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Kayaking in British Columbia
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Hall of the Gods, Maligne Lake, Jasper NP🇨🇦
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(by Rye Jessen)
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“ November sunset “ // outside.emily
Music: Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams are made of these
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boys just wanna have fun! (no seriously, if anyone here is canadian and/or has any idea of what kind of water activity they were up, it would be fun to know!)
#Riccardo Patrese#Thierry Boutsen#Ayrton Senna#Stefan Bellof#and idk the others sorry#anyway could it just be kayaking?#this is canada in 1984 btw
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Kayak trip part 2: the paddlin
See the next post for route
#british columbia#bc#canada#mountain#forest#mountains#pnw#kayaking#sea kayak#ocean#coastal#jellyfish#camping#backpacking
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Wabakimi Provincial in Ontario
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bring back summer 🛶☀️
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Chapter 11. ‘fucking close to water’: queering the production of the nation by Bruce Erickson (part 1)
“A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe” (attributed to Pierre Berton, Raffan 1999b, 225) and “Making love in a canoe is the most Canadian act that two people can do” (45)
Except…actually-- “a Canadian is someone who THINKS he knows how to make love in a canoe” (Ferguson 1997, 158) And it turns out that the person attributed with the quote (Berton) confessed that he did not come up with it.
The canoe is a popular symbol of the Canadian Nation—it’s [been] on currency, sits in the Canadian Embassy in Washington, has been an official gift from the state to foreign dignitaries, and is a part of the multi-million dollar nature tourism industry…(311)
The construction of nationalism requires a narration of national identity that attempts to override the experiences of the national citizens. There will always be a gap between the ideal image of the nation and the actual performance of the nation in the lives of the subjects within the nation, and the dissemination of nationalism occurs in the processes by which that gap is overcome (Bhabha 1994) (311)
The failure of canoe sex within Canadian nationalism suggests a failure that connects sexuality, nature, and race to the future existence of the state. (311)
Biopower (Foucault)-- shows how the construction of identity in modern capitalism is intimately a part of the production of capitalism. National identity is made into an active part of the biopolitical frame of the nation, such that identity becomes another form of labor that is focused upon normalizing and controlling bodies and pleasures. As Foucault reminds us, sexuality stands at the heart of modern power, and its discourse arose along with imperialism and the power of the modern nation-state. (312)
In the modern world, our quest for identity is inherently productive, as late capitalism relies upon the desires of identity to fuel patterns of consumption.
Nation
“Put another way, nations require particular sentiments of attachment, ones that often rest at least in part on the erotic”—Steven Maynard (2001)
Relationship of landscape to the canoe—about hiding the actual form of the relationship with landscape, whether racist colonialism or the production of heterosexuality, to accomplish a fetishizing of the leisured, supposed innocent connection to the land of the new world. (313)
Columbus’s image of the new world was eroticized from the start:
“In 1492, Christopher Columbus blundering about the Caribbean in search of India, wrote home to say that the ancient mariners had erred thinking the earth was round. Rather, he said, it was shaped like a woman’s breast, with a protuberance upon its summit in the unmistakable shape of a nipple—toward which he was slowly sailing (1995, 21) (313)
Europeans have long eroticized the land of America from the moment of its naming and ‘discovery’, yet the common interpretation of this myth as a form of amor patriae hides the heterosexuality implicit within such genealogies.
