broken landscape ~ antti laitinen | photos © antti laitinen

My parents staged an intervention for me about getting high too much and I had to explain that I’ve never gotten high before.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 5.18 “Intervention”

I'm at your door.

-✨ Anon (Sparkles Anon)

oh-!

press opened the door

hey..

Ogimaa Mikana. Don’t be shy to speak Anishinaabemowin when it’s time. Bayfield St., Barrie, Ontario; Biskaabiiyang. North Bay, Ontario; Untitled (All Walls Crumble). Ottawa, Ontario; Anishinaabe manoomin inaakonigewin gosha. Peterborough, Ontario.

Ogimaa Mikana is an artist collective founded by Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching) and Hayden King (Anishinaabe, Gchi’mnissing) in January 2013. Through public art, site-specific intervention, and social practice, we assert Anishinaabe self-determination on the land and in the public sphere.

The Ogimaa Mikana Project is an effort to restore Anishinaabemowin place-names to the streets, avenues, roads, paths, and trails of Gichi Kiiwenging (Toronto) - transforming a landscape that often obscures or makes invisible the presence of Indigenous peoples. Starting with a small section of Queen St., re-naming it Ogimaa Mikana (Leader's Trail) in tribute to all the strong women leaders of the Idle No More movement, the project hopes to expand throughout downtown and beyond.

“The Anishinaabeg endure. We do so through settler colonial time, and across space.  We do so in contention. Untitled (All Walls Crumble) considers this movement. To be Indigenous in the city is so often a struggle for recognition, to be seen, and to resist the erasure that is common in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, etc. Yet with recognition also comes appropriation and co-optation. In this unease, we consider the benefits of erasure, or at least, covert movement. Inspired by stories of our relatives and ancestors counting coup, and Basil Johnson’s description of warfare more generally, the Ogimaa Mikana Project considers the tension between visibility and invisibility to challenge settler colonial logic. Against a crumbling wall holding up Ottawa’s major highway - scheduled for demolition and replacement - we draw attention to the ways the settler state recycles itself, and by extension, affirms its legitimacy. We see it and resist in provocative ways that mirror a there/not there presence. Against this crumbling wall, we reclaim space for an anti-recognition: to speak to each other, as Anishinaabeg, as communities pushed out by gentrification, as the colonized, and offer a refrain and a sign of defiance: “Wakayakoniganag da pangishin. Nin d'akiminan kagige oga ahindanize.”

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Put the tranquilizer down, Donnie.

(Bit of a palate cleanser before what comes next…)

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making someone feel heard:

validate their emotions and experiences ("i can imagine how hard it must've been for you")

try to not assume things and ask for clarification if you're in doubt ("so XYZ happened, did i get that right?")

listen to respond and not react

try identifying the emotion they're feeling ("it seems like you're frustrated right now", "it looks like you feel really sad")

do NOT offer advice/suggestions unless asked for

tell them how awesome they are for being so courageous and opening up to someone about it

I think it's interesting that there's two different episodes where Buffy is replaced by someone else that looks like Buffy and her closest friends all fail to notice. The qualities these replacements most clearly exhibit are "is Faith" and "fancies Spike". I think this might say something about Buffy.

The foundation.

Well fuck

TUA INCORRECT QUOTES: PART ????

Diego: Five, if you're on drugs, we can find a way to help you. There are options.

Viktor: like counselling

Allison: or rehab

Luther: or replacing drugs with exercise

Klaus: or better drugs, what the hell is this shit???

But, uh, not to worry, you know, I'm sure we'll all be perfectly safe.

Sucks when that happens

I made myself