The liberty to fuck something up—to deform it, and accept the fragments—would seem to be a chimerical opportunity to a fledgling PhD student, but we all are quite aware that liberty never comes without parameters and consequences. It is quite simple to conflate fucking something up with deconstruction, and in many ways, this simple conflation Read More
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.” -TS Eliot As I walked under the Oberbaumbrücke for the first time in 2004, I experienced a strong of sense of familiarity of the space. There Read More
I am a firm believer that the history of Québec is a collection of paradoxes and contradictions dressed in settler-colonialist and nationalist-driven social and political development. As a scholar deeply concerned with engaging in revisionist histories of Québec, I decided this week to take on a text that has plagued me for the past few Read More
Welcome to Montréal. This is Champs-de-Mars, one of the oldest places in the city. This space is site to our fortifications, and once functioned as a military parade ground—now it stands a public park to invite millions of tourists to consume the history and beauty of the fair city. It was also one of the first sex Read More