The Trans Debate Do trans people exist Yes Do people who exist deserve human rights Do you believe there are exceptions to the humans for which human rights apply If no - end of discussion If yes - you have identified the problem And it's not trans people @lucassjoness
Sadly still revlevant
“The choice before every government is clear: complicity or compliance."
Read more from yesterday's emergency meeting of The Hague Group in The National.
yeah, basically this
Manitoba writers! Please send some poems to @ariel-gordon.bsky.social and me by March 30th to be considered for this year's Writes of Spring. Theme and submission information: airtable.com/appKEfb7GFV6...
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry4Ever
Carney: Canada supports the United States…
Canada: no, we fucking do not.
“The Limits of Whitness” is a poem from Rebellion Box, my second book and debut collection of poetry, published in 2023 by Radiant Press.
1/3
Carney could've just fucking said this
Josephine is being banned by the Calgary Catholic School Board from reciting this great poem by Sarah Tsiang that deals with the online sexual harassment of young women for the Poetry In Voice contest. Let's all listen to her brilliant reading for Freedom to Read Week
www.youtube.com/shorts/LNY3Y...
the moment in Sula where Toni Morrison shifts from the third person to the first for just a page has been preoccupying me all week.
As we have said and continue to say: the absolute vibe-based public safety conversation is not going to change until we get serious about social change: library-specific deescalation work and broader social interventions around housing, youth engagement, safe consumption, and accessible healthcare.
congratulations! i can’t wait to read it!
i've been loving all the poems in this project!
Five hours left!
"Slaughter has been my main measure of Israel's destruction in Palestine. But for the oppressor it's just the most final way to remove bodies, not the only one. The toolbox of oppression is deep with helpful indignities." - Saeed Teebi, You Will Not Kill our Imagination
#amreading
"I was a walking flinch." - Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
(that description landed viscerally)
I didn't know teams could concede in curling. Thank you for answering my question on seeing the variable number of ends in the curling stories
good for them! silly question: why did they play 7 ends over Chechia but only 6 against Italy?
yeah, it's not great
Since when do back benchers negotiate trade deals? CBC, do better, stop sensationalizing headlines and the news. If you want Canadians to trust you and consider you a trusted source for news. Remember the facts, in headlines as well as news.
this is such an evergreen post
I would like to make a little thread/sloppy directory, here: If you write about books for any outlet (by which I mean not a newsletter, somewhere that you have an editor), please reply and tell me what you cover and where?
hi Molly, i write about poetry (mostly Canadian) for @winnipegfreepress.com. (Last i checked, arts and culture coverage could be accessed with a free account).
so apart from being extra germy at the moment, i’ve just ever so gently been reminded that my tendency to respond to “world too much” with disappearing (from the group chat, from the friend hang outs) is kind of a pain in the ass.
i'm the kind of sick that demands the most distracting of distractions. recommend me a book that will make me forget that breathing feels like my lungs are full of mud (no actual mud, just the usual cold made it's way into my chest)
“This is hardly the time for Canada to be emulating U.S. policy … These book bans are an attack on authors, teachers, and students. Our governments should focus on funding education properly. They should leave book curation and educational choices to the professionals.”
#TWUC #abpoli #BookBans
Open to all Afro-Canadian poets or Black poets in contiguous locations, such as the United States, invested in winter imaginaries of Canadian life/Black diaspora.
olongoafrica.com/call-for-poe...
Pressure works. Contact your MP and ask Parliament to investigate the extent to which Canadian companies are working with and actively helping ICE. Info below.
have edited a poem into the most awkward length(™)
listening to The Cranberries and knitting the "world too much, world too cold" blanket
and, there's me softening my language again. sigh. breaking the hedging habit/ "what if i'm totally wrong in my understanding of everything i believe" habit is, um, an ongoing project
