#thisisimaginationatwork – Instalment #21 May 2020
The start of the summer brings the start of a new chapter in my time with the Department of Imaginary Affairs. As I step into the role of the new…
The start of the summer brings the start of a new chapter in my time with the Department of Imaginary Affairs. As I step into the role of the new…
We care deeply about stories. And the stories we have heard as of late are of Black lives, unjustly taken. These stories are not new. We acknowledge that our collective…
Collins Dictionary has an uncharacteristically conversational definition of “day of reckoning”: If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people…
I am a cisgendered, gay, white male. I live and grew up in Toronto, a city touted as one of the most diverse, multicultural cities in the world. I have…
Disclaimer: This is HELLA long! There is so much I wanted to cover and then realized that trying to unpack everything that is going on for me around white supremacy…
I was filled with emotion upon hearing that Department of Imaginary Affairs' founding Executive Director, Blair Francey, had made the decision to step down. How do you begin to say…
#thisisimaginationatwork – Instalment #27 – December 2020 I'll admit the combo pressure of an end-of-year post and feeling like I needed to have the perfect thing to say as a…
This month's blog post comes from Alex, our Board Chair. Alex has been with me every step of the way ever since I took over as Executive Director and I…
Today, I was invited to talk about my journey into my role. I was offered 8-10 minutes to talk about how I got to my role in the immigrant-serving sector.…
Last year in late February, I was leading a co-design project at North York Community House. This is when I first met Daisy. Daisy was a part of a cohort…