Just made this for my final assignment of the year! My first attempt at a comic strip. Click to enlarge.
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May Day 2012 Photos
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Not Welcome: A Critical Analysis of Ableism in Canadian Immigration Policy from 1869 to 2011
Wong, E. H. S. (2012). Not Welcome A Critical Analysis of Ableism in Canadian Immigration Policy from 1869 to 2011. Critical Disability Discourses/Discours critiques dans le champ du handicap, 4.https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/article/view/34877 A Foucauldian discourse analysis of Canadian immigration policies and state practices reveals the ableist foundations of the Canadian nation-state. Throughout much of Canadian history, people with disabilities have been excluded through the immigration system. People with disabilities are often times prohibited from obtaining legal status, and even when status is obtained, it is often marked with precariousness. In order to contextualize ableism in the immigration system, I argue that borders are socially constructed, serving to segregate the labour market and to create precarious circumstances for workers in the contexts of capitalism and neoliberalism. These foundations of the Canadian immigration system, which have existed throughout Canada’s history and can be seen in today’s policies, serve to pathologize, playing a major role in the […]
Contrarian Psychiatrist Loren Mosher, 70
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63107-2004Jul19?language=printer His position was based on a view that schizophrenics are tormented souls who needed emotionally nourishing environments in which to recover. He said drugs were almost always unnecessary, except in the event of a violent or suicidal episode. He eventually established small, drug-free treatment facilities that were more akin to homes than hospitals.
Ferdinand calls Blatter out on comments re: racism in football
Ferdinand calls Blatter out on comments re: racism in football Rio Ferdinand – respect!
5th week + new haircut! Jaw line starting to come back, though some minor swelling is still evident. Also, I can feel the plate and screws on my right side, kinda creepy.
[Global Post] Occupy Wall Street-style protest in Indonesia leads to closure of world’s largest gold mine
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/indonesia/111017/occupy-wall-street-protest-indonesia-freeport-gold-copper-mine As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads like dominoes, resentment toward corporate greed has led to the deaths of four Indonesians and the temporary closure of the American-owned Grasberg mine, one of the world’s largest gold and copper mines, in the remote region of West Papua. Workers at the giant mine, which is owned by the U.S.-based Freeport-McMoran, are on strike for the second month straight. Although the company says it has managed to hire outsourced workers to prevent any significant slowdown in production, that all changed on Monday when the mine halted production for security reasons. Markets, however, have yet to react to the closure. I remember writing a paper on Freeport-McMoran, as well as, the colonization of West Papua in High School. This closure of the mines, albeit temporary, and albeit at the loss of four lives, is a great victory in the context of struggle.
[Global TV] Vancouver’s Chinatown officially declared a National Historic Site of Canada
http://www.globaltvbc.com/vancouvers+chinatown+officially+declared+a+national+historic+site+of+canada/6442500955/story.html What about recognition that Vancouver’s Chinatown formed out of racism – overtly through segregation laws/violence and latently – as an imagined landscape of disease and criminality?
Day 18 Too hungry! Not allowed to chew but eating soft foods. I am swAllowing pasta whole. Unfortunately, I am still at 120 lb. I really need to gain weight.
Day 11 I managed to swallow done some soft food today! Had some steamed fish, rice, tofu, and crab soup. I really hope the doc doesn’t seal my jaw shut again!