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thousandworlds.caStar of the FisherI'm returning to a story I looked at before, How Fisher Joined the Stars. I wanted to use it for a keynote I delivered at the 2026 Critical Perspectives Conference at Brock University so to refresh my...

26 May

I return to the story of Fisher to consider responsibility, collective action, and care. In this version we journey with Fisher and his crew, meeting Red Net and a Giant before confronting the man who took the birds and the village that supported him www.thousandworlds.ca/star-of-the-...

tinyurl.comDonate to Help Motaz & his family survive the war & famine in Gaza, organized by Ahmad AledawiDear Supporters, I would like to provide a clear update on … Ahmad Aledawi needs your support for Help Motaz & his family survive the war & famine in Gaza

2 July

I haven’t received enough support for days😭 Every day is struggle to feed my family💔 The extreme heat has worsened the skin allergies for Mila & me😔 My pregnant wife has gestational diabetes & needs healthy food…but it's scarce & expensive😭 Please🙏🏻Don’t ignore my plea 🔗 tinyurl.com/Yjngk

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Avery Delany

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20 June

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If anyone would like to watch the talk back they have the recorded version of it on YT here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irvk...

youtube.comTalking Fiction and Indigenous Futures with Weyodi OldBear, Lee Francis IV, and Patty KrawecYouTube video by The New York Society Library

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16 June

Join the LPG & author Patty Krawec for our upcoming webinar, Surviving Together! Drawing on Anishinaabe storytelling, Patty will weave decolonial perspectives & a community-rooted lens to question how we survive & care for each other when times are hard. Register at: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

26 June

Not loving Firekeepers Daughter. BTW.

25 June

If U were in my place…U would do more than I’m doing If you lost Ur home, work & future😔 Lived through hunger, displacement & fear😭 U would do more than I’m doing💔 All I’m trying to do is feed my family, protect my pregnant wife & daughter from hunger🙏🏻 PLs🙏🏻Share & Help 🔗 tinyurl.com/Yjngk

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21 June

STOP PLEASE We urgently need your help for food My wife is pregnant & suffering from gestational diabetes & anemia😭 She needs medications, vitamins & a healthy diet that we can’t afford😔 Our little daughter asks for sweets every day💔 PLs🙏🏻Share & Contribute if you can 🔗 tinyurl.com/Yjngk

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gofund.meDonate to Together for Marah & Mila: Surviving the War in Gaza, organized by Mariana Moyano“You are the only hope for a family that has lost everything. You… Mariana Moyano needs your support for Together for Marah & Mila: Surviving the War in Gaza

21 June

Urgent appeal!!!! I have gestational diabetes and anemia😭 My body is very exhausted💔 My face is very pale💔 Please don’t let us go hungry😭 Please help me protect my pregnancy😭 Please help me protect my unborn baby😭 Please any donation even 1 dollar, could be a lifeline🙏 gofund.me/89f3b8fa4

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19 June

Stop Please🚨 I need your help more than ever before🙏🏻 PLs help me feed my family…We desperately need your support To help my pregnant wife receive the urgent medical care she needs My daughter asks for food every day💔 PLs don’t scroll past Share & contribute if you can 🔗 tinyurl.com/Yjngk

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Jonathan Stegall

16 June

I saw @daanis.ca share this 2024 piece recently; it’s very good. “we need to understand that “Indigenous”—always capitalized—is an intrinsically political term, created in response to colonization.” www.lifeisasacredtext.com/indigenous/

lifeisasacredtext.com"Are Jews Indigenous?" A Quechua Jew Weighs InGuest Post from Daniel Delgado

19 June

I loved the way that Clare connects empire, racism, and abolition to our relationship with the environment. It made me rethink the way I talk about native and non native plants. Join us! Going to be a great discussion.

