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A mural depicts a man's face next to the quote 'please I can't breathe.'

Art as resistance: A digital archive documents how protest arts address police violence

Taiwo Afolabi, University of Regina and Gabriel Friday Shina, University of Regina

A painting of a Black man and woman, the man holds the woman in his arms. Words at the top read: Gone with the macho

While Hollywood ignored stories of Black resistance, Cuban filmmakers celebrated Black power

Philip Kaisary, Carleton University

A bearded man on a construction site, high up over a river with a coil of rope over his shoulder.

The Brutalist: an architect’s take on a film about one man’s journey to realise his visionary building

Phevos Kallitsis, University of Portsmouth

The power of kink: An anthropologist reviews ‘Babygirl’

Treena Orchard, Western University

The power of kink: An anthropologist reviews ‘Babygirl’
‘The complicated zone where the beautiful and the damned collide’: remembering David Lynch

Alexander Howard, University of Sydney

David Lynch
Ecology of Fear: Mike Davis’ history of LA and natural disaster is re-read whenever fire rages in California

Alexander Howard, University of Sydney

Ecology of Fear: Mike Davis’ history of LA and natural disaster is re-read whenever fire rages in California
A mural says hip hop and shows a person at a turntable.

Through hip-hop, Black youth are teaching their communities about their rights, justice and the law

Anna Lippman, York University, Canada

An elderly woman looks out of the window

Two evicted women tell their story: ‘The landlords had no empathy.’

Alexandre Petitclerc, Université de Montréal

A man and woman in military clothing with cameras.

How Lee Miller’s photos remind us of war’s destructive brutality

Ann-Kathrin McLean, Royal Roads University

Giller Prize controversy spotlights tensions between politics and literary prizes

Julien Lefort-Favreau, Queen's University, Ontario

People with a banner that says boycott Giller gala.
How virtual reality technologies are shaping an inclusive future for architecture

Farzam Sepanta, Carleton University

People looking at images of ancient buildings.
a hooded figure with a bitcoin logo — a b with two lines going through it vertically - against a yellow-tinted background of mysterious symbol chains

Did a Canadian developer really invent bitcoin? A new HBO show explores an intriguing theory

Jeremy Clark, Concordia University

Young man wearing sunglasses and a white sailor hat smokes a cigarette with his arm around a young woman who's laughing.

Bob Dylan and the creative leap that transformed modern music

Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University

TVs seen amid plants.

A ‘TV Garden?’ How video artist Nam June Paik anticipated pressing environmental questions

Isabella Altoe, Queen's University, Ontario

‘Nobody Wants This’ amps laughs about intermarriage in Judaism but intended humour hurts

Celia E. Rothenberg, McMaster University

A woman and man in front of a shelf of vibrators.
How the gladiators inspired evangelicals’ sense of persecution

Cavan W. Concannon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Painting of naked man collapsed, with a shield dangling from his arm and blood trickling down his chest from a small wound.
I research rap lyrics and testified in a Toronto rapper’s murder trial

Jabari M. Evans, University of South Carolina

A Black man wearing a red sport jersey and baseball cap sits in the back seat of a car looking into the camera.
A woman seen at a spinning wheel.

‘We knew she was a fairy when we saw her:’ How Irish folklore around spinning instructed women artisans

Brandi Goddard, University of Alberta

A man looking out over a harbour

Joy Dancer: dance documentary shows the power of movement to give a voice to the silenced

Sarahleigh Castelyn, University of East London

A river is seen at low tide as a boat sails past with buildings in the background.

New insights from Shakespeare’s England reveal striking parallels to contemporary climate change

Madeline Bassnett, Western University and Laurie Johnson, University of Southern Queensland

What the Menendez brothers’ case tells us about the moral paradox of true crime

Michael Arntfield, Western University

Two men in shirt and tie sit in a court room with a woman in a dark jacket
Science fiction stories allow us to explore what we want, and what we reject with AI

Burcu Olgen, Concordia University

A woman with her hands up in a formal dress.

Film & TV

a woman looks directly into the camera as she puts a candy into her mouth.

