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Ian Liujia Tian
@ianliujiatian.bsky.social
Queer marxism and other historical materialism tendencies. X survivor, Assistant pro of WGS, Mount Saint Vincent University, Mi'kmaq Nation.
Hot off the press! If you are familar with China’s mediascape, you probably have heard of 云南山歌. My article is perhaps the first feminist take of shange video culture and it is open access from Feminist Formations!

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Project MUSE - Between Parody and Pleasure: Performance and Mediation in Shange Videos in Southwestern China
muse.jhu.edu
December 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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🔴 Breaking: At least six people were killed after Israeli forces bombed tents sheltering displaced families in western Khan Younis, in the Mawasi area along the coast.

(Footage is from Gaza journalist Mahmoud Bassam)
December 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Heated Rivalry is soft porn if you know what I am talking about!!!
December 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Today is World AIDS day and tmw I‘m teaching on the HIV/AIDS Crisis again. A shocking amount of students have zero knowledge of its devastating history. Given conservative backlash I doubt curricula will change soon & vital research has already been defunded by the Trump admin. Fight the forgetting.
December 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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The tragic fire in Tai Po has deeper roots: Hong Kong's market-driven, capitalist system that promotes predatory business interests over working people's safety. Read our latest on how Hongkongers are supporting each other through mass mutual aid:

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Tai Po in flames - Lausan
How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.
lausancollective.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Groups are calling the deal a betrayal and promising to fight against its implementation tooth and nail.
First Nations Denounce Canada PM’s Tar Sands Deal Made Without Their Consent
“This project is not going to happen,” the president of the Haida nation promised.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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#hongkong ‘s incredible civil society. Vividly remembering 2014 & 2019 movements, when protestors would clean the streets after demonstration, no looting, people helping each other out under tear gas
Hongkongers are responding to the deadly blaze in Tai Po, donating supplies, money and blood to assist in the relief effort. HKFP rounds up fundraisers and initiatives for readers looking to contribute. In full: buff.ly/9nD1r9L
Hong Kong fire: How to support families affected by the blaze
Hongkongers are responding to the deadly blaze in Tai Po, donating supplies, money and blood to assist in the relief effort. HKFP rounds up fundraisers and initiatives for readers looking to contribute.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Thank you for all the best birthday wishes. I find it hard to celebrate with the recent passing of a friend, a community leader, and a great scholar of Black queer studies. And on top of that, the tragic and ongoing fire in Hong Kong. May all of those who have left us rest in peace.
November 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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I've never gotten over this. Ever. We marked the first year after his murder with a "play-in" event in Chicago. I had the idea for this and I have never forgotten him. You can see some of the photos from the event here: www.facebook.com/media/set/?v...
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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#OtD 22 Nov 1968 a mass protest was held outside the occupied Yasuda auditorium where students at the University of Tokyo had been on strike since October in a protracted dispute over unpaid internships for medical students and other issues stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9514...
November 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Publication day! I used social reproduction theory to rethink digital labour: what if social reproductive labor is recorded and vlogged by gay couples in China? What new kinds of dynamics emerge? Please check out my article: “Queering digitally-mediated social reproduction”
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September 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Friends, please consider donating to support Fares, a Gazan refugee who is now in Xi’an, China. His family and him needs our help. I am committed to a monthly donation, please do so if you can!

请大家帮助Fares, 现在居住在西安的加沙难民。他在加沙的加人和他都需要我们的帮助!谢谢!如果可以,请大家成为月捐者。

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Support Fares and His Family in Gaza
Hi everyone, my name is Lin, and I’m a community worker based in Tkaronto (“Toronto”), in so-called “Canada.” I’m reaching out to ask for your support in raising urgently needed funds for my friend Fa...
chuffed.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Join us for a webinar series on online gender-based violence in China. We will discuss how technology-facilitated sexual violence unfolds in China, who bears the brunt of it, and where legal and policy gaps persist, while also drawing on global experiences and promising practices.
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Behind a 2018 mass eviction in Ottawa lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system.

Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
The corporate blueprint behind the eviction of Ottawa’s most diverse neighbourhood ⋆ The Breach
Behind Heron Gate’s destruction lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system—financial firms, pension funds, and private equity investors have transformed rental housing into a speculative asset cl...
breachmedia.ca
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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While Canadian politicians are still caught up in their AI love affair, panic is rippling through the industry.

Tech expert @scanthehorizon.bsky.social writes that the AI bubble may be about to burst, with massively damaging consequences for Canadians.

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The AI bubble may be about to burst. Mark Carney must not bail out its Tech Barons ⋆ The Breach
While billionaires bet against the hyped up multi-trillion-dollar AI market, Canada’s government is doubling down
breachmedia.ca
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Masculinity is NOT in crisis. Masculinity is THE crisis.
November 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
RIP Alice!
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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READ: Now that there is a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestinians have disappeared from the headlines, leaving us to wonder: to the world, did the genocide even happen?
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Palestine Letter: Did the ‘war’ in Gaza even happen?
Now that there is a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestinians have disappeared from the headlines, leaving us to wonder: to the world, did the genocide even happen?
mondoweiss.net
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Interested in what "Ending AIDS" means? Attend our online roundtable on Dec 3 with key voices, including Justin Perez from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social and author of Queer Emergent: Scandalous Storytelling from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru.

Register today: www.eventbrite.com/e/1825853279...
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Flash fundraiser closes today!! Any amount helps.

Etransfer [email protected] With Sudan in memo for Sudan Solidarity Collective.

All funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms and to families displaced from El Fasher to Tawila and Kurma.

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Flash Fundraising Drive for Sudan
Join us in raising 8k for our comrades at Sudan Solidarity Collective! Etransfer [email protected]  With Sudan in memo. Collecting etransfers this way helps our comrades save on individual t...
www.weavingourworlds.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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This thread reinforces why I got enthused yesterday about CUNY’s potential to socialize EdTech. Let’s further empower them, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure

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November 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM