We're excited to announce that Eva Jewell (@ebaans_) has taken on the Research Director role at Yellowhead! Many thanks to Shiri Pasternak (@shiripasternak), the founding research director, who will continue to be a member of our team in a new capacity. docs.google.com/document/d/16G…

Great big grateful shoutout to David A. Robertson Made me cry. Olemaun would’ve been thrilled. I packed a copy of When We Were Alone everywhere on the road with us and insisted teachers of all grades use it. Your books are the ones I wish I had growing up. TY Jeffrey Canton

The Toronto Air Show. An annual tradition where a few people enjoy themselves and the rest of the city shudders. A metaphor. #TorontoAirshow

Prepping my vinyl display for a cozy snow day guest chat on Canadian children’s (folk) music cultures Raffi Cavoukian 🇨🇦 Sharon, Lois & Bram in Ann Marie Murnaghan’s Childhood in Canadian Culture course CCY York Thanks for having me. #kidlitprof #belugagrads #therewasanoldlady #heirloomrecords

Naomi Hamer Raffi Cavoukian 🇨🇦 Sharon, Lois & Bram Ann Marie Murnaghan CCY York It was a fabulous chat. Thank you! I had the One Elephant, Deux Éléphants record that you shared. Also checked out the Finding Raffi podcast and loved it.

Today marks the first page of a new chapter in our university’s history. The Board of Governors has unanimously approved our new name – Toronto Metropolitan University. #torontomet ryerson.ca/news-events/ne…

This is today! ARCYP arcyp.ca/upcoming

🎮HAPPENING NOW!!!🎮 We are kicking off our Spring Symposium "Video Games and Young People's Digital Cultures". First up we have Melody Dowdy, Amy Leblanc (Amy LeBlanc) and Eden Middleton presenting their papers on the theme of Mental Illness, Disability and Video Games

Fantastic Q&A exploring empathy, contagion, autonomy choice, and trying to figure out just why so many of these games are so garsh darn dark! We're taking a half hour break and then we'll be back with our second panel "Queer, Decolonial, and Global Approaches to Digital Texts"

🎮STARTING NOW!🎮 Quick - head to our website to get your link! x.com/ARCYP1/status/…

Dr. TreaAndrea Russworm (TreaAndrea) getting us started by taking us through her impressive body of work before talking us through her work in cultivating radical play to foster criticality, consciousness and community in her students, culminating in the Radical Play game lab

Dr. Negin Dahya (Negin) taking us through her project engaging youth in juvenile rehabilitation centres as co-creators of concept art and stories for VR and the challenge of negotiating the different carceral logics and structures by which the project was structured

And now we have Dr. Kris Alexander, testing our Twitch engagement and presenting with what might be the highest production values in any keynote ever. We'd love to tell you more but you really need to see this in action!

ICYMI: Congratulations to Toronto Metropolitan University's new Canada Research Chair, professor Jas Morgan, and to professors Seth Dworkin and Dae Kun Hwang on their chair renewals! Learn more: bit.ly/3THg6gM JM Seth

Thanks to CRSH for funding the open access publication of A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age (edited by yours truly & the excellent @slowhistorian) which is available online now, through Bloomsbury Academic: bloomsburycollections.com/book/a-cultura…

Back on here to say thanks to Ann Marie Murnaghan amfmy CCY York for inviting me to give guest talk on folk music and Canadian children’s cultures aka my annual Raffi Cavoukian 🇨🇦 appreciation lecture #belugagradprof #canadianchildren #childstudies

Looking forward to giving this talk in-person York University next week! Thanks CCY York IRDL York U for inviting me to share my research.

We had a blast yesterday at Naomi Hamer 's talk "Don't Eat the Pictures: Cross-Media Play with Picture Books, From Mobile Apps to Interactive Museums", hosted by IRDL York U and the CCY program!