Today is UN-sanctioned World Day for Cultural Diversity. But dialogue means little if the voices speaking the hardest truths are ignored (or punished). Development means nothing if it's measured by extractive economies built on stolen land. Yes, cultural diversity matters. Indigenous wisdom, Black radical traditions, queer kinship, disabled resilience, diasporic memory - these must be honoured beyond token aesthetics, as ways of being that challenge dominant systems. But a seat at the table doesn't equal liberation if the table itself was carved from conquest. Artworks included are by Métis artist Christi Belcourt (christi_belcourt ). As she so aptly says: "Reconciliation without land returned and a correction of all that has resulted from our dispossession is not even possible. I see the word reconciliation being used to rebrand the existing insidious assimilationist policies of the government.” Some tables need to be dismantled. Some "dialogues" need to be interrupted. Inclusion s...