I have some work in the online auction to support student and professional programming at the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts Audain Gallery. You can bid on it (and other things), or buy this elegant set of pinback buttons. www.sfu.ca/sca/events--...

A reminder that Transit Police called CBSA to detain Lucia Vega Jimenez for an unpaid transit fare. Lucia killed herself rather than face the prospect of being sent back to Mexico where her violent partner would torture and murder her.

This pay-what-you-can edition of the Economy Of Genocide report released this week by Francesca Albanese will be available at this weekend's Vancouver Art Book Fair. While they last, one per person please. @vancouverartbookfair.com

This weekend, see us at the @vancouverartbookfair.com with new books including a pay-what-you-can edition of the Economy of Genocide report, poetry from a local DIY reading series, fragments of a novel by teenage Marx, weird thoughts of a random rich person, Michael Hardt on love, & other things.

📅 Take a look at the Saturday programming at Vancouver Art Book Fair 2025! Swipe through to see the full lineup, and head to our website for artist bios, program details, and more: www.vancouverartbookfair.com

Poland experts release clinical guidance on trans youth healthcare. They define the Cass Review as of "low scientific value and credibility". journals.viamedica.pl/endokrynolog...

My relationship with state communism as a predominant anarchist is a lot like my relationship with womanhood - I don't per se primarily define myself as such, but I wind up being screamed at by the most dreadful people on earth over both, so you eventually do the math on whose side you're on.

To clarify: the U.S. has *never* really been a part of the democratic world. It has always sought to overthrow elected governments to create puppet states. (See: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...) We ought to remember the present as a mask-off moment — and plan for the future accordingly.

Holy shit yes I need this. That sample is constantly running thru my head

“Fire Island’s LGBTQ Heritage” archived on the wayback machine. This entire page was deleted today from NPS.gov web.archive.org/web/20240706...

I will be facilitating a strategy session as part of this day-long teach-in around SFU's closing of VOCE, which has engaged with local and international communities in a really valuable and effective way www.sfu.ca/sca/events--...

Looking at the bright side: no corporations or cops at Pride this year

Pure evil.

The screening of Born in Flames tonight is the last VOCE event unless the university changes its mind. Background, and a letter for signing: supportforvoce.wordpress.com

For those who can't make it to the screening, you can still support Vancity Office of Community Engagement by signing a letter of support, here: supportforvoce.wordpress.com

Join us this week at PUSH Festival and Vancity Office for Community Engagement's screening of Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames. Director in attendance! pushfestival.ca/shows/born-i...

💔 Marianne Faithfull, 1946-2025

Hey artist-publishers, galleries, and everyone: #vancouverartbookfair will be returning to the Roundhouse this July!

@theguardian.com removed these passages from a column judith butler wrote after the ‘gender critical’ hacks who write for them kicked up a fuss. now they’re all running around praising trump.

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

A lot of people DO need to hear this.

Many have been struggling with hopelessness these last few years—and even more since the election. Too often I’ve asked myself how we should live in a world that can never be repaired. If that’s also you, I hope that you will find this essay on palliative activism helpful.

The story of my 3-year nightmare as a trans woman at a New York Times-owned company (CW: suicide, suicidal ideation, anti-trans hate): www.carlyjdubois.com/new-york-tim...

Peanuts is woke.

He’s right. Being anti-genocide is a good thing.

They promise us interstellar travel but deliver scams, security breaches, and a huge helping of boring us all with their stupid ideas. gizmodo.com/bitcoin-atm-...

Friends in BC, please join me in supporting Options for Sexual Health by writing to your MLA. Pro-choice and inclusive health, education, and counseling services are at risk win.newmode.net/optionsforse...

Alberta just admitted that it's willing to bypass 🇨🇦 constitutional protections re: the right "to life, liberty and security of the person" and "not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment" in order to uphold a GAC ban. This is bad. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb... 1/🧵

"what do we do about alienated young men?" i dunno, what do we do about anybody? let them flounder in shit work until they get disabled and die? we don't do anything for anyone. maybe the problem is the same problem that's driven all of us off a cliff and alienated young men are actually just humans

I refuse to accept it where marginalized people are denied the right to socialize and be online cause of shitty people. It is lazy thinking and disregarding if the solution for trans users is to not be on social media just to avoid Jesse Singal. And Bluesky knows better.

If you want a weekly list of amazing stuff in dance, film, music, theatre, visual art, and theory mainly in Vancouver, you should follow @scasfu.bsky.social

Please vet your blocklist creators before you implement a mute-list or blocklist. MAGA, foreign troll farms and other bad actors are working day and night to silence our voices.

CTV Vancouver acting like Rebel News. 🤦‍♂️ Disappointed to see this attack on a colleague and on academic freedom.

We're still making books! In the past few months, we made chapbooks featuring filmmaker Lizzie Borden and philosopher Michael Hardt, and this zine by Clio Lake bookmachine.ca/publishing/c... All available at bookmachine.ca

I've spoken to many people who point out that things were bad when we grew up, homophobia and transphobia were endemic, and we survived. What people need to remember is how many of us didn't, and that this is a generation that has seen a better world already— one being taken from them violently.

The denial card is played out. The whole "we're playing nice" #CarbonCapture canard is fizzling out. The other iron #BigOil has in the fire is the actual subversion & outright destruction of democracy. They'll have to be stopped & made an example of www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

I'm at the vancouver art book fair today, selling the many books these large hands have made. New ones include the Lizzie Borden interview and Clio Lake's my hate is pure. More info at bookmachine.ca

And here's one I produced with @psvancouver.bsky.social in 2022: Strip Club Book for Leah Jolie by Oliver Coran (2nd edition) (Publication Studio) bookmachine.ca/publishing/o...

today is primidi 11 Floréal in the year of the Republic CCXXXII, celebrating rhubarb

Her name is Susanna Rustin and she’s not a friend. Spread this far and wide

Piss them off! Read and share the paper!

Piss off Peter Bogus-ian by sharing my paper! 💖 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

HERE WE FREAKING GO AGAIN I’m stuck in the Richmond VA Airport, where I have flown for the @NWBA’s National Championships WITHOUT EITHER OF THE WHEELCHAIRS I BOARDED WITH IN LOS ANGELES @AmericanAir how did you lose ALL my mobility for the weekend????? #FlyingWhileDisabled

I (somewhat imprecisely) keep thinking that the whole AI obsession seems to be driven by tech bros feeling like art/culture/literature is one more girl who won’t fuck them

Poilievre got the coveted Alex Jones endorsement this week

I can not emphasize this enough (to folkx that don’t listen to the podcast) we 👏🏾 need 👏🏾 allies 👏🏾 to 👏🏾 run 👏🏾 for 👏🏾 school 👏🏾 trustees. Sign: Stop Discriminatory Steinbach/Hanover School Board Members www.change.org/p/stop-discr...