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LesleyTC

@tenuredrebel.bsky.social

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Art Historian & Professor of Aesthetics at Humber Polytechnic, Toronto. Research: Surrealism & Indigenization; decolonial pedagogy. Director at VeritaFineArt.com 🎨 I’ve survived rape, kidnapping, and cancer. I’m a tired mom with no time for bullshit.🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🫶

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LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, no! Not a threat to an individual’s safety and health!

Unlike all the people murdered by drivers in this city.

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Privacy officials with the Ontario government won’t release details of who was responsible for cabinet minister vehicles caught speeding, saying it would violate personal privacy and could threaten the “safety or health of an individual.” #OnPoli

globalnews.ca/news/1146863...

Ontario government won’t say which cabinet minister vehicles were speeding, citing safety | Globalnews.ca

Documents show vehicles assigned to Premier Doug Ford's cabinet ministers were caught by automated speed cameras 23 times, including one driving at 70 km/h in a 40 zone.

globalnews.ca

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 2d

“Never gets old,” just like the girls he had sleeping in his bed with him…

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 2d

Why are you using a 33 year old photo to illustrate this?

Your bias is showing (yet again)

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 3d

Because I am very petty, I will never stop talking about this.

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 3d

The series that rejected my book proposal (I strongly believe for racist reasons) is soliciting proposals. I hope they get none.

The editors said the indigenous artist I wanted to write on has too much scholarship. Friends, their last pubs were on Duchamp and Rauschenberg. . .

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LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 5d

I would think so!

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 5d

I live by Christie Pits, which is such a rad park. But, like so much of Toronto, it’s depressing how much better it could be if our representatives* gave a shit about the people who live here.

*Not including @jessicabellto.bsky.social who is wonderful!

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 5d

🤘🏼I wrote about sweating the small stuff. The city parks dept answered city council’s request to look into destructive practices w a shrug. That’s not good enough. Total park reform is needed & needs to be an election platform. If Chow passes on it, someone else surely will. Pls read & share. 🙏🏼🤘🏼

Shawn Micallef: How Toronto can take a lesson from Van Halen, and learn to sweat the small stuff

Anybody who travels this city knows large vehicles are routinely in parks. It’s disrespectful to Torontonians, a scandalous waste of money, and intrusive to those trying to enjoy the outdoor

www.thestar.com

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LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 5d

100%

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 6d

I thought this guy was such a phoney for years. Giving major “male feminist” vibes. I wouldn’t say I’m “glad” to be proven right, but it’s good that my instincts are still trustworthy?

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 6d

My four year old literally hisses when she hears ChatGPT.

“That’s what mum’s filthy cheating students use!” 🤣

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 6d

👏

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Claire Marie ☠️ @clartyclara.bsky.social · 6d

Just seen an academic job posting stating that the successful candidate must be within 7 years of their initial academic appointment. So now, you can't be a lecturer (or US equivalent) if you're more than 7 years out? Fucking brilliant, that's me done then.

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LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 6d

Imagine being offended that a leader, in a religion that is ostensibly about love, believes that Black Lives Matter.

FFS

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 7d

Y’all my Teaching Assistant is so cute:

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 7d

Meeting Jane Goodall changed my life. She really became this model of feminism for me: steadfast but kind, tough but vulnerable, a disregard for the status quo. What a loss.

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Robbie @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 7d

A portfolio or envelope case made of birchbark and dyed porcupine quills by a talented Mi’kmaw artist around c.1910 and featuring the traditional 8-pointed star— I love this object. Relatedly, it‘s Mi’kmaq Treaty Day!

A portfolio case with an ornate design made of porcupine quills, including the traditional Mi’kmaw star design.

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LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 7d

I’m in Canada and had to be escorted to my car by security last semester after evening classes. 😬

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 8d

“The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life. . . All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. War and war only can set a goal for mass movements on the largest scale while respecting the traditional property system.“ -Walter Benjamin

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 9d

Trump: I'm not a fan of some of the ships you do. I'm a very aesthetic person and I don't like some of the ships you're doing, aesthetically.

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 8d

I read this as you enjoying reading the business classes’ boards and was having trouble reconciling the “diversity of intellectual pursuits” bit 🤣

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 8d

I will erase with my bare hand before leaving a dirty board!

And, with what I teach on, it would be *filthy*

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 8d

For those of you professors who are team “you erase the boards when you come in, not before you leave,” I would like to let you know that I lectured about the history of vaginal and rectal fistulas today and i am sure the prof coming in after me appreciates that i erased the board before i left.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 8d

Anyway the Riyadh Comedy Festival gave us one gift: a list of comedians to never support again.

Riyadh Comedy Festival - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 9d

SOME

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9d

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 10d

“Nat Geo came to my home in the night, armed, and forced me to swim with polar bears for pay.”

LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 10d

Did you know that two things can be bad at the same time? And that exploitation isn’t a contest?

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LesleyTC @tenuredrebel.bsky.social · 10d

Absolutely