Vol. 34 | No. 4 | Issue. 389 MayMay 20172017 “that salty magazine from CiTR101.9FM” . Forever Local, Free Forever . I would like an annual Subscription (That’s $20 for Canada, $25 for U.S.A.) I would like to support Discorder Magazine with a donation!(Hey, thanks!) _____________________________ (How much would you like to donate?) TOTAL:_____________ Send this form and cash or cheque to: Discorder Magazine, LL500-6133 University Boulevard. Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z1 TABLE of CONTENTS Flexing compassion MAY 2017 EDITOR'S NOTE COVER: ILLUSTRATION BY BRYCE ASPINALL. I’m gonna keep this brief. Features Do you care about the people around you? his issue was planned around the theme of accessibility, leading up to 05 - VANCOUVER MURAL FESTIVAL Access Day May 18 on CiTR 101.9FM — a day of special programming gentrification has a colourful by-product. T that questions all aspects of accessibility, physical and otherwise. We have a brief interview with some organizers and participants of Access Day on 06 - DEEP BLUE page 20. Eleanor Wearing has also researched a two-part article on the accessi- sonic submersion. bility, or inaccessibility, of local cultural events. Beyond that, the topic of acces- sibility is an undercurrent: Jules Galbraith asks Deep Blue about their accessi- 07 - JERICHO bility in a D.I.Y. art space; Dora Dubber interviews So I had an abortion… founder North Vanitas. Julia Santana Parilla about accessing information on abortion; Tintin Yang in- terviews Vancouver Mural Festival’s David Vertesi about organizing an event 08 - AHMAD DANNY RAMADAN that implicates everyone; and I ask Syrian author Ahmad Danny Ramadan, author of The Clothesline Swing on Syria and love. “What is home?” in the context of immigration. 16 - SAMMY CHIEN Are these articles really about accessibility if they are not directly related to mo- the artist we will never define. bility? I think so. Not to undercut the advocacy of making spaces more physically accessible — which is the priority — the topic of accessibility is larger than that. 18 - (IN)ACCESSIBLE VANCOUVER pt.I To seriously enact accessibility requires relearning how we move around pub- start asking yourself... lic space in relation to other people, and how we accommodate those around us. It involves realizing that every person processes situations differently. It involves 19 - SO I HAD AN ABORTION... compassion. ...deal with it. A+ BB Columns + Other Stuff ADVERTISE: Ad space for upcoming issues can be booked by calling (604) 822-4342 or emailing 04 - Homegrown Labels: [email protected]. Rates available upon Deranged Records request. CONTRIBUTE: To submit words to Discord- er, please contact: [email protected]. To submit images, contact: artdirector.discorder@ 04 - Shelf Life: citr.ca. KUNDERGROUND Newsstand SUBSCRIBE: Send in a cheque for $20 to LL500 - 6133 University Blvd. V6T 1Z1, Van- couver, BC with your address, and we will mail 10 - Real Live Action each issue of Discorder right to your doorstep for a year. DISTRIBUTE: To distribute Discorder in your 12 - Art Project business, email [email protected]. We are Bridget Trout always looking for new friends. DONATE: We are part of CiTR, a registered illustration by Bryce Aspinall. non-profit, and accept donations so we can 13 - Calendar provide you with the content you love. To donate visit www.citr.ca/donate. 14 - Under Review 20 - On The Air Special: !!! Access Day To inform Discorder of an upcoming album release, art show or significant happening, ABOUT THE LAST ISSUE... please email all relevant details 4-6 weeks in 21 - CiTR Program advance to Brit Bachmann, Editor-In-Chief at Schedule [email protected]. It was brought to our attention that the illustration for the interview with Jeneen Frei You may also direct comments, complaints and corrections via email. Njootli in the April issue is a direct reference to a design by Anishinaabekwe artist Quill 22 - CiTR Program Guide Christie. The image of the hand with a stitched wrist was appropriated and altered without consent by Christie or Frei Njootli. The illustrator, Amy Brereton, did not draw her image 23 - April Charts with the intention of inflicting harm or infringing on creative copyright, but she now under- stands how she did both. The unauthorized use of Indigenous artwork perpetuates colonial violence and signifi- cantly undercuts Indigenous self-determination. As a magazine published and distributed on unceded territory, Discorder takes full responsibility for the publication of this work, and for failing to provide Amy