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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware
@syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
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He/him. PhD. Activist. Assistant Professor. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Canada and Wildseed Centre for Arts & Activism. 🌈💕🌱
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Mar 1
Hello! Welcome ❤️ I’m an artist, activist and scholar based in Tkaronto in Northern Turtle Island. I’m a parent and a twin and long time abolitionist. I believe we will get free together and am working with my communities to build and grow and bring about change together. ❤️✊🏾until we are free.
Syrus crosses his arms across his chest and his tattoos show: touch change written in large cursive letters across his arms. Syrus stands in front of a very large scale drawing he made of a 1970s trans activist on the wall of Grunt Gallery in Vancouver as part of his solo show there. There are words also drawn on the wall that read: we went out in the blackest of nights…. Syrus smiles with pink and purple dreadlocks and shows off his tshirt that reads “museums are not neutral” Syrus stands in from of two of his 12 ft x 6 ft tall graphite on paper drawings of activists Queentite Opaleke and Joh Vettivelu. Syrus holds papers in his hand and a microphone and wears a large Ankara fabric tunic. The drawings are up at the AGYU for his group show there in 2016.
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nolore.bsky.social
New Sandy and Nora episode! This is a special one -- a live conversation between @sandela.bsky.social, @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social and @matthewgreen.bsky.social.

sandyandnora.com/episode-351-...
Episode 351 – Radical politics through community, care and struggle
In this live episode, Sandy is joined by Syrus Marcus Ware and Matthew Green to discuss the current state of the left, and all the possibilities that exist to save ourselves.
sandyandnora.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
We have some more pizzas to give out today! If you’re in toronto victoria or Montreal order with the pizza password ! Email or dm for more info: [email protected]
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
We reached our goal! If you’re in tkaronto cicis pizzeria in parkdale has more pizzas to give out tomorrow… and mai pai has pizzas in Hamilton! Dm for info
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
Need some trans pizza love today? In Canada/northern Turtle Island /north of the medicine line? Email [email protected] for a list participating pizzerias and your Pizza Password! (That’s a lot of Ps!). Simply order and give them Pizza Password and voila! $40 of pizza your way!
A list of participating pizzerias Participating pizzerias: Toronto 1). Ecicisparkdale 2). Gonenightonlypizza - 3). Gbigtroublepizza - Victoria 1). Glocalpizzavictoria - Montreal 1). @thepizzatoni - in-person only at Mile End Please email transpizzaday@proton.me to get the pizza password and get your pizza instructions!
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
We’ve raised almost 90% of the goal to send 350 pizzas tonight for Trans Pizza day! If you’re in Canada/northern Turtle Island, and want the pizza password and list of participating pizzerias this will be put out by 3pm today! Happy Trans Pizza Day🍕
November 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
We’re raising pizza funds🍕🔥!!!!! We have raised $6k for 150 pizzas and are working to raise another 6k today to reach our goal! Can you send some pizza love today- funds for a pizza/soda? please share this post, send to cis friends / family who might have pizza funds to share today! Thank you!🍕
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
Trans pizza day is Thursday! We have raised 30% of our goal! Thank you for donating $40 for a pizza for trans kin in your community! gofund.me/7bfd34eaa
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
Please share this lil video and send some pizza funds to trans kin! ! Thank you!! gofund.me/4d74ed47b
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
gofund.me/0b3913053. We’ve raised 20% in a day! Let’s do this! Send a pizza, send this fundraiser to your cis kin and friends and coworkers!
Donate to TRANS PIZZA DAY 2025!!!, organized by Syrus Ware
Hello everyone! IT'S PIZZA TIME! ABOUT TRANS PIZZA DAY: I've been connecting trans folks wi… Syrus Ware needs your support for TRANS PIZZA DAY 2025!!!
gofund.me
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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jacquelinevalencia.ca
As a Toronto nostalgia fan, this was fun to see. Until January 11, 2026, you can get a rare look at vintage shopping bags from the likes of: A&P, Dominion, Eaton's, Honest Ed's, Simpsons, The Hudson Bay Company, Woolworth's, Zellers… and more! At the Toronto Reference Library.
Toronto Life mag excerpt: " The Toronto Reference Library's new shopping bag exhibition is gloriously nostalgic. Today's mundane minimalism could never" Two vintage Honest Ed's shopping bags, one with a clown and another with a festive reindeer are featured.
November 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
gofund.me/5e9f3fea3
SEND A PIZZA TO TRANS KIN! We are raising funds to send 350 pizzas to trans kin across Northern Turtle Island/Canada in our eighth year of Trans Pizza Day. Can you help us out by sending funds for a pizza? Thank you!!!!
Donate to TRANS PIZZA DAY 2025!!!, organized by Syrus Ware
Hello everyone! IT'S PIZZA TIME! ABOUT TRANS PIZZA DAY: I've been connecting trans folks wi… Syrus Ware needs your support for TRANS PIZZA DAY 2025!!!
gofund.me
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
TRANS PIZZA DAY!!! gofund.me/ef6323e0b

