Emily Regan Wills

1. COOK THE BULGUR • In a medium pot, combine the bulgur, ⅓ of the spices, ¼ cup water (double for 4 portions) and a big pinch of salt; bring to a boil. • Reduce the heat, cover and simmer, 6 to 8 min., until the bulgur is tender and the water has been absorbed. Fluff the bulgur. THE SQUASH • Meanwhile, in a medium pan, heat a drizzle of oil on medium. • Add the squash and sauté, 4 to 6 min., until tender; season with the remaining spices and S&P. → Halloumi: Rinse and pat dry; medium-dice. In a pan, heat a drizzle of oil on medium. Sear, 1 to 2 min. per side, until browned. Use as topping in step 4. 3. MISE EN PLACE • Meanwhile, remove the kale leaves from the stems; thinly slice the leaves. • In a large bowl, combine the kale, a drizzle of oil and S&P. • Massage the kale, 1 to 2 min., until softened. • Core and cut the apple into matchsticks (or core and medium-dice). PLATE YOUR DISH Divide the bulgur between your bowls. Top, side by side, with the kale, apple and squash. 口 Drizzle with the vinaigrette. 口 Garnish with the salad topper and cheese. Bon appétit!

I just ate a meal kit dish that had butternut squash in it. I’ll attach a photo of how they said to do it, but I instead roasted the diced squash, kale, and some onions, chickpeas and cabbage in the oven on a sheet pan and then ate it with tortillas or over rice with the honey Dijon vinaigrette.

Truly the most Ottawa thing possible.

My great-grandfather was a funeral home owner in upstate New York who “happened” to make a lot of trips between Montreal and New York City during prohibition in his big hearse with a casket in the back. I wonder how they stayed rich during the depression, it’s a mystery.

I am a little happy every time one of my US politics students calls a district a riding in a presentation, because it’s nice to see the shoe on the other foot.

Yup, my student set the call with our Kenyan partner for 6pm Kenyan time, and we were on the call together for 15 minutes before she re-did the math.

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

Cover of The Trees by Percival Everett.

Just finished The Trees by Perceval Everett. If you’d like your novels about the history of lynching and racial violence in America to be both incredibly hilarious and absolutely horrifying, this is the one.

The Rat On war and what we have to choke down.

I've been starting and stopping this essay for almost two years, but recent events made it seem urgent: On war. jude-doyle.ghost.io/the-rat/

Well, I've gotten through my research chair application yesterday and my grant notice-of-intent-to-apply documents for today, so now I'm going to eat preztels and read queer theory because I can.

Emily cuddling a scrungly looking white cat with black spots.

My elderly cat passed away today, and I have a billion pieces of paperwork to do when I just want to lay down. Sigh.

I actually get really sad when I read it because there was a pro-gay (in context) candidate in the RNC primary that Reagan won, and then I think about what the plague years would have been like if the president of the US didn’t hate us, and, uh, yeah.

Ooh, hey! @aproctor-ps.bsky.social has a really good article on how queer movements were captured by the Dems - I teach it all the time. Might be open access, bc I appear to be able to download it from home: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I think this is actually something the woke left could do! A big chunk of the pro-Palestine movement has been trying to do it for decades! Without a real engagement here, though, it all goes to shit.

…then you are going to start behaving in ways that are actively harmful. Public discourse needs to 1) continue to untangle Israeli atrocities from Jewish identities and 2) situate antisemitism in its present North American context so people can understand it as a distinct form of prejudice.

This is bad, and it’s also a predictable process that would happen if people who “weren’t antisemitic” in the same way lots of people “aren’t racist” began objecting to Israeli policy and were called antisemites for it. If you have unexamined prejudice and something happens to trigger it…

What dickheads. I reported, so let’s hope they get dinged. (You can also remove them from the thread if you like - I see people doing that a lot.)

I feel like quitting now really is the best case scenario. Ok, you won, please stop. Otherwise…

To everyone who cheerleaded Carney's faux speech in Davos & posturing as independent middle power -

His atrocious statement today backing US-Israeli attacks on Iran make clear that he & Canada are firmly aligned with dominant imperial interests.

And he did so while shaking hands with Modi in India

Will this materially affect US policy? Possibly, but I worry that the confluence of antisemitism, authoritarianism, and policy inertia will produce something just as bad. Capturing this swing for a real pro-freedom change will require huge effort for those of us who support a free Palestine.

I’ve been studying Palestinian-Americans and pro-Palestinian activism for over 15 years. This has been coming a long time - but it’s huge.

Oh man, I have both personal and academic expertise in fanfic girlies but I am also Very Old (in my 40s) so I don’t know if I’m a good interview!

That space has also had big issues - it’s been empty quite a lot over the decade+ I’ve lived in the neighborhood, and multiple businesses have failed. I hope the next business there can make it longer!

You look great! Is the hair color new? It’s awesome.

This totally happened to me in the diss to book transition - I could have sworn I had already revised a chapter, and had to go through multiple computers until I found it.

I really, really wish our unions here at uOttawa could merge and bargain for all faculty together. The good working conditions I have as a tenured professor need to be shared with our our “part-time” colleagues, and the best way to ensure that is to tie our bargaining processes together.

Yikes on fucking bikes.

That squiggly red line under the American spelling of neighbors is making me feel attacked, lol. Anyway, I am in general skeptical of states actually being a force for good in the world, but if you've got one, this is what I think you should do with it.

I argue that Canada should instead turn and dive deeply into its values of cooperation, reconciliation, and partnership – to ground our global policy strategy in solidarity.  What if our policy towards the US focused not on trying to maintain economic stability against an erratic extremist, but by a desire to show meaningful solidarity with our neighbors, the citizens of the US and the governments of border states with deep ties to Canada? What if we were one of the countries to step up into the gaping void left by the destruction of USAID, and if we make sure that, as part of the “global humanitarian reset,” Canada was consistently on the side of local ownership, equal partnership, and substantive fellow-feeling? What if we harnessed Canadian creativity and put that in the service of marginalized communities globally?

I just reluctantly cut these words from a grant application, but in summary, here's the Canadian-nationalist version of my deepest foreign policy beliefs.

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I wear this guy every day. Doesn’t put pressure on my sternum, just generally keeps my boobs off my stomach and keeps them slightly more in place. By the end of the day I’m sometimes annoyed by the band but that’s baseline for a bra. www.jockey.com/catalog/prod...