Stacy Lee Kong
Editor, writer + founder of @fridaythings, cultural critic on TV, radio + podcasts, here for all your pop culture obsessions. [email protected] (she/her)
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1 week ago |
theglobeandmail.com | Stacy Lee Kong
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2 weeks ago |
fridaythings.com | Stacy Lee Kong
Every year, Toronto Caribbean Carnival—forever known, to me at least, as Caribana—generates about $338 million in economic impact for the city of Toronto. It attracts 1.2 million spectators and participants every year, many from outside of Ontario, and even outside of Canada. And yet, after last year’s festival, social media was overrun with comments from members of Toronto’s Caribbean community saying they would no longer be playing mas in the city.
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3 weeks ago |
fridaythings.com | Stacy Lee Kong
You know when you like a post on social media, but then you keep reading—or you just think a little harder about what it’s saying—and you have to un-like it, because you don’t actually agree, after all? Because I find myself doing that a lot with tweets about ovulation horniness. This is literally how it feels when your life is falling apart but you’re also ovulating.
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3 weeks ago |
fridaythings.com | Stacy Lee Kong
Many immigrants and members of diasporic communities chafe at the implicit expectation that they should be ‘grateful’ to Canada for providing them with a ‘better life.’ This perception ignores many geopolitical realities, including the fact that colonialism and modern-day imperialism create untenable situations that force people to seek out those so-called better lives, and the fact that this dynamic can create the ideal environment for exploitation to thrive. But… what if you do feel grateful?
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4 weeks ago |
fridaythings.com | Stacy Lee Kong
Content warning: this newsletter contains disturbing details around anti-Blackness, medical racism, medical torture, reproductive injustice, slavery and death. I’m honestly too horrified to come up with a clever way into this one, so I’m just going to say: I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Adriana Smith since I first learned her name last week. In February, doctors declared Smith, a 30-year-old Black woman, brain dead.
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