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TIN LORICA SOFT ARMOUR WORDS BY MILENA CARRASCO PHOTO BY KIM VILLAGANTE ILUSTRATIONS BY CHRISTINA KIM LAYOUT BY JAMES SPETIFORE and RICKY CASTANEDO LAREDO

in Lorica’s debut chapbook, soft armour, makes you want to crawl into bed with your twenty-something memories and stay a while. As Tin’s literary debut, their chapbook is a collage of landmarked moments and poems pinned from the Tmost formative moments of their life. Like moving to Vancouver from Calgary — or dating white people. Milena: This chapbook is your that I went through in my early years n chapbook fashion, literary, “in pages” debut. What are of moving to Vancouver. And the book soft armour is short you looking to discover within it? is kind of a landmark of moments in my life. Like the first time I dated enough to be read Tin: I didn’t plan to write a whole a white person, or the moment I I in one sitting, and takes manuscript, but I have always felt realized I was (naively) wanting to date that a poetry chapbook for me was another person of colour so I could you through a sequence of already in the works anyways — so I see something about myself, and how am thankful that Mallory Tater from I saw things so black and white back moments soft enough to Rahila’s Ghost Press was stoked to then. It’s me from the ages of like, 21 laugh at and heavy enough help me create my first one. I feel to 25. Living on my own for the first like I’m kind of shy in terms of being time, coming into myself. to remember. There’s a quiet out there with my poetry — more so sense of acceptance that than comedy — probably because Do you feel like you've matured? of the crude things I say on stage anchors the conversation — sometimes. It’s a side of me that I’m Totally. *laughs* I mean, I think I it is the kind of comfort you not always readily available to express could have gone to therapy more. But I to just anyone, hence the title of the feel like I've matured a lot, for sure. collect on your walk around chapbook, soft armour. the sun. Basically, a lot of the poems in the chapbook are from a lot of experiences

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The first half of the poems are very silly Did you go through writer's block? defense mechanism. I definitely inject When I was 10, I started to question and kind of jokey. I don't get vulnerable Or artist's block? humour in the poems. my dad’s taste in music. He is an until halfway through. So yeah, even in earnest Beatles fan, and every Sunday the way that I sequenced it, it kind of I'm going through that now, for sure. You’ve said that the two practices he would just blast the Beatles. One has this armour already. I don't know... I just let it happen. I like to just pour [poetry and standup] foil each other. day I asked him why he liked this I feel like you just get kind of closer and myself into something else. I picked So, they enhance one another, but ‘hippie music’ and my mom thought closer into like, my emotional core, or up a lot of hobbies during COVID. there seems to be a difference in it was the funniest thing. This inquis- whatever. I mentioned my mom a lot I was like, Okay, I'm just not gonna vulnerability between the two — itiveness would later escalate to me in it. Apparently that's a very Cancer try to write anything. I'm not gonna at least for you. How do you work imitating the way he scratched his balls thing — because I'm a Cancer moon, try to be funny. I'm just not going to with that? while watching TV to my entire family. and a Cancer Mars. I don't know if do anything creative. I'm just letting Everyone loved it. In a way my mom you're into astrology at all, but I’m also myself [feel ok with] being creatively I wrote and filmed my first sketch bolstered my comedy career, by giving not an expert. blocked. very recently — it was really terrifying me the license to roast my father. because it was a solo sketch. And I Earlier I was saying that I treated Does astrology play as big a part in I know you said that you were taking have to look at the camera and put on humour as a kind of defense mechanism the book as in your life? a break from making people laugh, this character and voice. I have never — it’s also a really great way to catch but a large part of what you usually acted in anything before and it was so, people off guard, and lets them know Yeah. Well, I'm also an Aries sun, but I do is making people laugh, and I was so vulnerable — it took me like five that me joking with them is me trying have a lot of water in my chart. That's curious how this translates into the takes. I kept glaring at the camera. to be intimate with them. It’s a way to where the soft part comes from. And book and into your poetry. It was like I was trying to familiarize bring people in. yeah, Cancer placements specifically myself with it, like it was a stranger are supposed to have a kind of weird My friend, Jackie Hoffart, who runs I was struggling to befriend. I was Do you want people to read your karmic relationship to The Mother. It New Moon Comedy, [...] helped me highly suspicious — like what if it book all in one sitting? Or do you doesn't necessarily mean [your literal] out a little bit with writing my bio, a steals my soul? I'm pretty monotonous think it matters where they start? mother, it's just kind of like, mothering task I always dread. [In] one of them when I deliver standup, so to put on generally. Something like that. I went she basically describes me as a poetic a character and act was definitely It’s totally up to the reader, but I through the manuscript recently, and l comedian, and comedic poet. I just feel another kind of vulnerability that I know that sometimes when I read a say the word “mother” like 10 times, like they kind of go really well with haven’t experienced as a performer. poetry collection and something really and I think I'm exaggerating a little bit, each other. It would drive me crazy if Art has always been a way of exposing clicks, I have to see the whole thing but yeah. I also don't want my mom to I was around someone who was just your inner world to people, which I through. I would be happy if some read it. trying to make people laugh all the am always learning to be okay with, weirdo out there decided they needed time. Because I definitely use it as a and not spiral after expressing myself. more of my voice and read the whole I'll look at the chapbook one day , thing, but I wouldn’t force anyone to and like, flip through it and be really do so. It's always shocking to me that embarrassed about something that I people can relate to me. It's always wrote, that I decided to share with the an honor. When people connect with world. I just really have to let go and my poetry, when they come up to me be okay with that process. Yeah, that's [after a reading] and tell me, “I really definitely one thing I learned, to let go, resonated with that,” I really, really, and embarrass myself. appreciate it.

The chapbook covers a lot of things in and I laugh over like, diasporic anxiety, dating white the “light roasting” people anxiety, understanding my baby that we’ve experi- queer self in relation to other queer T people anxiety. soft armour is definitely enced living in filipino and a coming of age. latino households. It’s true, W we roast and then toast at family dinners, feeling somewhat closer than before. Culturally, astrolog- ically, comically, poetically and wonderfully funny.

“ Tin Lorica ” 5 Discorder Magazine Nov-Dec 2020 Spool Oven Words By Zainab Fatima Photos By Alistair Henning Illustrations By Maen Illustrates Layout By Sheri Turner

rom quarantine season comes another exciting adventure: @spool__oven! F Created by artist Claire Geddes Bailey, @spool__oven is a project which invites people to submit prompts — a book, a drawing, a word — which Bailey will use to bake a cake. @spool__oven lives on instagram, where Bailey bakes prompt-based cakes for anyone in Vancouver. People are free to submit a prompt if they live in the area, and can purchase the cake — not a shabby distraction from Ms. Rona.

@spiral_theory_testkitchen, @dream- s someone who loves to caketestkitchen, @_hoe_cakes, @cakes- create fun and exciting 4sport, provided amazing inspiration. cakes, it makes sense that Bailey’s cake decorating style is a ABailey has a deep love for sweet treats. colourful addition to the “maximalist” Ever since childhood, they’ve been the online baking community; an unorthodox friend who enjoys baking for everyone, cake scene that celebrates imperfections. and @spool__oven is the perfect outcome What distinguishes this community from of that, “The aspect of sharing is really many other baking niches is how acces- nice–– especially birthday cakes; to me sible it is: “Anyone can make a cake, and it’s a really nice way to express care for there’s so much joy in even seeing a cake a friend.” that is really messy and maybe didn’t Being an artist also drew Bailey to the turn out how the person expected–– but baking scene because it’s another oppor- it’s still an expression of care,” explains tunity to be creative, “You’re literally Bailey. taking ﬂ our and sugar, which you would “Talking more about a queer aesthetic never eat on its own, and transforming of food, or queer cooking and baking, I it in the oven — which feels like a really think it is connected to [...] taking baking magical process in some way.” –– which can be something that has a lot Connecting food to art was an intriguing of rules and constraints –– and coming at concept, and discovering many talented it from a slant.” people online –– Sharona Franklin,

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“You’re literally taking flour and sugar, which you would never eat on its own, and transforming it in the oven — which feels like a really magical process in

some way.” that to a cake somehow. A lot of it’s just s for the future of @spool__oven, intuitive,” From a few sketches, and Bailey hopes to create more input from friends, any prompt–– even a A cakes and continue inspiring ot only is Bailey creative in their colours as opportunities to introduce feeling–– can become a heavenly treat. people. Although it wasn’t intended to approach, and approaching unique flavours into their work — like Out of all the cakes Bailey has made become part of their art practice, the N baking outside of its constraints the time they combined cinnamon, black so far, their favorite is one of @spool__ community Bailey has created is really –– they also have quite an eye for ﬂ avour sesame seeds, and cocoa, to achieve a dark oven’s earlier creations: the prompts special, “I hope it gives people freedom to combinations. Consider the “skipping blue glaze for a bundt cake. for the cake were two selfi es of Bailey’s experiment with food in their own way,” stone cake”, inspired by the prompt “the friend. Not only was the ﬂ avour combi- says Bailey, “and if anyone in Vancouver moment when a skipping stone is sitting ailey fi rst began creating colourful nation really unique –– tahini sesame wants a cake, they should DM me!” on top of the water, extended”, which and unorthodox cakes last year, cake with lime curd, homemade marsh- amounted to a cardamom-rose swirl B when they collaborated with a mallows and malted milk buttercream –– W sponge, with a gingerbread cake middle, friend to curate UBC’s Hatch Gallery’s but the prompt itself is also why Bailey pear jelly filling, topped with ginger exhibit 100’s Day. The show consisted loves this piece. buttercream, dried ginger, echium petals, of participants bringing in collections of “With some of the prompts, you can lychee syrup and fruit. 100 items, and for the closing reception, already imagine how it would become Coming up with flavour combinations Bailey baked a hundred ingredient cake. cake, but my favourite ones are the ones for cakes depends on several things, Bailey When matching a prompt to it’s delicious where it’s completely separate. It’s not explains, sometimes the requests come cake form, Bailey explains, “My attempt about what the cake will look like at the directly from the people sending prompts. is to devote a lot of sensory attention and end at all, and there’s a lot more possibil- However, they will often use specific care towards the prompt and then convert ities within that.”

