Joanna

Graph detail from Language Log, showing how incomprehensibility is expressed in different languages

see “The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility”
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1024 for equivalent expressions in different languages
Detail:

Join The P2 Visa Action Campaign For Canadian Musicians - Local 1000 AFM Canadian musicians who want to perform in the U.S. must apply for a performing visa. It’s a stressful, time consuming, and expensive process. The current cost for one musician to apply for a P2 Visa i...

If a Canadian musician wants to perform in the US on less than a year's notice, the fee is over $3000 USD. In most cases, US Musicians can arrive at the Canadian border and stay for 2 weeks, no fees, no processing fees. Join this mailing list to help: www.local1000.org/join-the-p2-...

I Worked at U.S.A.I.D. for Over 8 Years. This Is Our Biggest Failure.

I worked for U.S.A.I.D. in East Africa over the past eight and a half years, selling the story of American foreign aid to people in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Kenya. Our inability to tell this same story to Americans is our great failure. It is what put the agency into the Department of Government Efficiency’s wood chipper first. It’s what allows Secretary of State Marco Rubio to get away with insisting that lifesaving humanitarian aid would continue while the administration drastically slashed its funding. And it’s what I fear will let this presidency cast the deaths from the next preventable catastrophe as unstoppable or inevitable.

You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation.

Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...

Jet lagged but filling up on Journée d’écologie decoloniale @ FTA in Montréal:

This is the terrifying artwork that Zionists found so offensive. A picture of a menorah and olive branches with a quote by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who marched with MLK

The teacher was disciplined for displaying this art

I'VE SEEN ENOUGH

SEAN ORR AND LUCY MALONEY HAVE WON THE 2025 VANCOUVER COUNCIL BYELECTION

2 plus blocks of people lined up to vote along scenic Coal Harbour, water, boats, mountains in background

Impressive turn out for a city by election—ABC + their detestable policies on their way out 🤞🤞✨

AI art is the aesthetic of fascism

On Richard Hanania’s Substack, he interviews the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson about Thompson and Ezra Klein’s new book.

Flabbergasting how quickly Hanania redeemed his image from Racist Creep With Racist History Still Tweeting Racist Shit as of 2022 to Serious Person Serious People Treat Seriously.

Meta stole my book for their shitty AI. They probably stole yours too. Because they suck. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I feel like this Kennedy Center horror show is a test that I will not endure

Oh neat, March 28 is national "Smash Your Amazon Echo Devices With A Hammer" day.

Re: Ken Sim’s plans for Vancouver’s Indigenous citizens:

The race is on: Candidates announced for Vancouver by-election The nomination period for the 2025 Vancouver by-election closed today at 4pm and 13 candidates are currently in the running for 2 City councillor seats.

Hey #Vancouver, don't forget we have a by-election coming up to fill 2 council seats.

Options:
✅ Vote on Saturday, April 5 at 25 voting locations across the city.
✅ Vote in advance on March 26 or April 1 at Vancouver City Hall.
✅ Vote by mail, request your package: vancouver.ca/vote

do you know how hard you have to work to make Doug Ford seem calm and normal?

Get Tickets – Unscripted: Postcards Unscripted: Postcards invites you to be part of Christina Cook’s transformational storytelling experience with her collaborators and dramaturg Joanna Garfinkel.Immerse yourself in this poetic and play...

(Postcards from the Trans-verse 🏳️‍⚧️ 🚀5 questions from the charismatic playwright-curator of UNSCRIPTED: Postcards. TICKETS playwrights-theatre-centre.tickit.ca/events/27010...)

March 1 do not miss this moment of genius & trans liberation:
www.instagram.com/reel/DGHI-ZL...

The State of the Art: A Panel and Dreaming Session

I will be in a tech for Christina Cook's beautiful Unscripted event at PTC, so could some Vancouver dramaturgs check this out? app.betterunite.com/digitaldevel...

I’m so sorry. This is dumber and more tragic than I could have imagined

Screenshot from Libby app of Deborah Levy’s The Cost of Living

Also good:

Giant version of a pink candy sweetheart in the snow, with “HEY BE UTIFU”

PuSh in the Community - PuSh Festival Amplifying connection between local communities and festival artists. Push is extending the invitation for global connection and inter-cultural sharing beyond performances to stimulating dialogue thro...

Tomorrow I'm leading a dream conversation on dramaturgy, multilingualism, and gender, join if you're in Vancouver, at the PuSh festival/Roundhouse: pushfestival.ca/push-in-the-...

Expressions of support for the SFU VanCity Office of Community Engagement (VOCE)

SFU has shut down the VanCity Office of Community Engagement. If you’ve ever attended events, or worked with Am Johal & the VOCE team, please consider signing/sharing your thoughts.

David Lynch with a megaphone: okay let’s try that again, but this time good

David Lynch in sunglasses: I hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favourite projects

A trio of David Lynch images: “one day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.”

A screenshot from Antiques Roadshow, an ammo box with scrawled text: ancestral pickle 1845

Always thinking about legacy

Screenshot of three tweets that read as follows: It’s me, Amanda Palmer. Please behold my ten-part play about a trio of French mimes having a mournful orgy inside a rusty harmonium. If you do not cover this you’re an enemy of women In all seriousness, hiring a freelance writer to provide you with glowing tour coverage and declaring it a new form of journalism is some next level shit Please stop retweeting this, I’m going to be assassinated by a squad of haunted Victorian petticoats singing deep cuts from Cabaret

Good time to bring this over here