BONDING [electronic resource].

Blackwood Gallery 2022

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This twelfth SDUK broadsheet examines the diverse means by which individuals and communities build lasting or fleeting bonds. Coinciding with the conclusion of Crossings: Itineraries of Encounter, the Blackwood’s 2021–22 lightbox series, this issue, BONDING, echoes themes seen throughout Crossings: migration, diaspora, borders, and archives. Where the lightbox exhibitions examine image-making practices, this SDUK issue engages print culture in new and recurring formats including visual storytelling, poetry, a letter exchange, and a recipe. Food is the source of many enduring cultural bonds, and thus one might be tempted to start from the gut: See Diasporic Dumplings (p. 27) for a site-responsive recipe for Mississauga. Huynh’s recipe begs the question: How do cultural practices shift for a local context? While she describes the dumpling as a diasporic vessel, poetry by Cecily Nicholson (p. 14) reflects on the transformation of land for agriculture. Her verse considers the enactment of Canadian settler colonialism through farmland practices. If bonding evokes notions of home and community, readers may wonder: How do we forge bonds across difference, and across culture? Karie Liao’s column (p. 30) examines the many valences of solidarity in the GTHA—expanding on the term’s origins in the labour movement to trace its resurgence in socially-engaged art practice, and disability and migrant justice activism. Continuing the focus on deepening equity across difference, a Q&A (p. 18) compiles the insights of diverse healthcare practitioners on the movement toward more gender-inclusive reproductive care…
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Joy Xiang
Tehmina Ahmad
Hangama Amiri
Tings Chak
Kori Doty
Fatme Elkadry
Mercedes Eng
Fern Facette
Gabrielle Griffith
Amanda Huynh
Rula Kahil
Theodore Kerr
Clifford Prince King
Nadia Kurd
Kriss Li
Karie Liao
A.J. Lowik
Neda Maghbouleh
Rehab Nazzal
Cecily Nicholson
Laila Omar
Nat Raha
Waard Ward
Matthew Hoffman
Alan Woo
Daniella Sanader