KJ Reed

Photo taken in the waters at Es-hw Sme~nts Park.

A small octopus under a rock reaches one arm out to explore an Indigenous-design British Columbia flag.

Even octopuses want one!

Check out @lneel.bsky.social's work at www.lneelstudio.com and buy your own flag at newflagshop.com/product/brit...

Scuba diver underwater holding up an Indigenous design of the British Columbia provincial flag. The background water is a an emerald green and a large rock wall looms over the diver's right shoulder.

Today in particular I give thanks to the #SalishSea and the land that's been - and continues to be - stewarded by Indigenous people in "British Columbia." Feeling deep gratitude in Snaw-naw-as territory. @lneel.bsky.social made a flag I can get behind! #LandBack #BCDay #ColonialHolidays

A protest sign that says "my gender is resistance."

Today's mood at the protest

The image shows the cover of the report "Trans Digital Rights: Improving data visibility, privacy and belonging for Gender-diverse Communities" on the left. Besides the title, it says 2025 as the year of publication and the authors' names are Jess Reia, Rachel Leach and Sophie Li. The design is a colourful geometric pattern. There is a QR code on the right.

New Research Alert! The report “Trans digital rights: Improving data visibility, privacy and belonging for gender-diverse communities” ✨ 💫🌈 Our research asks: If we could reimagine digital rights that center the needs of gender-diverse communities, what would they look like?

Vancouver Island University has suspended two students for engaging in the reckless act of having opinions. “We encourage free speech, as long as it’s the right kind,” said a spokesperson.

Background is photo of VPL. Text reads: Sign and Share. Tell the Vancouver Public Library to Reverse it's Anti-Palestinian Ban!

Library lovers & comrades,

Take action now to tell Vancouver Public Library to reverse its anti-Palestinian branch-wide ban on staff wearing watermelon pins and keffiyehs.

VPL's ban is assault on its stated commitments to intellectual freedom & decolonization.

actionnetwork.org/letters/vplban

Updated the 2025 Thinking Trans Conference registration page with a tentative schedule! We are holding the conference March 27-28 at Lafayette College and on Zoom, with no registration fee: philosophy.lafayette.edu/2024/12/29/t...

"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will" is my vibe for today. (o/g from Romain Rolland, but Antonio Gramsci articulated the concept further in Prison Notebooks).

Billie! I love the hair (?) curl on top.

Shrimp with transluscent body and yellow, red, and bright blue stripes on a rock wall, at the base of a pink anemone.

My favourite shrimp in the #SalishSea: Candy-Striped Shrimp (Lebbeus grandimanus). This one was huge and carrying eggs. Spotted off #GabriolaIsland near #Nanaimo. #scuba

You too!

PS - I got on Blue Sky just to follow this account. No regrets. It's great here - like old Twitter before it got fascist.

🤣 This is my biggest pet peeve about Nanaimo. Why have Beban and Bowen?!? Asking for confusion.

I'm so pleased that I found your account via a starter pack. Digital Humanities?! Trans studies?! Two of my areas too.

Congratulations!!! 🥳 That's a big milestone.

“…refusing the banality of cruelty, refusing to be worn bare, refusing to do violence unto each other — these may damn well be the closest we will come to revolution”

I really needed this essay, along with the term “palliative activism”.

That's on my to-do list too. Good luck!

What an epic adventure! 🐐🐐⛰️

I'm happy you're here! ❤️ It feels like Blue Sky has momentum. So nice to be off Meta.

Why did it take me so long to move to BlueSky?!? It's like old Twitter, before it turned into a fascist hellscape. 🙌

This is a Giant Pacific Octopus that really doesn't want to be disturbed. Protected by urchins and a fierce black-eyed goby guard. #scuba #SalishSea

Found the elusive #SalishSea Unicorn Anemone on a recent dive at Olebar on #Gabriola 😉