Andrew Lochhead

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Best thing about being on hold at @cogecoconnexion.bsky.social is that this is their hold music
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I see the MacDonald monument is now “unboxed” at Queen’s Park and under armed guard. Where are the 🇨🇦 conservative voices crying abt the~ $1m/pa cost to taxpayers to guard a statue 24/7/365 forever?? It’s as if $ doesn’t matter when it’s abt celebrating their fav genocidaire.

Welcome to my home town!

It's a basic democratic right for a community, institution (or in this case congregation) to be able to choose to shape and reshape its memory culture—rather than being forced to keep every last memorial to a coloniser or enslaver #EveryMonumentWillFall

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Oh and then I opened the exhibition guide and …

You’re right of course, still, it feels a bit wrong not to give even a line to The Salon Clamart, and the Nardal’s spec. bc their efforts are only recently being recognized in the same way those of Cesaire, Senghor & others. Still a fantastic show and was happy to attend on Friday.

Fantastic show, incredible survey & learned abt many artists work that was new to me, but was also disappointed that there was (unless I missed it which would be easy to do) no mention of the substantial contributions of the Nardal Sisters to the Black arts and lit scene of the early 20th c. Paris

The entire city could be powered by the budding masc, rocker softie energy in town this weekend.

RIP to Douglas Coupland’s Red Canoe sculpture 😢 www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7499898

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Are Florida’s Confederate statues & place names coming back? Trump orders restoration of monuments. Unclear how much power Secretary of the Interior can exert at local level, but it will surely inspire or scare officials into compliance. #ReConfederatization www.jacksonville.com/story/news/p...

Heritage Toronto Monumental Interventions Tour - Andrew Lochhead So happy to announce I’ll be living a personal dream and hosting a pair of walking tours for Heritage Toronto this summer – and you’re invited ! Entitled “Monumental: Fifty years of Creative Memory Ac...

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It’s policy like this recent EO from the US that makes it so important to keep doing tours like “Monumental” that talk abt how artists respond to, and create new sites of memory.

Glad to have the chance to share this with students at @uoft.bsky.social this week

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PS was that Paul Robinson who scored that goal?

Ah Bale was amazing at Spurs. me I always liked Son.

We’ve been to Villa for 2Ws incl a 2nd city derby v BCFC but most recently in May 2024 (3-1 v AFCB) pic tho is fr a US tour in 2023 vs NUFC at Philly Eagles (3-3)

All feels long ago esp now we’ve made last 8 of CL today! 🦁

I support Aston Villa

Windsor is the Canadian city across the river from Detroit. It’s so close that the house where I grew up was closer to Tiger Stadium than some parts of Detroit. Could see the lights come on from our 2nd floor window, on a still day could hear a cheer from the riverside park. (Also love ⚽️ tho too)

More inspired by my time living for 20yrs in Windsor and being a lifelong Tigers fan, but yeah that’s part of it too :) #eatemup

Always wanted to visit Joker Marchant Stadium!

Great news here! Really important that we start to see more Anishinaabemowin in the Toronto street grid! An important step in reclaiming the Land relations the current street grid obscures.

Visited yesterday! Fantastic exhibition.

I mostly agree. The point however is that we shouldn’t have roads that celebrate enslavers, colonizers, genocidaires, white supremacists either. Yet when that gets brought up ppl love to find an excuse to do nothing, and you gotta ask why that is (SPOILER: the answer is always racism)

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Funny how this petition to rename Wayne Gretzky Drive that's doing the numbers has no complaints about "cost," "inconvenience," or "erasing history" associated with it. It's almost as if those "concerns" were maybe just something else? 🤔
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As part of his excellent daily #BHM threads @lanrickbennett.bsky.social documents the impacts of the campaign to #RenameDundasStreet what it’s accomplished, and what remains tbd.

Never forget whats possible when ppl work together against racism, colonialism and for positive change! TY LANRICK 🖤✊

Had an amazing last 2 days presenting my research and methods through my new tour of Toronto’s underground PATH system!

Thx 2 all participants, PopeCullen Projects 4 commissioning the tour for their Graduate Research-Creation Residency & to Transart Institute 4 their support too

#walkingart #phd

Flag Day today in 🇨🇦 seems a good time to remind everyone that Tories hated the maple leaf so much that we basically had to invent provincial flags so they could keep licking imperial boots.

STTA when u see posts like this

Hey thanks for pointing that out. In retrospect it should have been obvious. My apologies. This is a good example of how ableist rhetoric is often invisible-ized in our words and actions, y’know, like racism.

FWIW, I agree w sentiment here, but let’s not let perfect be the enemy of good. We’re better off w/ Sankofa Sq than w/o.

But ppl gonna rightly question why u making this argument during BHM & days b4 a crucial TDSB vote on school renaming. It’s generous to call this massively tone-deaf.

Mark this is amazing! More of these please!

Let’s instead continue to fight injustice together, on a housing front, an anti racism front, and an urbanism front. Bc if we can’t see these are connected and keep fighting for our individual patches then we might as well quit. We’ve already lost.

Especially since such a matter is settled and over and done with and decided. What possible good and whose interests could be served by this?