Kelly Fritsch
@kellyfritsch.bsky.social
Critical disability studies, political economy, science and technology studies, disability justice, abolition. Crip, queer, settler on occupied Algonquin territory. Author We Move Together and Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada.
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Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life
May we build worlds worthy of Alice’s memory. 💔 Rest in power @sfdirewolf.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
May we build worlds worthy of Alice’s memory. 💔 Rest in power @sfdirewolf.bsky.social
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Nearly two decades of stagnant provincial funding, a seven-year freeze on domestic tuition, and federal cuts to international student visas have left many of Ontario's colleges and universities in dire financial straits.
Ontario’s Post-Secondary Education Crisis in Five Figures | The Local
Stagnant provincial funding, a domestic tuition freeze, cuts to international students, and expensive capital projects—the numbers behind the emergency in higher education.
thelocal.to
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Nearly two decades of stagnant provincial funding, a seven-year freeze on domestic tuition, and federal cuts to international student visas have left many of Ontario's colleges and universities in dire financial straits.
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Behind a 2018 mass eviction in Ottawa lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system.
Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
The corporate blueprint behind the eviction of Ottawa’s most diverse neighbourhood ⋆ The Breach
Behind Heron Gate’s destruction lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system—financial firms, pension funds, and private equity investors have transformed rental housing into a speculative asset cl...
breachmedia.ca
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Behind a 2018 mass eviction in Ottawa lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system.
Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
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Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.
pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.
pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.
pressprogress.ca
November 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.
pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.
pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
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Street drugs have killed more than 18,600 BCers. DULF worked with cops, health authorities, feds to try and source, test and sell drugs with a known purity and potency to reduce overdose deaths.
Their strategy was saving lives.
Today they were found guilty of trafficking.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Their strategy was saving lives.
Today they were found guilty of trafficking.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
DULF Founders Guilty of Drug Trafficking | The Tyee
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum didn’t have permission to sell tested drugs despite good intentions, court finds.
thetyee.ca
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Street drugs have killed more than 18,600 BCers. DULF worked with cops, health authorities, feds to try and source, test and sell drugs with a known purity and potency to reduce overdose deaths.
Their strategy was saving lives.
Today they were found guilty of trafficking.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Their strategy was saving lives.
Today they were found guilty of trafficking.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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The truth is this is a moment where many different possibilities for the future are opening, and they are opening at an extremely high cost. Solidarity to everyone who is trying to build a path to a better world for us all right now, amidst every loss and grief we are carrying. Solidarity forever.
September 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The truth is this is a moment where many different possibilities for the future are opening, and they are opening at an extremely high cost. Solidarity to everyone who is trying to build a path to a better world for us all right now, amidst every loss and grief we are carrying. Solidarity forever.
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This moment where everything is being broken is a moment about what we build to replace it, too.
October 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This moment where everything is being broken is a moment about what we build to replace it, too.
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AMTRAK CUSTOMER SURVEY: What could we have done better during your recent travel delay?
ME: Seize America's rails back from private control.
ME: Seize America's rails back from private control.
August 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
AMTRAK CUSTOMER SURVEY: What could we have done better during your recent travel delay?
ME: Seize America's rails back from private control.
ME: Seize America's rails back from private control.
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“Perhaps most strikingly of all, he warned the worsening climate crisis appears to be on track to destroy capitalism.”
"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."
whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...
whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...
Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable
Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.
www.cnbc.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“Perhaps most strikingly of all, he warned the worsening climate crisis appears to be on track to destroy capitalism.”
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Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.
Summary of our concerns
1. Implementation Timeline
We have learned that the UC system has suffered numerous and increasingly frequent cyber attacks and security breaches. For years, the administration has done little to stud...
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August 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.
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The fed gov cuts to pay for military and wealthy tax cuts have rapidly expanded. My new analysis shows that most of the cuts will now be on transfers to other govs, non-profits and people. A stunning 1 in 5 dollars is just cuts to FN govs for basic social programs. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇
July 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The fed gov cuts to pay for military and wealthy tax cuts have rapidly expanded. My new analysis shows that most of the cuts will now be on transfers to other govs, non-profits and people. A stunning 1 in 5 dollars is just cuts to FN govs for basic social programs. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇
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If you are a faculty member, researcher, postdoc, or staff at a university in Canada, please sign this letter demanding Canada issue study permit to Gaza students to be delivered to the Minister of Immigration by tomorrow afternoon.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
July 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
If you are a faculty member, researcher, postdoc, or staff at a university in Canada, please sign this letter demanding Canada issue study permit to Gaza students to be delivered to the Minister of Immigration by tomorrow afternoon.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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This photo I took of a McDonald's under construction has the aesthetic they should always have.
May 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This photo I took of a McDonald's under construction has the aesthetic they should always have.
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Commercials in Canada these days:
"One flag, one people, the sound of a loon... [Oligopoly Grocery Chain] is here for you."
"It takes hard work to build a country. And this country is made by hard men and women. Fueled by [Brazilian Hedge Fund Coffee Chain]."
"Flag. Land. Patriots. Oil."
"One flag, one people, the sound of a loon... [Oligopoly Grocery Chain] is here for you."
"It takes hard work to build a country. And this country is made by hard men and women. Fueled by [Brazilian Hedge Fund Coffee Chain]."
