Your pedantic PSA reminding you that Daylight Saving Time is the period from spring to fall (when there is more daylight to save), while Standard Time is the period from fall to spring where we live in darkness and shelter from the elements. 2/end

In sum, a costume that celebrates two great loves of mine, sociology and K-Pop. Happy Halloween everyone! 👻 🎃 🧙 😈 9/end

As I elaborated for my students this morning, this is akin to the move Durkheim describes from mechanical solidarity, based on sameness, which can be stifling to those who don’t conform, to organic solidarity, based on recognition of our mutual difference and interdependence. 8/

So rather than “listening to the demons” and “letting them get between us,” the Rainbow Honmoon creates harmony from the darkness within us, based on a recognition that “none of us are out here on our own.” 7/

This vision recognizes that the demons are not something outside of us to be kept out, but rather the “jagged edges” and “broken glass” that make us human. 6/

That’s why, at the end of the movie, Rumi declares that they must destroy the Golden Honmoon in order to create a new one — the Rainbow Honmoon. This is a vision of social cohesion and safety based not on denying differences and imperfections, but by recognizing and embracing them. 5/

This in turn creates weaknesses in the fabric of the Golden Honmoon which allows Gwima and his demons to pierce through, preying on individuals’ sense of shame and fear of difference. 4/

But as the movie progresses, particularly through Rumi’s struggles with her literal internal demon, we come to see that the vision of cohesion and security that the Golden Honmoon promises is a false one, as it requires suppressing our individual differences and imperfections. 3/

This is the Honmoon the HUNTR/X girls/demon hunters are striving to create in the first part of the movie, a utopian vision of social cohesion and safety(“we’re gonna be Golden”, as the song goes), with the demons viewed as an external threat to be kept out. 2/

They let me through security with it 😊

I then made it back to Montreal before midnight and got up to teach my 8:30 am class 😵‍💫🫠 4/

so it was up to me to remind senators that the right to strike is indeed a constitutionally protected right under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and that history shows that back-to-work orders often end up provoking the actions they are trying to prevent. 3/

It was quite an experience to be invited to testify at the Canadian Senate last night (the hearing went from 6:45—9:00 pm!). All the other witnesses were employer representatives advocating for further restrictions on workers’ right to strike, 2/