“This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, carpenter - You know, I would be free to be so much more…”- Assata Shakur……❤️

NEW BOOK(S) ALERT! 🌈🥰🌈 I’ve been writing and writing and have two new books coming out next year. This is the PM listing for the two books. I’m so thankful, and am excited about these offerings. They are as follows:

Boots Riley turns class struggle into comedy with I Love Boosters

Award-winning Cree composer and cellist Cris Derksen, who had strong ties to Manitoba’s arts community, has died following a car crash in northern Alberta. They were 45.

Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Cris Derksen, internationally renown Indigenous musician and composer, in a tragic vehicle accident in northern Alberta, returning from her father's funeral. A beautiful soul and musician. Such a loss.

It’s my /our birthday today and also our book birthday!!! Today Free to be More : Creative Activism’s in the Era of Black Lives Matter is officially out on @uofr_press ❤️❤️❤️ we are so excited for you to read it! 📚

I’ve had lung issues every time I’ve breathed in tear gas, even in “minimal” amounts, at protests. This shouldn’t be something you see every few weeks in police response to protests.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

My favorite song to sing in middle school... and my favorite of the Civil Rights era anthems. "I wish I could be like a bird in the sky..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEP...

Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Map and Destroys Key Voting Rights Act Provision www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

As the inquest into the police shooting death of 16-year-old Eishia Hudson continues in Winnipeg, yesterday Scott Wortley, an expert in systemic racism in policing took the stand to speak on the case.

Ford has spent nearly $2million before taxes just on PR alone for his crummy Ontario place plan. Now he has announced he’s building a mega police playground with a marine and mounted units and a helipad allegedly for them to monitor the highway?!

What Extreme Heat Is Like in U.S. Prisons

Ep 4 of Kindred Transmissions drops this Wed., 8/11! Our host is joined by activist Syrus Marcus Ware to explore the artistic visions of Aiyyana Maracle, a Haudenosaunee scholar & storyteller whose work decolonizes understandings of gender & sexuality. Image courtesy of UVic. #TransHistory #DTA

Meanwhile, the number of grants mentioning the word “women” has declined, while women are hardest hit by NIH grant cancellations. Discrimination against women is as old as time is totally ok, but against men is not. #Pinks pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

RESIST // ENOUGH We made this banner at the @artmuseumuoft today in honour of and response to the brilliant exhibition on now: Hangama Amiri: PARTING/ فراق Curated by Elizabeth Diggon.

My spouse @qimoyocreative.bsky.social singing Don’t Crash Out! incredible Theo! Don’t crash out// you need that job to pay your bills*//don’t crash out….. [*till the revolution]

I am thrilled to announce the unveiling of a new wallwork/ Activist Wallpaer that I created of Mary Ann Shadd Cary for EQ Bank’s new offices on Ontario street at King, just around the corner from this historic location of Shadd’s toronto office, where she ran The Provincial Freeman. 1/

So thankful for the chance to be part of this convo on Sunday! @dykeseries.bsky.social “A beautiful conversation and a powerful statement for future dreamers of liberation - captured from the conversation between Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware and Ottawa Trans Library Co-Chair Joanis Sherry”❤️

m.youtube.com/watch?v=npv6... Thank you to the Ottawa Trans Library and Tea For Tara for the chance to speak together and signing story telling today! @ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social @dykeseries.bsky.social

Thank you to the @mackenzie.art.gallery and to @crystalmowry and Nicolle Nugent and the whole Mackenzie team for hosting me and for all of the care and magic! Thankful to have been able to dream into Black trans worldbuilding in my talk on Thursday evening here at the gallery 1/

Got to hold our book for the first time today! The cover is art by @rahbush7604 and it’s so gorgeous. So thankful! It’s amazing to see these chapters and this book in real life! What a journey it is to make a book- there’s so much behind the scenes. So happy to be launching in Regina this week!

