Likes words + pictures. Still here (in academia, thinking about contemporary lit, visual culture, & politics of aesthetics). Coined the phrase "It's Adam & Eve, not Adam & Jeeves" as a [bad] argument against labour exploitation.
This 👇🏽 is terrific news! Now we need to replicate this across all of Ontario and Canada!!
A Major Win for Indoor Air Quality: Toronto's Board of Health Moves to Adopt Stronger Ventilation StandardsThe Ontario Society of Professional Engineers celebrates a major win for indoor air quality with stronger ventilation standards in Toronto.ospe.on.ca
Seeing dozens of Toronto folks on this site celebrating the no jets movement win and the opening of the new section of Biidaasige simultaneously, on a stunning sunny day, is genuinely heartwarming. Happy for all of you and it's a nice break from what feels like long stretches of bad news.
Toronto’s public bikeshare is completely world class. Half the price of NYC, more winterized than Montreal, well integrated with transit.
Michael Druker 🇨🇦Everyone loves to talk about what their city governments are doing wrong. What’s something your city is getting right? (And tell us what city it is!)
Thread. Speaking truth to power seems easy when someone else does it and/or when we see it in the rearview mirror. It ain't.
dr. thrasher also believes netanyahu is a war criminalseen some people (just a handful) downplaying what mamdani said about netanyahu, none of whom have probably used the most prominent moments of their lives to criticize israel, and i don't think they appreciate how the mayor put a bounty on his head and took an enormous risk talking like that
My two cents: yes and no. Comics are not easier to read well or actively but they are easier to read passively -- in the way it's 'easier' to watch a Netflix film/show than it is to watch a film/show that requires your active participation.
jOSEPHINE rIESMANI don't know who needs to hear this, but... comics, as a medium, is not "easier to read" than prose, and acting like children who prefer comics to prose books are dumbasses is a manifestation of the worst kind of Puritan-work-ethic authoritarianism
A short thread on why Musk is dually full of shit wrt The Odyssey and why you don't have to carry his water by believing in the notions of purity and faithfulness in adaptation.
Nemanja ProticRespectfully, I disagree. Entirely. Myth is subject to retelling and reinvention in a way that is analogous to the way fiction is subject to retelling and reinvention. (Cont'd.)