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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3h

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 11h

i know facebook is absolutely garbage app but it has very specific uses for me still. One of the most annoying features as of late, when you open it third-party audio apps (books radio etc.) continue playing, but as soon as you close fb app, the audio is cut

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 1d

after reading Hngerstone, I requested Carmilla from my library on audio. I’ve delayed borrowing it for so long, purely because the cover art terrifies me. Realized today, how short of a book it is and that I could probably manage but still!

screenshot of audio book Carmilla, a vampyre tale, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Image art is a terrifying close-up of a woman’s face with bright red lips and black hair covering her face.

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 2d

Rima Hassan is a Palestinian with French citizenship born in a a refugee camp in Syria, as well as a Member of the European Parliament for France. She reports, “I was beaten by two [Israeli] police officers when they put me in the van,” after the flotilla was intercepted.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Among the 161 arriving in Athens, MEP Rima Hassan reports that she was 'beaten' by Israeli police officers.

Israel deports Greta Thunberg and other Gaza flotilla activists

Among the 161 arriving in Athens, MEP Rima Hassan reports that she was 'beaten' by Israeli police officers.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 2d

The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 3d

But it does mean that to be trans is to have a visceral understanding of what it means for something to be ‘up for debate’. So, it can teach you something about the stakes of argument.”

mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 3d

Andrea Long Chu interview for her recent book of essays: “To be trans, right now, is to be living in a situation where consensus has not been reached about you. That can be difficult and painful; it can also be, I think, energising and interesting, depending on context.”

Andrea Long Chu: ‘Being trans can teach you about the stakes of argument’

The Pulitzer-winning critic speaks to Eli Cugini to mark the UK publication of her latest essay collection, Authority: Essays on Being Right

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 3d

touched that after years of sending my aunt bad bunny songs articles etc. she’s referred to him as “our boy benito” 🥺

mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 4d

Saretta Khan’s Adhar-Space saree panels hung for nuit blanche east danforth

saree fabric drapped from ceiling to floor with english and bangla calligraphy
text reads:

Alone, she etches a history
in copper tones

(bangla prose)

Who climbed the first peak
of civilization,
who, on the path of consciousness, wished to be a dew-drop

(bangla prose)

as painting of a silver oak, sickned by an incurable ailment-how much did it bleed,
inside and out?

saree drapped from ceiling to bloor with embroidered images

white saree with red flowers draped from ceiling. english and bangla prose reads:

O Mother wait in silent prayer, Like the thirsty chatal ge longing for your cate.
For the scent of your sari, for fields call home,
For your arms to hold me.
never to ambi

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 4d

reading to andrea long chu’s compilation of essays in authority is like catching up on a decade of internet discourse that i missed in the years i was not terminally online

mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 5d

there’s something wrong with me because I just confirmed a 8 day trip this fall, then proceeded to cancel free tickets to five public talks/book talks/movie screenings. when did I ever think I’d manage that many outings

mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 7d

…The echo asks the speaker to be confronted with their own self-reflection, between the land and themselves” (pg12-13). Simpson continues “Instead of inviting us to speak, Wave Sound asks us to practice embodied listening—a deep listening and feeling using one’s entire being” (pg14).

mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 7d

Simpson explains Belmore’s intention with her earlier installations of megaphone-shaped sculptures: “to aim participants’ voices not at government, the prime minister or the army, but at the land itself. The idea was that the land has been hearing the sound of us for a very, very long time…

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 7d

my visit to the early days exhibit at McMichael Gallery was enriched by my recent read of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Theory of Water. Facing the Kleinburg forest sit Rebecca Belmore‘s three aluminum Wave Sound sculptures (Banff, Gros Morne, Pukaskwa national parks) @biidaasamose.bsky.social

three large cast aluminum megaphone-shaped sculptors sit on floor facing out three windows to forested landscape

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 7d

…HeavyShield's family were sent to residential school, where they were separated from their family, forbidden to speak their language, and endured abuse.
She explains that the cloven toes are an allusion to the hoofs of a deer, suggesting the animal's attributes of elegance, strength, and delicacy.”

mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 7d

Faye HeavyShield’s Sisters (1993), in McMichael gallery’s Early Days exhibit.

“This striking work evokes the strength of women pulling together and has been interpreted as representing the artist and her five sisters, circled in solidarity to defend against all threats. All the girls in…

six sets of high heeled shoes (altered with plaster, gesso, and acrylic paint) with cloven toes. arranged in a circle on a white display at the centre of a gallery exhibit, paintings and photography in the background.

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 9d

they spoke of how much moral clarity she is deriving young people/journalists who see it how it is. of the objectivity that white journalists are presumed to have, the power dynamics at play for many journalists of colour who are not protected by unions. to never read or write for the national post

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 9d

Some important things I learned tonight : this project tracking instances of attacked on press freedom, that has had to create its own section for “honest reporting” smear campaigns canadapressfreedom.ca

Home - Canada Press Freedom Project

canadapressfreedom.ca

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 9d

alt text: crowd packed around guest speakers amongst bookshelves of book store

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 9d

When Genocide Wasn’t News discussion with contributors to this edited volume, Pacinthe Mattar and Sonya Fatah moderated by Desmond Cole @anotherstoryto.bsky.social wrapping up Toronto Palestine Film Festival

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 9d

this entire series is great, with contributions about Truth, Economic Dev, Media, Land and Gender, as well as the Child Welfare article shared above
thewalrus.ca/truth-and-re...

The Truth of Reconciliation | The Walrus

The TRC report, released in 2015, laid out ninety-four clear Calls to Action. Ten years later, Indigenous writers reflect on what has and hasn’t been achieved

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 9d

Instead, energy is being summoned so Canada can quickly exploit the land for rare minerals in the name of Canadian sovereignty. We can’t let these calls fade from our minds. Our collective memory needs this information so we don’t forget how Canada allowed the harm of so many children.”

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 9d

...But, ten years later, we are in a time when these calls are being drowned out by apathy and denial about the harms of residential schools. The momentum that followed the uncovering of unmarked graves and missing children, the Idle No More awakening and [other efforts by Indigenous ppl] is waning.

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 9d

@legallycree.bsky.social “The first five Calls to Action are centred on child welfare, an area of Canadian law and policy that is plagued with child apprehension and the breaking apart of Indigenous families. The calls seek to address the overrepresentation of Indigenous children and youth…

There Are More Indigenous Children in Care Now than at the Height of Residential Schools | The Walrus

Reconciliation simply cannot occur when children and families continue to suffer

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