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Dave Snow is out here telling a government committee that racist researchers are being sidelined. But that's not the best part. The best part is that the government committee is treating this as constructive feedback. www.ourcommons.ca/documentview...

The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding. As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.

Glad to be a small part of this incredible report on suppressing Palestinian advocacy in CA Universities. Thanks to Azeezah Kanji and the task force. This is part of the record now: www.institutionalcomplicity.ca

Reuters confirms all 1,966 Palestinian captives and forcibly disappeared from Gaza set for release have boarded buses at Israeli prisons. Al Jazeera: ➤ The Red Cross has entered Ofer Prison to evacuate one prisoner in need of urgent medical care. ➤ 12 West Bank detainees will be exiled; their...

NGL, with Link banned, our reach for the giving circle has dropped. Translation: less support for six families & a displacement camp in Gaza. So let’s turn this around. This is still a survival fund—not even a rebuilding fund! They’re hungry & homeless. 5 hours left 🚨 545/1000 for six families.

A lot of white people are mourning this woman which is funny since she was a stalwart defender of a sexual abuser. And Annie Hall was boring as fuck It’s funny how people gloss over the truth for the performance of morality in death www.independent.co.uk/life-style/d...

Water-hungry data centres are planned for drought-stricken regions across Canada. What will the AI data centre boom mean for communities? By @savannahridley.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-cent...

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification www.404media.co/the-discord-...

Having been completely ghosted for 6 months by a major journal after they accepted my article (no response to multiple emails asking for a timeline) I have just now received proofs with a *one week turnaround time*. In mid-term. Only some of us receive the care so many claim to promote on here.....

20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome. Image courtesy: Mario Patiño Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...

Deadline extended!!! The Program Committee has decided to extend the deadline to October 12, 2025. Proposals can be 400-600 words. If you are submitting a symposium or workshop proposal, word limits are more flexible. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions! #decolonialconference

The Decolonial Conference is about confronting complicity and building coalitions. It’s about organizing and fighting against domination, imagining new worlds, and putting radical thought into action. Los Angeles, CA, April 6-8, 2026 #decolonialconference

Duke University Press. In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now!

YEP YEP YEP. Even the non-Bath events completely ignore the critical work many have done to include critique and documentation of the horrors of empire. It feels like some folks were more than ready to throw out the critical work people were working so hard on in order to get a speaker’s fee.

Thank you, Bianca, and so great to see Olivia Carpenter having a say in this conversation on Austen and her limitations! @theconversation.com

We've taken our @marsdenfund.bsky.social "Poetics of Treaties" project on the road! Spending time today at the Agowiidiwinan Centre & at the Museum of Human Rights thinking about treaties in those contexts, then speaking tomorrow at UW. Thank you to @kerrysinanan.bsky.social for hosting us there

These violent lynchings of a student, Trey Reed, and a homeless man are being hidden. There is a direct through line between the fascist response to Kirk's death, blaming everyone except their own, and these murders.

Very excited that I will finally meet @nikkihessell.bsky.social in person tomorrow and cannot wait to hear her talk with Carwyn Jones on how we can center Treaties in our work and on comparing different treaty experiences and knowledges in 'Canada' and Aotearoa

The number of white progressives and liberals stumbling over themselves and crying is pathetic. We see you. And we know you won’t lift a finger to protect the same marginalized ppl you grift off of. HATE IS NOT A POLITICAL OPINION. The fact that this has to be said is unconscionable

This prompts me to go back and re-read Claudia Rankine’s JUST US.

🚨🚨So excited that the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting the virtual launch for *Sweet Taste of Empire,* published by ‪@pennpress.bsky.social‬. We have an incredible lineup!!!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace 10.30.2025 | 6:30pm EST| register here! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...

Amid ongoing ceasefire talks, Israel attempted to assassinate the Hamas negotiating team in an airstrike on the Doha office of its lead negotiator, senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya. Hamas officials say the negotiating team survived the attack. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/isra... #Palestine #Israel

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

And, of course, if you've ever swooned at an Austen estate, you have to read Tré Ventour-Griffiths's: National Trust in Jane Austen’s Empires of Sugar digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol11/is...

Don't miss @amandaraeprescott.bsky.social's point-by-point documentation of Jane Austen fandom racism: Notes On A Scandal: Sanditon Fandom’s Ongoing Racism And The Danger Of Ignoring Austen Discourse On Social Media digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol11/is...

You can read my contribution here: Jane Austen and Regency Romance's Racist Legacy digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol11/is...

In this Jane Austen anniversary year, I love how much our essay cluster "Race and Racism in Austen Spaces" keeps getting read over on ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts! Read @kerrysinanan.bsky.social's framing: Eroticizing Men of Empire in Austen digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol11/is...

Rampant counterisurgency in slavery historiography that is dominated by liberals who refuse to reckon with the structures of white supremacy, anti-Indigeneity and anti-Blackness their narratives ultimately uphold. Longer thread needed but this is for now....

The argument being made for a return to the past in hiring or admissions [at UVA] seems to be an argument for a return to affirmative action for white men. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

BREAKING: Israel bombs high-rise buildings in Gaza City ahead of massive offensive

Join me in using the Toolkit to urgently email Sodexo to urge the restoration of Tetua Hoxha's basic human rights. Time is running out. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Florida International University is under fire from one of its own faculty members after reports detailed that the school provided equipment to the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention facility, intensifying existing anger over FIU’s police partnership with ICE and ongoing labor disputes.

I knew the contents of the packet in the post. Publication day yay! I can finally hold The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory. So many feels!

I’m still waiting on my copy!

PM Mark Carney is planning the biggest military spending hike since WWII. What federal programs will be cut to pay for this increase? I spoke with policy analyst and peace activist Steve Staples about missile defence, NATO, and the peace movement breachmedia.ca/more-weapons...

Very hard to celebrate Labor Day when our unions are bourgeoisie, gatekeepers, settlers, majority white (certainly in academia), full of croneyism, only focused on pay and do not care about working conditions, clean air or GENOCIDE!

"Aid" as a lethal weapon

Save 30% on #NewBook "After Caliban" by Erica James, which examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and their production of a decolonized art history for the Caribbean. buff.ly/YJkZzd9

Lol, we need the "AI" that is killing the environment and guzzling untold amounts of resources to save the environment. This is 1984 type of marketing, like "ministry of peace" that is actually the war department.

When I was at UTSA I was the Chair of the Faculty Senate Academic Freedom committee. We passed 2 resolutions in 2022-3 supporting Critical Race Studies, Ethnic Studies and African American Studies, and Academic Freedom. Even these largely symbolic statements will no longer be tolerated.

“What we know should be taken seriously. Our enemies are relentless, and only a relentless opposition willing to fight by any means necessary will stop them. If you want to know where to find the firestarter for that opposition, locate the nearest mirror.”

Starmer’s Labour government says there’s no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 500,000 children out of poverty — but there is £2,000,000,000 for Elbit, Israel’s partner in genocide. This obscene deal must be stopped. They have Palestinian blood on their hands.

The great Annie Lennox calling for a general strike as a response to the genocidal nature of Israel.

The ongoing absurdity of Austen scholars and readers claiming she was anything other than a Tory, a social conservative in the Burkean mould, and fully supportive of Britain's imperial, naval project, needs to be considered in the context of white feminism and cultural nationalism.

This is actually incredible. Tennis Canada is willing to endorse genocide by hosting Israel in Davis Cup tennis for the low low low price of $2.2 million. That's the projected economic benefit. Not including the cost of policing protesters, which will of course be deducted from that.

Why is it important to counter the Jane Austen 250th birthday frenzy in this moment? Because she is being used to promote neoimperial Brexit culture under the cover of white feminism as supposedly 'radical' 1/ theconversation.com/jane-austen-...

Why is it important to counter the Jane Austen 250th birthday frenzy in this moment? Because she is being used to promote neoimperial Brexit culture under the cover of white feminism as supposedly 'radical' 1/ theconversation.com/jane-austen-...

I interviewed @malsaafin.bsky.social about the killing of Anas al-Sharif, how Western media treats Palestinian journos, if Israel's current plans for Gaza City are distinct from previous plans, and if a “day after” the war is something it even envisions. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/the-exterm...