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TRANS POR PN MTS KITTYMSALLNLN AT PROZAC ON ANTPRSSANTS

athy Schultes is a 21-year-old trans musician in Vancouver, living on the homelands of the x məθk əy̓əm C(Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil- Watuth), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) nations. A queer bike mechanic, political human-rights activist, self-described anarchist, and pro electric-guitar shredder, she makes pop punk music centred around trans power and self-identity. I met with her to discuss her latest release as Kitty Prozac — anemos Vol. 1, a powerful EP with unapologetic lyrics and a deep relatability. I found in my conversation with Cathy, that intimacy is a huge component of her work, Words by Atira Naik and I couldn't help but respond to the lyrics myself. Below you will find fragments of Photos by August Bramhoff Kitty’s fluid lyricism, and the ways I’ve Illustrations by Beau Todorova found to connect her thoughts to my own. Layout by Sheri Turner

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s with most interactions in the I thought I knew. Bloody hell. I been pretty rocky, really, and I ask Cathy if there were any mental pandemic, we open onto the knew I knew. Didn’t I? Obviously think music played a huge role in roadblocks that needed to be overcome setting of a zoom call — me in my not, if I was discarded like those keeping me afl oat." in order to release such radically A folded paper games we used to room, and Cathy at her jam space at the honest music, to which Cathy make. Wasn’t there a ‘forever’ in Red Gate. She clearly looks comfortable, The road to justice is long / And the road to replies, “The answer is defi nitely.” that stupid acronym? peace is too / And it asks of me to unlearn all sitting cross-legged in front of a drum / The fucked up things I thought I knew She continues to explain — “I had set. We make small talk for a while, Cathy agrees, ‘Yeah, for sure. In fact I (A Little More Myself) to work through my anxiety a lot, and then I jump into my first burning think that tension pretty much defi nes which makes sense, because I’m question, “So, what’s the inspiration my music. I initially wanted Kitty My grandmother once told me I would need Kitty Prozac. Perfectionism, and to be better if I wanted to marry into a ‘nice’ behind Pandemos Vol. 1, and your stage Prozac to be a band — but it was that fear of what people were going family. The next two years I worked on being name, Kitty Prozac?” usually only me, and people started better, and the next three I worked on running to think of me when I actually Cathy nods knowingly, likely used to this associating me with [the name]. It just as far from ‘nice’ as I possibly could. put music out. It’s funny, because question, and explains, “Well, there’s not sort of grew to be a persona. Kitty the initial music I released was much behind Pandemos —it just means became this person who feels things can’t help but notice how honest Cathy already very personal and honest. But it pandemic demos although I guess it also really deeply and I think that’s kind of is. I ask her, “Is this a conscious eff ort? was just as hard to put out the next few evokes the word “pandemonium”. I’ve had conveyed through my music, how loud To be so honest, and to make your songs — which is why there was such a an album in the pipeline for a while now, and head-banging it is. Kitty can never lyrics confessional, almost?” she replies, gap between them. Just because you do and progress on that has been kind of slow. be lying-on-her-bed sad – she’s weeping, “I think I did make a conscious eff ort to something hard once, doesn’t mean it So, I just wanted to put something out. screaming, breaking things. Theatrical, be honest. But at the same time, it was becomes easy the next time round, you That’s why I phone-recorded these songs almost. It’s a theatrical sad.’ also an important exercise in just letting know? Easier, maybe. But not by a lot. I and put them up on my bandcamp. Kitty “So, what’s your origin story? Like, what my emotions out. As a teenager, I just think it was just...not believing that my Prozac was something I was treating as a inspired you to really start putting your had these really big feelings that I needed music was worth sharing, really. And it’s music project, distinct from myself, from music out there?” to get out in some way. That meant me taken people reassuring me, a lot, for me the start. I wanted to name it something “That’s a pretty cool story, actually. — necessarily — writing about these very to continue to put my music [out there]." cool, something that properly captured When I had just come out, my friends personal experiences to lessen the load “Actually, there’s a few people I’d like to what I was going for.“ and I were obsessed with this band. They and hopefully help other folks with similar credit for encouraging me in a big way: “And what you’re going for is…?” wrote such good music — it was so very experiences feel less alone. [...] I’m writing Kelly McCloud, from Tinkin’ Pete, who loudly, and proudly, gay. It really was our to express myself as a trans woman with booked me for my first live show, and “I think what I’m going for is pop punk. jam. Later it was revealed that a member mental health issues — so I’m going to Miles Black, from Pale Red, who got me a Like, really intense and upbeat pop punk of the band was involved in sexual allega- write about experiences pertaining to CiTR interview and funding for my record tunes but also super intense emotions. So tions, and obviously, the fan base just that.” She pauses again, “And, something from the Pat Placzek Legacy Fund. It’s what once my friend and I were hanging out, dropped. And I just — I remember feeling that’s super surprising, but super gratifying, CiTR is using to fund a bunch of artist's talking about this, and she basically had so betrayed, and so alone. Like I had no is that people relate so deeply to these first releases through their label Fanta an epiphany, ‘Oh! Kitty Prozac.’ used to one to look up to anymore. That was songs. I write about very personal and Records. I call them my two gay scene have a cat who was prescribed Prozac when I realized how desperately people specifi c experiences, but after a live show dads,” she laughs lightly, “because they’ve because he had anxiety. That’s a thing like me needed validation, needed repre- people will still come up to me to tell me really been in my corner. Seriously, it’s — cats being prescribed antidepressants. sentation, that’s when I decided that I was my song made them cry. It’s an amazing totally been because of the encouragement I take Prozac as well, so that’s me. And going to be that person. I was going to experience, and really one of the biggest and support of other people that I’m even then Kitty was because – well, I want to make the music that people could relate inspirations for me to continue.” here, still, making music.” portray an image that’s playful, and fun. to, and be inspired by.” It's in primary colours / It's so vibrant And my partner Jill calls me Kitty as well, “And you know, I was always making W it won't leave me alone / And it keeps so there’s that.” music – I just grew up in a family that changing but I think it means home “So — playful and cute, but make it was constantly listening to music. But I (Primary Colours) depression.” think I truly started putting in eff ort into my music in 12th grade, when I came out I spent the first 19 years of my life in the dark. If I don t “You know until you don't know and ’ have a nice family, what do I have? I saw the swirls of then they're gone / Well I figured as trans. It’s kind of like — my whole life blues and reds and yellows in my dreams and drawings. some day I'll stop getting thrown began again when I came out, and I just I knew then what I needed to do – if not home, at least a away / I just didn't think it would take had so much catching up and adjusting path that leads there. so long” (Vacation Song) to do. So that’s when music became what I leaned on. These past two years have