with the appropriate artistic direction and context. Publisher: Student Radio Society of UBC // CiTR Station Manager: Hugo Noriega // Advertising Coordinator: Sydney Thorne // Discorder Student Liaison: Claire Bailey // Editor-in-Chief: Brit Brereton’s illustration accompanies a very strong interview with Frei Njootli. In this Bachmann // Under Review Editor: Maximilian Anderson-Baier // Real Live Action Editor: Jasper D. interview the artist discussed, amongst other things, the theft of Indigenous art. We are Wrinch // Art Director: Ricky Castanedo-Laredo // Production Assistant: Jules Galbraith // Web Content Coordinator: Katrina Wong // Accounts Manager: Shea McConkey / Halla Bertrand // Charts: Andy very sorry to have inflicted our own act of appropriation in this piece. Discorder is working Resto // Discorder On Air Coordinators: Claire Bailey, Dora Dubber, Kat Kott, Matt Meuse, Jordan Wade to create discussions around image, identity, and cultural appropriation in future work- // Writers: Brit Bachmann, Claire Bailey, Mark Budd, Paulina Chua, Aidan Danaher, Clara Dubber, Dora Dubber, Jules Galbraith, Inca Gunter, Courtney Heffernan, Sarah Jickling, Jonathan Kew, Oona Krieg, shops. We are also incorporating training that teaches new and aspiring journalists, pho- Sophia Lapres, Jessica Lin, Nathan Pike, Elijah Teed, Eleanor Wearing, Leo Yamanaka-Leclerc, Tintin tographers, and illustrators to actively work against the systemic and individual acts of Yang // Photographers & Illustrators: Olga Abeleva, Bryce Aspinall, Janee Auger, Amy Brereton, Duncan Cairns-Brenner, Olivia Di Liberto, Jules Galbraith, Zadrien Kokar, Katie Lapi, Jen Van Houten, Konstantin colonialism that are so often perpetrated by media organizations. 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EDITOR'S NOTE 3 label operations are limited credit that you may deserve, and HOMEGROWN LABELS to Gordon, Deranged is rather that’s totally fine, that’s not what DERANGED RECORDS prolific, releasing an average I do it for." words by Aidan Danaher // illustrations by Zadrien Kokar of two releases per month with It is certainly evident how pas- pressings of 1000+ to start. sionate Gordon is about his work. Partly because of Deranged’s While he might do all the label focus on hardcore punk, but business himself, he has advice Originally based out of Toronto, On his attrac- also because of the label’s his- for artists doing their parts: “If Gordon relocated to Roberts Creek tion to punk, tory using U.S. distributors, you’re a touring band, depending on the Sunshine Coast with his he says plainly, Gordon explains, “often times on how out-there you are, you’re family in 2005. According to “That’s just I’m looked at as an American the one that’s creating that kind Gordon, he didn’t have any con- where my focus label. I don’t face the same of energy and buzz around you, nections to Vancouver whatsoever, was. Because I kind of obstacles as your typical more-so than the label in ques- let alone Roberts Creek. For him was not musi- Canadian label.” It seems that tion … I think if someone is able and his family, a clean slate was cally inclined, I because of his long-term pres- to think a little bit outside of the exactly what they were looking for. figured putting ence within the punk commu- box, they can create that momen- Discussing the history of out a record was nity, Deranged Records firmly tum for themselves.” Deranged, Gordon says, “I didn’t one of the ways I holds its ground. wake up one day and say, ‘This is could get further * something I wanted to do for the involved without n talking about his re- Visit derangedrecords.com next 20 years.’ I was already in- needing to be a musician.” lationship with artists, f you’re at all interested volved with that scene: putting on I Gordon is practical in hardcore punk, maybe shows, [running] record stores, ufresne is fairly hum- about his involvement, saying, I Deranged Records should and most of my friends were in ble and modest when “As far as where I see myself ring a bell? If it doesn’t, here bands. That was something I D talking about running as a label, most often, [I am] a are a few artists that have re- was always around,” he tells me. his label. As he says, he is “a man means to an end. I think that leased music through the inde- “There was definitely a specific of few words,” while apologizing where a label like Deranged may pendent label that might: Fucked sound that I was interested in, for any lack of “sexy and excit- be of benefit is often times for Up, White Lung, Career Suicide.