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Cover Art – Artist statement and Cover Artist Jordan Wood in Conversation with Indigenous Australian Artist Yhonnie Scarce: On History, Haunted Places, and Fractured Identities
No full text\u27Teacher\u27, 2021, is collage on a found silver gelatin print. Collage takes the form of a healing modality, restructuring experiences to present multiple understandings and propositional connections. Learning as an infinite, collaborative assemblage. The photograph was found at a thrift store near Richmond Gaol, Lutruwita. I visited the gaol with my mother, attempting to trace a family member believed to have been held there.It is partnered with a piece titled \u27Eva\u27, bookending this Text and Image piece. Together they speak to both revolutionary sculptor Eva Hesse and Eva Rosslyn Johnsson, my maternal grandmother. Their shared feminist approach guides the assembling shapes, forms and motions from various sites towards a discussion around collective memories and inherited experiences.
Accompanying the artworks is an interview conducted by Jordan with indigenous Australian artist, Yhonnie Scarce in which they reflect on shared themes across their work, the significance of the oyster image in ‘Teacher’, personal and collective histories, and the haunted places that inform their art
Tenth Anniversary Artwork: Jenny Tilsen\u27s ‘Self Portrait in Fragments’
No full textThe image depicts a life-sized self-portrait collage that I created during the COVID-19 pandemic and during my first semester of grad school. The collage is constructed from torn magazine pages and reassembled onto a tracing of me. This collage symbolizes both forced and voluntary transformation. The forced transformation reflects how we collectively navigated unprecedented change and loss during the pandemic. The voluntary change is found in an intentional act of reclaiming power through the remaking of myself out of magazine pieces, at a time when I felt powerless. By transforming fragmented images into a new representation of being, I asserted agency in a time uncertainty. The magazines that I used to make the collage were all found or gifted to me. When people in my community heard that I was collaging, they would give me their discarded magazines. Nothing is ever made in isolation. We create from the resources that are available to us, often through the generosity and care of others.
The process and expression represented in the collage mirror the themes and values of Catalyst—where dominant science and technology narratives are challenged, deconstructed, and remade into something new as a response to the techno-capitalist racialized, gendered, and militarized world and as a desire for something different. Both the artwork and the journal challenge linear and hierarchical ways of thinking, offering alternative, multiple methods of understanding complex phenomena. In doing so, Catalyst foregrounds multiplicity and interconnectedness, rejecting singular, objective truths in favor of a more layered and intersectional understanding of the world.
Outcomes of Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Tailored for Canadian Public Safety Personnel Among Indigenous and White Clients
No full textIndigenous Peoples and public safety personnel are two groups that report very high rates of mental health challenges. Internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy is an effective treatment for various mental health challenges with promising results among Indigenous clients and public safety personnel. However, research on the mental health of Indigenous public safety personnel and the treatment of mental health challenges among Indigenous public safety personnel is extremely scarce. In the current study—using questionnaire responses and program usage data—we compared outcomes of internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (i.e., symptom change, program use, and treatment satisfaction) among 35 Indigenous and 356 White public safety personnel in Canada (N = 391) to assess whether Indigenous public safety personnel benefit similarly to White public safety personnel from internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy. Data analyses included multiple imputation, chi-square analyses, independent-samples t-tests, and ANCOVAs for various outcomes. We also present several illustrative quotes from Indigenous clients. Our results show elevated pre-treatment symptoms among Indigenous public safety personnel but no differences between ethnic groups with respect to symptom change, program use, or treatment satisfaction. Our findings provide preliminary evidence that internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy can be effective among Indigenous public safety personnel. However, we discuss several important caveats, limitations, and considerations for future efforts to develop, adapt, deliver, and evaluate psychological interventions for Indigenous public safety personnel and other Indigenous populations
The Yetwánaý Project: A Skwxwú7mesh Case Study for Land and Plant-based Health and Wellness
No full textThe Yetwánaý Project is a community-led, land-based case study from the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nation that explores how reconnection with culturally important plants can support Indigenous health and wellness, particularly in relation to the prevention and management of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). Rooted in Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) and Insurgent Research methodologies, the project engaged over 200 participants through seasonal community gatherings, land-based harvesting sessions, and interactive activities grounded in Skwxwú7mesh culture. Data sources included harvest surveys, community feedback, planning committee meeting notes, and facilitation materials. A thematic analysis was employed to identify key themes emerging from this diverse dataset. The analysis revealed six interrelated themes, including the role of Indigenous plants in wellness, ancestral continuity, cultural implications of T2D, colonial barriers to land access, and the importance of Indigenous researchers. The Yetwánaý Project is an example of what respectful research with Indigenous community partners can look like and demonstrates the value of participatory, decolonial, and culturally grounded approaches to ethnobotanical research. The paper concludes with “wise practices” to guide ethical and reciprocal research partnerships in Indigenous health contexts
Sign-Acts of the Times: Experience and Madness in Ezekiel
No full textThe problem of anachronism seems to arise when considering sacred texts such as the Hebrew Bible, particularly when employing the lens of Mad studies to understand such texts. Yet, a nuanced study of such texts reveals a continuity between ancient and modern interpretations of madness. The prophetic book of Ezekiel stands as a witness of madness, both as a record of the prophet’s transformational therapy and insofar as the text itself invites its readers to participate in transformation. Can the biblical scholarship of “experientia” guide the investigation of the thorny category of religious experience? Through the critical psychiatry of R.D. Laing, the commentary of Rabbi Abraham Heschel, and a series of scholars of “experientia” as interlocutors, the following paper attempts to provide some insight as to how tools of biblical exegesis can inform therapeutic approaches to severe mental illness
Canton, Licia, Giulia De Gasperi, and Decio Cusmano, eds. A Literary Harvest: Canadian Writing about Wine and Other Libations
No full textFrom Dining Room to Suburbia: Finding Connection in Formal Spaces of Informal Use
No full textMost design studios prioritize aesthetics, structure, technology, etc. in the design of public spaces. Some studios aim to consider a design audience or nurture a “sense of belonging” in a design project, but this is often limited to a day of study at most.
In the Messy Urbanism Studio (URD1012), we were not allowed to design until week 7 of the 12 week studio. We spent half the semester focusing on understanding the core need of a user, to create a foundation for an informed and thoughtful design that might actually contribute to providing a sense of belonging in a public space; examining the notion of home and how the sensitive and nuanced lived experiences of home can be applied at the urban scale.1 Through collaborative discussions, we have discovered the dining room as a formal place to eat and gather, and as an informal space to work, study, create, and play. For us, the dining room ultimately serves the need for connection
About Junk and Hanging Out
No full textIn partial fulfilment of the requirements for the BAAS Design Specialist, I have been working on a thesis project to present for review in April 2024. My thesis is about junk and hanging out. The project, year-long in the context of school—and, realistically, far more expansive than that—takes inspiration from the affinities for DIY and home renovation that I observed in suburbanites of the Greater Toronto Area. The project aims to harness these affinities into creation of public guerilla furniture and community organisation in the currently sterile and cookie cutter suburban public realm