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Girls (in progress)


oil painting series

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b (2015)

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Girls is a portrait series of a bunch of badass girls looking badass and not caring about it.

Girls (in progress)


oil painting series

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b (2015)

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Girls is a portrait series of a bunch of badass girls looking badass and not caring about it.

Girls (in progress)


oil painting series

​

b (2015)

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Girls is a portrait series of a bunch of badass girls looking badass and not caring about it.

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Viva, viva la Befana
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Jan 5
  • 3 min

Viva, viva la Befana

La Befana vien di notte Con le scarpe tutte rotte Col vestito da romana Viva, viva la Befana! Long live la Befana! The more you learn abo...
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Italian-Canadian Uprising!
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Jul 28, 2020
  • 1 min

Italian-Canadian Uprising!

Montreal Italians: Visit @italcanadiansforblacklives, follow them, and register for their webinar tonight at 7pm.
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In Backyards
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Jul 23, 2020
  • 3 min

In Backyards

It’s been quite a few years since I’ve seen these tents. They’re icons of my childhood summers. Every August, we celebrated my great-gran...
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W[ta]F: "ya, but..."
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Jul 8, 2020
  • 6 min

W[ta]F: "ya, but..."

This is mostly about a conversation that happened while I was TAing at Carleton. A long overdue post that I started writing in 2019...
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Recipes I Learned Over the Phone, Part 2: Pasta e rapini
Cassandra Marsillo
  • May 5, 2020
  • 4 min

Recipes I Learned Over the Phone, Part 2: Pasta e rapini

Week two of social isolation, the week I learned to make pasta e rapini over the phone, was the week I started preparing for ...
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Recipes I Learned Over the Phone, Part 1: Nonna Lucia's Italian Birthday Cake
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • 3 min

Recipes I Learned Over the Phone, Part 1: Nonna Lucia's Italian Birthday Cake

I’m not one for long phone calls. As a kid and a teen, though, I remember easily spending two to three hours on the phone after school...
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Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Jul 13, 2018
  • 8 min

Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio

On April 16, 2016, I walked into Anna Arcaro’s cluttered-but-clean - in the way it seems only a certain generation of Italian ladies can ...
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Oral history is where do we go from here
Cassandra Marsillo
  • May 30, 2018
  • 5 min

Oral history is where do we go from here

On May 14, I arrived in Hudson, New York after an 8-hour train ride through the Adirondack region, not realising how much I needed to be ...
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One Saturday Morning
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Jan 4, 2017
  • 3 min

One Saturday Morning

One Saturday morning, sometime in the late 90s, as I sat in front of the three-foot high stereo sound system in our living room, I began ...
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24 hrs.
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Jun 10, 2015
  • 3 min

24 hrs.

My last 24 hours have been pretty saturated with Montreal and Quebec history. Not as boring as some of you may think as you remember ever...
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On the importance of oral history: A guest post by Jacqueline Di Bartolomeo
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Jun 1, 2015
  • 2 min

On the importance of oral history: A guest post by Jacqueline Di Bartolomeo

“History -- in particular popular memory -- is a stake in the constant struggle for hegemony.” In writing those words in 1982, Richard Jo...
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What my Fine Arts degree taught me
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Apr 1, 2015
  • 4 min

What my Fine Arts degree taught me

Since I've started my degree in history, I have been asked: "Why?" Because "it's just so different." When I presented my practice to a sc...
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