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Lucas Carwford STATEMENT ON POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO DIVERSITY
An Academic Job Application Document, as a Poem
The Chair of LGBT Studies, interviewing me for the gig in LGBT Studies,
asked where I identify within the LGBT of LGBT Studies.
I have been L, been G, been B, been T, am ME,
which is not to say anyone’s ME is free of, or beyond,
these dead letters. Oh, we’ve got a live one here!

Sylvia Hamilton As the pandemic settled in a couple of months ago, so did I. Books I’d forgotten I owned, re-appeared. My vinyl LP’s beckoned. There’s time to sort, look through, play. Savour old favourites: Milt Jackson’s Sunflower, purchased in the ‘70’s, the track “People Make the World Go Round”, on repeat; Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s
New World Symphony, picked up at a second hand record store in the late 90’s when researching African American composer-arranger Harry T. Burleigh; Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies, that a friend borrowed and after many years, returned.
History tell us humans are adaptable, quick learners, – about the latter, I’m not completely convinced. Eventually, though, we’ll accept, embrace and move along with the change. We can do no less. We have to do no less to survive. And we will always have music and poetry, they endure.

The Pandemic, Equality and Social Triage

by the Honorable Louis LeBel

The pandemic triggered by COVID-19 has posed uniquely fundamental questions about the nature of equality among members of our society and their right to equal treatment. Beyond the legal rhetoric and refinement of our methods of interpretation, the pandemic has confronted us with the phenomenon of social triage.

The Psychosocial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Need for Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Magaly Brodeur

While we are now locked in a race against time to find a vaccine that can neutralise the SARS-CoV2 Coronavirus, the collateral effects of the pandemic are increasingly being felt across our communities.

Rajdeep S. Gill and Fabiola Nabil Naguib
Our Hearts as a Map for Change: Notes on Heart Cognition as a Radically Divergent Way of Knowing & Being

By Rajdeep S. Gill and Fabiola Nabil Naguib

Many people across diverse fields of research, policy, activism and art are increasingly thinking, writing and creating with regards to the unjust state of the world, the dynamics that sustain it, and ways of transforming our imaginations, ethics, and actions. It is heartening that more of us are awakening to the reality that we are all in this plethoric mess together, and wanting to be a part of local and global changes needed in all aspects of society and our ways of being a part of the biosphere.

“Each day I walk the path to the pond/ it should be different, it’s not. Everything/ has changed, nothing has changed.” These words from Sylvia D. Hamilton’s poem The Pond resound deeply as the strangeness brought by the COVID-19 pandemic has slowly settled into our everyday lives and relationships.