Alison
@alisonstratten.bsky.social
Author, PhD Student OISE/UofT
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Alice was the first person to ever encourage my creative writing. She was a thoughtful editor and a beloved mentor. I learned so much about activism just by watching her move through the world. May her memory be a blessing to us all.
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Alice was the first person to ever encourage my creative writing. She was a thoughtful editor and a beloved mentor. I learned so much about activism just by watching her move through the world. May her memory be a blessing to us all.
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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Every now and then I stumble over a Yoko Ono piece in the wild and it’s always the coolest shit you ever saw with your human eyeballs
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Every now and then I stumble over a Yoko Ono piece in the wild and it’s always the coolest shit you ever saw with your human eyeballs
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This is also an indication of how badly we need trauma informed care. It's like we've created widespread arrested development where people don't have to process their emotions, they can just distract themselves or get a chat bot to confirm their worst ideas.
No processing, just delusions.
No processing, just delusions.
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is also an indication of how badly we need trauma informed care. It's like we've created widespread arrested development where people don't have to process their emotions, they can just distract themselves or get a chat bot to confirm their worst ideas.
No processing, just delusions.
No processing, just delusions.
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“In her radical exploration of water, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson topples anthropocentrism and conventional ontologies to reveal water in all its forms as a powerful decolonizing force that connects us all.”
Congratulations to @biidaasamose.bsky.social, author of Theory of Water!
Congratulations to @biidaasamose.bsky.social, author of Theory of Water!
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social wins the $75K #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, published by Alchemy by Knopf Canada. The prize is supported by The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation. #WTAwards #canlit
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“In her radical exploration of water, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson topples anthropocentrism and conventional ontologies to reveal water in all its forms as a powerful decolonizing force that connects us all.”
Congratulations to @biidaasamose.bsky.social, author of Theory of Water!
Congratulations to @biidaasamose.bsky.social, author of Theory of Water!
Ordered and looking forward to reading!
Solidarity With Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy is available now!
Happy Publication Day, @lalouverouge.bsky.social! 💐
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-s...
Happy Publication Day, @lalouverouge.bsky.social! 💐
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-s...
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Ordered and looking forward to reading!
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Robert Munsch has donated his personal archives of stories and materials to the Guelph Public Library.
This is wonderful for such a valuable archive to be given to a public municipal library.
www.guelphpl.ca/Modules/News...
This is wonderful for such a valuable archive to be given to a public municipal library.
www.guelphpl.ca/Modules/News...
Robert Munsch donates his archives to Guelph Public Library
Robert Munsch donates his archives to Guelph Public Library
www.guelphpl.ca
November 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Robert Munsch has donated his personal archives of stories and materials to the Guelph Public Library.
This is wonderful for such a valuable archive to be given to a public municipal library.
www.guelphpl.ca/Modules/News...
This is wonderful for such a valuable archive to be given to a public municipal library.
www.guelphpl.ca/Modules/News...
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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Looking forward to this lecture tomorrow night! Tickets are still available.
Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism
Join Cynthia Miller-Idriss as she discusses her latest book on the rise of misogyny and violent extremism.
www.eventbrite.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Looking forward to this lecture tomorrow night! Tickets are still available.
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jfc here it comes
Big layoffs hitting Amazon as soon as tomorrow, including within the video-game division, sources tell Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Plans to Cut 30,000 Corporate Jobs, Reuters Reports
Amazon.com Inc. plans to cut corporate jobs in several key departments, including logistics, payments, video games and the cloud-computing unit, according to people familiar with the matter.
www.bloomberg.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
jfc here it comes
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Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.
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this is the people's ballroom
October 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
this is the people's ballroom
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“It’s sort of like, my worst fears realized, to be frank," a women's studies scholar at Ohio University told Jezebel of the East Wing demolition.
www.jezebel.com/trump-bulldo...
www.jezebel.com/trump-bulldo...
Trump Bulldozes Away a Century's Worth of Women’s Contributions to the White House
“It’s sort of like, my worst fears realized, to be frank," a women's studies scholar at Ohio University told Jezebel of the East Wing demolition.
www.jezebel.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
“It’s sort of like, my worst fears realized, to be frank," a women's studies scholar at Ohio University told Jezebel of the East Wing demolition.
www.jezebel.com/trump-bulldo...
www.jezebel.com/trump-bulldo...
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"Literary prizes can give the impression that art is a competition. Take it from a ferociously competitive person: Art is anti-competitive. Art is a long, unending conversation between generations."
- Lauren Groff
- Lauren Groff
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"Literary prizes can give the impression that art is a competition. Take it from a ferociously competitive person: Art is anti-competitive. Art is a long, unending conversation between generations."
- Lauren Groff
- Lauren Groff
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Tomorrow!
Oct 16
7-8pm ET
Fast paced and interactive but cameras/mics are off, so you're never on the spot.
You leave with 5 super practical techniques to de-escalate and safely intervene.
Not recorded, so don't miss out!
Registration: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Oct 16
7-8pm ET
Fast paced and interactive but cameras/mics are off, so you're never on the spot.
You leave with 5 super practical techniques to de-escalate and safely intervene.
Not recorded, so don't miss out!
Registration: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We are not powerless in the face of rising hate, harassment and violence. If we take the time to learn effective de-escalation and intervention skills, we CAN keep each other safe.
Give me 1 hour of your time and I'll teach you how. It's free and open to anyone aged 12+ ✊
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Give me 1 hour of your time and I'll teach you how. It's free and open to anyone aged 12+ ✊
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Tomorrow!
Oct 16
7-8pm ET
Fast paced and interactive but cameras/mics are off, so you're never on the spot.
You leave with 5 super practical techniques to de-escalate and safely intervene.
Not recorded, so don't miss out!
Registration: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Oct 16
7-8pm ET
Fast paced and interactive but cameras/mics are off, so you're never on the spot.
You leave with 5 super practical techniques to de-escalate and safely intervene.
Not recorded, so don't miss out!
Registration: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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We are not powerless in the face of rising hate, harassment and violence. If we take the time to learn effective de-escalation and intervention skills, we CAN keep each other safe.
Give me 1 hour of your time and I'll teach you how. It's free and open to anyone aged 12+ ✊
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Give me 1 hour of your time and I'll teach you how. It's free and open to anyone aged 12+ ✊
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We are not powerless in the face of rising hate, harassment and violence. If we take the time to learn effective de-escalation and intervention skills, we CAN keep each other safe.
Give me 1 hour of your time and I'll teach you how. It's free and open to anyone aged 12+ ✊
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Give me 1 hour of your time and I'll teach you how. It's free and open to anyone aged 12+ ✊
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."
October 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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Award-winning primatologist who established world’s longest-running chimp study still lectured on conservation and climate even over age of 91
October 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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"If we lose hope, we're doomed."
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
October 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"If we lose hope, we're doomed."
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.