Dr Kat Manica
@katmanica.bsky.social
Reader reading and anti-colonial art historian decolonizing Aestheticism’s interiors, paintings, photographs & collections, postdoctoral fellow at institution. (she/her) | settler in Tkaronto
I wrote a piece for @thenacbs.bsky.social Pride Series on Queer Eschatology in William Burges’s designs at Cardiff Castle!
Next up in our Broadsides #pridemonth blog series, Katrina-Eve Nasidlowski Manica examines William Burges’ designs for the Cardiff Castle summer smoking room as a homosocial and queer space. #skystorians #arthistory #pride
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Hyacinth at the End of the World: Queering William Burges, Eschatology, and Cardiff Castle
"Although orientated around the end of the world, the designs in the room suggest that after la petit morte, or the end of times, viewers will be sublimated to a divinely queer and beautiful afterlife...
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June 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I wrote a piece for @thenacbs.bsky.social Pride Series on Queer Eschatology in William Burges’s designs at Cardiff Castle!
Reposted by Dr Kat Manica
Reposted by Dr Kat Manica
The Ontario Tories are criminalizing homelessness and drug use, whilst closing down safe-consumption sites. This will impact Indigenous communities negatively, who were not consulted on the SCS closures, and is a failure to consult on consumption sites.
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‘Enough is enough’: Doug Ford says Ontario could hand encampment drug users $10,000 fines, prison
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government is introducing a suite of measures to help municipalities “address and dismantle” homeless encampments around the province, including steep fines for peop...
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January 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Ontario Tories are criminalizing homelessness and drug use, whilst closing down safe-consumption sites. This will impact Indigenous communities negatively, who were not consulted on the SCS closures, and is a failure to consult on consumption sites.
www.cp24.com/politics/que...
www.cp24.com/politics/que...
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Lets be clear. #CUPW isn't delaying your mail - Canada Post's management, and the Government is.
The refusal of Canada Post to negotiate in good faith, and their insistence on creating a two tiered workforce is what is stopping mail from getting through.
I support CUPW.
The refusal of Canada Post to negotiate in good faith, and their insistence on creating a two tiered workforce is what is stopping mail from getting through.
I support CUPW.
Striking Canada Post workers have been delivering "socio-economic" (i.e. pension, social assistance etc.) cheques across Canada. The exception being in the Atlantic provinces, where provincial governments in NS, NB, PEI & NL have REFUSED to take the union up on its offer.
November 25, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Lets be clear. #CUPW isn't delaying your mail - Canada Post's management, and the Government is.
The refusal of Canada Post to negotiate in good faith, and their insistence on creating a two tiered workforce is what is stopping mail from getting through.
I support CUPW.
The refusal of Canada Post to negotiate in good faith, and their insistence on creating a two tiered workforce is what is stopping mail from getting through.
I support CUPW.
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It blows my mind that tech bros will continue to insist "Technological innovation" is the correct name for "Labour violations disguised as contract work." Privatisation has done serious damage to the US postal service. It seems unlikely that's what Canadians writ large want. #strike #union #CUPW
Canada Post Workers Are Fighting An Employer-Led Race To The Bottom www.readthemaple.com/canada-post-...
Canada Post Workers Are Fighting An Employer-Led Race To The Bottom
Like other labour battles in the public sector, the CUPW strike is about more than the interests of postal workers.
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November 25, 2024 at 11:43 PM
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Postal workers in Canada are striking for fair wages & better working conditions.
This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as disposable & unions are crushed.
Great piece by @ParisMarx.com in @JacobinMag.bsky.social.
#canlab #CUPW
This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as disposable & unions are crushed.
Great piece by @ParisMarx.com in @JacobinMag.bsky.social.
#canlab #CUPW
Amazon’s Anti-Union Model and the Damage Done
Canadian postal workers are striking for fair wages and better working conditions. This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as dispos...
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November 26, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Postal workers in Canada are striking for fair wages & better working conditions.
This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as disposable & unions are crushed.
Great piece by @ParisMarx.com in @JacobinMag.bsky.social.
#canlab #CUPW
This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as disposable & unions are crushed.
Great piece by @ParisMarx.com in @JacobinMag.bsky.social.
#canlab #CUPW
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Kicking things off here with this 19th-century children’s book on birchbark, made by an Anishinaabe man named Soloman James, Sound of Thunder Ravens, for his son.
December 1, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Kicking things off here with this 19th-century children’s book on birchbark, made by an Anishinaabe man named Soloman James, Sound of Thunder Ravens, for his son.
