YYZ Podcast: Recent Episodes
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What's your background? Okay you were born here, but where are you really from? Where were you parents born? This six-part series dives into these all-too-common questions. Through the lens of her relationship with her Jamaican heritage, Melissa Haughton speaks with friends and strangers about our complicated and evolving relationships to our cultural identities.
Bad Internet is a two-part series Internet about connectivity (or lack thereof) in Canada. Hosts Melissa Haughton and Shyloe Fagan speak to people connected through, and in spite of, their digital access.
Melissa and Shyloe connect with the founder of Indigenous Friends Association (IFA), Alejandro Mayoral Banos, and Bonnie Rogers, a participant who found a new connection to the digital world through IFA’s InDigital Program. They hear how Indigenous content creators are using tech and social media to preserve culture and educate youth. They also learn about how Indigenous communities are reclaiming ownership of their digital creations and knowledge about what decolonization in the digital space looks like.
Bonnie’s Nephew Socials: @chelazonlerouz on TikTok and Instagram
Indigenous Friends Association: https://www.indigenousfriends.org/
@shinova (heard at 17:39) on TikTok and Instagram
Episode Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QLyKyegc6EGuCiSgGiKDVb62__6j6w09uQvN9US1on0/edit?usp=sharing
Follow Shyloe @shyloefagan on Twitter Melissa @melissahaute on Twitter and Instagram
Bad Internet was produced on the traditional territory of many first nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat people. As settlers we are grateful to the stewards of the land both past and present, and the opportunity to live, gather, and create here.
Here are some other suggested resources to explore:
The University of Alberta offers a free online course from the Faculty of Native Studies that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada: https://www.coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada
If you’re interested in learning more about foraging, chef Shawn Adler has an awesome digital series on CBC and a local restaurant called Pow Wow Cafe: https://www.cbc.ca/life/food/chef-shawn-adler-shares-what-you-need-to-know-about-foraging-year-round-in-your-own-backyard-1.5294374
Native-land.ca and Whose-Land are also great community-based resources for learning more about identifying Indigenous Nations, territories, and Indigenous communities across Canada
If you love podcasts: check out All My Relations, Coffee with My Ma, Red Man Laughing and Unreserved
Muskrat Magazine is a great digital space to Indigenous news, arts and culture: http://muskratmagazine.com/
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 94 Calls to Action: http://trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf
Bad Internet is a two-part series Internet about connectivity (or lack thereof) in Canada. Hosts Melissa Haughton and Shyloe Fagan speak to people connected through, and in spite of, their digital access.
Bad Internet Part 1
Melissa and Shyloe connect with Tiffany Ford, a community organizer and entrepreneur from Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighborhood who used Twitter to get laptops for students in need. They also speak with Member of Provincial Parliament for the Nickel Belt, France Gelinas, and Estelle Anderson, a guidance counsellor, about the layered impacts of limited internet access on students and families.
Connecting All Canadians to High-Speed Internet https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2020/11/09/connecting-all-canadians-high-speed-internet
CBC North Bay mayor responds to Ontera https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2472583374
Prices of Internet Around the World - Picodi https://www.picodi.com/ca/bargain-hunting/prices-of-the-internet-around-the-world
Follow Shyloe @shyloefagan on Twitter Melissa @melissahaute on Twitter and Instagram
Episode Transcript https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ME_qbikzDJ87-rTimZ6WySjMXGlMTD61iygaxV-q3K8/edit?usp=sharing
Bad Internet was produced on the traditional territory of many first nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat people. As settlers we are grateful to the stewards of the land both past and present, and the opportunity to live, gather, and create here. Here are some other suggested resources to explore: The University of Alberta offers a free online course from the Faculty of Native Studies that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada: https://www.coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada If you’re interested in learning more about foraging, chef Shawn Addler has an awesome digital series on CBC and a local restaurant called Pow Wow Cafe: https://www.cbc.ca/life/food/chef-shawn-adler-shares-what-you-need-to-know-about-foraging-year-round-in-your-own-backyard-1.5294374 Native-land.ca and Whose-Land are also great community-based resources for learning more about identifying Indigenous Nations, territories, and Indigenous communities across Canada If you love podcasts: check out All My Relations, Coffee with My Ma, Red Man Laughing and Unreserved Muskrat Magazine is a great digital space to Indigenous news, arts and culture: http://muskratmagazine.com/ Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 94 Calls to Action: http://trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf
Chances are, you've been on the receiving end of some kind of so what are you? what's your background? where are you from?-type questioning in your lifetime. In this six-episode series, host Melissa takes these public queries and turns them into personal reflections. Through discussions with guests, 'So What Are You?' explores:
- how we reclaim elements of our cultures believed previously lost to us
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why familiarity with a culture doesn't always equal respect
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how we can create our own narratives through art, food and conversations with family
Join Melissa and guests on this journey from Toronto, around the world and back again.
Toronto is currently ranked as one of the most ‘livable’ cities in the world, and many established and emerging creatives call the city home. But in a place formerly (and sometimes still) known as the “Screwface Capital”, how do artists who exist on the margins create work and build community amidst rising rents and closing venues? Whose City Is It Anyways? explores the challenges, lessons learned and beauty of pursuing artistic passions in Toronto. It highlights the strength of communities that fight to exist against the constant pressures of a rapidly changing city.
Music in this story by:
KII, Alexei De Bronhe,Gabriel, Under Influence, Nordgroove, Watercat, Moscillate and Marco Lazovic from Fugue.
This piece is a part of FIXT POINT Arts and Media’s Points of Empathy project, made possible by Canada Service Corps.