The story of how I got here
This month's blogpost for #thisisimaginationatwork comes from one of our founding Board Members, Brian Phillips. One of the many things I really cherish about the Department of Imaginary Affairs is…
#thisisimaginationatwork – Instalment #24 – August 2020
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…
#thisisimaginationatwork – Instalment #23 – July 2020
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…
#thisisimaginationatwork – Instalment #22 – June 2020
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…
Black Lives Matter.
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…
#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…
COVID & Canada’s Settlement Sector Survey Results
Like everyone, the immigrant and refugee-serving sector became #suddenlyremote. Agencies had to make decisions quickly to respond to the ever-changing environment. They have been learning, exploring, managing differently. Immediately, there…
#thisisimaginationatwork – Instalment #20 April 2020
Exhale. I have been using a lot of deep breathing lately. Sometimes it is a sigh. Sometimes it is a strategy to recalibrate. Sometimes it is just a reflex. We…
#thisisimaginationatwork – Instalment #19 March 2020
We are living in “unprecedented” times. I nominate the word “unprecedented” as word of the year for 2020. I don’t think I have heard a word mentioned more in the…
Understanding now to learn about the future…
Over the last few weeks, we have been scrambling to figure out ways of capturing all that is happening right now. Last week, we launched letters to our future time…