If you've read my book Staging Blackface in Canada, I'd love your support on Goodreads. You can vote here (free Goodreads account needed): Canadian Black History Month → goodreads.com/list/show/66605 Performance & Theatre Theory → goodreads.com/list/show/18134 Thank you it makes a real difference!

I've really enjoyed watching the World Cup, seeing all the diversity, and talent on display, celebrated, valued, cherished. Now close your 👀 and imagine this same scenario in all areas of life. Why do we love diversity on fields and courts, but politicize it pretty much everywhere else??? 🤦🏾‍♀️

Happening later today at 5pm. amherstburgfreedom.org/event/cheryl...

**New Publication Alert** Journal of Canadian Studies, "Using Black Archives to Rethink Toronto’s Public Art: Integrating Community and Collective Heritage," Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 453–476. By Cheryl Thompson and Lucy Wowk utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

I interviewed @drcherylt.bsky.social first, and when Golden Mile came up again, unprompted, I was on cloud nine, haha.

ICYMI: here’s the new @spacingradio.bsky.social episode. We talk about the Crosstown LRT with @graphicmatt.com and Tricia Wood, and @drcherylt.bsky.social tells us about the reimagining of Scarborough’s Golden Mile: spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

On the latest @spacingradio.bsky.social, we bring back the transit panel with @graphicmatt.com and Prof. Tricia Wood to celebrate the Crosstown. And @drcherylt.bsky.social tells us about Scarborough’s Golden Mile and it’s generational transformation: spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

On 4.14, Staging Blackface in Canada: Public Amusements, Variety Shows, & Racial Acts in an Age of Imitation, 1898-1919, the follow up to Canada and the Blackface Atlantic, is out. And there is a third act. Thanks @wlupress.bsky.social! www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/S/Stag...

Beginning in the early 1980s,, #JesseJackson led a coalition of Black organizations through his PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) to boycott American companies like Budweiser, and others because of their anti-Black hiring practices. These actions led to widespread changes.

I wrote this feature about a true legend. He overcame endless criticism, and yet he never stopped being creative and reinventing himself. When he passed last November, I felt compelled to write something. This is Part one, Part 2 drops tomorrow. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Last year, I wrote Remembering the Harriet Tubman Youth Centre on St. Clair West for Spacing.ca. It was the most-read article of summer 2024, and generated over 30,000 views. Today, it is nominated for a Toronto Heritage Public History Award!! www.heritagetoronto.org/programs/her...

My book. In store. Indigo. And in the Canadian History section!!!!! I've arrived lol

Cadillac Fairview thinks Liu's plans are too ambitious, and they would be more "comfortable" with "someone" with more retail experience taking over the former Bay stores in their malls. "More experience" like the mostly white men who ran a 300-year co into the ground? Ok. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Sharing an interview I did with the New Books Network Podcast on my latest book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic published with @wlupress.bsky.social . If you haven't yet read it, or are on the fence, this conversation is in-depth with a lot of inside stories about writing the book!

Syriah Bailey writes about @TheArQuives collections of Black queer activism in Toronto from ZAMI to chosen family to other forms of political resistance. Learn more about the voices that shaped a movement. Read the full blog here: mobaprojects.ca/the-arquives/

I hope everything politician who was once in office thinking of coming back just learned that Cuomo lost his bid to be NYC Mayor. Please just retire and let Gex and early Millennials lead for a minute.

Folks searching so hard for a Chow negative. If the worse things she's done is not apologize "properly" for 1 pool closure or for home owner confusion over vacant tax, still winning over previous mayor who stopped fixing shit, let subways become hostels, and workplace gate. Why do we forget so soon?

Why is America getting back into the war business??? Because it makes a few companies really rich. Wars make $$

Leadership.

When he marched tanks down the street, folks should have known he was going to use them. Narcs always foreshadow their evil.

Loving all the men really keen to be mayor but been in council for years and their actual wards are riddled with problems. Classic case of seeking power, not solutions. Mayor Chow hasn't fixed everything or gotten it all right, but we know she's not sitting in photo ops at 7am. shuffling paper.

Is addressing anti-Black racism in Canada still a policy priority? The piece by fellow members of the Black Canadians Studies Association is out! Shout out to Tari Ajadi, Nicole Bernhardt, Wendy Mackey and Christopher Stuart Taylor Share! #BCSA policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ju...