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words by: Dora dubber illustration by: Amy bereton Photos by: Phoebe Telfar Layout by James Spetifore

n the late 90s and early 2000s, the Cyb3r Warehouse largely features in a “subjective” environment would be Occult” exhibit. A couple weeks ago, internet’s novelty and burgeoning internet art, “art that’s made in a way so obviously antithetical. you were dropped in the entrance of the I accessibility essentially made it a that is very digital where it’s a lot easier The “warehouse” is more of an expansive general exhibition space, greeted by an total free-for-all. There was a lot of earnest to show it to people through the internet. and adaptive world — with 2D streets, angel in a full-body bunny costume and excitement for what the internet could be, It’s usually made on a computer and it’s a beefy feline security guard. The space though now we have a pretty standard less physical,” Brodie explained. “It’s "Now there’s not navigates like a video game — using the idea of what an online experience is. a chance to show gifs and stuff,” Sam really the option cursor to orient your “character”, and Cyb3r Warehouse — a virtually local added. “Things that usually you just to go to physical the arrow keys to move around. The art space created by roommates Sam scroll past and disregard and maybe don’t spaces, all these space itself is a combination of 2D and Herle and Brodie Anderson-Pilon — consider art. Like if someone makes a 3D online spaces 3D elements that you observe, but don’t harnesses this nostalgia and eagerness to sword for a video game and they’re really are getting much necessarily interact with. Besides the areas create a dynamic world and exhibition proud of it — it’s usually not outside of more popular of the warehouse explicitly delegated to space perfectly designed for our current that. Here, they can put it in a room and again. People are featuring art, the world is an invitation to lockdown reality. people can walk around and look at it.” trying to utilize explore Sam and Brodie’s digital fantasy. While the ultimate function of Cyb3r them in whatever “I don’t know if you’ve fallen into hell yet Warehouse is to be an exhibition space, way possible — — where you fall oﬀ the path and you fall “It’s definitely not a neutral space,” like throwing into hell and can't get out. We got lots of Sam clarified. “We weren’t trying to raves on IMVU" email like, ‘Oh I can’t get out of hell.’” make a white wall gallery. It’s kind of Sam laughed. “We were like, ‘That’s kind our own art project too.” Unlike most buildings, characters, and groves that you of the point,’ just making it something galleries, both physical and virtual, Cyb3r can wander through. Any exhibitions are you wouldn't usually experience online Warehouse’s curators/creators’ inﬂ uence housed in 3D buildings designed to match and making it kind of a game where you is omnipresent. With part of the function the theme or feel of the art featured. Right can explore it and have fun exploring it being its re-creation of disparate 2000s now, when you enter Cyb3r Warehouse, too.” “Yeah,” Brodie continued, “I think digital aesthetics, attempting to curate a you’re dropped at the entrance of a crypt we’re both open to the idea of making it space designed to feature its exhibitions inviting you to their current “Horror/ as big and extensive as possible because

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is a famously dark place. Its complete anonymity, and lack of accountability, warns users against digging too deep into any corner of the net to shield against blatant ableism, racism, transphobia, homophobia, and/or misogyny and, all too often, these precautions aren’t enough. The opening criteria for any submissions to Cyb3r Warehouse is the total unacceptability of any hateful messages. “We just want to be pretty there’s a certain limitation to what we fi rm with that just because there are some Although the space may seem best can do in one space, [...] but I do like the bad internet spaces,” Sam explained. “I suited for the current times, Sam and idea of just building on top of things and feel like if you stumble across something Brodie don’t expect Cy3r Warehouse it keeps getting bigger and bigger.” Most on the internet, you really wanna’ know to dissolve any time soon. “Even when of the expansions Sam and Brodie are what you’re dealing with, and where physical spaces open, especially with working on right now are for commis- everybody stands on that.” internet art, it’ll still be good to have a sions from physical art spaces or festivals Even before the pandemic, much of our space people can send their gifs and art that are reevaluating what it means to lives had already transferred to the online that’s more conducive to online spaces,” host an event during a pandemic — — COVID has only exacerbated that. Sam anticipated. “There’ll still be a including the current Doom Gloom Stuck “I had the idea for it before lockdown want for that because tons of people are in Your Room (DGSYR) Report exhibit, started, but just in idea form. Just the making digital art, especially people who and Vancouver’s upcoming local zine idea of an online exhibition space for art haven’t before lockdown started.” The festival, Unibrow Festival. that doesn’t usually get shown in other internet is a pretty infi nite medium. With locations,” Sam explained. “But when Cyb3r Warehouse, Sam and Brodie are he look of the space draws lockdown happened we both realized re-imagining the online experience. Their heavily from the maximalist, that it could be such a bigger oppor- shameless celebration of the ostentatious T busy, and kind of goofy tunity.” They continued, “I was inspired and gaudy digital aesthetic is refreshing aesthetics of the early internet.“I like the by other virtual spaces people are making and nostalgic. older style of what the internet used to be and riding the wave of online things in the early 2000s, when GeoCities was because I think there’s really been a resur- W a thing where anyone would just make a website and just fill it with basically whatever they wanted. You had a lot more freedom,” Brodie explained. “I’m just really into that whole framework of older internet aesthetics, which aren't really as big of a thing these days, where you’re taking risks making weird stuff that’s really chaotic. I wouldn't want to make something that’s like, ‘Look at how the internet used to look,’ with a Windows 95 simulator, where it’s like, you just go on an old computer that's hard to use. It’s still new ideas, and a gence in that. Talking about the early new space, but just taking from that same 2000s again — I think there was a big energy that used to be there.” Cyb3r phase when Second Life and IMVU came Warehouse’s strength is in balancing the out, and people were like, ‘Oh, this is skill of building a functional space with awesome’ and later on moved away from that chaos. that. Now there’s not really the option to Sam and Brodie’s curatorial process go to physical spaces, so all these online mirrors that of Cyb3r Warehouse’s spaces are getting much more popular aesthetic of structured disorder — you again. People are trying to utilize them in just have to send them an email. “We whatever way possible — like throwing wanted it to be less of a process — People raves on IMVU and through Twitch and stuff . So we just wanted to follow that and make a space that was fun. Not more of an online art gallery, but more of an online DIY space.” The role of online spaces is constantly transforming as aesthetic trends and the limitations of what’s possible, both online and offl ine, fl uctuate. Cyb3r Warehouse is off ering a lot of possibilities as a world that exists entirely on the internet. “Around the beginning we were talking but doing Enter Cyb3r Warehouse at live shows and streams and stuff, with cyb3rwarehouse.com multiple people in the space,” Brodie Submit your art to can just email us and we can give them entertained. “I just don’t know how to do [email protected]. a more interesting platform to show that. But as soon as we fi gure it out, I’m More info at their stuff ,” Sam explained. The internet down to do it.” cyb3rwarehouse.com

“Cyb3r Warehouse” 11 Discorder Magazine Nov-Dec 2020 CHINESE PROTEST

words and photos by illustrations RECIPES by layout by

orn in Singapore, to a Cantonese mother and a that intuition chef Clarence Kwan Hokkien father, meant that I grew up surrounded by speaks of in his new zine entitled B a medley of ﬂ avours, dialects, traditions and ways Chinese Protest Recipes. of storytelling. From braving brutally bitter (yet nourishing) Chinese Protest Recipes (CPR) herbal Cantonese soups as a child, to helping my grandma has struck a chord with many make ba zhang (sticky rice dumplings) and popiah (a type of Chinese-Canadians, and fresh spring roll) whenever she visited, food has always been newcomers like me. Throughout the vessel through which I learned about my cultural identity. In the zine, Clarence Kwan (aka Singapore, there were no heirlooms, nor genealogy books, and @thegodofcookery) calls us to rarely did anyone know or speak of the past. After moving away respond to the pandemic, and from home and family, and settling as a guest in ‘Vancouver’, the BLM movement through I have come to understand the importance of cooking Chinese mobilizing the tools we have food and holding fast to recipes and traditions fading along — our love for Chinese food with the memories of my family’s matriarchs. When it comes and cooking — to resist white to making Chinese food, all I had were meagre photos and supremacy in our relationship to the food we choose to buy, eat and make. In centering Black lives and calling for collective action in the zine, Kwan pairs reminders of police brutality (thereby cheekily banning cops from cooking his recipes), statements of solidarity among BIPOC and

12 “ Chinese Protest Recipes ” Nov-Dec 2020 Nov-Dec Magazine Discorder "WE MUST BE ACTIVE IN OUR FIGHT FOR ANTI-RACISM THROUGH FOOD."

personal anecdotes to each of the eight deemed “exotic” and “weird” by white recipes he has curated. Each dish stands culture, as well as keep up the work as a form of protest on its own. Among that still needs to be done in dismantling the generous peppering of black and white anti-Black sentiments within our families. photos and understated yet beautiful In centring food culture in the discussion typography, the mosaic of stories and of racial oppression, Kwan not only urges recipes stand as stars of the show. his readers to actively decolonize their relationship with food, but also shows PR is not only a call to protest how it could be a unifying process. In through cooking. It is also a love the zine, he writes “THE MORE WE C letter to his strong ties to Chinese EXPLORE AND SHINE A LIGHT ON I would not be doing the restaurants and Chinatowns, in which BIPOC FOOD THE CLOSER WE GET zine justice if I did not try a he urges us to keep supporting local TO A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF few recipes myself. I invited a businesses reeling from the devastating ONE ANOTHER”. He does his part friend to join me in this process eﬀ ects of the pandemic and in Vancouver’s in shining light on Chinese food, and as she, being a first-generation case, gentrification. Kwan drives home shares the recipes with whoever is curious Chinese-Canandian, shares my the idea that we must be active in our fi ght enough to try. It is only through sharing love of cooking Chinese food and for anti-racism through food. This starts recipes with each other across commu- preserving our cultural heritage. It with reﬂ ecting on who we are, the way we nities, and coming together to prepare was both our fi rst times cooking acquire food, and claiming our cultural a meal, can these discussions on food such an elaborate meal apart from heritage by continuing to cook our food happen. our families so we opted for familiar

“ Chinese Protest Recipes ” 13 Discorder Magazine Nov-Dec 2020 dishes that were not too ambitious — Shrimps in Lobster Sauce, F.T.P Fried Rice and a-choy doused in sesame oil and oyster sauce.

he recipes came with no measurements or handhold-y instructions, just simple descriptions inspired by traditions and oral history. We Twere forced to eyeball measurements and cook intuitively, tasting and adjusting along the way. It made me realize the potential for cooking to be so forgiving and fun, like an interpretive dance. It put a focus on making food which simply tasted good to me, and moved it away from mindlessly following a recipe. When we sat down to feast on the fruits of our labour, the fi rst bite

surprised us. At once, we sat back glowing with satisfaction at our abilities to cook something our grandmas would be proud of. Truly, delicious Chinese food is power in the hands of many.

