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Elisabetta Bartoli, Donatella Manzoli, and Natascia Tonelli, eds. Scrittrici del Medioevo: Un’antologia
No full textKingship and Queenship
No full textThis paper examines the Seleukid queen Laodike III, wife of Antiochos III (r. 222-187 BCE), and how she navigated the tension between the non-political gender expectations of women and the inherently political nature of queenship in a political sphere dominated by men. By investigating inscriptions by and to Laodike, the establishment of civic ruler cults, and the centrality of family for women as well as Seleukid royal ideology, in addition to the way feminine ideals of marriage and motherhood are expressed in this evidence, I argue that Laodike III acted in a similar public and political capacity as kings yet avoided being labelled a ‘deviant’ women intruding in politics because her actions were linked to acceptable female gender expectations. 
Generating Archives of Community Care with Artists’ Tarot Decks
No full textThis essay discusses three artists’ tarot decks from a collection displayed at the Archives of Ontario from October 28, 2024 to March 31, 2025. These tarot decks are Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan’s Winnipeg Tarot Co. Tarot Deck (2010), Ron Ewenin-Wapemoose’s Treaty 4 Tarot (2023), and Mimi Khúc’s The Asian American Tarot (first created in 2016 with expansions in 2024). It is notable that these creators are members of LGBTQ+, Indigenous, and Diasporic Asian communities respectively—all of which have historically been excluded or misrepresented in institutional archives. The paper argues that each of these decks are valuable pieces of cultural ephemera that form community archives to fill archival silences
Lions and Tigers and Bears—Wait, Why? Interrogating Exhibition Design and Animal Display Practices in North American Zoos and Aquaria
No full textModern zoos and aquaria are sites of education, recreation, research, and conservation; they are also the result of thousands of years of human-animal interaction, colonial expansion, and imperial violence. Beginning with the similar but not identical menagerie, this paper historically situates customs and ideologies to demonstrate how the zoo genre has changed over time. A brief review of academic, grey, professional, and community literature explores critical perspectives on contemporary animal display practices. Though North American zoos have come a long way from the concrete pits and metal bars of the 19th and 20th centuries—and it is important to recognize that the people working in zoos and aquaria do critically important work—I argue that contemporary zoo exhibitions still act as a manifestation of these legacies when they remove tangible reminders of human contact and interference with animals and other non-human beings. Through an analysis of exhibit design at a zoo and an aquarium in Canada, this paper explores how animal exhibits at zoos and aquaria may maintain a colonial gaze in their dominant positioning of human visitors. Elder Albert Marshall’s “Two-Eyed Seeing” framework shows us how we might reimagine these practices with both Indigenous and mainstream Western ways of knowing
MO School-delivered HPV Immunization indigenous communities: A scoping review
No full textIndigenous communities globally grapple with a high burden of human papillomavirus-related diseases like cancer of the cervix. Despite the availability of a highly protective vaccine for HPV, it is evident that immunization levels with this vaccine is still low among these communities. Compounded with socioeconomic marginalization and a history of colonial, racist, and underfunded health services, Indigenous communities in several countries continue to experience poor health outcomes due to HPV infections. HPV is administered to school-aged children in grades 6-10 depending on province or territory. Since HPV infections are delivered predominantly via schools, a study on how colonial history including residential schools; health services and health seeking behaviour may give a pointer as to the factors that affect school-based HPV immunizations. A scoping review was conducted on published literature in the US, Canada, and Australia to decipher how school-based HPV immunization was conducted and to delineate the causes of low HPV vaccine uptake. Results: Schools located in remote areas with a high proportion of Indigenous students, high absenteeism rate and in lower socioeconomic brackets had the lowest uptake of HPV vaccine. As compared to their non-Indigenous peers, Indigenous students had a lower initiation as well as lower completion rates for HPV vaccine. Countries that captured the Indigenous status of individuals at vaccination points had better quality data of the immunization status of Indigenous communities. For the US and Canada, immunization data on Indigenous communities is lacking
Probe: David French on Monoculture, and Walter J. Ong’s Thought
No full textProbe: David French on Monoculture, and Walter J. Ong’s Though
WHY OVERABUNDANT COMMUNICATION BACKFIRES: A review of Superbloom: How the Technologies of Connection Tore Us Apart by Nicholas Carr
No full textWHY OVERABUNDANT COMMUNICATION BACKFIRES: A review of Superbloom: How the Technologies of Connection Tore Us Apart by Nicholas Car
Ranking Bad: The Chemistry of Ranked-Choice Voting
No full textCrowder-Meyer et al. (2023) found that in U.S. ranked-choice voting (RCV) elections, Black, Asian, and Hispanic candidates consistently faced electoral disadvantages regardless of the informational context. This study, which adapts their approach to a Canadian setting, employs a conjoint experimental design to examine whether providing party labels can mitigate biases that hinder the electoral prospects of BIPOC candidates in a hypothetical Canadian RCV election scenario. Our findings indicate that, absent partisan cues, BIPOC candidates experience marked penalties, with voters across the political spectrum engaging in negative partisanship and affinity voting. Yet, when party affiliations are introduced, these disadvantages largely vanish. While our results are constrained by a non-representative sample of participants from Ontario, they provide preliminary evidence that the availability of partisan cues can help neutralize voter biases and foster more equitable representation. These findings highlight the critical role of informational contexts in shaping voter behaviour and suggest that coupling electoral reforms like RCV with robust voter education initiatives could play a pivotal role in reducing systemic barriers to equitable representation for BIPOC candidates in Canada