Let’s send some pizza!!!! TAG/DM YOUR FAVE PIZZA PLACE- Help us crowd source your favourite, trusted, and QT friendly pizza place and we will reach out and arrange pizza day.

DONATE TO /PROMOTE GOFUNDME: Send enough for a pizza or two, dipping sauce/soda!
The front landing page of the trans pizza day go fund me page. There is a picture of pizza and the text in this caption See caption for text about trans pizza day! IT'S PIZZA TIME! ABOUT TRANS PIZZA DAY: l've been connecting trans folks with free yummy pizza every year on Trans Day of Remembrance since 2017. I started doing this after I was gifted a pizza from a stranger for TDOR during a particularly hard year in 2016. It really helped me. Over the years, YOU have helped so many others. Together, we have sent hundreds and hundreds of pizzas (thousands?) over 8 years.... pizzas that have helped so many others! Community is incredible and together we have kept us/trans folks safe(r) and fed and connected during a day that can be so isolating and hard. WE KEEP US SAFE: With Wendy, and through feedback and brilliant suggestions from many of you, we are continuing to figure out safety again this year. Due to increased threats to trans folks' safety this year, it doesn't feel safe to be gathering data on trans people using Google/Meta platforms, though I'm happy to say we've had such gentleness and kindness over the years and never had an issue. Regardless, this year we will be doing things differently to ensure that we KEEP EVERYONE SAFE! See caption for text about trans pizza day! Here's how it will go this year: TAG/DM YOUR FAVE PIZZA PLACE NAMES*- Help us crowd source your favourite, trusted, and QT friendly pizza place and we will reach out and arrange pizza day. We will send pizza money in advance to the safe(r) pizza places we've crowd sourced who have agreed to participate. They will each have a certain number of pizzas they can give out. I WANT TO EAT PIZZA: Heres what to do GET YOUR PIZZA PASSWORD - On Trans Pizza Day on November 20, you can email us at our new Trans Pizza Day email address and get a pizza password to give to your local pizzeria to get your free pizza. Just call/order from the trust list of places and give them the pizza password. Voila! Up to $40 CAD of pizza on its way to you! Please do not share this password publicly in order to keep community safe. See caption for text about trans pizza day! I WANT TO SEND PIZZA: Heres what to do If you are a non-trans or cis person wanting to send some pizza love: DONATE TO AND PROMOTE THE GOFUNDME - We have a gofundme and are raising $14,000 like last year, which is $40 CAD per person x 350 pizzas. DONATE: Send enough for a pizza or two, or for some dipping sauce or soda! Let's send send some Za ! Share the gofundme and help us get the word out!!! NOTE: IN CASE THE PIZZA PLACES WHERE YOU LIVE ARE NOT SAFE - If you live somewhere without a safe or trusted pizza place in your town, we've been thinking how to get you pizza too. We have 50 spaces available for people to claim pizza funds and we will send you an etransfer to get food in a safe way that you know how to in your community. We will send out pizza funds in $40 CAD per person to 50 trans folks who sign up via an anonymous email form on a secure server. This form will be posted on Thursday. THANK YOU for donating to send some pizza love, this year especially.
November 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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washingtonpost.com
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.

Throughout her life, she stressed the value of community in the fight for equal access.
Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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drsmith.bsky.social
Yes, the loss of #measles elimination status is proof that Public Health in Canada is broken.

They had one job. They saw this coming. We saw it coming.

And they did NOTHING.

