PRONOUNCING

<p>This tenth SDUK broadsheet takes up <strong>PRONOUNCING</strong>: how speech, performance, language, and poetry shape sociopolitical discourse. In parallel with <em>Artists-in-Presidents: Transmissions to Power</em>, a series of leadership portraits and audio addresses from artists-as-leaders, the Blackwood engages discourses of speech and power throughout 2021.</p> <p>Constance Hockaday’s introduction to <em>Artists-in-Presidents</em> outlines the project’s central conceit: <strong>What forms of leadership do we need now?</strong> In a roundtable discussion in this issue (p. 19), panelists reflect on their changing roles as public figures in and adjacent to healthcare amid the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, under-resourced mental health and addiction services, and intergenerational legacies of medical trauma. In a reflection on Black feminist organizing in the GTHA, Maandeeq Mohamed (p. 28) likewise examines how activists express collective power. These polyvocal expressions of leadership are richly illustrated by Ines Doujak (cover), whose work envisions human-animal hybridity.</p> <p>This issue’s theme might have readers won- dering: <strong>How are free speech principles reflected in institutions and social movements?</strong> Shama Rangwala (p. 24) reflects on how freedom is conceived and expressed across social spheres, with attention to the unfreedoms from which these values emerge. Rinaldo Walcott (p. 4) similarly questions whose speech is valued, and whose is erased in a column on the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ censure of the University of Toronto. Jacob Wren (p. 30) enacts solidarity with the CAUT censure through an act of withdrawal…</p>