Having lost her office space, Wight looks back at it using diffractive methodology to show how work spaces can function as sites of self-expression, feminist pedagogy and resistance in heteropatriarchal, neoliberal institutions.
Ki Wight
Ki Wight, MFA is a critical media studies scholar whose work looks at the relationship between media education, media culture and systems of oppression. She is a full-time lecturer at Capilano University in the Communication Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Liberal Studies and Motion Picture Arts programs, and a PhD candidate in the Equity Studies in Education program at Simon Fraser University. Before teaching at Capilano University, Ki was a film and television producer and executive for Canadian and international productions. Her work engages critical and decolonial pedagogy, critical race and critical whiteness studies, feminist and queer theory, and cultural studies.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey