"[P]rogressive groups and labor unions are planning a nationwide day of coordinated protests at over 100 US campuses on Friday, November 7." "[F]irst in a series of nationwide days of protests leading up to student strikes and worker actions on May Day 2026." #USA #Education #Protest #Labour

"Memphis is the science fair project of 2025 — an experiment to see how much control they can exert over a population before anyone notices." "I'm not built to see my babies in zip ties because of somebody's xenophobia." #Tennessee #USA #Policing #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

september is over and i've come across zero (0!) jobs in my field i can apply for in my home country (canada) 🙃

Delighted to say that my article in Camera Obscura, "On Education as Formal Violence," has been published! It examines the role of the reform school as both/neither school and/nor prison, and the gendered pedagogies imposed on "bad" girls in the 1950 film, So Young, So Bad. #academicsky #filmsky

Zara "Sluys X is preparing her application for Canadian asylum on the grounds that the United States is not safe for Black or trans people." During 2025, "987 anti-trans bills have been introduced across 49 U.S. states." Zara's fundraiser: gogetfunding.com/help-zara-re... #Canada #USA #Deportation

best thing i've read this week, from www.dukeupress.edu/feminism-aga...: "[...]history is far less cis than one might anticipate." "Every sex and gender is a historically contingent, invented category. It's time to start treating them all that way." #genderstudies #transtheory

"More than 18,000 British Columbians have died due to unregulated toxic drugs [..] over the last decade." "[T]hese deaths were entirely preventable and caused by Canada's drug policy." "[N]ot doing anything about it is criminally negligent." #BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Policing

Please consider supporting Haneen! Her accounts are systematically being removed, and her family is desperate. She is an incredibly kind person, just trying to keep her children alive during a genocide.

Saudi Arabia "resentenced fitness influencer and women's rights activist Manahel al-Otaibi to five years." "[D]ue to her tweets in support of women's rights as well as posting photos of herself [..] without an abaya." "[S]ubjected her to torture." #SaudiArabia #Incarceration

"We, the undersigned scholars, educators, and education practitioners write to express our alarm at the Harvard Education Publishing Group's cancellation of a special issue on Palestine and Education." Sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #Massachusetts #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

And there we have it. A call to boycott SCMS this year.

“A 2024 survey of more than 500 Palestinian children in Gaza revealed that 96% of them fear imminent death, […] 49% wish to die because of the war.” “[UNICEF] called Gaza ‘the world's most dangerous place to be a child.’”

"After Trump's win in the 2024 election, Bernard, the school counselor, noticed an uneasy quiet fall over the school." "Bridget just wanted to know if her friend was OK. And Bernard didn't know what to tell her." #NewYork #USA #Ecuador #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩'𝐬 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 Three weeks before Trump's inauguration, I began building a comprehensive archive of independent journalism on state violence in Trump's America—an abolitionist educational resource designed to counteract state propaganda. Here's a navigation guide. 1/15 🧵

"This no bother me. You person. You my friend, bro." "Talap's support has had a tremendous impact on [..] each one of my trans and non-binary fighters." Talap was "detained during a check-in with his immigration officer." #NewYork #USA #Russia #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

"Quebec-based GardaWorld, which has [..] been awarded a US$8-million contract for work on ['Alligator Alcatraz'], has also been awarded more than $100 million in Canadian government contracts since Carney won the Liberal leadership." #Canada #Florida #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

"For the past weeks, Roberto has been sleeping on a friend's couch, too distraught to spend the night alone in his house." "This July, Roberto's wife Sandra was arrested by ICE." "She's my home." #California #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

On 6 months of Harms Committed... Last Fall, I momentarily imagined a public archive where one could easily access a feed of credible journalism detailing the history of police brutality for any location. A passing thought inspired by dissertation research. Harms Committed is and isn't that. 1/7 🧵

hey Bluesky! My cousin was displaced by a horrible fire in Toronto and is now left to start rebuilding her belongings entirely from scratch. For those who know Toronto, you know what a battle that is. If you can, please consider donating here to help her rebuild: gofund.me/2fd17eb9 #toronto

"[P]ages are devoted to setting out an immigration policy for an independent Alberta. 'Natural born Canadians' will have preference. [...] Why? Well, folks born in Canada [...] 'have at least a fighting chance of being able to drive acceptably on snow and ice.' I’m not making this up."

"Danielle Smith can now call herself Queen of Measles." "Thanks to Smith's weak and chaotic leadership, vaccine skepticism and open disregard for public health experts, the number of cumulative measles cases had as of Friday passed 1,179 in Alberta." #Alberta #Canada #Healthcare

"Kennedy has unearthed evidence that current NHS staff is attempting to intimidate trans kids and their parents from procuring puberty blockers by legal means, issuing threats of calling social services and preventing trans children from accessing gender-affirming care as adults." #UK #Healthcare

“Culture is no longer merely a reflection of the past; it has become its erasure. It functions as pedagogy — through what Ariella Aïsha Azoulay names as ‘imperial technologies,’ and what I have called “disimagination machines.’”

