comely in her toque and blanket coat) rebuffs US’s come on. Girl just wants to shop.
JW Bengough drew dozens of cartoons about US-Canada tariff policy. This one from Feb 26, 1876 critiques Mackenzie’s and the Liberal’s free trade policy in the face of American economic aggression.
March 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
JW Bengough drew dozens of cartoons about US-Canada tariff policy. This one from Feb 26, 1876 critiques Mackenzie’s and the Liberal’s free trade policy in the face of American economic aggression.
“Crisis” implies that at some time in the past the (im)balance of power between the sexes was just right, Goldilocks style.
Young women are now consistently earning more than their male counterparts for the first time, according to a report that warns of a social “crisis” gripping young men
The lost boys: how a generation of young men fell behind women on pay
www.thetimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“Crisis” implies that at some time in the past the (im)balance of power between the sexes was just right, Goldilocks style.
We just saw a crystal clear demonstration of DJT’s “might makes right” attitude. He kept saying “you have no cards.” All he understands is brute power. He is the CINC of the world’s largest military & so everyone must kneel. He and Putin plan to carve up their adjacent territories b/c they can.
February 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We just saw a crystal clear demonstration of DJT’s “might makes right” attitude. He kept saying “you have no cards.” All he understands is brute power. He is the CINC of the world’s largest military & so everyone must kneel. He and Putin plan to carve up their adjacent territories b/c they can.
The Art of the Kneel
February 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The Art of the Kneel
I was talking American politics with a smart group of friends on the weekend and we all agreed that by just saying stuff that was objectively true made us sound completely bananas.
I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.
feel like one problem of Trump is that describing him objectively sounds like you're insulting him
February 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I was talking American politics with a smart group of friends on the weekend and we all agreed that by just saying stuff that was objectively true made us sound completely bananas.
We all know that what RFK is up to is eugenics, right?
February 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We all know that what RFK is up to is eugenics, right?
I’m pretty sure the Gaza video started as satire. The Trump team has consistently appropriated satirical takes to muddy the waters. When we don’t know what’s irony and what’s fact, anything becomes possible.
February 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I’m pretty sure the Gaza video started as satire. The Trump team has consistently appropriated satirical takes to muddy the waters. When we don’t know what’s irony and what’s fact, anything becomes possible.
Taking bets on which political opponent will be the first to go to jail and the first to die.
February 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Taking bets on which political opponent will be the first to go to jail and the first to die.
Joey is a former student & I brag about them all the time. I have
also invited Joey to my history methods class & the students are always wowed. Joey’s work is fascinating & innovative, their approach to archiving & historical research thoughtful & important. Check out Joey’s essay to find out more.
also invited Joey to my history methods class & the students are always wowed. Joey’s work is fascinating & innovative, their approach to archiving & historical research thoughtful & important. Check out Joey’s essay to find out more.
I've finally put together some thoughts on archiving games history, the satisfaction of scanning, and what the future holds. I'd love it if you took a look 💛
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On Archiving Games History
Some thoughts on amateur preservation, digitisation, conservation, and history
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February 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Joey is a former student & I brag about them all the time. I have
also invited Joey to my history methods class & the students are always wowed. Joey’s work is fascinating & innovative, their approach to archiving & historical research thoughtful & important. Check out Joey’s essay to find out more.
also invited Joey to my history methods class & the students are always wowed. Joey’s work is fascinating & innovative, their approach to archiving & historical research thoughtful & important. Check out Joey’s essay to find out more.
This is how it’s done. Political cartoonists that endlessly play on “Trump is a little bitch” with all the misogynist and queer-phobic connotations that entails could learn something here.
February 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is how it’s done. Political cartoonists that endlessly play on “Trump is a little bitch” with all the misogynist and queer-phobic connotations that entails could learn something here.
Thinking about sex, gender and politics: the first time an MP spoke in Parliament was their “maiden speech” and (in the US at least) a man’s first time to the polls was his “virgin vote”
historyofparliament.com/2017/07/19/m...
historyofparliament.com/2017/07/19/m...
First steps in the chamber: making a maiden speech - The History of Parliament
For the one hundred or so new MPs who were elected in June, many have already achieved one of the major milestones of their Commons’ careers: the maiden
historyofparliament.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Thinking about sex, gender and politics: the first time an MP spoke in Parliament was their “maiden speech” and (in the US at least) a man’s first time to the polls was his “virgin vote”
historyofparliament.com/2017/07/19/m...
historyofparliament.com/2017/07/19/m...
Do you ever read something that just stuns you with its insight and erudition? Rn it’s Diana Donald’s *Art of Caricature* for me. The incisiveness and quality of understanding is just wow. If I could have read and understood this 10 years ago, everything about my project would have been different.
February 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Do you ever read something that just stuns you with its insight and erudition? Rn it’s Diana Donald’s *Art of Caricature* for me. The incisiveness and quality of understanding is just wow. If I could have read and understood this 10 years ago, everything about my project would have been different.
Glad someone is saying the quiet parts out loud. “Trump's arguments sound like a man trying to construct a pretext.” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
ANALYSIS | Trump's talk about Canada parrots Putin's claims on Ukraine | CBC News
Donad Trump's threats and claims about Canada may be unprecedented in the history of U.S.-Canada relations. But they have a strong precedent elsewhere in recent history: They closely resemble remarks ...
www.cbc.ca
February 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Glad someone is saying the quiet parts out loud. “Trump's arguments sound like a man trying to construct a pretext.” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...