Toronto and Back
I expected to be relatively un-busy during my four-month stay in Toronto, but I should have known better. Had I been in blogging mode I would have touched on many things: the course I taught at York University, which focused a critical psychology/anarchist lens on societal institutions; other talks I gave in Toronto on related subjects, especially whether psychology can help bring about social justice; Israel/Palestine issues, including the controversy over the Toronto International Film Festival that erupted not long after I got there and Faculty4Palestine meetings; Uri Gordon’s talk on Anarchists Against the Wall (my class read his book Anarchy Alive!); vegan potlucks, a polyamory discussion group, and a Science for Peace panel discussion; my sense of similarities and differences between Canada and the United States, including the visibility of FIrst Nations people and issues; my first-ever solo showing of my abstract photographs, at Toronto’s College Street Bar (images of tear-gassed protestors and other political topics definitely not included); and some other things as well, including visits to Ottawa, Manitoulin Island, Hamilton, and Waterloo.
But all I’ll say for now is that I had a great time in many different ways, and made enough lasting connections to give me reason to go back at some point. And now I’m back in Boston, where I expect (or at least hope) to be less busy than I was in Canada. We’ll see how that goes….
Zombie Walk at TIFF
CN Tower
Samba Elégua at Kensington Market’s Pedestrlan Sunday
Wikwemikong Unceded Reserve, Manitoulin Island, Ontario
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