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The Ball is an online exhibition that explores how the myth of the overtly sexual and desperately self-loathing mixed Black woman has been crafted by some of the most atrocious sides of American science and history. You can visit it at takemetotheball.com until April 13th!
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Crawling out from my inaction on this app to say that I’d love if you came to the Zoom launch event for my virtual exhibition THE BALL on Feb 13th at 5:30! There will be readings by @desmckenz and @shellymgrace ! Link to register is here: eventbrite.com/e/the-ball-vi…
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Em Dial retweeted
25 Oct 2022
#Montreal Sat Oct 29/7PM #JoinUs PEN Canada, The Atwater Poetry Project & @OfficialQWF celebrate an evening of creative writing by some of Canada's most original new voices, w @derajagopalan @isabellawangbc @FarehMalikPoet @em__dial facebook.com/events/58456768…
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Em Dial retweeted
25 Oct 2022
#Toronto Thurs Oct 27th at 7PM Join PEN Canada and @AnotherStoryTO as we celebrate RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award winners @FarehMalikPoet (2022), @derajagopalan (2021) & @em__dial (2020) live-reading with special guest writer @isabellawangbc #JoinUs anotherstory.ca/events/20207
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Em Dial retweeted
18 Apr 2022
We’re excited to share that in tomorrow’s video, Em Dial (@em__dial) will be returning to read “Meditations in an Emergency” by @cawkward_rich. Keep an eye out for it!
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Em Dial retweeted
Mysterious Deaths in Custody: On Feb 23, 2022 we were made aware of reports of deaths happening at Maplehurst CC - 4 people have died in the past 3 weeks & over 11 people have died in the past 4 months.
Read the full statement & sign the email zap: torontoprisonersrightsprojec…
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Em Dial retweeted
1 Mar 2022
As part of our Poetry Coalition programming, we’ll host Poetics of Disability Justice with @em_dial and Laurel Chen on 3/12!
This free workshop will include ASL interpretation and live captioning services. There is limited enrollment.
More info here:
kundiman.org/disability-poet…
ALT Graphic with pastel pink, blue, purple border features circular headshots of Em Dial and Laurel Chen, the workshop instructors. Graphic text reads: Poetics of Disability Justice, a free virtual workshop featuring Em Dial and Laurel Chen. Open to all writers of color with priority for Disabled, mad, crip, sick, and/or ill folks. With ASL Interpretation from Pro Bono ASL and Live Captioning from SignNexus. Limited Enrollment. Saturday, March 12th, 2:00–3:30 PM ET. Features logos from the Poetry Coalition and Kundiman. Funder language in the bottom left reads: This program was made posible in part with funds from the Academy of American Poets provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Workshop link: kundiman.org/disability-poetics.
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Em Dial retweeted
20 Jan 2022
We are again filled with grief and rage.
Another migrant farmworker has died.
He tested positive, was placed in quarantine, and "found unresponsive". He came here to grow your tomatoes.
Was he checked up on? Did he get to say goodbye? We don't know.
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Em Dial retweeted
10 Jan 2022
Set aside a few minutes of your morning tomorrow to hear a poem! Em Dial (@em__dial) will be reading their poem "Narwhal Talk.”
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If you've been unable to attend in-person actions due to disability, illness, etc. - Toronto Palestine Film Festival has an Ongoing Nakba resource page with a lot of virtual actions for people in so-called Canada tpff.ca/resources/ongoing-na…
17 May 2021
MAY 18TH IS A DAY OF ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINE UPRISING & GENERAL STRIKE: A thread of actions taking place tomorrow across different cities! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Em Dial retweeted
19 May 2021
A resident was beaten by @TorontoPolice for defending the Lamport Encampment has been taken to 14 Division. Come down and join us in calling for their release!!
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19 May 2021
“I stopped eating so that I could afford to open the shop.”
The owner of Gaza’s largest bookstore, Shaban Aslim, stands in front of the rubble of his bookstore which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.
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Em Dial retweeted
13 May 2021
Our intergenerational reading is just one week away! 🌈🎙️✨ Here are some of our fabulous readers: @natashatansey7, @em__dial, and @mkchavez!
Register here and check out this thread to learn more about our readers! Hope to see you on 05/20 at @6PM PT!
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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day before Chauvin was convicted. all because someone called 911 for him drinking in a park. Abolish Alameda police, absolutely, AND that abolition needs to extend into our interactions with one another #WeKeepUsSafe #JusticeForMarioG
A man in Alameda, CA died after police pinned him down for 5 min — with a knee to his neck, bodycam shows. Police claim he had a "medical emergency."
#MarioGonzalez was 26.
Family say police killed him "in the same manner they killed George Floyd." Officers are on paid leave.
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Em Dial retweeted
27 Apr 2021
Just receiving word that two #farmworkers have died in two separate workplaces #Ontario
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Em Dial retweeted
21 Apr 2021
“Still I lust, the way a pond lusts for a ripple, the way still lusts for a disturbance”
@em__dial reading for @treeseries
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come thru :)
20 Apr 2021
Tree Reading happens tonight. There is still time to register for the event, and thus, to experience the dynamic poetry of our featured readers Sanna Wani and Em Dial.
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/10tQ…
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