"Flag. Land. Patriots. Oil."
May 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Commercials in Canada these days:
"One flag, one people, the sound of a loon... [Oligopoly Grocery Chain] is here for you."
"It takes hard work to build a country. And this country is made by hard men and women. Fueled by [Brazilian Hedge Fund Coffee Chain]."
"Flag. Land. Patriots. Oil."
"One flag, one people, the sound of a loon... [Oligopoly Grocery Chain] is here for you."
"It takes hard work to build a country. And this country is made by hard men and women. Fueled by [Brazilian Hedge Fund Coffee Chain]."
"Flag. Land. Patriots. Oil."
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“There was my dog, who, on the mornings I do not want to get out of bed, will rest silently at my feet + wait for me to slowly emerge from under the covers, + seeing her reminds me that I do, in fact, have only one lifetime in which I can ❤️ this animal. [We] will ❤️ each other only here, for a while”
In Defense of Despair
The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.
www.newyorker.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
“There was my dog, who, on the mornings I do not want to get out of bed, will rest silently at my feet + wait for me to slowly emerge from under the covers, + seeing her reminds me that I do, in fact, have only one lifetime in which I can ❤️ this animal. [We] will ❤️ each other only here, for a while”
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Devastated to learn that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope are at risk of redundancy. Lovely people and a brilliant team that has transformed the lives of so many students. If you know them please do reach out - things are very tough right now.
Union vows to fight cuts at Liverpool Hope
Liverpool Hope University intends to axe 39 staff before the end of the year, announced the University and College Union (UCU) today
www.ucu.org.uk
May 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Devastated to learn that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope are at risk of redundancy. Lovely people and a brilliant team that has transformed the lives of so many students. If you know them please do reach out - things are very tough right now.
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PSE spending as a percentage of total provincial spending, 2006-07 to 2025-26, Canada and select provinces. It's down everywhere, but the Alberta slump has been especially pronounced.
May 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
PSE spending as a percentage of total provincial spending, 2006-07 to 2025-26, Canada and select provinces. It's down everywhere, but the Alberta slump has been especially pronounced.
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Change in overall provincial government spending vs. total provincial government spending on post-secondary education, Canada, 2006-07 to 2025-26 (2006-07 = 100). It's not austerity, it's the choices.
May 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Change in overall provincial government spending vs. total provincial government spending on post-secondary education, Canada, 2006-07 to 2025-26 (2006-07 = 100). It's not austerity, it's the choices.
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British Columbia - once a world leader in harm reduction - has reversed course under pressure from an organized right wing moral panic and is now doing the exact opposite of what we need to save lives. This will make things worse for us, but perhaps better for the gutless ghouls in office.
“Nobody thinks it’s a good idea,” Dave Webb, of the Surrey Union of Drug Users, tells @godfrey.bsky.social. “I thought in treatment we were supposed to reconnect with our loved ones and friends. If we’re putting somebody in segregation, how is that going to work?”
BC Involuntary Treatment Taking Place in a Solitary Confinement Unit
It raises pressing questions about the wellbeing of people being subjected to a form of treatment to which experts already object.
filtermag.org
May 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
British Columbia - once a world leader in harm reduction - has reversed course under pressure from an organized right wing moral panic and is now doing the exact opposite of what we need to save lives. This will make things worse for us, but perhaps better for the gutless ghouls in office.
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“As a culture, we always want this grand arc: rags to riches, gets the girl, gets the guy. I wondered if I could write a book that didn’t have improvement arcs… I’ve been interested in this idea of kindness without hope.”
Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Then a Moment of Grace Changed His Life.
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“As a culture, we always want this grand arc: rags to riches, gets the girl, gets the guy. I wondered if I could write a book that didn’t have improvement arcs… I’ve been interested in this idea of kindness without hope.”
Faculty at UT have voted for their pension plan to divest from companies connected to Israel’s war in Gaza and other conflicts
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d07989c...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d07989c...
U of T faculty vote to pressure pension to divest from companies linked to Israel’s war in Gaza
The faculty association voted in favour of the proposal, which opponents view as divisive, by a margin of 52% to 43%, with 5% abstaining
www.theglobeandmail.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Faculty at UT have voted for their pension plan to divest from companies connected to Israel’s war in Gaza and other conflicts
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d07989c...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d07989c...
“As part of the Federation’s strategic planning over the next several months, we will be asking difficult questions about the purpose of Congress and how it is delivered.” cha-shc.ca/announcement...
Announcement on Congress 2026 | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada
The following email from Karine Morin was received by the CHA on Thursday, May 8, 2025: I am writing to inform you that after over a year of discussions with a potential institutional host for Congres...
cha-shc.ca
May 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“As part of the Federation’s strategic planning over the next several months, we will be asking difficult questions about the purpose of Congress and how it is delivered.” cha-shc.ca/announcement...
“By departing these advisory roles, I aim to speak more clearly in my own language about what they have become and what they ought to be. This is not an abandonment of loyalty to these institutions' missions, but rather, its highest expression.”
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
“By departing these advisory roles, I aim to speak more clearly in my own language about what they have become and what they ought to be. This is not an abandonment of loyalty to these institutions' missions, but rather, its highest expression.”