Originally published in Progressive City (progressivecity.net) Access the article by clicking here. Zine distro table. Image retrieved from QUEER.ARCHIVE.WORK. What’s a zine? Those of us who are disenfranchised by dominant economic and cultural systems, and with precarious resource-access, use zines as a vernacular form of communication. Artists and authors the world over make zines to… Continue reading Zines, Queers & Economic Democracy: Vernacular Culture in Social Economy
Author: Darian Razdar
Writer, researcher, activist. Specializing in urban and cultural planning and action
The polite xenophobia compelling Canada’s ever tighter travel restrictions
How fear of the foreign has taken hold of Canada’s COVID response, hurt (im)migrants and newcomers, and shifted attention from root causes. In a world so ravaged by crisis, Canada prides itself as a compassionate leader. Canadians rejoice in their country’s multiculturalism — congratulating their accepting society at a time when many nations rally around… Continue reading The polite xenophobia compelling Canada’s ever tighter travel restrictions
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Tracklist:I Don’t Hate California After All, Carly Rae JepsenI Don’t Search I Find (Club Mix), Honey Dijon x MadonnaMagic, Kylie MinogueHillside Boys, Kim PetrasXanax, Lindsay LohanHe’s On the Phone, Saint EtienneSunscreen, SOPHIE x LizPower To The People, Octo OctaIn Your Eyes, Kylie Minogue
What About Pride?
What About Pride? We’re Better off Without It (As We Know It) As COVID-19 began at the burgeoning of Spring in North America, and lock down initiated (for most of us) shortly after, the question lingering behind our collective existential dread became more and more pressing as the days became longer and the flowers blossomed:… Continue reading What About Pride?
Tell Councillors Matlow and Wong-Tam to INCREASE TPS BUDGET CUTS
Tell Toronto City Councillors Josh Matlow and Kristyn Wong-Tam to INCREASE TPS BUDGET CUTS. The ‘progressive’ (some say ‘radical’) contingent of our City Council is proposing a mere 10% budget cut to TPS. This comes at the same time as the City CUTS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars to essential services like transit, childcare, and… Continue reading Tell Councillors Matlow and Wong-Tam to INCREASE TPS BUDGET CUTS
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Staging Homoerotic Desire and Death in John Greyson’s Lilies
What happens when my desire precipitates the death of that which attracts my longing? When my love obliterates another/an other — or, when I am obliterated because I love – how do I move on? How do the survivors deal with the fallout? In what worlds is reparation for such tragedies possible? Lilies,[1] adapted from… Continue reading Staging Homoerotic Desire and Death in John Greyson’s Lilies
Jupiter Shines in August
Every time I look at the night sky with a friend, we marvel at our small place in the universe. “You can really see a lot of stars here, not something I’m used to.” I told Toni while we found ourselves together again in a nighttime park. This park was dotted with the occasional street… Continue reading Jupiter Shines in August
The Annex at Dusk
My neighbourhood around 9:30pm in late June 2019.
Light in 3 Tenses – Tense III : Nightcrawlers
The pavement will be wet, the sidewalk sticky. In what will seem like perpetual darkness, few keep outdoors. The people of light will have staked their claim to the exterior world — outside the walls built by the others to seize that which made these ones free. And besides, the people of light will become… Continue reading Light in 3 Tenses – Tense III : Nightcrawlers
