KJ Reed
@kjreed.bsky.social
they/them. Gender Studies prof 🧑🏻🏫, academic librarian 💻, scuba diver 🐙, nature nerd 🌲, queer and non-binary 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️, 🍉 solidarity. I research surveillance and privacy in the lives of trans, nonbinary, and 2S youth.
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
August 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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
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Today's mood at the protest
March 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Today's mood at the protest
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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?
February 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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?
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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.
February 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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.
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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
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
February 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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
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
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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...
Thinking Trans // Trans Thinking Conference: Information and Registration · Philosophy · Lafayette College
philosophy.lafayette.edu
January 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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).
January 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"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).
My favourite shrimp in the #SalishSea: Candy-Striped Shrimp (Lebbeus grandimanus). This one was huge and carrying eggs. Spotted off #GabriolaIsland near #Nanaimo. #scuba
January 20, 2025 at 5:01 AM
My favourite shrimp in the #SalishSea: Candy-Striped Shrimp (Lebbeus grandimanus). This one was huge and carrying eggs. Spotted off #GabriolaIsland near #Nanaimo. #scuba
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“…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”.
I really needed this essay, along with the term “palliative activism”.
Many have been struggling with hopelessness these last few years—and even more since the election. Too often I’ve asked myself how we should live in a world that can never be repaired. If that’s also you, I hope that you will find this essay on palliative activism helpful.
Palliative activism, or Fighting for justice without hope
The spirit within me wearies. I see each day pass another by, forever in want of change. I see the skies fall by a few inches each day. The…
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January 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“…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”.
I really needed this essay, along with the term “palliative activism”.
Why did it take me so long to move to BlueSky?!? It's like old Twitter, before it turned into a fascist hellscape. 🙌
January 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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
January 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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 😉
January 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Found the elusive #SalishSea Unicorn Anemone on a recent dive at Olebar on #Gabriola 😉