#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 [...]
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 [...]
IIFA coverage: we deserve better!
Posted by Anupa in Canada, Ethnic Aisle, media, Pop Culture, Race on 22. Jun, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’ve mostly been pleasantly surprised over the past week to see mainstream coverage of the International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA), taking place in Toronto this weekend. Rumour has it we beat out New York for the chance to host the star studded, nomadic, diaspora-chasing ceremony and we’ve all heard the stories about Bollywood being [...]
Top 10 brown bands/musicians (Or, mom, why didn’t you let me take guitar lessons?)
Posted by Anupa in Ethnic Aisle, Music, Pop Culture, Race on 01. Jun, 2011 | 7 Comments
We all know white people listen to bands with white people in them, so why can’t I be partial to bands with brown people in them? Oh, you ain’t know there exists a significant body of work beyond M.I.A.? THERE DOES: 1. Das Racist: Here’s a sample lyric from “Ek Shaneesh” which basically made me feel [...]
Ask an Indian person
Posted by Anupa in Curiosities, Race on 15. Dec, 2010 | 3 Comments
Fact one: we here at the Ashcan are a multi-ethnic motley crew. Think of us as the Captain Planet of blogs, with disparate elements from far-reaching corners of the world coming together to form a heroic, mullet-topped defender of environmental justice (AND BLOGGING). Fact two: Chances are you know a brown person but may be [...]
