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Email: drennan [at] panix [dot] com
Articles: Articles, conference and journal papers, as well as PDFs of some of the content here, etc. can be found at Academia.edu, until I find a better place to aggregate it all.
Category Archives: art
Graphic Liberation! A conversation with Josh MacPhee
From the web site for the Justseeds Artists’ Co-operative: This conversation I had with Daniel Drennan ElAwar (from Jamaa Al-Yad Artists’ Collective) took place over zoom on September 29th, 2021. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve … Continue reading
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ineradicable voices: narratives toward rerooting: event video
In a previous entry [link ➤] I announced my participation with a collective performance/witnessing of adopted and fostered people in a safe and welcoming environment. It was an amazing experience, and I looked forward to our weekly virtual gatherings as … Continue reading
Existence is Resistance: The BDS and Land Back Movements
This statement is in response to the Vancouver City Council’s recent resolution targeting BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions). It has been updated to reflect growing local efforts in support of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and protests concerning the construction of … Continue reading
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Tagged Indigenous Peoples, Palestine
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On Extirpation, Rerooting, and Creative Liberation
Maymanah Farhat contacted me to write a two-paragraph art review for Jadaliyya’s 2018 end-of-year art review. I wrote the following instead. With special thanks to Maymanah for follow-up reference to the El-Khiam prison art collection, and to Lara Atallah for … Continue reading
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Decolonizing illustration: Rerooting culture, language, and activist practice
I have uploaded my expanded presentation from the CAA Conference in New York City last month. I presented on decolonization in the classroom (in the original liberation sense of the term, not the current vapid buzzword sense). The buzzword aspect … Continue reading
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Malcolm X Returns to Beirut
This was my second piece for Land of Gazillion Adoptees/Gazillion Voices [link to article], originally published in May of 2015.
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L’enfant adopté | YÀZ
YÀZ is a French rapper adopted from Morocco; this is his song The Adopted Child which describes his journey which will be familiar to many of us. The video can be found on YouTube [ link ]; YÀZ also has … Continue reading
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