Jun 15The Tiger MenaceThe Kijiji seller claimed the puppy was a Boxer-Labrador cross. I was looking for a Boxer as a silly, playful mate for my first dog Nula, who was one year at the time and part Boxer herself. He came into my life like a bullet and lodged himself right above…Dogs5 min readDogs5 min read
Jun 9The Good Times Are Killing Me: Glass Bookshop ReviewThe Good Times Are Killing Me: Glass Bookshop Review Glass Bookshop — located at 9553 76 Avenue NW — is an independent bookstore in Edmonton specializing in writing by women, Black, Indigenous, queer, racialized, and local authors. The store is open 11 am — 7 pm on weekdays and 10…Edmonton5 min readEdmonton5 min read
Jun 3Lawrence Avenue EastLawrence Avenue is a major street running through Toronto, but I think of it as the river of my youth. Though I have lived in Scarborough, one of the city’s five districts, less than four years in total, it might as well be a lifetime. If not my formative years…Toronto5 min readToronto5 min read
Mar 5, 2021On refusal and the challenge of thinking collectively.“I’ve always rejected being understood. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I’m not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect.” — Fernando Pessoa, Book of Disquiet I first learned about journal clubs (or scholarly reading groups) by reading Sarah J. Coysh, William Denton, and Lisa Sloniowski’s…University7 min readUniversity7 min read
Jan 9, 2021On Violence: Rupture and Saturation of the contemporary experienceOn Violence: Rupture and Saturation of the Contemporary Experience “But I have tamed myself, I have stomped on the throat of my own song.” — Mayakovsky One day, while working at the service desk of a local public library, a man came up and said something which lent several chuckles…Violence7 min readViolence7 min read
Dec 30, 2020On Death, Part 1.“More life, more everything” — Drake, “Free Smoke” What does capitalism want? Thinkers like Jason W. Moore have said that it wants to eat the world, locked in a perpetual cycle of accumulation, gathering into itself all that is living: soil, forests, minerals, living beings, energy reserves. …Death6 min readDeath6 min read
Oct 2, 2020New Materialism and a commitment to philosophyWhat is the use of philosophy today? The only thing more embarrassing than declaring oneself a philosopher these days is perhaps to come out as a poet. Few things are as indulgent and impractical as philosophizing in the ever-productive world of contemporary late capitalism. And anyway, is anyone who theorizes…Philosophy7 min readPhilosophy7 min read
Sep 18, 2020How shall we live? Job vs. Work in the Academy“as if they were unalive, as if They were ideas” — e.e.cummings During a weekly huddle in a small unit in which I worked in my “professional youth”, a colleague who was new to the organization and figuring out the scope of their job said something that I remember regularly…Labour7 min readLabour7 min read