Firestorm Books@firestorm.coop

This Sunday we're hosting "Scapegoat" author Clare Follmann and activist Patty Krawec for a virtual conversation about the the outdated narrative of "invasive species"! Sign up at app.hi.events/event/7245/i... 🌿 @akpress.org @clarefollmann.bsky.social @daanis.ca

13 June

🚨🍉 To everyone who always supports us, I’m eagerly waiting for your help again today🙏 We have been forced to ask for help everyday to provide food for our daughter and to get the medication I need to save my pregnancy😔💔🙏 Please if you care donate or share and leave dot🙏 gofund.me/9e7feae1b

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13 June

I haven’t received enough support for days😭 Every day is a struggle to feed my family💔 The skin allergy has exhausted my daughter, Mila & me😔 My pregnant wife needs special care and nutrition Please🙏🏻Don’t ignore my plea I need at least $50 a day to keep my family safe 🔗 tinyurl.com/Yjngk

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11 June

Meanwhile Gwynocide Paltrow is selling luxury condos. ----- While I was at my lowest point and completely exhausted, I passed by my destroyed home😭 I broke down in tears because I lost everything I owned in a single moment😭 gofund.me/bc5c168b3

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8 June

Watching Clarice and this decision to turn Clarice and Catherine into broken toys is annoying. But not nearly as annoying as Krendler's glow up into Clarice's Good Father Figure.

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8 June

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I swear I don’t have enough money to provide food, medicine & basic necessities for my family😭 Food is still very expensive & hard to obtain💔 My wife is pregnant & needs constant care & proper nutrition… My daughter is always asking for treats PLs🙏🏻help in any way U can 🔗 tinyurl.com/Yjngk

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commonnotions.orgEverything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 — Common Notions PressHere is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of l...

I just finished this book and I'm already sad. What a wonderful vision of how our worlds could be. www.commonnotions.org/buy/everythi...

Sitting at an event at a local arts organization for people with lived experience of addictions and mental health thinking that more people need to know about this, the world needs more of this and it dawned on me what's wrong with Christianity Hell and the great commission. Both of which came late

And somehow this is colliding with a conversion my kid and I had about the TV show From and how completely predictable the characters are no matter what happens.

So I'll be writing a blog post about that, and why we seem to need monsters.

Maybe in response they tell me about something that works for them. No coercion. Just people finding and building communities that they can fit into and that make sense to them. But also leaving room for other people to fit into things that make sense to them.

In a podcast interview with a church a couple of years ago the pastor asked me what Christians should do differently and I said they should stop proselytizing so this isn't a completely new thought. I just saw it differently, that's all.

Neither of those things are in the text itself, the great commission is thought by many scholars to be an add in and hell came much later, it's read backwards into things that now seem clear and obvious but only because we've been told what that's what it means. Much like the rapture.

Before that it was a way to relate to the world around us, material and spiritual. If you find something that works for you, like that arts organization, you want other people to know about it. But I'm not threatening anyone with punishment if it's not for them. I'm not saying we can't be friends

2 June

I was diagnosed today with gestational diabetes😭 I'm struggling to take care of my baby’s health under very difficult conditions and lack of food and medical care😩 I urgently need proper food and medical care, but it’s very expensive💔 Please share and help in any way🙏😭 gofund.me/7d86002ca

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28 May

Insisting you can separate the art from the artist is a move to innocence. It tells me you want to read the book without reckoning with how their racist transphobic beliefs are woven into the story You can't perform an exorcism on the things we write. You can't amputate us from our body of work

28 May

I'm not saying you have to clear your shelves of all problematic people because this isn't about purity. We're all problematic, we are all works in progress. But as readers you also make choices, you draw lines. Where and why you draw those lines is worth thinking about.

28 May

Citation is relationship (Ahmed) and literature is equipment for living (Burke). So it's worth considering who you are in relationship with, and the equipment you are using to build your life.

oday is the first day of Eid… Please… I only want my daughter to be happy during these days and to feel the joy of Eid like any children💔🙏 I want to take her out to play, eat, and buy sweets🙏 Every contribution, could be the reason my daughter smiles and feels happy🙏 gofund.me/947f450a9

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Harsha Walia

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bostonreview.netHow Not to Abolish ICEWhat have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

I'm reading David S Mura's A Stranger's Journey and in his section about racialized students in predominantly white MFA programs he talks about Standard Western English being the common language of writing, as opposed to Standard Black English. It's an interesting discussion.

Mura begins his discussion of this by describing a teacher who tells his students that SWE is necessary and Black students be more successful if they do this, like MLK and Toni Morrison etc. He complained about the students saying he was racist, but he never asked why, or what he might be missing.

If you're interested in writing as a craft, the Mura book is excellent by the way. And if you have other books on writing as craft from the POV of racialized or marginalized writers you can drop them here because I'm always interested.

He was using ChatGPT to translate his paper into SWE. So his work, his research and then run it through a translator to ensure that the professor would be able to understand what he was saying. He was writing in English my friends. Not a foreign language, but it might as well be.

I hadn't thought about that, I mean I had thought about the ways in which we all code switch. The ways in which we shift our voice depending on the audience and the ways in which that shift is punished or rewarded. But I hadn't thought about ChatGPT being used this way and the consequences of that

I mentioned this to a professor friend (not MFA) and she talked about a student from Ghana in one of her classes. She suspected that his papers were being done by ChatGPT so she brought him in to talk about it. Yes, he admitted that they were. But not how you might think.

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Jewish Voice for Peace

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BDS VICTORY! Last night, the Park Slope Food Coop ratified a boycott of all Israeli goods, passing the vote with a wide margin of 2 to 1 at a meeting that saw record-breaking turnout. Congratulations to the years of organizing by members which made this historic win possible!

I heard somebody say that we are separated from the land through layers of concrete and whatnot. We really aren't. Our computers, the machinery of the internet, the roads we drive on, the plaster and brick of our homes, all of it comes from the land.

We are surrounded by ancestors all the time .. tho I don't know how well they have survived being processed and reshaped. Maybe we're surrounded by bones. That's a haunting thought.

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ashley fairbanks

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insane to me that @patagonia.com is suing incredibly impactful drag queen and climate activist Pattie Gonia for “harming their brand” is Patagonia not a brand for the LGBTQ+ community or for climate activists? because you’ve spent a lot of time pretending to be both.

I often feel inadquate to this moment. More than that, I feel that what I am *doing* is inadequate to this moment. In this blog I talk about participating in direct actions, but it isn't something I do often. We need more direct actions, bigger actions, more disruption, bigger disruptions.

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I'm pausing the reflections on traditional Ojibwe stories for a few months, like many of us I have a lot of traveling in the summer so I'll be writing more about what I'm reading or doing .. tho I'm sure references to these stories will persist. They are becoming part of me.

I think it's ok to feel inadequate at times, just like I think it's ok to feel guilty at times. It may be warranted. But these things should move us towards action or a better understanding of what we're doing (or not doing). Don't wallow in these feelings, let them radicalize you ;)

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Bookclubs and reading groups and libraries and bookstores and all the places that make reading a collective effort. That is what I am on about in Bad Indians Book Club. To read collectively and allow the conversations between us to shape us and change us and move us towards something other.

Reading collectively turns us all into storytellers as we take the story from our heads and move it into conversation which means that what and who we read matters. I don't mean fiction vs nonfiction, some of my greatest learning has come from fiction, from poetry that gives shape to feelings.

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So I struggle with that, and a group of us are building a collective to lay the foundations so that we can have the knowledge and relationships that form the foundation needed for actions that carry risk. Today a friend reminded me how important our stories are, keeping them alive and present.

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Because for the Anishinaabe, and many others, our stories are alive. They are sentient beings with spirit and work to do but they can't do their work without storytellers. Books are wonderful, I love books, but they are also isolating aren't they? We write alone, we read alone. Bookclubs matter.

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26 May

Two more episodes of Movement Memos before I take some time off. The next one is a convo with John Washington about his new book, How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention. That airs this week!