I appreciated Tabatha Southey's recent The Globe and Mail editorial, "Might I demand that we stop agitating against activism?" I'd seen the slurration of "Activist" online, but never imagined it would show up on a city bus.
Southey clearly outlines the shortsightedness involved in the stigmatization of activism. She writes,
That's some good shit. Thank you, Ms. Southey.
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Years ago, I played Jenga at a pub in Vancouver, and someone had written a bunch of dirty suggestions on the blocks. I thought this was fun, so I bought a Jenga set in hopes to make a suggestive tower myself.
But I never used it. So we started colouring the blocks with permanent markers. And I made a video and a GIF:
Just for fun.
AFTERTHOUGHT: I did not mean to post this on International Women's Day; that's just when I got it finished. I started writing it a few days ago, but felt stuck for reasons that a sortof explain here.
I recently came across this tweet and found it salient enough to retweet myself:
I am a white, cisgender, middle-class, Canadian male. I have some privilege on hand that I appear to carelessly strew about me. I just wish I understood when I was doing it. I want to be an advocate like @alix suggests around the 53 minute mark of the podcast embedded above. I want to give outsiders room to speak; I want to trust that they are sharing their experience without couching it for me.
But lately, with how the dialogue's been going, with how many times I seem to put my foot in my mouth, I just want to hide. I want to do my job and spend the rest of my time in a corner where I won't hurt anybody. My intentions are good, but my privilege blinds me. I'm one of those guys.
As I start to compile my 30-second Twitter rants into YouTube videos in order to make them easier to embed, I've started a playlist.
I don't intend on making the videos pretty in any way, but it's certainly nice to be able to embed them as a single video instead of a series of different videos.
I've started a new YouTube channel for my lo-fi ephemeral ideas videos. This channel is intended to be a placeholder for current event or reflection videos of varying quality. I don't want to sully my main YouTube channel with a bunch of ideological, temporal hogwash. It's not as if my standards are that high over there, but this channel might help me keep the other channel a little bit more special.
I've titled it "jeffnords ephemeral ideas" because I expect many of these ideas to fade away. I've started to upload some old videos that are already out of date because I want to make sure I've set the standard for anything to go up there. Another good thing about making the channel is that I can start making videos that compile my "30-second Twitter rants" which are fun to make on Twitter but annoying to embed into a webpage like this blog. This channel will allow me to keep my Twitter embedding a little less cumbersome on this weblog. I'll still post about each of the uploaded videos here; I just want people who are interested in my artistic work to not be inundated with lo-fi ideological crap. Unfortunately, I need 100 subscribers in order to earn a custom URL. That means that I'm going to have to do some self-promotion. Yikes. |
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