More nuanced theories of journalism needed

Everyone has a theory-of-journalism whether they admit it or not.

By Sherwin Arnott | 2017-08-10 | Media

A good theory of journalism helps us understand what media are not journalistic. And, equally important, a theory helps us understand what unconventional kinds of media are journalistic…

Bharat’s Pocket Scraps October 13

Catchup edition

By Bharat | 2017-10-14 | Roundup

Two weeks worth of scraps, whales, weinstein and more…

Culture

Black and white silhouette of a hand

Imprints

I left handprints everywhere.

Reflections on safety and ways of being…

Culture

Herman Blume sits pool side while his entire life falls apart.

“She’s my Rushmore, Max!”: masculinity and vulnerability in Rushmore

Exploring masculinity in a Wes Anderson film.

Rushmore is from 1998, and it’s very white, but Sabrina and Sherwin think it has some redeeming features. It’s an interesting meditation on class and masculinity…

Culture

Meghan looking adorable in an old school sedan in the 80s in Ontario.

Hitchhikings

Back in the day.

In which Meghan and Sherwin reflect on the old days, hitchhiking, and being young and lucky (and privileged) …

Policy

Dallas Rd, Marine Drive, Victoria, BC

Buying ourselves out of homes

Political will and housing affordability.

Renting and buying homes, for BC residents, is becoming less and less affordable. We’re experiencing the result of decades of deregulation and rabid speculation…

Culture

A man with white skin at the top of a diving board about to jump but changing his mind.

Sometimes courage is choosing not to jump

Ten Meter Tower short film documents humans being humans.

The video shows a dozen or so people at the top of a ten metre diving tower deciding whether to jump. The film documents a surprising and poignant range of human emotions…

Media

Booth and Bones pose in front of Medussa

The Evil Woman trope

Over-representation of women as perpetrators of violence in crime shows.

In which the Evil Women trope is discussed. Women are over-represented as evil villains, murderers and criminal masterminds …

Art

A variety of images and panels by Lumberjanes

Friendship to the Max! A Review of Lumberjanes!

A supercool review of a supercool comic series.

I recently discovered Lumberjanes, a comic published by Boom! Box, an offshoot of Boom! Studios. I strongly recommend …

Roundup

Bharat’s Pocket Scraps October 13

Catchup edition

Two weeks worth of scraps, whales, weinstein and more…

Culture

Bharat’s Pocket Scraps Sep 29

US of A Edition

On American colonialism, racism, football and more

Roundup

Bharat’s pocket scraps Sep 22

Fall is Here!

All the charismatic mega(and not so mega)fauna news

Roundup

Bharat’s pocket scraps September 15

Aussle edition (no Aussie links tho)

Google , car accidents, climate change and more

News

Canada 150; resist 150; decolonize 150

UBCIC Rejects Canada150 Celebrations

Listening, not celebrating, on Canada 150.

Republished with permission: “Canada150” is not representative of the history of our lands and territories, or of our present realities as Indigenous Peoples. We, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), cannot, in all good conscience, participate in, and will not celebrate…

Design

A ladybug crawls slowly along a leaf: encryption bugs.

Fixing the HTTPS on a Knight Lab TimelineJS instance

Last year I used TimelineJS to create a nice interactive timeline of some misogynist tweets by Colby Cosh. After we added HTTPS to our website, the article never properly encrypted…

Bharat’s Pocket Scraps Sep 29

US of A Edition

By Bharat | 2017-09-29 | Culture

On American colonialism, racism, football and more

Nine animals that we should be trophy hunting instead of grizzly bears

Content warning: violence against nonhuman animals ahead.

By Sherwin Arnott | 2017-05-17 | Politics

I’ve been wracking my brain trying to think of how to help stop the commercial trophy hunting of bears in BC, which is ongoing and totally unethical. But I’m pretty smart, so I put this problem in my mind-vice and I’m a genius…

Spontaneous acts of reproductive justice

Helpful clarifications on misleading advertising.

By Sabrina Buzzalino | 2014-08-06 | Policy

Reproductive justice is more than the right to have an abortion. It’s about access to judgement-free information, comprehensive sexual education and understanding the complex realities of racism and colonization…