Avi's father just passed, days after Avi won NDP leadership. In his speech, Avi said his dad had told him, of his dreams of a better world, "not in my lifetime, maybe in yours." Incredible Stephen Lewis lived just long enough to see Avi take that first step in refusing to say that to his own kid:

Former Ontario NDP Leader Stephen Lewis, who spent decades fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the UN and through his own foundation, has died. He died Tuesday, just days after his son, Avi, was elected leader of the federal NDP. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

hey, as a reminder: @religiondispatches.org is deeply committed to platforming minoritized writers trans siblings, this includes you!! if you're an expert in religion (through training and/or professional/lived experience) and want to get paid to write about it, hmu

Student made the mistake of telling me their sister’s name & I’m like Wow, ‘Nusaiba!’ that means uh [computes N-S-B root + fem. diminutive pattern] ‘little bit of good fortune’ right? What a name! It goes back to pre-Islamic— Student 💭 *o god I just wanted to know my grade so far*

Pakistan 👏🏼 Egypt 👏🏼 Saudirabia 👏🏼 Türkiye 👏🏼 PEST Alliance is here *kazoo music* www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Avi Lewis just won the NDP leadership, and the worst people on the internet are having an absolute meltdown. I think that might be a good sign — because there are very specific, exciting reasons why he pisses them off. Let me tell you all about them:

There's never been a guy I've loved more.

Avi Lewis seems nice & socialist, but what's important right now is simply to have *any* left opposition in Canada that will stand up to neoliberals like Carney & Poilievre.

Prof. Ahmet Karamustafa's dissertation is in our Islamic Studies Library and it is massive. Come and hear this amazing pair of scholars if you're in Montreal on the 31st.

Life. Life in its fulfillment, life in its unfinishedness, plays host to star-neighbours without time and cloud-wanderers without place.

I have been gael-pilled. Buying plane tickets to Ireland where I’ll gaelmaxxxx

Ami•e•s et collègues au Québec—je serai à l'Université Laval ce jeudi pour un magnifique lancement du livre "Sortir du placard, entrer en Europe: La fabrique des réfugiés LGBTI en Belgique, en France et au Royaume-Uni." 🎉 📖 Inscription/info : eriqa.org/evenement/la...

I love a rainbow I love a rainbow I love a rainbow o o o oooo

I made a weird sound.

Jamal Elias posted this image of another beautiful book he’s published. I don’t have it yet, but I am inside it thanks to him. I wrote something about Punjabi Braj Arabic Persian Urdu literature. Very nice to be inside such books. @drkeegan.bsky.social is also inside. Free us

C’est un scandale sans nom. Le gouvernement Canadien empêche Rima Hassan députée européenne de venir au Canada pour donner des conférences, dans une décision gravissime qui piétine les libertés les plus élémentaires et jette une ombre inquiétante sur l’état du débat démocratique.

Dhoom is wearing a crop top vest for both medical and handsomeness reasons

we’re napping

phoning and phoning papa but

The FBI confirmed hackers targeted the personal emails of Director Kash Patel. This is hours after an Iranian government-linked hacking group posted documents and images online, claiming to have stolen them from Patel.

I don't think folks outside of Quebec understand what a disaster #Loi21 is for minorities here. It is a ploy by ethnonationalist political parties to create vote banks for themselves by othering & excluding brown people. This is not "secularism."

Salaam. I have a website now: pashamkhan.com . I coded it by hand (with Eleventy), so you'd better like it. The 8th square will be for my page on Lord Rasgulla 😤✨

Hey, librarian here. If you find out a favorite author is a monster, don't separate the art from the author just give it the fuck up and stop supporting the monster.

that’s right, go drown your opinions in The Atlantic 🎵I will go down with this shi

Once again dying on the hill that all bad things are bad even when some bad things are worse than other bad things.

I spoke to BBC Hindi about #Dhurandhar & propaganda: “यह उन्हें एक ऐसी काल्पनिक दुनिया में ले जाता है जहां उनके पास दुश्मन पर पूर्ण और निरंकुश अधिकार होता है. वैसे भी, पिछले कई वर्षों से भारत में 'पाकिस्तान' शब्द 'इस्लामोफोबिया' का एक पर्याय बन चुका है.” www.bbc.com/hindi/articl...

Boycott that monster bitch. I was a kid who clamored for the latest book and read it in one sitting. I won’t watch anything having to do with her. Or read anything she writes. Trans lives matter.

If you can convince enough people that the Other is a criminal, you've won.

Iblis ears upon hearing the garbage truck monster

Seriously. I spoke to a student from Isfahan today, & I could barely muster a word of comfort or express an insincere hope. The Iranian people will suffer come what may, and nations like Canada are making it harder for them to take refuge here.

become so hot that the maga right investigates whether you are trans

Man of war and man of care, kitty fierce and kitty fair

is it because he wears enough eyeliner to play a persian king in a very bad movie

Hot Girls Support the Insolvent Government of the Umited States. Everything They Do Is for the Greater Good. Account Based in Tel Aviv fortune.com/2026/03/23/u...

he wants occurrences to please stop occurring

“This isn’t what ICE is trained to do”says Chuck. They should be out *checks notes* brutalizing immigrants! Dear lord the more fascist this gets the further back the veil slips.

From Iran to India, two feminist scholars—Ania Loomba and Faranak Miraftab—reckon with empire. A 🧵

til that proto-indo-european-speakers who make snide remarks are called cnidarians.

right, because canvas isn’t already a glitch-filled, hypersensitive LLM prone to wreck your whole grade book if you don’t toggle this one setting under four *other* settings menus.

Beepa boopa.

Why the humanities matter! Also, LOL www.theguardian.com/business/202...

hindi-urdu students very talented

"The United States is purchasing, with Chinese currency, oil from the country it is currently bombing?! The same oil that funds the missiles that just shot down an F-35 for the first time. The same missiles that are redecorating allied oil infrastructure."

What is the role of the media in the age of AI slop, deepfakes, assassinations of journalists, & apocalypse? Saman Malik, @sanasaeed.bsky.social, & Kareem Shaheen will discuss at our roundtable on 4/9 5pm at the Institute of Islamic Studies McGill. 🧿

Aside from the obvious Iran and Israel, MAGA voters also have a say on when the war ends. Very surprised this had been so little discussed. www.thetimes.com/article/bd41...

I’m a long-time volunteer with Bay Area Solidarity Summer, a 5-day training project for emerging South Asian American activists, ages 18-23. Our alumni have called it life changing. Know someone in that age range, anywhere in the U.S.? Please boost to amplify! www.SolidaritySummer.org

when a student did Nazi shit at me in class on purpose after he found my “profile” on TPUSA’s watchlist uni counsel told me I needed two salutes to constitute harassment at my job Nazi shit is already protected by the first amendment why do you think they want more protections

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre just found a way to alienate even more potential female voters: he went on Joe Rogan. The sweeping two and a half hour conversation covered everything from kettle bells to seed oils. I know, because I watched the whole thing. Now you don’t have to: