That’s right folks! In a long awaited advocacy campaign, The Vagabonders, er, brandon, is going to plaster the Queen and Dundas streetcars in Toronto with little bits of provocative wisdom. And by plaster, we mean place a single “Hello My Name Is” sticker on each of the cars we ride.
The messages on the stickers all, obviously, start with “Hello My Name Is” and end with the following:
- my own
- more than a name you say
- abused
- a survivor
- stabbed
- killed
- almost killed
- shot
- hit, for fun
- attacked, for what?
- raped
- drugged
- for nothing
- stitched-up, sewn-up, shut-up
- tortured
- sliced, cut, stabbed
- silenced
- brutalized
- beat-up
- beat-down
- banned
- “at-risk”
- profiled
- ashamed
- reliable
- hurt
- pregnant
- dead
- assaulted
- broken
- bent
- trashed
- bashed
- vandalized
- romanticised
- a license
- tokenized
- a story
- a poem
- more than who i am
- more than my life
- more than how i act
- more than who i may become
- more than who i love
- more than what i say
- more than what i wear
- more than who i fuck
- more than annomosity
- revolution
- made of superstition
- made of bravery
- made of audacity
- made of fluidity
- made of history
- made of ancestry
- made of knowledge
- made of learning
- made of passion
- made of experience
- my story
- made of story
- made of song
- made of monologue
- made of courage
- made of movement
- made of dance
- made of spirit
- awaiting gov’t approval
- made of play-doh
- none of your business
- overdrawn
- restricting my freedom
- fucking up my healthcare
- sarajevo (do you remember me?)
- bosnia (do you remember me?)
- Kosovo
- Ingushetia
- temprorary
- Desire
- little
- mine
- uncomfortable
- peeling
- lost in translation
- changing
- not a toy
- disposable
- slippery
- mud
- jack/jane
- queer eye candy
- not ‘it’
- getting old
- gonna make you smile
- more than a tool
- out of order
- not in service
- parading in your pants
- regretting last night
In the future, you can look forward to blank ones left on streetcars for you to write your own!
thevagabonders
Saoirse
Aidan
hanashimasu
missnomered
