"the inconceivable decibels of all the things we've lived before" Dionne Brand, "prologue for now-Gaza"

Finally got my hot little hands on "Reconsidering Reparations" by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, which explicitly links the transatlantic slave trade and colonization of the Americas to a wider global framework AND thinks about reparations in the context of worldbuilding. 1/8

“Something has to be done about the way in which this world is set up.” June Jordan

Time to prepare, beloveds. If you are considering stocking up, remember that these pills do expire eventually, and *do not* discuss your actions online or via unencrypted communication. Take no shit, and leave no trace. www.plancpills.org

They put up a billboard on Hwy 2 and it's beautiful. #abpoli #abortionrights #healthcare #choice abforabortion.ca

Take a look up into the skies

“It has been more than 30 hours since I last ate. At times, I go as long as two days without food” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Personal space no longer existed." "The tents were so tightly packed into the Yarmouk stadium [..] that I heard every sound as if there were no barrier at all." "I am just a woman who wants to close a door behind her and a space to be alone to cry in." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Housing #Genocide

"Files documenting the worst abuses at residential schools are set to be destroyed in 2027 and [..] some survivors say they didn't know they could opt to have their files preserved." "[T]o destroy them is to destroy the truth of what really happened." #Canada #Incarceration #Genocide

Seventeen Jordan's Principle staff workers of the Cree Nation Tribal Health Centre have been laid off this week after the executive director says Indigenous Services Canada Jordan's Principle funding for tribal councils who serve off-reserve clients.

DOJ "website has removed at least two key reports about violence against Indigenous people." "A widely cited 2016 study [..] showing that Native American women were more likely than White women to experience a slew of different types of violence is no longer accessible." #USA #Policing

the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...

92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents. Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.

I wasn't able to attend the local MMIW/MMIR event today but I want to take a second to honor the Indigenous trans women who have been murdered or gone missing, as well as other Two-Spirit relatives, who are too often left out of our memorials. Savannah Ryan Williams, Aubrey Dameron, Nex Benedict...

"You need the ocean for this: to stop believing in reality. To ask yourself impossible questions. To not know. To cease knowing. To become intoxicated by the smell. To close your eyes. To stop believing in reality." - Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest

Switching things up a little over at my Substack, specifically the paid tier, and half of all proceeds are going to Gaza Funds. Also LOOPER fan art! For the full text, see the post here open.substack.com/pub/danieljo... Thank you everyone!

To put this power back in people's hands, I've written a full freedom of information request that you can fill out, sign and submit for free to Calgary Police. [Other cities should do the same.] The file and instructions are at the bottom of the story: 11/ drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...

@desmondcole.bsky.social told the authors of a 2020 report: "One of the most important features of surveillance is the way in which it alters our behaviour... It alters our mind, literally. It forces us to consider that we are being watched... to self-regulate." citizenlab.ca/wp-content/u... 10/

THREAD: How Calgary police is monitoring social media of citizens. Yesterday, Calgary's police chief surprise-announced he is resigning. This coincided with my story showing social media surveillance by his office that runs counter to rulings & CPS policy. 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...

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The judges of the annual prize for female and nonbinary writers praised Lubrin's debut short story collection, Code Noir, for breaking "new ground in short fiction."

Much love for Filipinx comrades and community impacted by horrific violence during Lapu-Lapu Day celebrations. For ppl seeking support such as meal train or counseling, you can access resources thru Filipinx-led mutual aid network coming together. Share widely: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Legal forms of resistance and litigation strategies aren't the only ways to fight. Thinking so misrepresents the past and weakens the present. It also reveals a strong naivete about the supposed objectivity of oppressive laws. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/04/29/t...

As an anthropologist, if the only thing I ever did all day was remind people that before the privatization and commodification of land humans had way more free time and peace of mind, it would still not do a dent in how deep this myth has burrowed into people's colonized minds like a parasite

We are proud to introduce our next Workshop4Sudan w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore on May 5 at 12 pm (EDT). This wkshp will among other things allow 4 reflections on what internationalism frm below might look like, given abolition requires it + how we apply it to diff. contexts. chuffed.org/project/work...

Poilievre's actual announcement today: he'd amend the Criminal Code to give police power to charge people for living in a homeless encampment or a tent city He said these are places where "half-dead, contorted bodies lie on the ground on the verge of overdose from fentanyl" Compassionate!! /s

Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement is state violence. “Canadian border guards sent the family back to the US where they entered a shadowy limbo — jailed in holding cells at the U.S. port of entry in Niagara Falls, NY without a breath of outside air for nearly two weeks” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is across party lines in Canada as well, with David Eby & Danielle Smith leading the charge.

BREAKING: Polls have yet to officially open but Walking Eagle News is projecting that a white male will be the next Prime Minister of Canada

Art is the only defense we have against the industrial nature of the State on our bodies. - Wayne Kramer of the MC5 #photography #music

“We are on the front line of environmental harm caused by government decisions made without us.” Xatśūll First Nation challenges B.C.’s decision to approve the dam raising at Mount Polley mine, which had a catastrophic dam failure in 2014. New by @sevawood.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/xatsull-firs...

Pierre Poilievre rally in Saskatoon. A participant gets kicked out from merely wearing a trans T-shirt without ever disturbing anyone. My son is friends with them. This is what they will do if they get into power. m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

We are excited to announce our second workshop4sudan on Transformative Justice with the amazing artist, organizer, writer and educator Rania Al Muggamar @raniawrites.bsky.social on April 2nd at 6:30 pm (EDT) Via Zoom. Sign up today!!! sudansolidarity.com/workshops4su...

A lot of the work of justice is routine, ordinary & sometimes mundane. Care work is one of the most radical liberatory pursuits. Feminized labor is the backbone of all liberation struggles.

Liberation also includes people you don't like. Like, I wanna be so free that you can be cared for and far away from me.

A leaked report shows that Vancouver's mayor wants to make Vancouver a 'sunset community' where Native people aren't welcome. He has a plan to deport Indigenous residents of the city to their "home communities". www.bcafn.ca/news/regiona...

Yes the return of Buffalo makes me happy but so does the return home of Swift Foxes to the southern grasslands of Saskatchewan and Alberta. 📷 Nature Conservancy of Canada

180 overdoses in 10 days. Prairie Harm Reduction needs support now more than ever.

I’ve been struggling to formulate anything that feels sufficient in response to what’s happening in Saskatoon. In our beautiful homeland, our beautiful hood. It is a massacre. Lend your strength to Prairie Harm Reduction & folks on the frontlines. Take care of each other.

please help out Prairie Harm Reduction if you can (plus best harm reduction merch in Canada) prairiehr.ca

This might be a good time to introduce everyone to the concept of "the imperial boomerang".

Indigenous people urged to get racially profiled at Canadian-owned businesses

at least we still have reconciliation

when i started writing echolalia echolalia several years ago, i had no idea there would be a beautiful orange snake on the cover just in time for the year of the yin wood snake, surrounded by lush green in the form of Jia Sung's "snake eater" (2021). i'm very grateful for the gift of poetry.

"I remember all the people who have passed on, who fought so that we could be here. It is because of the people of #GrassyNarrows who travelled to Toronto to walk and who never gave up that we have accomplished this.We still have so much to do before we have mercury justice" - Judy Da Silva

Supportive academics & community members! Please sign this Google Docs letter b4 March 10. Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.