Queer for Canada

Stephanie Wu
[Image Source: Wu_Stephanie Instagram]

The Art Gallery of Mississauga spent Canada Day making "protest posters" with "queer identified" Chinese-"Canadian" community shaker-upper and "artist" Stephanie Wu:

spent today making prints
and posters with families and little ones to
protest for changes we want to see in our
communities. the theme was "what's
consider to be an emergency in your
communities?" and since it was on
canada day, some folks made ones about the
emergency of ongoing colonialism on
turtle island. another favourite includes, "be a
buddy, not a bully" and here are a
few samples made for the workshop. thank u
to the 100+ folks that shared their thoughts and
made relief prints with us and to @agmengage for having me 🌿
nawkadnileb😍😍😍
sabsrizviart❤❤ [Text source: Wu_Stephanie Instagram]

The Art Gallery of Mississauga's (twitter page had the following message with the accompanying image:

@AGMengage
21h21 hours ago

TODAY! See our #summer #exhibitions – the #gallery's open 12-4 AND we'll be making #posters in Passion! Protest! Posters! w/ #artist Stephanie Wu on Princess Royal Dr. 12-6. #mississauga #mississaugaart #communityarts #cdnart #artmaking #artsandculture #artnews #agmfirstnewnext

Wu: Queer Quolor:


Stephanie Wu
Installation view of We Met Online: Finding Each Other,
Exhibited at The Khyber Centre for the Arts, 2017
mage Source: Visual Arts News Canada

WU: The White Ally Gloves is a critique on white folks that claim they are allies but aren’t willing to do the work. The idea of the gloves is that they can take them off whenever they believe they have contributed enough. They have the choice to not do anything while benefiting off of the systems QTPOCs live in. The Chinese character on the glove says “love” and it comments on white allies using “love” as an excuse to silence the urgency and anger of queer, trans, black, indigenous, people of colour experiences. I believe that allyship plays an important role in dismantling the oppressive structures we live in. But often times, I see white queer folks put “ally” on their dating profile or social media as if it’s a badge of honour. These are some things I believe are important in QTPOC allyship:
[Source: Neon Defiance: Wu interview on Visual Arts News Canada]

More on Wu here, here and here.