Performativity: “it is not that heterosexuality is natural and queer denaturalizing; rather heterosexuality is naturalizing, concealing the masquerade of the natural that queer makes manifest” (Prosser 1998, 44) 314
“Performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names” (Judith Butler 1993, 2) 314
The claim of nationhood=sex in a canoe naturalizes the relationship between the heterosexual image of the nation and the landscape the ‘performance’ takes place
But the failure of the performance (basically no one ACTUALLY has sex in canoes despite the popularity of the quote)…so it can work like a metaphor… it is not the mere ability to canoe or even to have sex in a canoe that embodies the Canadian-ness but rather the reiteration of desire to canoe in Canada—a desire for Canadian canoeing—that embodies the Canadian-ness through the canoe. This desire privileges heterosexual white desire over any different, non-national, or perverse forms of canoeing pleasure. (314)
Sexuality is not about the truth of the matter but about the power of truth (315)
Foucault: power over sexuality relies on cooperation of two regimes; disciplinary power (focused on the control of individual bodies, increasing capabilities to fuel efficiency, aligning mechanic repetitions toward efficiency) and politics focused on controlling populations—Species body (Foucault 1978, 139) (315) (regulatory controls focused on the reproduction of life, the control of birth and death). These regimes produce a mode of biopower (315)
Capitalism would not have been possible without the controlled insertion of bodies into the machinery of production to economic process (Foucault 1978, 141) 315
Sexual identity, as Foucault shows, is made to be part of that production, an argument only proven more and more correct by the increasing power of the “pink” dollar under capitalism (316). (rainbow capitalism)
Then by extending our examination into the realm of colonialism—our understanding of sexual identity and capitalism is tacitly coded by race, and nation. According to Stoler, racism is not “an aberrant, pathological development of state authority n crisis but a fundamental ‘indispensable’ technology of rule—as biopower’s operating mechanism (Stoler 2002, 159) (316)
These same logistics of sexual control (regulation of bodies and species body) occur at the level of race, specifically as part of a national dream. (316) (the american dream=nuclear family)
“Race anchors a distinction in the use of land that justifies the colonial existence of the nation state. It was the productive use the land in North America that allowed European subjects to justify their acquisition of all the fertile and useful land occupied by First Nations peoples. (i.e. John Locke, Gilbert Sproat) 312-317
The 'failure' of the race allowed for the deployment of sexuality to work in tandem with the techniques of state racism such that populations and bodies, of both the colonized and the colonizer, were subject to the regulations of race and sexuality (317)—>The Reservation System; a space established in which to monitor the reproduction (and in many cases the hoped-for death (see Francis 1992 and Bracken 1997) of First Nations communities…census data, marriage regulations, identity papers utilized to fence in populations that stood in the way of the state to the landscape (317)
“A crucial part of the subjugation of …Native peoples was the destruction of their erotic, gender and social life and the imposition of European social and sexual organization…this story of extreme cultural, social, and physical violence lies at the root of the Canadian state” (Kinsman 1996, 92) (317)
#queer ecologies: sex nature politics desire#heteronormativity#canada#sexuality#colonialism#environmental politics#nationalism#residential schools#first nations#queer ecology#queer theory#ecofeminism#critical ecology#canoeing and kayaking#canoeing#racism#performativity#power and control#biopower
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Canada looking fiine af in the fall
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Moraine Lake, Canadian Rockies - Jimmy Dau
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What a great day
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#deep cove#Vancouver#kayaking#kayak#ocean#trees#mountains#beautiful#British Columbia#Canada#scenic views#views#water#summer#mine
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Kayak trip part 3: the route
This trip was a 6 day/5 night course launching from Lund and going counter clockwise around West Redonda and Cortes. On the map I used different colours for different days.
Day 1: Lund to Refuge Cove. My arms were absolutely killing as I got used to the paddling technique, and I was exhausted by end of day. The weather was misty and windy which made the trip seem incredibly daunting.
Day 2: Refuge Cove to Walsh Cove. This day was sunny and my strength was back, and the site was beautiful. Camping on tiny islands and storing food in the boats meant wildlife was near-zero concern. It was a good day to go for a cold dip.
Day 3: Walsh Cove to Rendezvous Island South. This was the worst day for everyone else. The weather was downpour and the water was rough. But, we got to pass Toba Inlet which was amazing. On this trip was me and my partner, and our guide (a dear friend of ours) and his girlfriend.
Day 4: Rendezvous Island South to Carrington Bay. This was a short, sunny day with the wind on our backs. We even got to sail a bit with a tarp. The lagoon we stayed at is near the rave site on Cortes. This was the best beach for a dip. This is also where our guides girlfriend drunkenly told me about her affair and bullied my boyfriend.
Day 5: Carrington Bay to the Twin Islands. This was a 27km paddle in the heat. When there's no wind it feels like paddling in molasses. We passed Whaletown and Plunger Passage and saw a humpback in the distance. We got cell service again in this area, and timed the tide right to stop at Sharkspit for lunch. The most welcome part of this day was going around Smelt Bay Provincial Park and using a toilet and sink.
Day 6: Twin Islands back to Lund. The last day was bittersweet. We stopped at North Copeland for lunch, same as we did the first day, except this time I was much more confident steering and getting out on my own. We used double kayaks so we had twice the power, but we lagged behind our guide and his girlfriend since his paddling was way more efficient than ours. It's always a bummer to end a trip, but nice to get away from the girlfriend.
We spent a few days in Powell River afterward to see the salmon run and to shop at Ikea in Vancouver before heading home
#british columbia#bc#canada#mountain#forest#mountains#pnw#ocean#sea kayak#kayaking#trip#adventure#camping#outdoors#sunset#backpacking
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