The fight for reparations also includes Canada. Let’s not forget that.

Thinking about Black queer & trans people especially youth in Waterloo Region and the erasure they experience in the Black community. An erasure that forces them into hiding in schools, puts them at risk of being “outed” as “payback”. The community wld rather make excuses than hold these children.

“Powerful people don’t try to destroy things that aren’t important.” - Jelani Cobb

On Tuesday Oct 19th, 2SLGBTQIA+ events and programming were cancelled out of an abundance of caution based on information received by Waterloo Region Police Services. These details have been relayed publicly by the organisations that were contacted. There is no ongoing investigation at this time 1/

No to BILL 33

We should all be standing against Bill 33!

We owe to children to learn how the education system works. Calandra and the Ford government is taking advantage of low system literacy. It is the children who will suffer for this.

Being an artist in Waterloo Region is its own kind of exile from art.

I hadn’t delegated in many years but Arts Build Ontario’s Meanwhile Spaces initiative resonates quite deeply with me. I was reminded of the political violence, the expectation of trauma sharing and victimhood narratives of the most advantaged in the room.

Good time to put those territorial acknowledgments and commitments to decolonisation to use. Bill 5 is a danger to Indigenous sovereignty; it’s a danger to the land. www.thetrillium.ca/news/governm...

“The best moments in my life always happen at the end of my comfort zone.” - José Andrés

Big congratulations to @teneilewarren.bsky.social on being recognized for their unique storytelling by @canadamediaawards.bsky.social homed in our Black Radicalism Special Issue! Read their piece here: briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

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Incredibly proud to be a finalist!

“A place ain’t a place without a bookstore, Izzie.”

Go Vote!

Just building more housing, on its own, will be insufficient because without stronger tenant protections, nothing will stop people from being pushed out of their homes whenever it becomes expedient for their landlord to do so. It won’t ensure-that the new housing being built is safe and habitable.

It’s not combat operations; it’s mass murder

Put it in the louvre

Palestine

“Trapped in history. History trapped in me.” - Djanet Sears, Harlem Duet

“Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons.” - Denzel Washington

Trump’s plan for Ukraine is colonialism at work: take half their money, offer nothing in return, and blame them for being invaded on national television. And it’s further proof of how white supremacy doesn’t even protect white people —it only protects power.

Woke up thinking about Zelensky being asked “Why don’t you wear a suit?” yesterday and thought about how Black people began wearing suits in part due to respectability politics. And then began attacking us bc our suits didn’t fit into that respectability — leading to the Zoot Suit riots in 1943.

Do the municipalities in the region have a snow removal strategy in preparation for the upcoming snowfall? Some streets are running out of space to host all this snow.

Write new worlds. Write beautiful places. Write angry people. Write imaginary beasts, futile quests, broken hearts, lifelong injustices, mysteries, love affairs, lost children, newfound purpose. Write anything that allows you to escape or heal or vent or rage or explore or reconcile. Write 🖤

Beyonsea and the Mothers is now playing. You’ll laugh, cry and learn that hope blooms everywhere Get your tickets. www.ticketscene.ca/series/1297/

Thanks to Marinus de Groot for including my audio documentary about Teneile Warren's new play on his Promenade program at 7pm this evening. It'll be archived for future listening if you miss it today. www.midtownradio.ca Substack: bit.ly/4jk7Otp Spotify: bit.ly/4h2Pjbi

Have you grabbed your tickets yet? The team is hard at work pulling all the pieces together for stunning and profound theatre. #theatre #Kitchener www.greenlight-arts.com/current-prod...

Canada’s political future is riding on the hope that “well thinking”, “this is not who we are”, “anything but” voters will overwhelm polling stations. We witnessed how that went south of us so… What’s the plan?

I wrote Act I Scene I for the first time as a small child. I was by fascinated by these books where the words were written differently. I had never seen a book like that before. My grandma told me that’s how the plays on stage started. Just words on a page.

“So I guess the arts became my religion, and I’d consider that good religion because I felt connected, I felt cleansed and healed by poetry and painting and music, and I sometimes felt that I was contributing beauty to the world.” -Lorna Goodison