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Support Our Postal Workers!
55,000 members of CUPW have been forced to take strike action in recent days, after a year of failed bargaining with Canada Post.
Find a #CUPW picket line near you:
act-cupwsttp.nationbuilder.com/picket_lines
#canlab #SupportCUPW #1u #strike #CanadaPostStrike #cdnpoli
55,000 members of CUPW have been forced to take strike action in recent days, after a year of failed bargaining with Canada Post.
Find a #CUPW picket line near you:
act-cupwsttp.nationbuilder.com/picket_lines
#canlab #SupportCUPW #1u #strike #CanadaPostStrike #cdnpoli
November 18, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Support Our Postal Workers!
55,000 members of CUPW have been forced to take strike action in recent days, after a year of failed bargaining with Canada Post.
Find a #CUPW picket line near you:
act-cupwsttp.nationbuilder.com/picket_lines
#canlab #SupportCUPW #1u #strike #CanadaPostStrike #cdnpoli
55,000 members of CUPW have been forced to take strike action in recent days, after a year of failed bargaining with Canada Post.
Find a #CUPW picket line near you:
act-cupwsttp.nationbuilder.com/picket_lines
#canlab #SupportCUPW #1u #strike #CanadaPostStrike #cdnpoli
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Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is calling for the end of Canada’s public postal service because its workers have gone on strike.
The company’s leaders are increasingly pushing extreme right-wing positions in Canada. Gutting Canada Post would effectively end delivery in many rural and remote communities.
The company’s leaders are increasingly pushing extreme right-wing positions in Canada. Gutting Canada Post would effectively end delivery in many rural and remote communities.
November 16, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is calling for the end of Canada’s public postal service because its workers have gone on strike.
The company’s leaders are increasingly pushing extreme right-wing positions in Canada. Gutting Canada Post would effectively end delivery in many rural and remote communities.
The company’s leaders are increasingly pushing extreme right-wing positions in Canada. Gutting Canada Post would effectively end delivery in many rural and remote communities.
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The provincial government has introduced proposed legislation today that will cut life-saving harm reduction healthcare services in the province, and prevent more harm reduction services from happening.
November 19, 2024 at 5:16 AM
The provincial government has introduced proposed legislation today that will cut life-saving harm reduction healthcare services in the province, and prevent more harm reduction services from happening.
Reposted by Dr Kat Manica
Meet the hereditary chief who Amnesty International calls Canada’s first prisoner of conscience — The Wet’suwet’en chief is under house arrest for resisting a pipeline on his territory.
#Indigenous journalist Brandi Morin reports from #Wetsuweten territory:
ricochet.media/indigenous/m...
#cdnpoli
#Indigenous journalist Brandi Morin reports from #Wetsuweten territory:
ricochet.media/indigenous/m...
#cdnpoli
Meet the hereditary chief who Amnesty International calls Canada’s first prisoner of conscience
In Northern British Columbia, a Wet’suwet’en chief is under house arrest for resisting a pipeline on his territory
ricochet.media
August 30, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Meet the hereditary chief who Amnesty International calls Canada’s first prisoner of conscience — The Wet’suwet’en chief is under house arrest for resisting a pipeline on his territory.
#Indigenous journalist Brandi Morin reports from #Wetsuweten territory:
ricochet.media/indigenous/m...
#cdnpoli
#Indigenous journalist Brandi Morin reports from #Wetsuweten territory:
ricochet.media/indigenous/m...
#cdnpoli
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‘The Indian Ocean was an important hunting ground: more than a third of 𝘔𝘰𝘣𝘺-𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘬 takes place there. Melville recognised that whaling went hand in hand with colonial conquest.’
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the Indian Ocean’s geopolitics:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the Indian Ocean’s geopolitics:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Laleh Khalili · Marts of All Commerce: Across the Indian Ocean
There is much more that connects the people across the Indian Ocean than guns, oil and money. Food, music and human...
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November 8, 2024 at 5:11 PM
‘The Indian Ocean was an important hunting ground: more than a third of 𝘔𝘰𝘣𝘺-𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘬 takes place there. Melville recognised that whaling went hand in hand with colonial conquest.’
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the Indian Ocean’s geopolitics:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the Indian Ocean’s geopolitics:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Today’s special guest - @lexcroucher.bsky.social. Signed copies of Gwen and Art now loitering in the table stacks at Piccadilly 💖
September 15, 2023 at 6:43 PM
Today’s special guest - @lexcroucher.bsky.social. Signed copies of Gwen and Art now loitering in the table stacks at Piccadilly 💖