IGN: She was kind of a loner, to some degree, at the start, and at the end, you see that giant party with her found family on the prison ship. Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada of the Standing Committee on Health. 2018. Evidence. Meeting 2, November 21, 2018. 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/SCSC/meeting-2/evidence. Hannah John-Kamen as Yalena "Dutch" Yardeen, a level five RAC agent with a secret history who was raised by RAC officer Khlyen. Killjoys is a Canadian space adventure drama series that aired on Space (now CTV Sci-Fi) in Canada. Primarily a science fiction series, Killjoys follows a trio of hard-living bounty hunters—Dutch ( Hannah John-Kamen), Johnny ( Aaron Ashmore), and D'avin ( Luke Macfarlane).

The meaning of these brain sections would be incomplete without a consistent behavioural description, matching up pathology with a clinical profile. Beginning with Mike Webster’s story of homelessness, addictions and mental instability, reports of CTE have been accompanied by biographies of late-in-life erratic behaviour, memory loss, impulsivity and aggression. Experiences and behaviours both innocuous and extreme are interpreted as symptoms. The biographies are both true and partial insofar as the telling anecdotes represent a fraction of the time in which the men inhabited lives that also featured less newsworthy differences from each other, moments of clarity, and expressions of love. As with other diseases marked by cognitive deterioration, the actions of these deceased athlete-celebrities are seen retrospectively through the prism of their acquired brain pathology. For example, in the documentary Head Games (James 2012), the mother of an 18-year-old football player speaks of the tiny stain of tau that marked the beginnings of CTE: “So when the results came through, I can’t say it was a relief, but it was like ‘Oh my gosh there is the reason right there that [my son] would commit suicide.’” No doubt, the apparent objectivity is a comfort, enabling grieving family members to make sense of a loved one’s decline and death. The brown splotch also seems to explain away incidents of violence that they themselves may have endured at the hands of the same man. It is an absolution of the man who—once the blows were delivered to his brain—could not have prevented the pain that ensued. Vaillancourt et al. ( 2013) look specifically at physical manifestations of peer victimization (bullying). They confirm the earlier findings regarding HPA axis dysregulation—specifically a pattern to under-produce the hormone cortisol—in adults who were bullied as children. They conclude that “the experience of being bullied by peers becomes biologically embedded in the physiology of the developing person, which in turn modifies his or her health and, perhaps, learning trajectory.” A review article by R. J. Blair ( 2019), published in the journal Aggression and Violent Behaviour, gathers up current thinking about the cognitive neuroscience that underpins violent actions. Again, violence committed within sport is given a free pass by omission. Blair reports that there is significant evidence that “at least some violent individuals show impairment in processing the emotional expressions of others generally and perhaps distress cues in particular” (p. 159). Furthermore, “amygdala and or insula responses to the distress of other individuals, particularly their fear, is reduced in some violent individuals” (p. 159). It is easy to imagine that decreased sensitivity to the fear or pain of others is an asset in competition, as in war, and that it might garner the attention of a talent scout, and be actively cultivated in the brains and bodies of players. When anti-social behaviour (hurting someone) is applauded in some contexts (the field), and ostensibly abhorred in others (the bar or the bedroom), it may be asking too much of fleshy, material, embodied processes to distinguish the difference, in some athletes, at least. Henne, K., and M. Ventresca. 2019. A criminal mind? A damaged brain? Narratives of criminality and culpability in the celebrated case of Aaron Hernandez. Crime, Media, Culture 100: 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659019879888. ML: I don't think anybody ever gets to lobby for two seasons, to be honest. You don't get to lobby for much. There's never a guarantee. A lot of showrunners grapple with [not knowing if a show will be renewed] every season. I certainly grappled with it as well. But there's also something that is a bit liberating about that process, because every finale I've ever written, I've had to go into with the understanding that this could be the last episode. In a weird way, it's an interesting and fertile training ground for writing the real [series finale]. ML: Yeah. That was great, but we had to fight to get that damn party into the production schedule [laughs]. Everyone was like, "We're going to make it happen because we have to, but holy shit, we don't know how.” By the way, the very last frame that you see — [the trio going on one last mission] — was the very last thing we shot, which was a wonderful way to end it on the production end. Everybody was celebrating, everybody was so grateful that we landed the ship, so to speak. It was a really moving experience for everybody that was there, as it should be.

