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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · 15d

A bird flies—no, bangs—into the window at the environmental studies building.

Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · 17d

"The drones were supplied by Canada’s police" www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Deadly Haiti drone attack kills eight children in capital Port-au-Prince

The drone attack in Cite Soleil, one of the capital’s most dangerous neighbourhoods, has been blamed on Haiti’s police.

www.aljazeera.com

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 27d

The Alchemy Lecture 2025

Sound—at the Interregnum

Glen Coulthard
Canisia Lubrin
Madeleine Thien
Immanuel Wilkins

Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.)
Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU
Event type: Hybrid – in person and online

GLEN COULTHARD
(Yellowknives Dene/Canada), Scholar of Indigenous Studies)

IMMANUEL WILKINS
(US) Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger

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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · 22d

"The museums, libraries and foundations that emerged from the robber baron era — none of these were given for 'free': they were paid for and built by breaking unions (which transformed US union culture forever), open-firing on striking workers [...]" offshootjournal.org/no-good-olig...

NO GOOD OLIGARCHS

Offshoot Journal presents NO GOOD OLIGARCHS. Rockefeller isn’t better than Musk, Mellon isn’t better than Bezos because there are N O G O O D O L I G A R C H S: N O N E. Carnegie didn’t build concert ...

offshootjournal.org

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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · 22d

"The revolution is madness. Without the madness of the revolution and its adventures you will never be liberated."

—Wisam Rafeedie, The Trinity of Fundamentals

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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · 25d

Adjudicated, monopolized, and sanctioned by the state, so-called freedom of speech has always been a principle meant to be enjoyed only by a certain few.

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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · Jul 23

fuck the GHF

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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · 28d

Minh is launching her new book Memorial Park: Revisiting Vietnam, a critique of the art world, luxury, and diaspora: "Nguyen finds relics of proletarian romance and vestiges of totalitarian control amid an evermore corporatized society."

cream-coloured book cover of Minh Nguyen's new book Memorial Park: Revisiting Vietnam

Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · 28d

Hi! I'll be in conversation with Minh Nguyen on Saturday, October 4, from 3-5 PM at Art Metropole in Toronto artmetropole.com/events/book-...

Art Metropole / Memorial Park Book Launch

artmetropole.com

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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · Sep 9

“How hard it is to be hungry.”

electronicintifada.net/content/terr...

The terrifying experience of trying to get aid in Gaza

A writer walked to a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid site in Rafah only to be shot at and forced to return home empty-handed.

electronicintifada.net

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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · Sep 2

“All these schools are fake” - University of Toronto students on my commute to… school. Bonne rentrée a tous!!! 🙃🙃🙃

Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · Sep 1

Haneen Salem, a photojournalist in Gaza, is raising funds for new camera equipment
chuffed.org/project/1469...

Support Haneen, a journalist in Gaza, and fight against the erasure of truth

My name is Haneen Salem, a journalist and photographer from Gaza. Since the beginning of the war, my life has become a daily journey between rubble and death, carrying my camera to document the storie...

chuffed.org

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · Aug 26

Some had even hired the RSF as private security to protect their massive projects.

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · Aug 26

Every once in a while I get angry at the Sudanese millionaire class esp. those who signed that port deal with the UAE in 2022. They have done nothing for Sudan's civilians during this war re: food + evacuations (at least not that I'm aware of) and set the stage 4 for the war early on.

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Student Workers of Columbia @swcolumbia.bsky.social · Aug 28

Join 600+ signatories of the no-scabbing pledge 🌹
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter to Columbia administration on replacing union instructional labor

Columbia has eliminated almost all graduate teaching positions in the Core Curriculum, the first-year writing program, language classes, and labs in STEM. Signatories of the open letter pledge not to ...

docs.google.com

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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · Aug 28

"this symbolic framing has come at a cost. It overlooks the right of Gazans to define their own image, to reject imposed roles and archetypes. It also constructs a conceptual framework in which weakness, exhaustion, and fatigue are not permitted." alrifaq.substack.com/p/engineerin...

Engineering Reality: Towards a Deeper Understanding of Gaza

By Bahaa Shahira Raouf, published on Al-Akhbar on 20 July 2024. Translation by Noha AbuShammala.

alrifaq.substack.com

Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · Aug 28

I love city cyclists. One comrade just did a THUMBS DOWN at a driver cutting off a bike lane hehe

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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · Aug 28

"I am a black man number one, because I am against
what they have done and are still doing to us; and
number two, I have something to say about the new
society to be built [...] " — C. L. R. James via ch. 2 of The Undercommons because it's that time of year

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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · Aug 27

Corey Devon Arthur's latest, for Scalawag's Abolition Week

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Aug 26

"Prison guards are making pornographic movies starring the prison population using body cameras."

"New York State Department of Corrections [..] is recording and storing videos of naked, mostly Black and brown people under the threat of violent force."
#NewYork #USA #Policing #Incarceration

A new directive permits prison guards to record strip searches using body cameras – Scalawag

Prison policy directs guards to make pornographic movies starring the prison population using their body cameras.

scalawagmagazine.org

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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · Aug 25

“survival took on a new shape: We became people without a place, without paperwork, without permanence, like bureaucratic ghosts.” www.thenation.com/article/worl...

We Left Gaza. But Our Pain Came With Us.

Palestinians who escaped the horrors of Gaza face a new trauma: the dislocation of exile from our homeland.

www.thenation.com

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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · Aug 19

1000 faculty hit the picket lines tomorrow, 930 am, lockout by @dalhousieu.bsky.social. A first for CDN research intensive universities. A reckless move by the Board - jeopardizing the fall term, ruining relations with faculty for years to come. Join us on the picket lines to #keepdalstrong!

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Aug 15

Have you ever seen a wild hamster?? 😊 #bluesky

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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · Aug 5

Job at U of T: Assistant Professor - African and Caribbean Francophone Literature jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Assistant Professor - African and Caribbean Francophone Literature

jobs.utoronto.ca

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · Jul 31

Our Bay Area Local and other members in California are spearheading an effort to bring Lorenzo and JoNina Ervin—movement elders, anarchist thinkers, and former Black Panther Party members—to the West Coast for a speaking tour.

chuffed.org/project/1421...

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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · Jul 30

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