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Pride isn’t Enough | Out There
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Chronicles of a student of International Development. Pride isn’t Enough. July 1, 2014. I finished this year’s Toronto Pride festivities like a christmas tree. That is to say, dehydrated and covered in tinsel. Well, maybe not tinsel, but there was glitter. Lots and lots of glitter. Stole that joke from the show Bob’s Burgers, no humour credit for me). 8211; that said about normalcy, in some ways there is an element of an exotifying gaze that is felt at times at Pride. And sometimes I wonder how much ...
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Weight | Out There
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Chronicles of a student of International Development. July 4, 2014. Our words and actions have it. And it’s easy to forget that when things line up the way we want them to. We realize most viscerally the differences between the weights of our words when we lack that weight, when our voices fall on deaf ears, and when others are heard over us. This is what I want all you folks to have in mind when considering my post about Pride not being enough. By Lindsay Jack, a K-W slam poet. Her piece describes someo...
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Erin | Out There
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Chronicles of a student of International Development. July 4, 2014. Our words and actions have it. And it’s easy to forget that when things line up the way we want them to. We realize most viscerally the differences between the weights of our words when we lack that weight, when our voices fall on deaf ears, and when others are heard over us. This is what I want all you folks to have in mind when considering my post about Pride not being enough. By Lindsay Jack, a K-W slam poet. Her piece describes someo...