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

hey real quick, someone ask Gavin Newsom about this tia

I was called an N-word lady on video about the BAFTAS that I did w/ Commotion. They’ve deleted the worst comments, but there’s still one up, will deleted soon calling me transphobic slurs, a “thing” and other violence. Likely bots but hateful people too. How sad for them that this is their life.

The biggest story coming out of this year’s # #BAFTA awards wasn’t about a winner, but about the editing of the broadcast itself. There’s been a lot of discussion online about the #BBC’s decision to broadcast the moment

Join visiting artist Syrus Marcus Ware as he shares his artistic and community practice, and explores how creative work can imagine and build more just, inclusive futures. 📆 February 26, 2026 ⏰from 7 - 10 PM 📍 Mackenzie Art Gallery.

With some of my drawings a few years ago❤️ portrait of Addis* and of Yaniya Lee

“Please join the Faculty of Media, Art and Performance (MAP) and the University of Regina Press for a special edition of Art For Lunch at the University of Regina! Featuring artist and author Syrus Marcus Ware, in conversation with David Garneau, they launch their new book,

The final Africa and Black Diaspora Studies (ABLD) Seminar of the 2025–2026 academic year! This session, Neurodiversity, Research Creation, and Access in Academic Spaces, will explore how research creation shapes scholarship and opens new points of access for underrepresented students and scholars.

Happy birthday Audre Lorde!

Got my copy of TOPIA in the mail! I wrote an article about speculative fiction as a tool for radical change and about the possibilities of rooting into ‘hope for a generation’ as Fat Freddy’s Drop sings about.

Watch the brilliant Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware, speaking on abolition. "We can dream bigger, we can get freer. We keep us safe." Thank you. #Toronto #police #corruption #canada #abolition #cdnpoli

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

I have a new chapter in Alex Bulmer and Debbie Patterson’s new book, Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts: Deaf and Disabked Artists Raise the Curtain on Cripping the Stage (Coach House Press, 2026), and an excerpt from the script for MBL Freedom, my 2022 project about the colonization of Antarctica.

“Police banged their shields in unison and advanced, screaming [“move”]. At intervals, they pepper-sprayed the crowd, fired tear gas, and beat demonstrators with their batons at will. […] This cycle of violence continued for nearly 40 minutes.” williamwilsonphotography.substack.com/p/anti-garda...

Write down/draw what you’re dreaming into, in the now…I wanna come alongside your dreaming and jam together as we world build. I’m sure others in your life want this too, they also want to share their dreams. www.instagram.com/reel/DUv0w8V...

Our new collaboration Revolutionary Threads// radical TEXTiles: Audre Lorde, up at Old Town Hall Gallery in Newmarket.

Posting this for history but also posting this for strategy-this is how folks hid and got along the route.

You don’t need a badly “drawn” comic of what an algorithm /ai thinks you do for works and hobbies. You do need water for your grandchildren to not die of thirst. We will need air in Black communities being polluted by the data centres. Plus aren’t you so much more than that?

Picture books are for everyone. This month, I will try to feature some of my favorites each day. #PictureBooksAreForEveryone #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #AbolitionIsLove @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social and Alanna Fricker

We must end the safe third country agreement with the US

It’s been such a joy to collaborate and make this new textile work with Theodore Walker Robinson for an upcoming show, The Promise We Carry, at Old Town Hall Art Gallery in Newmarket.

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

Clear car lanes, unusable bike lanes, two days after the blizzard (Tuesday aft). It’s a ton of snow & will take time sure, but you have mayoral candidate Brad “I sleep with a bat” Bradford trying to say it’s the other way around to gin up rage & culture war stuff.

Why are they sending Slave Catchers and secret police abroad?

Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.

Malcolm X got shot from the first got damn row . I don’t see this as inevitable or inescapable This should be a straight up discussion we have about safety and security if we are ya know actual thinking about people

In case you missed it: a white man threw a bomb at an indigenous Elder on Invasion Day. He has not been charged with terrorism.