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It was nice to return to the Killjoys world, albeit from a different angle. I was excited to get to reading this ever since I found out that there was a different story to be told. To me this was special if not perfect, as a fan of MCR and as someone who grew up in the 90s/2000s. It's hard to find anything objectively wrong with it except maybe for the amount of violence and blood-I wouldn't recommend this for kids. ML: I loved having the last two seasons and I loved knowing [that was it]. A lot of times what happens when you have two seasons is, it makes sense for everybody to sort of compact them and [shoot] them together. So the pace increases. You go a bit faster. You do a little bit more with a little bit less, and that's just the norm. I think that we all would have wanted exactly what we got and five seasons was correct. If we'd had a little bit more time between seasons, that that would have just been a little less wear and tear and on our Krista Allain, Igor Avdyushin, Jason Gougeon, Ran Long Wen, Ben Mossman, Yuhay-Ray Ng, Chris Ross, Kyle Sim, Somboun Souannhaphanh, Edward J. Taylor IV

Sara Ahmed's Feminist Killjoy Handbook is not only a dazzling analysis of the workings of sexism, but a balm for the soul. Ahmed's insight that being a feminist is being a killjoy is as consoling as it is revelatory. It makes sense of the bad atmosphere, the uncomfortable feelings that swirl around feminism; it gives you ballast in the storm. Read it. Give it to everyone. It will teach you how to survive and how to transform the worldThe patient may not even lose consciousness, but walk to his home and apparently not be the worse for the experience, until later—sometimes weeks and even months later—he begins to show a very noticeable change in his psychic total. His entire mental make-up changes, he becomes easily tired, is incapable of any prolonged mental effort, is forgetful, irritable and distractible. He complains of vertigo, pressure sensations in his head, migraine, noises in the ears; he experiences a sort of general benumbed feeling and shows a marked tendency to outbreaks of violent temper on the least provocation (Gluek quoted in Harrison 2014, p. 828). Sara Ahmed is an increasingly cited source in how to navigate abuses of power and change working conditions . . . and in how to navigate the realities of what happens after people speak up and speak out. Her approach to feminist theory and institutional critique is pragmatic, with books such as Living a Feminist Life (2017) or her longstanding blog feministkilljoys providing detailed studies of how rhetorics of 'equality' and 'diversity' get dragged through intimate and bureaucratic tangles ArtReview Gladwell, M. 2009. Offensive play: How different are dogfighting and football? The New Yorker, 11 October 2009. you spend the first 2 reads of the comic trying to understand all lore and meanings behind obscure terms, such as mom and dad being names of artificial intelligence, trying to understand why people are so distant with each other and just trying to understand in general *what* is happening. What was so great about rewriting those last beats of season three, so that they had some comedy and a little bit of my lightness to them (which had been missing) — I was remembering that as I wrote this very last episode. I gave myself that same conversation, and I was like, "You want to leave these people where you're happy and it's okay that they're happy, even if that's potentially unconventional.” So, I wrote to make myself feel a little bit of joy. and if nothing else, that probably comes through.

IGN: Would you have gone for longer had that been an option? Do you think that the story got told, or do you wish you had more seasons?Johnson, L.R. 2016. Editorial: How fear and stress shape the mind. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 10: 1000. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00024. Coates, T.-N. 2012. Junior Seau is dead: Why it might be time to stop watching football. The Atlantic, 2 May 2012. I believe in these characters. I love the journey they've been on. I've loved watching the villains become quasi-anti-heroes and the heroes be challenged. And I don't see why they have to die just because a lot of conventions within storytelling tell us that we need death to feel that there's weight. The weight on this show has always been about love, and it's always been about hope and family and those things shouldn't have to end.

Dutch, D’av and Johnny started out as unlikely buddies serving warrants in the Quad, a tough corner of space where bounty hunters — and just about everyone else — had to scramble to survive. But the show became a story about carving out a place to feel free and creating a patchwork family who would celebrate exactly who you were, even if they occasionally drove you nuts — or tried to murder you. (We’ve all been there, right?) IGN: Did you have ideas about the ending for a long time, or was it something you came up with along the way? Brown and red splotches. All over the place. Large accumulations of tau proteins. Tau was kind of like sludge, clogging up the works, killing cells in regions responsible for mood, emotions, and executive functioning.Messner, M.A. 2005. The triad of violence in men’s sports. In Transforming a rape culture, ed. E. Buchwald, P.R. Fletcher, and M. Roth, 23–46. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions.