#bramptongirls
Posted by Anupa in Canada, Ethnic Aisle, Pop Culture, Race, Toronto, Twitter on 20. Sep, 2011 | 1 Comment
Did you see this in the top 10 trending topics for Toronto last week? It was there for THREE days, you guys. That’s on some London Riots or Egypt-type shit. As a member of the #bramptongirls tribe (shout out Springdale!) the hashtag fascinated me. “#BramptonGirls is trending. tears of joy,” I tweeted. That got me [...]
Come out to ‘Suburbs vs Downtown: the 416, the 905, and race and ethnicity’
Posted by Jef in Politics, Race, Toronto on 19. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
As you may have heard, there’s a heated war going on between the GTA’s downtowners and suburbanites. Or maybe there’s not. Who can say? You can – we’d like to invite you to a very, very informal talk session about the 416, the 905, and what race and ethnicity have got to do with it. [...]
Caught out there: a Canadian living and working in Indian fashion
Posted by Anupa in Canada, Ethnic Aisle, fashion, Race, Toronto on 22. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
My friend, and fellow Bramptonian, Preet Nirwal (that’s her up there!) has lived in India for the large majority of the past five years. Just after her homecoming to Toronto this summer, she set up shop at Harbourfront Centre’s artist’s market to sell a few lovely pieces of clothing crafted in India from local, heritage [...]
Q&A: Vijay Iyer on jazz, privileged prodigies, and “Indian-American”
Posted by Anupa in Ethnic Aisle, Interviews, Music, Race on 27. Jun, 2011 | 4 Comments
Jazz pianist Vijay Iyer is a Yale mathematics graduate who also holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Technology and the Arts. This might seem slightly incongruous until you read the title of his 1998 dissertation, according to Wikipedia: Macrostructures of Sound: Embodied Cognition in West African and African-American Musics. There’s a real cerebral element [...]
Ethnic Aisle Pride Edition: Whatever happened to my homophobia?
Posted by Jef in Ethnic Aisle, Race on 26. Jun, 2011 | 0 Comments
The phrase “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” has always bothered me. First, because what does that even mean? Second, because yes, you can. The idea that homophobia is entrenched in visible minority/immigrant communities bothers me, even if it’s true, because it is also entrenched in other, whiter households. And the idea that [...]