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

"[T]hey slashed open tents, forced people to move and threw out people's belongings." "It created absolute chaos and hell for everyone who was living there." "[D]ecampments increase the risk of a fatal overdose or medical emergency." #BritishColumbia #Canada #Housing

“The only way out is through a male guardian, marriage or jumping off the building. Old men or former convicts who did not find a bride would look for a bride in these institutions. Some women would accept this as the only way out.”

"[A] revised curfew ordinance [..] would give the Chicago police superintendent [..] the power to declare a curfew in response to a teen trend, or gathering of 20 or more." "I feel like there should be a space where teens can meet up and not be watched by 100 policemen." #Illinois #USA #Policing

today in millennial culture updates: chad michael murray dressed as danny from grease in a québécois ad for sugar-free orange crush n’ looking like he doesn’t wanna be anything other than what he’s been tryna be lately 📍Mile End

recently started volunteering at a cat shelter and it’s now the best day of my week, because of all these silly little sweet faces 🥲 #catsky

Foreign films are a national security threat? We’re shaking our heads. We’d laugh if this wasn’t such dangerous, authoritarian rhetoric. What other countries do this? Russia and China.

"[T]he NIH is also reportedly crafting a new registry to track those with autism." "The health agency claims it was doing so to fulfill a controversial promise the secretary of health made to root out the cause of autism by September." #USA #Healthcare

THE WAR ON DRUGS IS BULLSHIT. Billions of dollars are spent every year on the enforcement of racist, archaic drug policies. These laws destroy and destabilize communities. It’s past time to end the failed War on Drugs once and for all.

"In 2020, there were just over 100 bills aimed at LGBTQ+ people." "As of 2025, a staggering 867 bills have been introduced targeting transgender people across the United States." "122 would ban gender-affirming care for some segment of the trans population." #USA #Healthcare

"Our so-called representatives instead prefer to force these women to carry to term a baby who would never survive outside the womb and allow a mother and child to suffer agonies of a life that's not meant to be lived for the sake of their own comfort." #Texas #USA #Healthcare

Last semester I assigned a zine project for my Girlhood Cinemas class in the name of riot grrrl aesthetics. My students produced incredible work, so I wanted to showcase it in McGill's Teaching & Learning blog, alongside thoughts on creative assessments as feminist pedagogy. #AcademicSky #education

RFK Jr. is elevating some of the most incompetent and publicly reviled anti-vax autism pseudoscience grifters, by literally putting them in charge of an HHS autism study. All the trigger warnings for harm the Geiers have caused to autistic people and their families. www.statnews.com/2025/03/26/r...

"A Louisiana woman pleads not guilty [..] after allegedly getting abortion pills from a New York doctor and giving them to her teenage daughter." "[T]he state became the first to reclassify mifepristone and misoprostol [..] as 'controlled dangerous substances.'" #healthcare #louisiana #uspol #usa

as a canadian baffled (we all are) by literally everything right now, i can't stop listening to canada's weirdest (complimentary) pop star, AllieX -- our prophetic queen #musicsky #canada

"Ontario identified 78 new measles cases over the course of two weeks, [..] calling it the largest outbreak the province has seen in almost 30 years." "As a result of the outbreak, 18 kids have been hospitalized in Ontario, including one who required intensive care." #publichealth #cdnpoli #ontario

"Nurses in the Niagara Health System are facing overwhelming patient loads that are undermining care and risk triggering staff burnout." "Ontario has failed to pass legislation that would enforce nurse-to-patient ratios." #ontario #cdnpoli #healthcare

It’s snowing again, so here are some photos I took after the blizzards in Montreal 🤷🏻‍♀️

1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired. This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Today I had way too much caffeine and saw that men on Reddit were arguing that Daria isn’t a “girl show” because men can relate to it (!?) so I explained with Great Verve that girlhood media can be relatable to men bc girls are just people undergoing human experiences, and honestly what a rush

"[A]pproximately 180,000 undocumented immigrants are monitored through GPS ankle bracelets or the SmartLink app." "[T]his shifts prison functions into urban and private spaces, creating [.] an inverted panopticon in which electronic monitoring decentralizes surveillance." #uspol #usa @nextcity.org

Public higher ed ys the infrastructure of democracye

Grateful to be included in the newest issue of Teaching Media, on Pedagogies of Care in the Age of Anxiety, alongside these brilliant scholars. An increasingly pressing conversation Read here! quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/teach... Thanks to our editors and to @jcmsjournal.bsky.social #academicsky

ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

drifting off into a blissful slumber to parker posey saying “lorazepam” over and over