Asst prof @ UofT (Miss. & CDTPS) | Contemporary intercultural, intermedial, diasporic & Black theatre in Canada; audience research; theatre criticism | She/her
Toronto, Ontario
Joined June 2013
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It's finally here - my article for @CanTheatreRev "Casting Audiences: How Theatre Passe Muraille’s ‘Black Out Nights’ Challenge Conventional Approaches to Audience." Thanks to @FatumaAdar and @magicalmudge for chatting with me! tinyurl.com/2p9b9exm (apologies for the paywall)
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Two contributors to this website, one of them themselves an Oxbridge academic, are currently in court for child porn charges (almost no media coverage)
The Committee for Academic Freedom has launched an investigation into the Jason Arday controversy to ask whether equality law or “equity” is driving academic recruitment.
Freddie Attenborough writes an EXCLUSIVE op-ed on why.
thecritic.co.uk/why-were-lau…
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Doug Ford’s war on bike lanes isn’t about traffic—it’s part of a global right-wing backlash to vilify urban residents and defend fossil fuel interests
@TheBreachMedia dove into the politics of cycling, and debunked some of the myths along the way
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Phenomenal reporting on the Brad Bradford campaign by @royinori.
Not a pretty portrait!
thelocal.to/brad-bradford-pr…
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“Reconciliation prompted us to relinquish negative feelings over the past, but many, including myself, were not willing to do that. Because we have not severed from the past. The past endures,” says Billy-Ray Belcourt in an interview about his latest book. thegrindmag.ca/billy-ray-bel…
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Excellent reporting on how Cambridge mishandled Prof Arday's case vs the protective measures for a similarly "public" story by a different Prof James Orr. It also explores the growing yt supremacist foothold & online lynchmob & centers Prof Ardays students. Pls read 👇🏾
The story of Jason Arday is the story of James Orr
Of the ideology that has found a foothold in institutions like Cambridge, fostering the sorts of ideas that formed the undercurrents against Arday
I returned to my alma mater for an in-depth exploration: bylinetimes.com/2026/09/17/t…
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Hard to think of a tidier symbol of the ideological overlap between the CPC and LPC that’s accelerated under Mark Carney
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See the Ontario Heritage Trust plaque I wrote on the 1837 Moseby Affair:
heritagetrust.on.ca/plaques/…
#OTD Sept. 12th, 1837, 200+ Black residents staged an uprising in Niagara-on-the-Lake to prevent the return of Solomon Moseby to his Kentucky enslaver. Two died, several were injured, and many were arrested, but Moseby escaped, fled to England, and eventually returned to Niagara.
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"If we want to oppose this new fascist strain, we really have to get a move on. 'I don’t tend to use this language, I try to be measured, but I think I’ve earned the right to escalate,' she says. 'The moment we’re in, people are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough.
Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.' theguardian.com/books/2026/s…
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I wish everyone understood that 90% of the time a university kills an academic initiative to "save money" or "increase efficiency" they are really killing off something they just don't value because, believe me, they are happy to throw money into the wind.
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The Jerusalem Post runs an op-ed suggesting using indebted Americans to invade Iran...words fail me.
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Israel has now killed more people during the Gaza “ceasefire” it agreed to in October 2025 than the total number of military and civilian casualties on October 7, 2023.
Over 300 of those killed during the “ceasefire” were children, eight times the number killed on Oct 7.
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In recent years, two cyclists have been killed after being struck by vehicles near Avenue Road and Bloor Street:
In April of 2024, the driver of a flatbed truck killed Ali Sezgin Armagan, 39. Armagan, a recent immigrant from Turkey, was delivering food for Uber Eats when he was hit.
Three months later, the driver of a dump truck hit and killed an unnamed 24-year-old woman at Bloor and Avenue. A construction dumpster blocking the bike lane forced the cyclist to merge into traffic, where she was fatally struck.
Doug Ford's culture war on bike infrastructure will force cyclists to compete with drivers for space. It will make everyone less safe and lead to more deaths
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Currently, 130 students from Gaza who have been accepted to study in graduate programs in Canada are still in limbo. Some have been waiting years for a study visa.
Carney's government isn't living up to its word, @SeanTucker16 and Aaron Shafer argue. thegrindmag.ca/neither-princ…
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vilifying robin hood and humanizing scrooge…propaganda in 2026 is hardly subtle.
