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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · 27m

Thinking about Black queer & trans people especially youth in Waterloo Region and the erasure they experience in the Black community. An erasure that forces them into hiding in schools, puts them at risk of being “outed” as “payback”. The community wld rather make excuses than hold these children.

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · 5d

“Powerful people don’t try to destroy things that aren’t important.”
- Jelani Cobb

Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · 12d

I know the date is wrong but you still get the point

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · 12d

We need to demand investment in police-free safety initiatives that is for us, by us. This region’s leadership has allowed 2SLGBTQIA+ hate to rise. As a community, we quietly count the lives lost through suicide and overdose. Do not be conned into aligning with the police. They will not keep us safe

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · 12d

Trusting the police without question is a function of white supremacy and it puts the most vulnerable within our community at risk. Threats of violence and hate in this region are real and ongoing. We don’t need to rally together. We already do. 4/

together.it

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · 12d

Has the WRPS provided the community with the name of this anti-gay group? They handed this information off to us and we are doing what we have always done- created our own safety. Queer safety has NEVER been the priority of any policing entity. The police are not our friends. 3/

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · 12d

“There is no ongoing investigation at this time.” A tip is received about an anti-gay group targeting events and organisations and there is no ongoing investigation? So the WRPS benefits from multiple 2SLGBTQIA+ organisations giving them positive press as the region reviews their budget request 2/

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · 12d

On Tuesday Oct 19th, 2SLGBTQIA+ events and programming were cancelled out of an abundance of caution based on information received by Waterloo Region Police Services. These details have been relayed publicly by the organisations that were contacted. There is no ongoing investigation at this time 1/

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · 12d

No to BILL 33

Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 17d

Them: Keep politics out of the classroom.

Me: You first.

#Bill33
#OntEd
#SavePublicEducation
#NoCopsInClassrooms

GET THE FACTS:
WHAT'S REALLY IN BILL 33?
• Distracts from $6.3 billion in government cuts to schools.
• Silences parents' voices and blocks their access to local representatives.
• Strips power from locally elected school trustees and hands it to politicians at Queen's Park in downtown Toronto.
• Paves the way to privatize our schools.
• Forces the return of police officers in schools, ignoring the voices of Black, Indigenous, and equity-deserving students and parents.

Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · 12d

We should all be standing against Bill 33!

Chandra Pasma @chandrapasma.bsky.social · 12d

We don’t need more secrecy, less accountability, and decision-makers who ignore parents. We need local voices at the table. Withdraw Bill 33.
#onpoli #onted

Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · 27d

We owe to children to learn how the education system works. Calandra and the Ford government is taking advantage of low system literacy. It is the children who will suffer for this.

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · Sep 28

Being an artist in Waterloo Region is its own kind of exile from art.

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · Sep 12

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · Sep 11

Good night to those of you in the Sky Fam who are holding it together and haven't totally lost it. I appreciate you.

Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · Jun 24

I hadn’t delegated in many years but Arts Build Ontario’s Meanwhile Spaces initiative resonates quite deeply with me. I was reminded of the political violence, the expectation of trauma sharing and victimhood narratives of the most advantaged in the room.

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · May 24

Good time to put those territorial acknowledgments and commitments to decolonisation to use.

Bill 5 is a danger to Indigenous sovereignty; it’s a danger to the land.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/governm...

Objections to ‘special economic zones’ bill pour in ahead of committee review

A committee studying Bill 5 has received more than 100 written submissions so far opposing it

www.thetrillium.ca

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · May 17

“The best moments in my life always happen at the end of my comfort zone.”
- José Andrés

Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · May 15

Simple.

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Reposted by Teneile Warren

Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · May 7

Big congratulations to @teneilewarren.bsky.social on being recognized for their unique storytelling by @canadamediaawards.bsky.social homed in our Black Radicalism Special Issue!

Read their piece here:
briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

National Media Awards Foundation @canadamediaawards.bsky.social · May 1

🎨 Black womb: genderless

Creator: @teneilewarren.bsky.social | @briarpatchmag.bsky.social

Finalist – One-of-a-Kind Storytelling | #NMA25

🔗 zurl.co/Pj893

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · May 6

🤭

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · May 6

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · May 1

Incredibly proud to be a finalist!

National Media Awards Foundation @canadamediaawards.bsky.social · May 1

🎨 Black womb: genderless

Creator: @teneilewarren.bsky.social | @briarpatchmag.bsky.social

Finalist – One-of-a-Kind Storytelling | #NMA25

🔗 zurl.co/Pj893

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · Apr 21

“A place ain’t a place without a bookstore, Izzie.”

Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · Apr 20

Go Vote!

Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · Apr 2

Just building more housing, on its own, will be insufficient because without stronger tenant protections, nothing will stop people from being pushed out of their homes whenever it becomes expedient for their landlord to do so. It won’t ensure-that the new housing being built is safe and habitable.

The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · Apr 1

Skyrocketing rents are driven by greed, by a desire to gouge tenants for as much as possible because they are desperate and have nowhere else to turn. And gentrification, the so-called revitalization of cities, is what makes those skyrocketing rents possible.

Want to Understand America’s Housing Crisis? Look to Atlanta.

A conversation with Brian Goldstone about There Is No Place for Us, a damning account of a city's failure to address homelessness and how it is a microcosm of the rest of the US.

bit.ly

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Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · Mar 31

It’s not combat operations; it’s mass murder

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Mar 31

BREAKING: Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee has issued a new forced displacement order for Gaza's Rafah, warning that Israeli forces will soon “resume intense combat operations” there.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/af47du

Teneile Warren @teneilewarren.bsky.social · Mar 24

Put it in the louvre

TSN @tsnofficial.bsky.social · Mar 21

PANAMA UPSETS THE USA IN STOPPAGE TIME 😱😱

(via X/onesoccer)

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