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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware

@syrusmarcusware.bsky.social

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He/him. PhD. Activist. Assistant Professor. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Canada and Wildseed Centre for Arts & Activism. 🌈💕🌱

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Mar 1

Hello! Welcome ❤️ I’m an artist, activist and scholar based in Tkaronto in Northern Turtle Island. I’m a parent and a twin and long time abolitionist. I believe we will get free together and am working with my communities to build and grow and bring about change together. ❤️✊🏾until we are free.

Syrus crosses his arms across his chest and his tattoos show: touch change written in large cursive letters across his arms.

Syrus stands in front of a very large scale drawing he made of a 1970s trans activist on the wall of Grunt Gallery in Vancouver as part of his solo show there. There are words also drawn on the wall that read: we went out in the blackest of nights….

Syrus smiles with pink and purple dreadlocks and shows off his tshirt that reads “museums are not neutral”

Syrus stands in from of two of his 12 ft x 6 ft tall graphite on paper drawings of activists Queentite Opaleke and Joh Vettivelu. Syrus holds papers in his hand and a microphone and wears a large Ankara fabric tunic. The drawings are up at the AGYU for his group show there in 2016.

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 4d

My grandmother turned 99 this week! I’m so thankful for her!

Syrus faces his grandmother with his back to us and presents her two giant silver Mylar balloons filled with helium in the shape of 99. His grandmother is a white woman with white hair and a blue sweater and she is visible between the two 9 balloons and she is smiling at Syrus and looks happy!

Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 13d

Yes!!!! It was at the Gaukel Block of containers in Kitchener!

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 15d

We reprised Black Bunker in Kitchener today for the @cafkabiennial 2025! It was really lovely and electric! (They do the electric slide in the performance :) !)

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 24d

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 26d

FREE TO BE MORE: Creative Activism in the Era of Black Lives Matter, as edited by @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social & Ra'anaa Yaminah Ekundayo, with d'bi.young anitafrika is now available for pre-orders: uofrpress.ca/Books/F/Free...

It is about the power of social justice informed artistic practice! ✨️

Free To Be More

Celebrating the artists at the forefront of a Black aesthetic renaissance and how they harness the arts to shape a freer futureIn the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin of the Minneap...

uofrpress.ca

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Friends of the Earth Australia @foe.org.au · Sep 6

Wonderful news!

'After months of pressure from community environment advocates, the NSW gov accepted that all 176,000 hectares of state forest that were assessed for potential inclusion should be protected in the Great Koala national park'.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NSW locks in great koala national park and brings in immediate ban on logging

Minns government to create one of the largest national parks in the state as forest advocates welcome ‘historic’ victory

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Aug 28

@dirtykingofpop 🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴

Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Aug 28

You Know Bam Magic! Trans comedy mocking transphobes is a great genre!

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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · Aug 15

NEW: Police Chief Plays Loose with the Truth on Radio Call-in Show

Toronto’s chief of police got grilled on excessive use of force at Palestine solidarity protests, and he defended the police breaking people’s bones and inflicting concussions.

Police Chief Plays Loose with the Truth on Radio Call-in Show

Toronto’s chief of police took listener calls live on NEWSTALK 1010. He got grilled on excessive use of force at Palestine solidarity protests, and he defended the police breaking people’s bones and…

www.thegrindmag.ca

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Mx. Ash @mxashmc.bsky.social · Jul 26

Thanks to @sandela.bsky.social and @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social and @matthewgreen.bsky.social for a great conversation exploring the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of the left. Such brilliant humans. I hope for more of this in #HamOnt - here’s to the revolution we all need!

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Jul 14

She said of course! He had lied and said it wasn’t allowed as if we couldn’t look it up on our phones while at the counter with him. The new worker we spoke to was kind and apologized but boy we were over it/ tired/pissed/ exhausted …!

Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Jul 14

Im fine, we’re fine, and we’re able to do our research but it shouldn’t be like this. Afterwards I went to get the car in the parking lot and saw another staff from the same company. I asked her if it was allowed to rent two cars with more than 1 driver with her company.

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Jul 14

And it shouldn’t matter if I’m a prof I should be treated with dignity even if I wasn’t a dr and etc. He didn’t believe I would have two credit cards to rent the two cars. When I presented them he didn’t believe the hold amount would go through. Can you imagine? Of course you can.

Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Jul 14

Tenure time comes around. It doesn’t even matter what car rental place it was because this is about something larger and this was a driving while Black extra experience last night. In light of day I question telling him where I do research- I shouldn’t have to tell him what I’m even using car for

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Jul 14

It down and put it with my registration as if I might be trying to pull a fast one and just steal these two mini vans. Lol. But for early career Black researchers we are expected to conduct our research and these are the barriers to do our work. Yet we are assessed the same as white colleagues when

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Jul 14

Saïd « this isn’t because you’re colored ». But in saying that he showed me that it was in fact because of anti-Blackness . Sigh. So I actually needed the card and it was 12 am and we’re at the airport pick up sport so I just told him, McMaster university, the research institute is Mac. And he wrote

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Jul 14

Before he would let me rent the car. I questioned all of this. I showed him their online policies that countered these weird rules he was placing on me. Finally I just put it on the table « I am used to getting poor treatment when accessing services as a Black person but this is extra awful » and he

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Jul 14

Me and my studio assistant were renting two cars for our research creation trip at the airport. The person at the counter didn’t believe I was a professor, insisted on writing down what I was using the 2 cars for (research trip) and then wanted to know name of research institution before he was let

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Jul 11

Been awake since 8 and this whole morning I’ve thought it was Saturday! I can’t believe how firmly I believed it- I was like, oh I forgot to do xyz (all my Friday tasks) but was happily settled into my Saturday. Theo is up and clarified our current position in time and space lol.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · Jul 10

Niccolaides when asked if he had read the books that the Red Deer School Board chair claims are part of a book ban list...

"I don't have the time"

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social · Jul 4

should a brown man be mayor? We asked a eugenicist

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Jul 1

Thinking of all the activists roughed up at Queens Park today. Stop bill 5 !!!

Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Jun 27

Happy trans march everyone! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 button by ifetayoalabi

Syrus wears a hello darling dress and a he/him button and lavender glasses and smiles at the camera

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Jun 27

cops out of schools press conference was so powerful despite the rain! Here’s some photos by Errol Young from @jfaap and the last is a banner I designed!

Charmaine speaking in a white shite holding a mic and an umbrella looking fierce

A speak in a red headscarf holds a mic and speaks loudly

Robyn speaks in a black Balzer with her hair down to her shoulders holding a mic

Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Jun 26

ASL provided! THURSDAY JUNE 26 noon at Queens Park, south in front of legislation building. Join us for press conference and rally about keeping our schools safe! Keep cops out of schools- they don’t keep Black and BIPOC students safe, and in fact put them in danger. #BlackLivesMatter #NotGoingBack

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Jun 26

This must be stopped immediately”! ❤️❤️❤️❤️Keep our schools spaces for learning and for care not for anti-Blackness and carceral harm!