Bibliographic record
Abstract
Caribbean-Canadian carnival parades offer opportunities for Black people to reclaim public streets and reimagine urban geographies. This paper interrogates what it means to do so in the decolonial political contexts of a) land-back and Indigenous resurgence efforts and b) gendered resistance masquerade, music, and movement cultures. Traditional Black feminist research is predominantly focused on cis-gender and heteronormative experiences, despite the ways binary gender thinking cannot capture Black experience. While ‘playing mas’ (performing in costume during a Caribbean parade) in Toronto, Canada for the first time, I suddenly saw the opportunity to reveal and resist the categories, theories, and epistemologies situated in dominant colonial thinking including in my own body and self-judgements, and welcomed the opportunity to embody counter-narratives of movement as I reclaimed the streets, while acknowledging that reclamation as a move to innocence. This paper shares an auto-ethnographic-account of ‘playing mas’ to consider how Black bodies move through literal and figurative intersections, understanding and confounding Black feminism, queer and erotic subjectivity, and decolonial praxis. Examining what occurs between and among bodies related to carnival, from the perspective of the multiply situated performer, reveals conflicting and complimentary intersectional identities and oppressions, including race, gender, nation, sexuality, settler, immigrant, ability, and practices of (de)coloniality.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".