participation
Participatory research methods
Research which centres the experiences of people who are under-represented is not new, but is increasingly important as power imbalances grow more stark. Participatory research is a good place to start.
representation
participation
The jammer is the ball: Learning about community from roller derby
Roller derby (a team sport on roller skates) is embedded in a culture of self-organization, inclusion, and openness. What can other values-led communities learn from a sport that's made a virtue of inclusion?
definitions
Categories
I like doing the boring work, and the work that underlies the shiny things. Often, what’s needed but not top-of-mind is the ability to understand and critique the underlying structures we seldom think to challenge. In that spirit, I want to talk about categories.
language
Language and belonging
Language is a means of belonging, judging, and increasingly, of deciding who gets to be in and who doesn't. The impetus towards increased language requirements in immigration criteria is not the only way to think of language competence, or of belonging.
bookpile
Bookpile 8: From here to there
Bookpile is short posts on Fridays about what I’m reading now and what I’m liking about it. This week, it’s the catalogue which accompanied Canada's 2003 entry at the Venice Biennale, Jana Sterbak's dog-based video work, From Here to There.
representation
The map and the territory
As more data is collected, stored, and computed, there's a gold rush on for applications of real-world data in both trivial and critical fields. Whether it's accuracy of delivery robots or facial recognition, we must remember not to heed our own maps at the expense of the territories they represent.