A free digital copy of CPR is available on Kwan’s Instagram @thegodofcookery though he asks that you donate to support BLM or spread the word #ChineseProtestRecipes. You may also purchase a physical copy there. e

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WORDS BY TATE KAUFMAN ILLUSTRATIONS BY JULIANA KAUFMANIS PHOTO COURTESY OF CULT BABIES LAYOUT BY JAMES SPETIFORE

his is not a holiday for Vancouver/ of a healthier internet. Technology, and his fi nal descent is prefaced by Tunisia digital nomads (or its capacity to simultaneously connect and the funereal chiming of the duet T diginoms as they would say) Cult distance — to create distinct communities T “Not A Holiday”. This song Babies. Hasan and Layla, the key creatives and turn them against each other – is a feels trapped, buried by its own choices, behind the project, had spent well over constant theme. Over wistful woodwinds, framing its subjects as martyrs with lines a year crafting their latest release, Not a the spring-reverb doused vocals of “Eye like “I’ve been working on my immolation Holiday, when the carefully considered Was There” evoke simultaneous pressures pose/ It’s not a holiday/ But you should concept behind the album became of ingrained spectatorship and desperation have a party in my honor.” Is this futility, hyper-relevant in a wholly unexpected for attention as Hasan sings, “Look at that even if we sacrifi ce ourselves, we may way. Having initially planned yet fail to steer the course a summer tour prior to the of the future? Perhaps, but release of the album, Hasan the fight, though it is not a and Layla found themselves holiday, will always be worth on an elongated lockdown fighting. Though Layla and stay with Hasan’s family in the Hasan have long worked Caribbean. With the majority from home, and spend their of the album written and time in the well-toured streets recorded, they shifted course of Tunisia, it is not a holiday. and opted to release Not a Though many of us have been Holiday in the early days sent home from work indef- of the lockdown. Layla and initely, have been confined Hasan joined me over video by leisure, and enraptured in call in early October, from forum-bred paranoia — this is Tunisia, to discuss the strange not a holiday. and unanticipated prescience of their new project — as W well as the role their day jobs played in its inception.

ot a Holiday is an unyielding and N tempestuous album, drawing what you’ve done/ You went outside all from a droning, psychedelic palette to on your own/ With no one there to see/ create an ever evolving miasmic swirl of You might as well have stayed at home.” sound. There’s an underlying sense of yearning and hope here — first audible hese criticisms are not distinct in opener “Buried Alive,” a somewhat of the internet age (see David fatalistic reminiscence on fi nding purpose. T Foster Wallace’s E Unibus There’s the somewhat ﬂ ippant, singsong Pluram for parallel commentary nearly recital of “I can be your very own ghoul,” three decades earlier), but the latter half which leads into triumphant swells of of the setlist shifts focus to an entirely guitar, ebbing and flowing throughout modern phenomenon: the dominance the song. This initial glimmer of hope of disinformation. Both the whirling and agency lays at the very core of the ambient hums of “Town Crier,” and the album itself, written as a reflection creeping organ lines of “Spiterman,” upon Hasan and Layla’s experiences as serve to deliver tales of personality cult professional internet moderators. Though and insidious mistruths. These songs neither has had the misfortune of auditing are hard to breath through. Deep and video content, the recent lawsuit fi led by dark and entrancing — like the beautiful YouTube censors has brought to light the fading image of a mermaid dragging you personal torment undertaken by those down, down, down; eyes glittering in the who dedicate their careers to the creation refracted moonlight.

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ALEXAWORDS BY LISA MAYERHÖFER * PHOTO BY R HESTER * IMAGESBLACK COURTESY OF ALEXA BLACK* LAYOUT BY OLIVIA COX s a primarily self-taught inter- disciplinary artist of Indigenous and European descent (Nahuat, Mayan/ ASpanish, Irish) Alexa Black is “a bridge, a person in between”. On a healing journey reconnecting with her ancestors, she is currently creating a tarot deck made of tintype photographs which refute the colonial gaze and invite mysticism, collaboration and connection instead. Mitztemoa noyollo.

Alexa, I appreciate you talking to territories. Being indigenous was something like magick or that me. Let us start at the beginning, associated with poor treatment, so in had the essence of conjuring how did you get into art? order to survive, they never talked and scrying. Something that about their indigeneity. Culture was would bring me back into my Art is a part of my first memories. My truly left behind in order to assimilate body and connect me to the mom has pictures of me as a for survival. So art, being such a strong land. When I found tintype two-year-old painting the walls with component of culture was definitely not photography I knew lipstick. As cute as that is, it was never a priority for my family. instantly. You don’t need really supported. I have videos from anything except the elements when I was five, having an art show in What did you start out doing and the chemistry, and you the kitchen and I am explaining how instead of art? can shoot on a rusty can if everything was going to be okay. you need to. Which is kind of funny, because I My paternal grandfather offered to remember everything being really tense pay for a practical degree in nursing You are working on a in my life growing up. I remember so that I could be independent. Because special project right now — always being ready to go, because my my mother always dreamed of helping The creation of your own mum and my biological father had a people as a nurse, I took the offer. It set of tarot cards. You told very toxic relationship. He wasn’t in was painful for me. It’s hard for me to me you had dreamed of my life right from the beginning for have a regimented life with a schedule. them. good reasons. I’ll leave it at that. In order to cope with going against my All I wanted as a kid was to be seen creative self, I used a lot of drugs. Yeah, I dreamed about it for and heard for who I really was, which During my degree process, it got quite sure. My adopted father is of was somebody trying to connect to severe and I became dependent on mixed Cree/European that divine source, where one felt safe. stimulants. They got me through descent. He and my mother were on a days without food or water, or I think we all have the potential to be school, but the art went away. I was big healing journey and introduced me however long it took me to have a creators. For the most part, I believe so detached from my spirit that I to their indigenous teachings and vision basically. It was during those art is something that you need to have couldn’t create. spirituality at a young age. It felt like times when you would set your a level of stillness for, where you slow it was old inside of me, as if it had been intention for the rest of the year. the fuck down and you move into a How did you reconnect with it? with me for lifetimes. My parents Without water you’re really in a certain place in your softness. ended up going to AA meetings a lot, totally different universe. At first you I got super sick. I don’t want to put where they were highly influenced by feel like you’re burning from the inside I can sense that you have a lot of this kind of pressure on my illness, but some white christian folks and ended out, it hurts to pee, and you feel really understanding for your family for maybe it became a trigger to remind up converting. But I stayed with my fucked up and a little scared, and then not enabling that space. me of my purpose. Through it, I really traditional teachings and was adopted things become crystal clear. The whole reconnected to my art practice again, into another family out in Merritt. point is that your body becomes weak My grandmother and mother, both and I started learning about tintype Ko’waintco Michele is my adopted and your spirit becomes strong. Nahuat Pipil and partly Mayan photography at 26. spiritual mother. She oversaw me for Through my visions, I gravitated women, had fled from the civil war in a few years of vision fasting. towards a tarot deck in my head that I El Salvador and came over to Canada Why this ancient practice of all was going to create, because I really in the 80s. Poverty was a big fear for things? Is this a practice you can, or want, couldn’t stand the colonial construct of my family. They were afraid of art to share your experience with? a traditional deck, and I wanted to leading me down that path. Mixed or There was a time in my early 20s where create space for intersectionality to indigenous people migrating North as I was very anti-technology, and I was I ended up fasting every spring for a account for human complexity. The refugees were considered immigrants, really angry at the system and what was few years starting around age 23... I other part was how passionate I felt despite pre-colonial migrations and going on in the world. I needed would go for as long as two to four about bringing magick down to earth

