Cultural Communities

Unsettling Trends

In this episode, host Danielle Deveau interviews Melissa Bowman, a community advocate and founder of the Citified Substack. They discuss the trends in our communities, as well as some of the ways that everyday citizens can engage to make our communities better. We also feature an excerpt from Melissa Bowman's segment "Stories from Land Back Camp" featuring Amy Smoke. In the second half of this episode, we feature an interview with Dr. Kirsty Robertson, and Associate Professor and the Direct of Museum and Curatorial Studies at Western University. We discuss some of the ways that our cultural institutions such as museums are working to unsettling representation, access, and narratives about art and artifacts.