Reel resistance: Netflix’s removal of Palestinian films adds to the erasure of Palestine

Chandni Desai, University of Toronto

‘A Different Man’ examines tensions between personal identity and societal expectations

Billie Anderson, Western University

Two people sitting in dialogue at a press conference.
Caitlin Cronenberg’s ‘Humane’: Dystopian satire questions ecological disaster and compassion

Chris Corker, York University, Canada

A man and woman in suit jackets with a television image of a forest fire behind them.
Payal Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine As Light’ disrupts popular narratives of Mumbai

Anmol Dutta, Western University

two women standing next to each other looking into a red electrical kitchen appliance
‘Decolonizing Lens’: Winnipeg and virtual film series reflects the beauty of Indigenous worldviews

Jocelyn Thorpe, University of Manitoba and Kaila Johnston, University of Manitoba

Girls standing on a porch surveying space and smiling.

Language, reading & writing

Angolan prince started campaign to end Atlantic slave trade long before Europeans did – new book

José Lingna Nafafé, University of Bristol

A large wooden door in an archway in a stone wall
‘Iyashikei’ healing manga comforts readers with attention to small joys

J. Andrew Deman, University of Waterloo

A smiling girl holding a phone and doing a selfie.
Out of the archive: A collection of stories about Mount Elgin Indian Residential School

Mary Jane Logan McCallum, University of Winnipeg

A man looking at papers, in a posed photo near a typewriter with a book and feathers.
Representing Gaza: Artists are using social media-based comics as resources and resistance

Amy Mazowita, Concordia University

A group of crescent moons against a dark night sky. Each of the moon's has the face of a murdered Palestinian, and the moons appears to be wrapped in white cloth. The ruins of Gaza are spread on the ground below.

Fashion & style

Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London celebrates the optimism, hedonism and style of the new romantics

Naomi Braithwaite, Nottingham Trent University

Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London celebrates the optimism, hedonism and style of the new romantics
West Africa’s fashion designers are world leaders when it comes to producing sustainable clothes

Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

A young woman stands at a waterfront pool with an arm on her hip, posing in an outfit of shiny green with pink African fabric contrasting it on the collar and skirt.
10 years after the Rana Plaza collapse, fashion has yet to slow down

Verena Gruber, EM Lyon Business School and Marie-Agnes Parmentier, HEC Montréal

10 years after the Rana Plaza collapse, fashion has yet to slow down
How sportswear fashion is indebted to Indigenous and African American cultures

Dr. Henry Navarro Delgado, Toronto Metropolitan University

How sportswear fashion is indebted to Indigenous and African American cultures

Music

When a child prodigy composer matured into a noblewoman, her legacy got complicated

Amanda Lalonde, University of Saskatchewan

Lithograph of a young girl in profile.
Prodigy’s personal mythology: Remembering the ‘fallen angel’ of Mobb Deep

Marcus Evans, McMaster University

Two Black men pose for a photo on a sidewalk.
Meet the composer who claimed her music channelled the spirits of classical music icons

James Deaville, Carleton University and Érico Bomfim, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT)

See-through, ghostly hands play a piano.
The triumph of vinyl: Vintage is back as LP sales continue to skyrocket

Josh Greenberg, Carleton University

A hand seen flipping through records and the word 'midnights' is seen on one album.

Exhibits & visual culture

Museum of the Bamoun Kings: ancient treasures from Cameroon find a spectacular new home

Rachel Mariembe, University of Douala

A crowd of people stands outside a curious building, with an entrance and exit on either side through a giant snake's head with fangs that wraps around the building with a huge hairy spider perched on the roof.
Photographer Louis Carlos Bernal memorialized the barrios at the US-Mexican border

Rebecca Senf, University of Arizona

Sepia portrait of middle aged man standing in front of a desk with his hands on his hips and a camera hanging from his neck.
Medieval Women: In Their Own Words at the British Library is unmissable

Diane Watt, University of Surrey

Medieval drawing of group of nuns
Artists bring human richness at times of strife — and need to be allowed to speak about the Israel-Hamas war

Lowell Gasoi, Carleton University

A person with umbrella seen in front of a building with wide steps and many glass panes that says Art Gallery of Ontario.