Status Updates From Best Canadian Essays 2023

Rescuing the Radicalized Discourse on Sex and Gender: Part Two of a Three-Part Series by Allan Stratton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Still really good

“There is real discursive comfort in framing conversations about material deprivation around gun violence. In 2006, when all those shootings went down, the Globe and Mail patted Toronto police on the back for a job well done. Meanwhile, housing affordability continued to decline and the economic disparities between Toronto’s racialized inner suburbs and the downtown core continued to grow. ”

“To tweet is to cover yourself in tattoos. Your style may change, but you’re stuck with that butterfly on your lower back. Worse, you condemn yourself to repetition, forcing the future-you to keep defending a past-you. Self-expression becomes the enemy of wisdom.”

Excerpt From “Where Is Intellectual Courage in the Age of Twitter?” By Tom Rachman (E2)

Essay 1: Genetic Mapping by Emma Gilchrist is really good. — “Ours is a time where it’s increasingly repeated that, at least in the United States, genealogical research is the second most popular hobby, after gardening, and the second most popular search category online, after porn.”