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traditional territory spans as well. There’s rarely a time when I is a collaborator. I couldn’t make any all the way from the Four don’t have a two-hour conversation of this without their lived experience Corners down to El with somebody before the shoot who and their unique essence. Photog- Salvador. Unless you’re doesn’t have a huge emotional raphy is an uncomfortable colonial Nahuat, you don’t know breakdown and that’s beautiful. It art form and I’ve addressed that with that. People will call you becomes therapeautic, and a labour of almost all of my models. They are Hispanic, or Latina, and love, and that is really why I am doing compensated for their time for me that’s a defeat to my this. I’m creating space for them to financially; they are always asked for people to wear a colonial move through in whatever way they their comfort level and consent and label. A lot of my work is choose and we are translating it into can withdraw it at any given point. moved by the anger I feel an ethereal piece of magick. They have total freedom as opposed towards the erasure of my to being captured. people. As a mixed race How do you turn that conversation I want to make them feel beautiful. I person, the world tells you into a visual? want to make them feel like everything you’re not indigenous they've gone through, and all of the enough, not white enough In most cases, I show you a couple of discomfort in their worlds, all their — it’s all enraging. My images that I’ve made previously and sensitivities, can just be there in one identity is not up for debate explain them. I might ask which one moment. I hope they can come into a or colonial policing. I you resonate with and if there is space of self-love. represent the in-between anything that you would like to add but choose to give voice to to the archetype. I don’t know how Could explain your interpretation what has been silenced. At it happens, but so far, every time it of the card Judgement to me? the same time it is very ends up being in alignment with what important to me to the person is actually going through. It is the birth of a new consciousness for people. It’s so special that you can acknowledge my privilege that comes Just as if someone was doing a tarot — somebody is definitely resurrected in connect to this omnipotent, omniscient from being hugely white passing. reading for you. the image. This arcanum really speaks consciousness by using a tool. The main thing for me was to to one of the hardest experiences hear from my whole family I’ve ever been through. It reminds That sounds like everything you “You reclaiming your me of the madness I went through needed was there already, you just indigeneity and you intro- when I was getting clean. I moved, needed to connect to it. ducing yourself as a primarily quit my job and lost all my friends Nahuat woman allows us to with a relationship of five years. It’s there but it’s just so bogged down heal. Just keep doing what Everything I surrounded myself by these lower material vibrations you're doing.” with and identified with was lost that we have to constantly disconnect overnight. I ended up going back to from. Art can move energy. I don’t Does all that play into your the Four Corners and I stayed in the really use words very much, as I’m tarot? desert for months. I sat down with not a writer. I think it’s because I the plants and what felt like don’t like my colonial languages, The deck is about creating a lifetimes of trauma. I remember this Spanish and English. It kills me that home. The only place that constant feeling of a resurrection. I I don’t have access to my languages, feels like home is here doing didn’t know who I was anymore I’ve only heard and understood them this. I get asked “what’s your because I had wrapped my identity a couple times in dreams. I heard that mix?” all the time. I can’t go around another person and my someone who preserves their back to my mum’s land addiction. I was 27 and it was the language preserves their spirit. because I wasn’t born there rudest awakening. But when you and it’s violent as fuck — so I realize you’re still surviving, and There is another important don’t know if it’s home or not, you realize your power and concept for you developed by colonialism has damaged it so resilience, you open yourself up to Gloria Anzaldúa? much. My ambiguity is a something greater. You have created pillar of my creativity. I’m space for this divinity to come into She is a queer, mestiza femme who always in a contradiction and you. Where your greatest fear is, coined the term “Nepantla”, in eventually I learned that it is okay Photography also was, and your power also lies. Most of us are so Nahuatl, which means to share cultural and actually kind of special. It’s been remains, a colonial tool. If we think scared of our true selves. I didn’t know and spiritual knowledge from one uncomfortable and fucking lonely of countless so-called anthropo- I could trust Alexa to create, and to go group of people to the next. It’s about but when I get to this place where I logical studies or nameless live on her true path. I’ve always had a building tolerance for contradiction, create this work, it’s when I can portraits of First Nations people. I fear of failing, as I associated it with and not rejecting any part of yourself, connect and feel whole from the love that you aim to turn this often abandonment. But the true but instead, understanding it as a new contradiction the most. Does that objectifying and dehumanizing abandonment is for me to leave myself consciousness. When I read her book make sense? process on its head, and into a and to not let this spirit create. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New conversation. You give your Mestiza I just wept and held onto that Absolutely. subjects back their agency in a g for dear life. I get emotional talking healing and empowering process. I about it. And each of my models are in-between wondered, is it also about *All images of the artwork are works too. They are mixed raced or mixed reclaiming and finding new ways to in progress and are subject to change “Nepantleras are threshold people; genders or have multiple personalities, create art, which lead away from as Alexa continues to work on the they move within and among they are in between a liminal state of the colonial and patriarchal gaze project. multiple, often conflicting, worlds.” mind or physical health or in active and acknowledge collaboration addiction. This art project is not about instead of feeding into a myth of Being half white, and living in objectifying or exploiting somebody’s ‘genius and object’? so-called “Canada,” I feel as though lived experience whatsoever. It’s about my indigeneity is perpetually erased. me finding folks who want to heal, That’s a hundred percent it. That Because of my mix, my mom’s and want to find a place of belonging person sitting in front of the camera

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’ve been trying to grow kale seeds for the better part of two Words by PHoebe telfar months. They’ve been about four inches for about three weeks now. Nestled in a tin can ﬁ lled with some dodgy Summer Photos courtesy norma ibarra dirtI I had scooped from under my house, they perch inside my fall photo by Isaac you kitchen windowsill, getting a small dose of indirect sunlight. Illustrations by Natalie Hanna Their little curling leaves stretch towards the glass. Had I layout by sheri turner thought that my love and attention would make up for their lack of sun and space? Maybe. Did it work? Apparently not. ne of Companion Planting Club’s core values is to be accessible. Both gardening and skateboarding Perhaps I would have had more luck with a support circle like are more than just activities — they equip those who engage with tools like perseverance, the Companion Planting Club. A gardening group of unlikely consistency, patience, and determination. With a whirl of uncertainty and stress clouding our origins, they promote accessibility and inclusion in sharing of minds, gardening can be a grounding breath of stability. As health and safety adjustments involve knowledge. I recently had the pleasure of chatting to some Oa heavily digitized lifestyle for many, taking a quiet moment to water your plants and notice little garden members through — ironic, given our organic subject — the critters can provide mental relief. CPC aims to bring this peace and appreciation to more people. over-familiar zoom grid.

I also think that gardening is met Starting skateboarding or starting a I'm only trying my own planting exper- with some anxiety, especially with garden can be really overwhelming. iments now because of him. So I appre- being in the city — Sam really blew You might not know where to start, ciate the way you put it — how simply my mind, she’s done a great job with and having access to a community talking about it encourages people, and using what the city off ers. Because I that understands and supports that stops it from being such a scary, big thing. live in a house, I have accessibility can go a really, really long way. That's really cool. — but she lives in an apartment that We've seen this happen in skate- doesn't even have a balcony. So, boarding, and now we can see the It's really motivating to grow within go and buy flowers and food from she took a roundabout and trans- possibilities in gardening as well. this group. her every Thursday. formed it into this incredible space. We’re representing a new age of People riding their bikes down 10th, gardeners, in a way. I'm a mom of three kids, you know, My nine year old daughter calls her they're like, what? It stops people, and I have a teenager who is 15, so auntie Michelle — and sometimes it's really inspiring. It's a very clear I love the way you put that — new age it's really cool to feel included. And I'm like, isn't she everybody's auntie? PHOEBE: I suppose the fi rst question I and learn from each other. you need to learn how to drop in, share this joy with our skateboarding example of showing urbanite people of gardeners. Also, I really know what Kalea is like, could be my daughter, have is, how did Companion Planting and you're not able to do it on your community, because I think everyone that gardening can actually happen. you mean with feeling kind of intimi- which is awesome! If you could give a sentence of advice to Club start up? JUDY: I mean, skateboarding's a own. So you're like, can you hold my should know how to grow food. It's Right? Like it's usable space. dated until you know people. I had a people who want to start skating, or start pretty individual art, if you will, and hand so I can try these tricks? Also, something that everyone should have roommate over I wanted to mention one of gardening, but for some reason haven't, NORMA: Well, everything started gardening can be the same thing. A skateboarding is so creative. There's access to. the summer who our members — Michelle from what would you say? during the lockdown. We all had lot of us do these things because we not just one way of skateboarding. threw himself Antisocial Skateboard Shop, because one thing in common — we are all get some sort of joy out of creating Everyone has their own style, their What do you consider the Companion into gardening. she’s one of my biggest inspirations. It's never too late. It's never too skateboarders. We're part of the for ourselves — but there's a bridge own tricks, their own preferences. Planting Club’s main goal to be? I'd never had a Like, she literally brought soil to my late! I started skateboarding after I skateboard community. During that links everybody together with And like, some people might be close friend who house, brought me my fi rst seeds for turned 31. the pandemic, we weren’t hanging those commonalities. It doesn't doing gnarly, crazy stuff, but we I think [CPC] bridges and connects just did that growing fl owers. Michelle does a lot out anymore, and some of us were matter how good of a skater you are, all share the same joy. I think for communities. You know, I garden before. He had for skateboarding, and now she's Yeah. I started at 31 too. Once you gardening. For me, this was my right, it doesn't matter how good of gardening it is the same. Like, I might with my 85-year-old neighbour — all these crazy doing a lot for gardening too. She start, you're like, Whoa, I wish I first year [gardening], and I just a gardener you are. just be growing the easy things, but clearly my 85-year-old neighbour is ideas about it. has a farm in Squamish and we all started earlier! had no clue what I was doing. So I I get the same joy every time I see not skateboarding. She doesn't even reached out to Sam. Then I reached What kind of similarities do you feel something bloom, something fl ower. understand it. out to Judy, and we ended up with there are between gardening and skating? It's the same joy that we get when we ooking ahead, CPC plans to launch beginner planting packs, with diff erent this Instagram group doing seed land the trick, you know? You never know, she might pick it up! versions adapted to accommodate growers’ space and sunlight availability. I exchanges, or just asking questions I think I can see every skate- ask if the frosty weather will disrupt them, but am reassured that though the like, oh, you know, where should I boarder like a plant —you progress KALEA: Both scenes are pretty I have an older neighbour, I don't know cold might slow growth, winter is time for important processes like building plant this type of seed? Or where do at different speeds. It's the same DIY, like even just, if we were to how old he is, but I see him everyday, up soil and mulching down dry leaves. Apparently even throwing lentils into your you get your soil from? That kind of when you skateboard. I feel like talk about creating a skate space roller skating down the street. I just have L thing. you need to practice every day and or designing a garden — there's so such mad respect. So you never know. soil stew can add richness! Preparing beds for bulbs sets up lovely tulips and daff odils like, you know, give it some love, many similarities there. You have so ready for spring. On top of this, winter gives CPC more time to focus on organizing SAM: The whole experience has been or get support. If a plant is failing much creative freedom in using the It's true. Never underestimate. But and applying for grants. They are on the hunt for supporters, both for funding, and for so rewarding! We are bonding over sometimes you need your friend to environment to just have fun. you know, I don't think gardening a spot to develop their own community garden with an integrated skate component. gardening rather than skateboarding. help you. You put in a stick to help has any borders or limits — any If you’d like to connect, you can fi nd them through @companionplanting club or at I think it has been really inspiring. the plant grow straight. [It’s the] But now we're at a point where person with fl esh and a heartbeat can www.companionplantingclub.com W It's another way for us to collaborate same for skateboarding. Sometimes we're like, okay, well, how can we do this.

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ne of Companion Planting Club’s core values is to be accessible. Both gardening and skateboarding are more than just activities — they equip those who engage with tools like perseverance, consistency, patience, and determination. With a whirl of uncertainty and stress clouding our minds, gardening can be a grounding breath of stability. As health and safety adjustments involve Oa heavily digitized lifestyle for many, taking a quiet moment to water your plants and notice little garden critters can provide mental relief. CPC aims to bring this peace and appreciation to more people.

ooking ahead, CPC plans to launch beginner planting packs, with diﬀ erent versions adapted to accommodate growers’ space and sunlight availability. I ask if the frosty weather will disrupt them, but am reassured that though the cold might slow growth, winter is time for important processes like building Lup soil and mulching down dry leaves. Apparently even throwing lentils into your soil stew can add richness! Preparing beds for bulbs sets up lovely tulips and daﬀ odils ready for spring. On top of this, winter gives CPC more time to focus on organizing and applying for grants. They are on the hunt for supporters, both for funding, and for a spot to develop their own community garden with an integrated skate component. If you’d like to connect, you can fi nd them through @companionplanting club or at www.companionplantingclub.com W

“ Companion Planting Club ” 23 Discorder Magazine Nov-Dec 2020

WORDS BY Katherine Gear Chambers STUDIO & ARTIST PHOTOS BY Alistair Henning ARCHIVE PHOTOS COURTESY OF Hazel Meyer PHOTO OF WHAT IT MEANS TO GROW UP POUR (AFTER REASON OVER PASSION) COURTESY OF MEYER Dennis Ha LAYOUT BY L Deyvika Srinivasa

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Meyer reflects. She adds, “I came to about realize — and I know this sounds absurd — but that all marble is Joyce’s marble. Marble is older than any of us, it is of ” the earth, it’s shells that have been pressed together trillions of years ago, power like who am I to own that?” t is a white room that invites you Meyer began exploring questions about in, and offers its various pieces to inheritance through performance. you as though showing you a Surrounded by various props based on secret. Milk crates, curtains and a faux- objects found in Rowland and Wieland’s marbleI puppet smile at you, encouraging home, Meyer told versions of the story, you to reflect on their function. While “thinking about inheritance, class, the objects themselves have a far more queerness […] and what you pass on, obvious function — pants, puppets, especially without a biological inheri- quilts — they have been edited by while I couldn’t make total sense of what Reason Over Passion which caught the tance of having children, how we leave inheritance. Transformed by time, its meaning was at the time, I knew it was eye of Jane Rowland — a woman who things behind.” In one iteration of the moved by legacy and new inhabitants. trying to communicate something to me had moved into Wieland’s former home. performance Meyer picked up a heavy The show in question, The Weight of — and using these motifs as a means Meyer and her partner Cait were given piece of marble, and invited audience Inheritance, exhibited at Western Front towards that goal.” the opportunity to visit and tour the members to come and hold it with her. from September to late October, is the In The Weight of Inheritance, Meyer uses house. “On the second floor landing there “It was a way of suggesting we don’t do most recent manifestation of artist Hazel her relationship to Wieland’s work as “a were all these pieces of marble leaned up these things alone,” Meyer explains, Meyer’s ongoing project of the same compass, and a pathfinder to other against the railing,” Meyer explains. The “how do we come together and take care name. “The Weight of Inheritance is me histories that aren’t given as much marble had belonged to Wieland, and of people, thinking outside of a thinking through various kinds of attention and care.” “My intention wasn’t Rowland offered it all to Meyer on the biological kind of family. […] How do legacies, and queer inheritance,” Meyer to make a show about Joyce Wieland,” spot. So began The Weight of Inheritance. we hold people’s pasts — if they want us explains, “using my long-time fondness Meyer admits, “rather I wanted to see how to.” Meyer explains that in holding the for Joyce Wieland as a starting point.” I could think about legacy, power, inheri- hen Meyer moved away marble, the audience was helping her “I first saw [Wieland’s] work when Iwas tance etc...with Wieland and her marble as from Toronto — two hold its story. a pre-teen,” Meyer continues, “I saw her my starting point.” years after first meeting From those first performances, the piece, Reason Over Passion, and it totally The connection between Wieland and Rowland and a year following her project developed into a scripted, three- resonated with me […] I had never seen The Weight of Inheritance is not passingW — it was without the marble. person performance, featuring a puppet such a large work made with textiles arbitrary. In fact, the project was born She soon realized that it had become a made to look like a chunk of marble, the before. And the humour! It was funny! It when Meyer was given slabs of marble symbol of her friendship to Rowland. Diana Ross song “It’s My House,” and a was unabashedly cute — there were that once belonged to the artist. In 2017, “The kind of inheritance I was a part of Shakespearean sonnet, amongst other hearts everywhere, and puffy letters, and Meyer had done work based on Wieland’s was actually way more meaningful,” things.

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The exhibition that currently sits at lowest bracket: “Of course I knew what Western Front was initially meant to be a they were looking for, and I was like, series of performances developed and “I’m not giving you that, so I said, presented over the course of the ‘intelligent.’”WHAT IT MEANS TO exhibition, but the pandemic necessi- GROW UP POUR (after Reason Over tated some flexibility and the perfor- Passion), is an echo of this, as Meyer mances became 2 person workshops reflects, “It’s not monolithic in any way. between Meyer and filmmaker Alysha With this work I used the word POUR Seriani and writer s f ho. Even so, mobile because I hope it might be misunderstood milk crates and a pair of pants do what as a misspelling of POOR, which I they can to conjure bodies in the space. thought might also make the person who thought this think about their assump- here are nods to Wieland tions, or experiences with regards to throughout the room – in education and class.” particular, a piece called Joyce Wieland’s Marble (2020 ) that looks like cross from What It Means to aT cluster of slabs of marble, and a large Grow Up Pour hangs a pair quilt with the words “What It Means to of purple leather pants. On Grow Up Pour” in puffy letters, an the back of the pants, the words ABOUT obvious reference to Wieland’s 1968 POWERA are stitched in white leather. piece Reason Over Passion. “The pants could easily be found in a Hazel remembers attending a workshop BDSM scene, the object of someone’s on poverty activism in her early twenties, kink and desire… So thinking about in which participants were separated into power through desire, and various different class brackets based on how they relationships with power […] a kind of grew up. Participants were then asked to positive radical desire.” share a word that was typically used to “This is an essay about power,” reads the describe people in their economic bracket. first sentence of an article which hangs in Hazel remembers being alone in the miniature on the gallery wall beside What

It Means to Grow Up Pour, aptly given certain structures, and how I can redirect the title, (This is an essay) ABOUT that power, be an ally and stay true to POWER, 2020. The text itself, Power, what my politics are. The work about Technology and the Phenomenology of Wieland and her marble and Rowland Conventions: On Being Allergic to gives a certain idiosyncratic scaffold to Onions, is by Susan Leigh Star, and has these ideas and moving through them. It traveled with Meyer for a while now. The feels fertile and generative.” Weight of Inheritance poses the question The Weight of Inheritance is indeed of “reengaging with structures and systems generative – of ideas, of questions, of to make them work for those of us with conversation. It encourages us to think less power than others.” about legacies, inheritance, and power. “Thinking about my own privilege as a “I like conjuring that word in this space white settler on these lands,” Meyer because it feels like my first sentence of reflects, “and thinking back to that idea the exhibition.” Meyer shares, “This is a of ownership (with regards to Joyce’s show about power — but it’s about so marble and objects that are of this earth), much more than power.” I owe myself and the work, and really the world I move through, to constantly be W thinking through how I benefit from “ Hazel Meyer ” 25 played is jolted, and slowed to a halt. The album continues for eight more tracks, with lengths varying from Music barely thirty seconds to spanning over seven minutes, each toying with this interplay between analog and digital. Musical motifs circle back on one another, defining and redefining themselves against each other Sasha Olynyk before faltering off, jumping in partway on another, or beginning again The Myriad and the Maelstrom entirely, seemingly unchanged. With all this jumbling of musical phrases (self-released) and ideas, the album can easily feel disorienting, even nauseating April 25, 2020 — the piano swirls around so ceaselessly that one can’t help but feel unmoored. And if left isolated and un-supplemented, The Myriad and the “Order and chaos are separated by one thing Maelstrom would not be the sort of record that would be easy to listen to and one thing only; the presence of repetition or a second time. But with the guidance of the story, and Jacob’s untethered the lack thereof. Replication, duplication, copying, conceptual probes into the musical ideas surrounding his own fictional recurrence, call it what you like; it is absolutely necessary to the structure compositions, Olynyk’s compositions are transformed into a fascinating of human existence. Look at all the elements of our lives that are cyclical foray into postminimal music. —Lucas Lund by nature; we follow in the footsteps of our parents and peers, find routines that work and stick to them, recreate ourselves through procreation, and so on. We are only able to reproduce what we already know, or as Mark Ora Cogan Twain eloquently put, ‘no occurrence is sole and solitary, but is merely Bells in the Ruins a repetition of a thing which has happened before, and perhaps often.’ (Prism Tongue Records) But exact repetition is only possible in theory, not in real life. Instead, July 10, 2020 what seems to happen is that whenever something is repeated, the newest iteration adjusts itself ever so slightly to best fit its environment, ra Cogan’s Bells in the Ruins, is packed with so that over the course of many so-called replications we begin to see chilling gothic vocals and tight production overarching patterns of change and transformation. I believe that this O quality that crosses between the genres of forms the essential pattern and structure of all the processes around us. shoegaze, post-punk and darkwave. While her previous releases have So then you may be saying to yourself: 'how can you still call it repetition been led by heavier psychedelic rhythms or tranquil folk guitar, Ora’s when it’s not exactly the same from one step to the next? Doesn't that wide vocal range dominates the mix throughout this album. There is also go against the very definition of repetition?' ... but see, repetition is only a focus on meticulously composed synth lines, that build the foundation a word. Moreover, it is a word with vague predicates but, like most other for many of these new tracks. such words, people nonetheless unconsciously think of it as having fixed Cogan’s lyrical storytelling seems stronger than ever, as she draws predicates. Take for example the famous sorites paradox; if a heap were strong naturalistic allusions to describe a particular relationship reduced by a single grain at a time, at what exact point would it cease to throughout the album. The track “Tell,” is filled with dancing skies and be considered a heap? There is of course no answer, it simply illustrates sweeping canyons, and pleasantly backed with elegant synth arpeggios the limits of language's function to process, categorize, and classify the and balanced strings. The narrative is also incredibly refreshing, as she matter we come in contact with. There are many things out there that fall attempts to describe what some partner is feeling, rather than remaining in between known human classifications, and that’s where the fun begins. introspective. This shift in perspective is depicted in great detail in “Fixe,” Maybe repetition is a broader category than we thought, and I'm okay where Cogan describes a number of events her partner has undergone. with that. I don't know about you folks, but I don't want to live in a world However, while exact events are described — fires behind a motel where my only two options are to circulate endlessly in an unchanging and sitting down by the water — the intentions are still highly up for loop or jump into the abyss of complete nihilism. Right at the very edge of interpretation. repetition, that's where the narrow and tottering bridge lies.” Musically, my favorite track is “Kills,” with its fast and precise post-punk percussion that reminds me of Vancouver-based Crack Cloud. Ora skillfully n the short story accompanying Vancouver pianist and composer builds up to each chorus by filling the rhythm with a bubbly bass synth, and Sasha Olynyk’s latest album, The Myriad and the Maelstrom, Jacob, lacing the higher frequencies with radiant electric strumming. She then I head of an unnamed Toronto university’s music department, is hammers you with her heavy vocals that sound like she’s chanting down at swept up in his conceptual probes into the nuances of contrapuntal you from the top of some beautiful Vancouver alpine mountain. composition. Using the music of J.S. Bach as a point of departure, Jacob Ora unapologetically drags you into her musical narratives with transcendently explores an alternative, more intuitive, meditative and allusive imagery and tender vocals, while her mixes feel like black magic; all-consuming composition practice. Alternating back and forth between arcane yet well-practiced spells cast upon the unprepared listener. scenes of Jacob lecturing in a course of his creation, entitled “The —Jordan Naterer Metaphysics of Music,” and him sitting at his desk, piano, or church organ, composing a new musical work — a reimagining or perhaps reflexive step beyond Bach’s “Die Kunst der Fuge” — the short story Crack Cloud examines the underlying theoretical structures upon which Western Pain Olympics music has been built, and their ontological limits. (Meat Machine) Musically, Olynyk’s release illustrates, almost to a tee, the musical ideas July 17, 2020 Jacob expounds in his lecture hall — repetition, deviation, decay. On the first track, Olynyk’s piano rumbles out of the initial silence, with faint ust as Altamont and the murder of Sharon hisses and pops of digital manipulation showering over the cacophony. Tate spelled the end of the swinging, Then, just as it builds to an apex, the deep jumble of notes cuts away J free-loving ‘60s; the COVID-19 pandemic — cleanly, leaving a beautiful piano figure, centring around a single note, along with our city’s ongoing overdose crisis — has wiped out a large with underlying chords changing cyclically beneath. After just a few chunk of the remaining optimism in an urban landscape being slowly seconds, the whole track lurches, as if the record from which it is being consumed by gentrification and poverty. But just as diamonds are formed

