Collegial governance structures can be democratic as long as everyone is operating in good faith. Unfortunately, they are also vulnerable to people on power trips, narcissists etc whose main goal is not to improve the institution, but to harm whoever they can reach.

This (new?) phenomenon of withholding/retracting degrees is so abominable. Columbia seems to be the trendsetter as w/ so many awful trends but NYU’s holding its own in the race to the bottom. Also IT’S GALLATIN of all NYU schools. What’s more “individualized” than this?! www.them.us/story/gallat...

Rescinding degrees from students condemning genocide is not what universities are for

Hey @uwinnipeg.bsky.social students!! Please share everyone 👇👇👇👇👇

New: A University of Winnipeg employee has filed a whistleblower report that calls for a probe into overall operations at the post-secondary institution amid mounting concerns about its leadership #mbed #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

@caut.bsky.social #AcademicFreedom

That sound you heard was almost every Manitoban cheering. OT for the Winnipeg Jets @winnipegjets.com

DESPITE consistent attempts to silence him from both within and outside of our union, our president @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social stood and bravely spoke this morning at @caut.bsky.social condemning the suppression of pro-Palestinian speech on Canadian campuses. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

In case people are wondering how American Studies people in Canada are strategizing… we are not crossing the border. I would love to go to MSA in Boston this year but can’t risk it. I would LOVE to travel to this exhibit this summer but can’t risk it. www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Camping reservation day!

I am three beers deep and at the head of a line for a soon-to-be-open church rummage sale

We've finally made the leap from the other place! 👋 Our first order of business is to congratulate our friends @umfa-faum.bsky.social on the ratification of their new collective agreement & to send our solidarity to our friends @appusb.bsky.social as they work towards a fair deal

High Noon - 1949

Dr. Mark Libin, my wonderful MA supervisor, will be teaching this fantastic course on Palestinian literature at the University of Manitoba in the Fall. Please share with interested students! @marklibin.bsky.social

Tickets are free, but limited. Reserve yours here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/harry-crow... 3/3

Our speaker, Prof Eve Haque (York U) will give a talk entitled “Navigating Current Constraints on Academic Freedom.” This event is *free*, open to all, and takes place at 7pm at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (cocktail bar beforehand!). Thanks @umfa-faum.bsky.social and BUFA for their $$ support 2/3

If you’re in Winnipeg and are interested in academic freedom, freedom of expression, campus protests, and all the issues surrounding universities and speech, please come to the inaugural Harry Crowe Lecture, organized by @uwfa.bsky.social (and esp @alysonbrickey.bsky.social). 1/3

Everyone needs to take vibe advice from my cat. He is a rescue and his name is Cletus.

Wait Ani Difranco is coming to folk fest?! Time to warp back to my 20s

“Equivocations is the vague equating of colonialisms that erases the sweeping scope of land as the basis of wealth, power, law in settler nation states.” —Tuck & Yang

I love that the Mumford & Sons Brooklyn pop up is literally just this m.youtube.com/watch?v=rId6...

There is such incredible work being done in this city all time. Real, meaningful work. Not posturing. Just work. www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7464984

CAUT is calling on York University to reverse plans to suspend enrolments in 20 academic programs at its Glendon and Keele campuses. Read more: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

They should invent a meeting that makes you something other than just extra depressed

“The root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed. A seed of distrust and hate and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship a lifetime ago in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.” —JB Pritzker

HELLO my colleagues and I have developed a team-taught first-year pair of Humanities courses that approach big themes from an interdisciplinary perspective. Follow us on Instagram (@uwhumanities) for more info and visit our booth at the @uwinnipeg Open House next week!

💃evangelical & punitive modes of leftist politics play right into fascism.💃

Still plenty of time to get tickets to possibly the most Winnipeg experience you can imagine 💚🇵🇸♥️

Kyra Wilson was recently elected as the new grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. On this episode of Face to Face, she talks about her role in the push to have a Winnipeg-area landfill searched for the remains of two women from her community.

Please share widely!

Is anyone else on the prairies wondering if there will ever be enough lip balm

If you are going to MLA, my colleague and I are presenting on the “Queer Melville and Beyond” panel on Friday 💃

Sean Tucker was removed from teaching his course in the School of Population and Public Health. His academic freedom to teach about and speak against the genocide of Palestinians needs to be defended. Here is out letter in support of him. @ubcpublichealth.bsky.social

Some prairie ❄️

BREAKING: Winnipeg white man upset unfettered access to university campus confined to 99.9%

As someone who studies Jim Crow, I am absolutely APPALLED that Kevin Klein would use the term “segregation” to refer to the UW student BIPOC lounge. It’s ignorant and disgusting and he must retract.

Of course Kevin Klein chooses the anniversary of an antifeminist terrorist attack to malign the antiracist and EDI work of students at UWinnipeg. Gross column in today’s Winnipeg Sun.

Really disappointing to see so many news stories about how the Canada Post strike is hurting charities etc. These are not neutral and they are certainly not pro-worker.

Breaking: CAUT just passed a motion affirming faculty association rights to join calls for BDS, hold political positions, and condemning again the IHRA WD in light of the federal government’s new “handbook”. This is excellent news for academic freedom in Canada. Bravo 🥳

The University of Manitoba Human Rights MA student association have put together this fantastic event. Bravo. www.eventbrite.com/e/canadas-ev...

It’s been a really hard week but my little one insisted we make grinch cookies. ♥️

big “friscalating dusklight” vibes in that vanity fair essay

The McCarthy article is giving Humbert Humbert

Last night, I unlocked all posts on my Blood Meridian Substack and made them free. Anyone who wants to view those essays can, but I won’t be posting new ones. Any revenue that comes in will be donated to the Center for Missing and Exploited Children.