cop city swagger

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cop city swagger takes an etymological and theoretical dive into the words safety and care, questioning whose safety matters in the City of Vancouver. Spanning from 2019, near the beginning of the pandemic and the corresponding rise of anti-Asian hate crimes in the city, to 2023, the centennial year of the Chinese Exclusion Act, cop city swagger conducts an inquiry into Vancouvers first Chinese Canadian mayor the first Vancouver mayor to be publicly endorsed by the Vancouver Police Union who promised to address safety by increasing the number of police officers on the streets.

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Mercedes Eng is a prairie-born poet of Chinese and settler descent living in Vancouver on the unceded lands of the xmkym, Swxw7mesh, and slilwta. She is the author of my yt mama, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes (winner of the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize) and Mercenary English. Her writing has appeared in Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry, Jacket 2, The Asian American Literary Review, The Capilano Review, The Abolitionist, and r/ally (No One Is Illegal), Survaillance, and M'aidez (Press Release). Mercedes was recently the Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer-in-Residence and a Shadbolt Fellow at Simon Fraser University. She is an assistant professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she organizes the On Edge reading series.