Prof & Performance Artist; way gay; co-director @DRECollab #CabaretCommons - femme she/they; white, settler; cis; 1st Gen university; ADHD

Joined June 2011
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I support the People’s Circle for Palestine at the University of Toronto. #Disclose #Divest #CutTies #CeasefireNow 🇵🇸 uoftdivest.ca
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OUT NOW! Just in time for what no doubt needs lots of it: "Heavy Processing" by @AgingSuperModel @raultishness, investigating the multi-directional genealogies and vast affinities of "lesbian processing." punctumbooks.com/titles/heav…#OpenAccess #OABooks
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Starting tomorrow.
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It’s #ReadPalestine Week! 🇵🇸📚
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HAPPENING NOW🚨 On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, thousands gather to say NO BUSINESS AS USUAL DURING GENOCIDE!
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Every November 29th since 1978, the world has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Here are some of the earliest visual expressions of support from around the world for Palestinians’ struggle for freedom and self-determination. (thread)
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YAY! Book birthday for our Heavy Processing (with @AgingSuperModel). You can download for free or get a hard copy to be able to hold this gorgeous amazing cover by Jess Mac (@JessMacAI) in your hot little hands! Also, FREE PALESTINE. punctumbooks.com/titles/heav…
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Here for all your processing … with @raultishness
OUT NOW! Just in time for what no doubt needs lots of it: "Heavy Processing" by @AgingSuperModel @raultishness, investigating the multi-directional genealogies and vast affinities of "lesbian processing." punctumbooks.com/titles/heav… #OpenAccess #OABooks
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Michael Phelps is literally referred to as a freak of nature because of his disproportionate wingspan, double jointed ankles, lung capacity twice that of an average human, body that produces half the lactic acid of a typical athlete, and he is rightly celebrated for being the greatest male swimmer in history. Meanwhile, female athletes with genetic differences are legally discriminated against and harassed to no end. This is not about “protecting women in sports” - this is about protecting a very specific idea of what a woman is.
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Steven Van de Velde, a Dutch volleyball player who raped a 12 yr old girl in 2014, is competing at the Olympics. Israel, who have violated the Olympic Truce in continuing to bomb Gaza where thousands of women and girls have been killed, is competing at the Olympics. Yet the outrage is being spewed at cis female athletes who have naturally higher levels of T. It has never been about protecting women!!!!!
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Not a single focus has even remotely close to talking about Gaza and the way that sport has been decimated there. What about Palestinian women?
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And y'all go after a Brown Algerian woman bc she (fairly) beat a European opponent? I expect this after Caster Semenya. But the fact that the two being attacked are racialized, y'all just be telling on yourselves.
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Women in sport see you. Intersex women. Hijab-wearing women. Trans women. Women who have survived genocide, and abuse. Marginalized women. Don't pretend to care about women when what you say really means: "Let's protect white and feminine types of women and sport".
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During a tragically violent week in #Gaza, a sliver of good news: Univ of Winsdor students persevered against the odds to achieve a groundbreaking #BDS agreement at their university! @FacultyJewish @PalestineUofT @shiripasternak @IndJewishVoices @AyyashMohannad @fac4pal
#FreePalestine #BDS news! Palestine Liberation Zone students who have encamped @UWindsor for the past 60 days have reached an agreement to Boycott & Divest from Israel & condemn its occupation of Palestine & the Gaza scholasticide. Agreement here drive.google.com/file/d/1y9L…
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Masters student @sararasikh from @occupyuoft says students will continue to fight and demand divestment from @UofT Students held a press conference today following a court order authorizing Toronto police to dismantle the encampment. 👉Deadline is July 3 at 6pm
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Thanks @DesmondCole for live streaming and recording this important and powerful media conference! Just like @PrideToronto the University of Toronto refuses to recognize its complicity with Israeli apartheid and genocide. The struggle continues!
LIVE: @occupyuoft students speak following a court injunction being granted against the camp x.com/i/broadcasts/1mrGmyPBa…
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As I watched the peaceful student protesters @occupyuoft carefully removing & preserving the artwork and information posted on the fence that @UofT erected to barricade a commons space from common use, I was reminded of importance of protest archives …
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And how in the coming years the archives of @occupyuoft, the legal archives of the injunction ruling, and even @UofT’s own archives will be evidence of this university’s complicity in genocide, suppression of dissent, and violation of human rights in favour of property rights.
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As the brave students said in the @occupyuoft press conference yesterday, the protest does not stop until their demands are met. #Disclose #Divest #CutTies #CeasefireNow #NoPrideInGenocide 🫒🍉🇵🇸
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The court has ordered that the U of T encampment for 🇵🇸 be dismantled by 6 PM tomorrow. I had hoped that, in weighing harm, the complicity in genocide would have been considered more significant than students using a section of greenery as a protest tactic against said complicity
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