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Emily Regan Wills

@ajnabieh.bsky.social

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Prof @ uOttawa School of Political Studies. Co-Director, Community Mobilization in Crisis (cmic-mobilize.org). Activist & community-engaged research and teaching. Queer mom, American in diaspora, Canadian-in-training.

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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · Mar 17

If you are a US trans/queer person looking to move to Canada for safety, I am happy to share my experience to help you understand your options. If you are an LGBTQ+ refugee from elsewhere in the world, I may be able to refer you to a resettlement path to Canada. No guarantees, but get in touch.

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Weird (in an unsettling way) Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 1d

I love the idea of the sort of "C+ physics project" universe, in which an unknowable entity outside of time and space span up a rocks-go-in-circles project as part of a research project, and now there's life in it- life all over it, actually- and it would be an ethics nightmare to turn it off

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 1d

happy 20th birthday to the internets

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

the best answer i got for this:

awaitsync on Threads writes: "Metrognome"

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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 6d

Small collection of Gaza related graffiti in Rome. There’s also been a demonstration and/or general strike every day, which as a tourist is annoying (so hard to get a darn cab) but as someone who studies social movements is impressive as hell.

A four panel photo, each panel showing a piece of graffiti. The first says Free Gaza in red, the second Palestina Libera in green, the third Stop Genocide in black, the fourth Stop Geno in red.

Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 10d

I just got a “would you like to join eduroam?” while stopped in traffic on a random street in Rome.

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10d

People say international solidarity cannot work, and yet eduroam.

Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 11d

Guess who forgot the Alps existed until she was in them?

Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 11d

I’ve been in France six-ish hours and so far I’ve worked in a hipster cafe, bought grapes and cheese at an outdoor market, gotten a manicure, and eaten the weirdest vegan poke bowl of my life. Currently on my third-or-fourth coffee of the day. This trip is starting off pretty well.

Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 11d

I just sent a campaign update for Fadi, my friend in Gaza. Thanks to your donations, he was able to get a new tent for his family after their old one was destroyed and they were displaced. If you are able to donate, that would be wonderful!

chuffed.org/project/1322...

Safety and Medical Treatment for Fadi and Afnan

My name is Emily, and I'm a professor in Canada. I'm running this campaign for Fadi, shown here with his nephew, and his wife Afnan. Originally from Gaza City, Fadi and Afnan are displaced in Khan You...

chuffed.org

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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 14d

Dang, Rav Kahana goes hard.

Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 15d

Floof says trans rights.

A fluffy grey and white cat holds her paws awkwardly together, belly up, on a couch Next to her is a sticker saying “protect trans youth” with a big Canada goose aggressively waving its wings in front of some pink blue and white chicks.

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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 15d

I am planning some multi-stop work travel and was contemplating adding a (much desired, very fun) stop when a friend asked me "are you planning this trip for the body you have now or the body you had 20 years ago" and WOW I JUST CAME OUT TO HAVE A GOOD TIME AND I'M FEELING SO ATTACKED RIGHT NOW

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 17d

">my Cheese Theory of Voting Behavior is having a big impact on the field"
>700+ citations all asking "wtf why did APSR publish this"

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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 17d

Calisse de tabernak, fuck these guys. BOOOOOOOO.

Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 18d

What a lovely baby. So much personality in these photos.

Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 18d

I’m the sole neurotypical in my house, and my wife converted me to team no-top-sheet before the kids were born. By now my mom, who was raised with Very Proper notions of how to make a bed, just mutters when we come to visit “and they don’t want the top sheet for some reason…”

Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 19d

I have a homeschooled sixth grader living in my house! Who does not follow a traditional curriculum for neurodivergence reasons! Guess what I am still not exploiting her labor for my profit!

Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 19d

Like the problems with this so-called “school” are myriad but let’s start with “twelve year olds shouldn’t choose having a job over school.”

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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 19d

I think work-integrated learning/experiential learning can be great (I’m academic coordinator for our school’s coop program). I also think having sixth graders work for someone else’s profit rather than focus on learning is a fucking human rights violation.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19d

“The microschool will also serve as a beachhead for artificial intelligence-based instruction, says Parker, the superintendent, noting that with two instructors for 26 students they will need to rely on Khanmigo’s AI tutor for tailored instruction.”

At This Rural Microschool, Students Will Study With AI and Run an Airbnb - EdSurge News

A rural district in North Carolina is putting its hopes in a new microschool where students operate an Airbnb and study through AI-powered lessons.

www.edsurge.com

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 19d

Just got an email from a scam academic journal asking if I wanted to "explore new advances in White Psychodrama" and it's just got me like: buddy, I can watch the news myself.

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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 19d

Oh, this is cool! I'll put it on the list of extra credit options for my US Politics students. :)

Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 19d

If you see this skeet, you have to name a trans book more people should read.

This is convenient - I just finished Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman last night, and it’s a banger, about art and revolution and mental illness and embodiment.

The cover of Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman.

Text: “It wasn't about the gender stuff, I think—or rather, of course it was about the gender stuff, but it was the kind of sweeping observation that someone with a lot of gender stuff would make: "All of us are trapped in our bodies. Our bodies can't change, only get worse, and we can't transcend them, not really. We don't get out.
We're in them or we're dead."”

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 19d

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune

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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 19d

So smush! Beautiful!

Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 20d

WHO is voting for the PCs? I recognize I live in a left/centre bubble but what on earth are people voting for with them?