http://www.catherineomega.com/2009/07/critical-pride/ A blog by Catherine Winters Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:06:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.catherineomega.com/2009/07/critical-pride/comment-page-1/#comment-56676 Critical Pride Part 2: Midnight Mass & the Dyke March | Omega Point Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:13:17 +0000 http://www.catherineomega.com/?p=437#comment-56676 [...] a followup to some of the discussion resulting from yesterday’s post comparing Pride and Critical Mass, I thought I’d extend the metaphor to my preferred alternative events: Midnight Mass and the [...] […] a followup to some of the discussion resulting from yesterday’s post comparing Pride and Critical Mass, I thought I’d extend the metaphor to my preferred alternative events: Midnight Mass and the […]

]]> http://www.catherineomega.com/2009/07/critical-pride/comment-page-1/#comment-56659 themindfantastic Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:57:46 +0000 http://www.catherineomega.com/?p=437#comment-56659 Coming out as queer, and being openly affectionate with man woman tree or rock isn't really political, but it can be still a little dangerous. Example Vancouver has a spotty record of racial integration with the Asiatic Exclusion League inciting rioting here in September 1907. But we have grown used to a large population from all parts of South Asia in our modern times, but it hasn't actually eliminated racism in the city. Its there and while its not an active thing, a lot of people do resent the perception of white people being the minority. Regular Pride events will never really eliminate Homophobia even 50 to a hundred years from now I suspect. People resent not seeing themselves in the culture around them, which is in part why people end up fighting for identity and rights to express their identity in the first place, and why we now have cultural spaces in Vancouver, so that people can feel a part of something. The argument that can we simply be accepting Canadians is becoming harder to rally under with the larger cultural fragmentation underway in our world as we find ways to feel not so insignificant in the populations we find ourselves lumped into. Coming out as queer, and being openly affectionate with man woman tree or rock isn’t really political, but it can be still a little dangerous. Example Vancouver has a spotty record of racial integration with the Asiatic Exclusion League inciting rioting here in September 1907. But we have grown used to a large population from all parts of South Asia in our modern times, but it hasn’t actually eliminated racism in the city. Its there and while its not an active thing, a lot of people do resent the perception of white people being the minority. Regular Pride events will never really eliminate Homophobia even 50 to a hundred years from now I suspect. People resent not seeing themselves in the culture around them, which is in part why people end up fighting for identity and rights to express their identity in the first place, and why we now have cultural spaces in Vancouver, so that people can feel a part of something. The argument that can we simply be accepting Canadians is becoming harder to rally under with the larger cultural fragmentation underway in our world as we find ways to feel not so insignificant in the populations we find ourselves lumped into.

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