Fire them all. Require all public health & infectious disease education programs in the country revise their curriculum.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
Happy 8 years of trans pizza day……I wish we ddn’t need another year I wish we were safe cared for and that every trans person had all that we needed to thrive & live our fullest lives. Still, we gather 4 another year. Slide deck features images of delicious pepperoni pizza with text over each slide-
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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equitableforall.com
If you are passionate about Black Queer and Trans Health, you can report to @drdryden.bsky.social if selected for this brilliant opportunity! 🫂

Please share widely in the hopes of it getting onto the radar of Black or African Nova Scotian folx with a grad degree and project coordination skills! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
A digital poster is seen. Against an LGBTQIA+ affirming background, text, as follows: WE'RE HIRING: PROJECTS COORDINATOR - CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR Department: Tier 1, Canada Research Chair (CIHR), Black Health Studies, School of Nursing, Dalhousie University Reports to: Location: Salary: Type: Dr. OmiSoore H. Dryden Hybrid - based in Nova Scotia $52,516- $79,400 Full-time, 3 year contract PRIORITY WILL BE GIVEN TO QUALIFIED CANDIDATES WHO IDENTIFY AS BLACK, AFRICAN NOVA SCOTIAN, OR AS A PERSON OF COLOUR Requirements ◦ Graduate degree (Master's or PhD) in relevant discipline •. Proven experience in project coordination and esearch, with strong budgeting and operational skills • Demonstrated engagement with diverse Black communities, including Black queer and trans communities • Exceptional communication, organization, and problem-solving abilities • Familiarity with university settings or similarly decentralised, complex organizations, including data governance principles and practices Apply here. Questions? Please email crcbkhs@dal.ca Dr. OmiSoore Dryden Tier 1 CRC Black Health Studies BLACK [QUEER] HEALTH MATTERS
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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erininthemorning.com
I will always remember this Mamdani ad.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/as-some-de...
As Some Dems Run From Trans People, Zohran Mamdani's Latest Ad Shows Real Support
The 2 minute ad features Sylvia Rivera's story, Mamdani's commitment to transgender people, and even music from the legendary late trans artist SOPHIE.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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juliaserano.bsky.social
wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
New Poll: Voters Prefer Democratic Candidates Approach To Trans Rights Over Republicans
A new poll, which surveys voters who will partake in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races, found that voters were not impressed with Republican anti-trans positions.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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michaelhendricks.bsky.social
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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kconnor.bsky.social
🚨Critical BREACH OF PRIVACY🚨 and trust for any 🇨🇦 researcher (trainees to PIs) who have been involved with ANY grant or scholarship submission (or their review!!!) to ANY of the TriCouncils (CIHR NSERC SSHRC) in the last 20 years!

Also see this petition & thread 👇🏻
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
will kim is still in ICE detention
ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social regular meghan 🎄 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · Sep 4
will taeheung kim, a korean american scientist and doctoral candidate with a green card, is still being detained by ICE. he's been in detention since July 21, first at SFO for over a week and then in various ICE facilities all over the country.
Instagram post from Stop AAPI HAte; horrific new details emerge about CBP's unlawful detainment of u.s. permanent resident returning from south korea. reports detail how CBP trapped tae heung "will" kim under inhumane conditions for over eight days at an airport. officers moved kim several times to "confuse and disorient him" kept the lights on at all times, gave him minimal food and no bed--forcing hi to sleep on a row of chairs.
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
@qimoyocreative.bsky.social made this delicious baked squash dish and it was so delicious!!!!
A white backing dish sits in the over, full of 9 slices of orangey-yellow squash with a dark green rind. The squash is marinated and glazed and covered in sesame seeds and chives.
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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xtramagazine.com
“I think in an interdependent sense, we are all responsible for one another, but in an individual sense, I can’t make you change,” @lewispants.bsky.social tells @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social in an interview. 'Radical Unlearning' is out today.
‘Radical Unlearning’ explores what it takes to shift our beliefs | Xtra Magazine
Lewis Raven Wallace's new book digs into the science of personal transformation
xtramagazine.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
My grandmother turned 99 this week! I’m so thankful for her!
Syrus faces his grandmother with his back to us and presents her two giant silver Mylar balloons filled with helium in the shape of 99. His grandmother is a white woman with white hair and a blue sweater and she is visible between the two 9 balloons and she is smiling at Syrus and looks happy!
October 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
We reprised Black Bunker in Kitchener today for the @cafkabiennial 2025! It was really lovely and electric! (They do the electric slide in the performance :) !)
September 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM