@sandela.bsky.social just dropping a note on the why of the body cams ask following Nooran’s murder in Longueuil. It comes from his friends and other teens mostly, not from anti racist leaders or folks who have advocated on police brutality before.

Une heureuse tradition, à écouter pour se rappeler l’année!

Thank goodness for @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s voice.

“Whenever politicians, activists and investors agree that there is a merit crisis at Harvard, it signals that a battle rages, not over rigor, but over power.”

Power.

Friends, it’s always about power.

www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/o...

"It is an example of how the American penchant for solving structural issues by fixing individual bodies is excellent at creating demand without solving social problems."

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social on Ozempic and the social burden of fatness [GIFT ARTICLE]

www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/o...

In the hands of the biggest media corporations, the term 'diversity' has become a poison pill. A way to silo and minimize the contributions of the historically marginalized. There are *real* books and 'diverse' books, which you can safely ignore. At conferences, real panels and 'diverse' panels. Etc

I died

Question for Canadian folks, are offices closed today at federal offices? Trying to call the fraud line without succeeds but I’m within their opening hours…

In my column today I wrote about Pierre Poilievre using the n-word on Parliament and the fact that everyone in the House and in Canadian media ignored it like it didn’t happen. Canadian media continue to gatekeep when it comes to anti-Blackness

www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/0...

This graph tells many stories but I hope it helps explain why survivors of sexual violence have big feelings when rapists are sentenced.

We can, and should, re-define what justice looks like but it's also important to hold space for why moments like today feel so monumental.

Looking for recommendations of Indigenous artists/authors comics/graphic narratives where illness, disability, mental health are strong plot points. For a course on how the relationship between comics and disability/illness/the bodymind #GraphicMedicine

Très contente de soutenir @canadaland.bsky.social financièrement surtout quand je peux écouter Détours où Émilie Nicolas et Amandine Gay parlent de familles, d’oppressions et de la France intelligemment www.canadaland.com/podcast/20-r...

The best advice columns I have ever read, so relevant and sensitive and brilliant!

Glad you’re not there anymore, that place enabled that ableist boss. Reasonable accommodations are a right!

Here is my latest -- what have we lost as radical student organizing is in crisis? #highered

noraloreto.substack.com/p/wherefore-...

I keep watching video of the Kelowna fires and no one is wearing masks. Breathing in fire particulate can lead to lung damage and shortens your lifespan. If there is a fire, please mask.

The Ford government is corrupt — and the Greenbelt report proves it.

https://www.tvo.org/article/the-greenbelt-report-proves-it-the-ford-government-is-corrupt

I've been doing pro-choice activism in Canada for 20 years. Canadian anti-choice MPs put forward the same 3 bills over and over again :

1- Adding a penalty for killing a pregnant person

2- Banning "Sex selective abortion"

3- A committee to decide when human life begins

I feel you, so many more interesting people in Toronto or elsewhere than here in Montréal! I did long distance with a Berliner (never again!) but Ottawa has some interesting stuff! Bonne chance!

Finished the lovely podcast Resurrection by Dane Stewart about Daryl Allen, an activist and playwright who died of AIDS and was almost forgotten https://www.resurrectionpodcast.com/

The new tagline foretells that everyone still on the app are destined to die from using the app. That is the prophecy.

Glory be to those who blaze.