Vintage speakers. Wall-slapping bass. 12 hours of nonstop vibes. Furnace Slaps wasn’t just an installation; Dr. Mark V. Campbell digs into the noise, the chaos, and the crowd energy we never archive but never forget. 🔥 Read MOBA' blog and catch the feeling: mobaprojects.ca/furnace-slap...

I find it so fascinating that to show the Americans strength we double down on being a colony of Britain. Truly a Canadian thing to do, if Americans still think we're basically the same. Lol. We're not.

If you ever known anyone who had to recover from a major injury or setback. Just know, not the folks to mess with hahaha we have superpower resilience, self motivation, and perseverance. Whatever it was that happened, happened to us for a reason. Big mistake. Huge.

I gave an interview to Open Book on the writing process and some of the challenges I overcame to write my latest book. You don't just wake up and start writing about blackface lol especially as a Black person. This was hard work, but worth it. It's history unplugged. open-book.ca/News/Scholar...

I know exactly what went wrong with the Leafs. 1. Fear of winning. 2. Fear of losing. 3. Fear of winning, but feel like they should have lost. Very common attributes of self-sabbatoge.

I literally think the president of the United States is not well. I cannot follow anything he is saying in this press conference with Carney. Everyone is not spending money right or hiring the right people but him? Lol. I can't. And Carney sitting there like "let me say as little as possible." Wise

Ok so that storm yesterday was right at the time of my book launch! It was a small intimate group, so thank you to A Different Booklist for hosting, and Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Truly a cathartic night and respect to the elder to my right. So sweet, she laughed at all my jokes ❤️🙏🏾🙂

I never understand how someone who votes NDP would swing PC. That makes no sense to me.

A headline like "Canada becoming a two-party" country still better than a Conservative majority lol just saying. 5 months ago, that was the only outcome.

I actually like Minority govt means no party can fundamentally screw it up they have to work together and I know Conservatives hate collaboration but the alternative is 51st state.

Can someone tell me what Conservative Party was "good" for Canada? I'm almost 50, haven't seen one. For those "tired" of Liberals, show me when a Conservative govt grew thr country.....

I dropped a short piece today on writer's block and some tips to work through it open.substack.com/pub/drcheryl...

I wrote a piece today on Substack about why I wrote this book! It's officially out today, and I'm excited to share where the idea came from. The personal isn't always political, but the political is always personal. open.substack.com/pub/drcheryl...

I'm documenting my transition story by writing short posts on substack about lessons I've learned and how I find that power within to keep on thriving! Subscribe - it's free! drcherylthompson.substack.com/p/transition...

I did a podcast this week where I spoke about the creative practice of writing and the production cycle of an academic book. Writing is an art. Writers are artists. I'm a Black writer, which means as I write, I interrogate myself as much as I do the topic. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/4vD4...

In advance of my book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict, and Freedom, 1812-1897, in pre-order/available 4.22, I sat down with The Authority File, a podcast from CHOICE. There will be episodes throughout the remainder of April. www.choice360.org/podcasts/epi...

This right here represents: 15 years of dedication, focus, and resilience which started as a racist incident at a frosh week event in Montreal, that then led to me reading every book there was to read all while completing a dissertation on a different topic! The official book drops April 22, 2025.

Scary stuff

I passed by and saw someone clearing out furniture, and I just thought it was a reno. This spot was always so busy. I'm surprised at this one. exclaim.ca/music/articl...

RIP George Foreman

We are getting a new PM today. Feels a bit anticlimactic but I'm guessing Carney? Maybe a last minute surprise? It might be closer than we think.

2020: attacks on “BLM” 2022: attacks on “CRT” 2024: attacks on “woke” 2025: attacks on “DEI” BLACK. THEY MEAN BLACK.

When she was alive, some of my grandmother's family worked on the Panama Canal. She was born in 1912. That's how old his comments are.

And we thought the Oscar's ran long ...my goodness

WATCH: The LCBO has started to remove U.S. alcohol from its shelves in response to Trump tariffs. The move was Doug Ford’s initial response to the 25 per cent on Canadian goods. Read more: www.thestar.com/ontario-prem...

All the women this man introduces are victims, anyone notice that??

Is it over yet???

Ok, the Congress feed just had an up close shot of clapping hands. What in the world?!?!