26 UNDER REVIEW Nov-Dec 2020 within the heavy pressure of the Earth’s crust, Crack Cloud has produced tense almost cinematic strings as you hear the words “I don’t want to an authentic gem worthy of recognition. remember” — the song is a dreamscape that you feel entirely within. Continuing the unique blend of post punk and hip hop that has defined Like an architect of incorporeal spaces through the sounds of each track, their sound, the album begins with “Post-Truth (Birth of a Nation),” a grand, Coppard builds worlds that you can only access by listening and closing five-minute opener featuring bright, choral voices, pulsing, seamless your eyes. percussion and a vocal style as stark and raw as the streets Zach Choy On “Strings Plucked,” distorted keys are immediately present, (Drums/Vocals) called home during his period of substance abuse. The reminiscent of the sound of his last album. The mixing in this track, song's chorus calls for a much-needed end to bi-partisan politics, and courtesy of Coppard's brother's production company, Big Gift Sound, a start to real solutions to problems our out-dated institutions fail to is exceptional. Each incorporated element swimming amongst one contain. “We need a vigilante who can wear both shoes / Break free from another, amalgamated yet unique. In terms of other collaborators, the the echo chamber / We all are post truth.” drum machine beat that picks up particularly just past half way through The record continues to shine with “The Next Fix,” a powerful track the song is courtesy of Jasper Miller of Outback. “Strings Plucked” is that shines a light on the inner turmoil addicts face as they struggle to a chilling, gripping dystopian electronic three minutes. It’s way on the feed their habit (“Yes it's mine / It's the one thing / That keeps me alive / experimental side (a reminder of his other monikers, 1000 Petal Lotus and But I'm better off dead / So please chop off my head / Fill my body with downpour) while also maintaining a pop appeal. lead / I have too much regret”). The end of the song features a sound-bite Although the album has a dark tone, it also encompasses a really sweet from an interview where a DTES resident describes the pain of chemical sadness. The middle stretch of the record feels nurturing and delicate, withdrawals. With “Favour Your Fortune” sounding like a Daughters deep almost in flux with the stark intensity of the neighbouring songs. They cut and the guitar solo on “Tunnel Vision” being one for the ages, this is all still peel away at the layers of this idea of selfhood, but the ebbs and truly a record that doesn’t rest. flows of intensity feel natural. The darkness and lightness of introspective I consider this group to be one of, if not the most important band to analysis fluctuate, taking turns to be processed by the listener. emerge from the Vancouver scene in the last few years. As far as cultural Like standing at the edge of water, between the seafoam and the kelp; impact, innovation and vision go, they are second to none. Names like on top of sea-smoothed stones that graduate to coarse granules of sand; Peach Pit will mean nothing to people in five years, Crack Cloud will stand the ocean wind whipping through your clothes and the chill hits your mid the test of time. —Peter Quelch back — this record is a piercing yet comforting late October wind and the heavy clouds dim out the universe. The placement makes you feel small until you sink into it, and it makes you feel infinite. If you closed your eyes Le Ren in that very spot and took a deep breath you'd feel an unbridled calm. Morning and Melancholia That's what it feels like, for me at least. But again, the album is a reflection (Secretly Canadian) of each individual's self. Where would it transport you? July 31, 2020 “Freedom” may just be the most special on the album. Coppard’s father appears posthumously on the track, playing all the keys. In an interview e Ren’s Morning and Melancholia grapples with The Other Side Reviews, Coppard explained how his father’s sudden with raw grief. The short set of folk songs passing urged him toward contemplating what one’s earthly existence L allow Lauren Spear’s voice to shine set was supposed to mean and be. For years working as a session drummer, against a backdrop of gentle guitar and drums. They have a mellow the shift in his life and eventually his thinking led him to explore the feeling, mixed with a sadness — perfectly encapsulated by the EP's title. possibility of creating for himself. Thus, he created Of Self. Each song seems to be a continuation of a story from leaving a lover Maybe it's because we’re both from Vancouver Island and the sound of in “Love Can’t Be the Only Reason to Stay” to regretting losing contact his music pulls at my own West Coast reminiscence; or maybe it's because with them for good in “How to Begin to Say Goodbye.” Then trying to he takes inspiration from people like Thom Yorke and aspires to work with reason through the grief of their death in “If I Had Wings” and trying Frank Ocean, two other artists whose work I adore; or perhaps it has to do to keep their memory alive in “The Day I Lose My Mind”. Each song is with the fact that his music is digging at the ideas of broader perspective, impactful in its efficiency — despite them being short, each and every the way our actions affect those outside of ourselves and self-reflec- line is meaningful. —Almas K tion — all I can say is that Zane Coppard is one the most confoundingly talented musicians I've been lucky enough to hear. When asked what his biggest hurdle has been musically, he replied “being comfortable in my Zane Coppard own skin.” His unwavering integrity and humility shows within every song Of Self and reminds you that each of our personal versions of “the self” share (Bonfire Records) congruences. In these times of often feeling tremendously alone, we are August 28, 2020 more akin than we may realize. All submerged in the depths Of Self. — Maya Preshyon rom the first song onward, in the most heavy yet calming way, the sound of Zane Coppard’s F Of Self fills you with the cloaking sensation of drowning. And that’s not exclusively due to the instrumentals, as the Podcast album feels almost exactly like its name claims — it pulls you into the depths of introspection. Mikayla Koch stated it perfectly, expressing that "Zane draws attention back to what is most essential but overlooked in The Department of Justice our outwardly focused society — the Self.'' August 2020 - present Yet the album goes beyond Coppard’s own personal reflection of himself and articulates that introspection in such a way that any listener s governments began mandating social can interpret how it may fit flush with their own unique human experience. distance protocols, and entire industries The album almost sweeps over you when you hear it — it’s wildy immersive A shuttered their windows and doors to because it so unexpectedly tugs at emotions and sentiments in a deeply weather the storm of COVID-19, boredom ran personal way. A beautiful and incredibly intricate follow up to his previous rampant among those swept up in isolation. For (equally aptly named) project Of Love, Of Self is an album for escaping, some, this meant sitting tight, anxiously awaiting a return to normalcy, finding yourself and disappearing all at once. however distant it might have seemed. Yet for others, the sudden onset With a Radiohead-esque ominousness (In Rainbows-era, at least), the of free time provided an opportunity to devote time and energy into first handful of tracks dive right into Coppard’s typical eerily spectral some new skill or craft that had never been able to be a priority in their sound. In the second track, “Fake Reasons,'' with the drawn out reverb pre-pandemic lives. Vancouver-based musician and producer Justice on the kick drum, the bright wind chimes sprinkled in the middle, the McLellan — of the bands Blue J, Mesa Luna and Harlequin Gold, most

UNDER REVIEW UNDER 27 Nov-Dec 0202 Nov-Dec notably — was of the latter category. Starting in mid August, McLellan began releasing his new interview-based podcast, satisfyingly titled The Department of Justice. Each episode, of which there are now fourteen, is a conversation between McLellan and a notable Vancouver artist. Because of his proximity to the local music scene, the majority of his guests have thus far been musicians, but he has a few episodes in which he talks with visual artists and actors as well. Despite spending most of his professional career in the arts behind the scenes, producing or mixing music, McLellan proves himself to be an adept interviewer throughout the podcast. While it would be a stretch to label his style of interviewing as hard-hitting journalism, McLellan’s calm, casual and often vulnerable tone of conversation results in honesty and reciprocity from his guests. In the third episode of the podcast, McLellan and his guest, producer, musician and queer DIY-electro punk icon Jeff Cancade of Devours and The Golden Age of Wrestling chat like the long-time friends they are — reminiscing about the awkwardness of early-2000s pop culture, discussing the segregation between the city’s LGBTQ community from much of the independent music scene and opening up about their own journey through dealing with shame and body image. As someone who has long been attentive to the independent arts scenes in this city, The Department of Justice is an incredible glimpse into the intimate lives and careers of many of the people within it. I would imagine, however, that for someone who has less of a grasp on the scene, McLellan’s podcast could be somewhat opaque. Both he and his guests talk so casually about their own creative lives that they often leave out many of the details that would orient the uninitiated listener to fully understand the independent arts landscape in which they reside. But for those who are in the know, or perhaps those who are unafraid to dive right into the deep end of Vancouver’s independent music scenes, The Department of Justice is !!! an entertaining and informative look To submit music, podcasts, books, or film for review consideration to Discorder Magazine, please email: at the people who keep Vancouver’s Jasper D. Wrinch, Section Editor culture alive. —Frances Shroff [email protected].

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15 Busty and the Bass* Eddie A & C

16 Hello Blue Roses*#+ Wild Nights! J R

17 Sum-01*# Makin' Moves B B

18 SBDC*#+ The Feeling Of Winning S-R

19 Kordoroy Floyd* Kordo 3 S-R

20 Crack Cloud*#+ Pain Olympics S-R

21 Ora Cogan*# Bells in the Ruins P T

22 Thanya Iyer*# KIND T R

23 Lomelda# Hannah D D W

24 Sam Lynch*#+ Little Disappearance B C

25 Osees Protean Threat C F

26 Jody Glenham*#+ Mood Rock S W M

27 Bedwetters Anonymous*+ Framed S-R

28 Ilam*# Néné GSI M

29 Freak Heat Waves* Zap The Planet T E

30 Laverne*+ Lack of Vocation L T

31 Non La*+ Not In Love K B

32 Sabota*+ Collins EP S-R

33 Shitlord Fuckerman*+ brain donor S-R

34 Zoon* Bleached Wavves P B Pentagon Black Compilation Various Artists* P B 35 No. 5 36 Holy Hive Float Back To You B C T I Lexxicon* Tropical R&B 37 E 38 David Strickland* Spirit of Hip Hop O

39 Jennifer Castle*# Monarch Season I F R

40 Land Of Talk*# Indistinct Conversations D A

41 Dog Day*# Present F

42 Desgraciados* DES II S-R

43 Aktu El Shabazz*+ Waterworld S-R

44 Khotin* Finds You Well S-R N M Waahli* Soap Opera 45 P 46 Brutal Poodle*#+ Night Creeps / Wash K B

47 Bella White*# Just Like Leaving S-R

48 Prado*#+ STRIP

Dizzy*# The Sun and Her Scorch R M

49 submit been played most on air over the last month. Artists with asterisks (*) are Canadian, artists hashtags (#) indicate FemCon, and those marked plus (+) local. To ect what’s charts reﬂ CiTR’s BC, V6T1Z1. Though we prioritize Music Director at CiTR 101.9FM, LL500 6133 University Blvd., Vancouver on CiTR 101.9FM, please send a physical copy addressed to Jasper Yip, music for air-play can follow up with the Music Director 1-2 weeks after submitting. You physical copies, feel free to email download codes [email protected]. Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland* T 50 Beverly Glenn-Copeland A Non-Profit Film Institute ∙ Screenings ∙ Learning & Outreach ∙ Film Reference Library ∙ West Coast Film Archive

Images from top to bottom: La Dolce Vita, 1960; La Haine (Hate), 1995; 8½ (Otto e mezzo), 1963; The Painted Bird, 2019