Michael V. Smith
@michaelvsmith.bsky.social
That writer performer filmmaker radical faerie professor curator consummate host and adorable gender-radical queerdo guy.
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Maybe it's a good time to share my feel-good doc about being gender-queer. Cuz, you know. We need to increase our gender joy. www.vimeo.com/michaelvsmit...
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Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
May 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
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It’s funny that all the conservatives who thought Carney shouldn’t be interim PM because he wasn’t elected are okay with Poilievre staying on as the CPC leader even though he literally just LOST an election
April 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It’s funny that all the conservatives who thought Carney shouldn’t be interim PM because he wasn’t elected are okay with Poilievre staying on as the CPC leader even though he literally just LOST an election
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Poetry-only press Brick Books marks its 50th anniversary, celebrating the “unlikely feat” of publishing nothing but verse for half a century. bit.ly/44CDJAc
April 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Poetry-only press Brick Books marks its 50th anniversary, celebrating the “unlikely feat” of publishing nothing but verse for half a century. bit.ly/44CDJAc
This was fun. Thanks for the questions, Kathryn Mockler!
Michael V. Smith on advice to his younger self:
"I'd tell my younger self how amazing he is, just for being alive, just as he is, in that genderqueer skin."
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"I'd tell my younger self how amazing he is, just for being alive, just as he is, in that genderqueer skin."
@michaelvsmith.bsky.social
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I would like us to look up to the world, not down on it.
I've been meaning to ask Michael V. Smith
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This was fun. Thanks for the questions, Kathryn Mockler!
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"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut
The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.
www.euronews.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
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Feel free to recruit me international university even though I am not a scientist. I have other skills.
April 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Feel free to recruit me international university even though I am not a scientist. I have other skills.
Anyone want to bring me to their town for this fun karaoke + poetry event?
April 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Anyone want to bring me to their town for this fun karaoke + poetry event?
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The rights hypocrisy of blaming social programs that help those in need and saying nothing of the blatant bl Corporate welfare for the rich... www.biv.com/news/canadas...
Canada's oil and gas industry received $29.6B in subsidies in 2024, report finds
The subsidies dwarf the previous years total and come as Ottawa said it would wind down direct financial support for the industry
www.biv.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The rights hypocrisy of blaming social programs that help those in need and saying nothing of the blatant bl Corporate welfare for the rich... www.biv.com/news/canadas...
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Schiff: "That may end up being the most enduring image of the Trump presidency: The president out on a golf cart while peoples' retirement is in flames."
April 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Schiff: "That may end up being the most enduring image of the Trump presidency: The president out on a golf cart while peoples' retirement is in flames."
It's crazy to be living in such intense times that every day there are multiple news stories of how despicable or heroic humans can be that each feel...legendary. This history is intense in the making. And fast.
April 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It's crazy to be living in such intense times that every day there are multiple news stories of how despicable or heroic humans can be that each feel...legendary. This history is intense in the making. And fast.
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“Trump has ordered border agents to look through personal devices for any anti-Trump sentiment and has turned away or detained dozens of Canadians vacationing or working in the US - legally.” 🎃🎃🎃
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
Canada’s New US Travel Warning: Leave Your Phone, Grab a Burner, and Maybe Skip the U.S. Altogether
April 2, 2025
open.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
“Trump has ordered border agents to look through personal devices for any anti-Trump sentiment and has turned away or detained dozens of Canadians vacationing or working in the US - legally.” 🎃🎃🎃
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
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Part 3 of My Adventures in Book Publicity - Book Tours
"Launching a book into the world is a mind fuck. It’s exciting but often devastating and can be humiliating."
"Launching a book into the world is a mind fuck. It’s exciting but often devastating and can be humiliating."
Launching a book into the world is a mind fuck. It’s exciting but often devastating and can be humiliating.
My Adventures in Book Publicity Part 3 | Book Tours
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March 27, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Part 3 of My Adventures in Book Publicity - Book Tours
"Launching a book into the world is a mind fuck. It’s exciting but often devastating and can be humiliating."
"Launching a book into the world is a mind fuck. It’s exciting but often devastating and can be humiliating."
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It is truly sick that universities have preyed on international students for exploitatively exorbitant tuition fees and now they are allowing those same students to be thrown to the wolves with nary a fucking complaint.
March 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
It is truly sick that universities have preyed on international students for exploitatively exorbitant tuition fees and now they are allowing those same students to be thrown to the wolves with nary a fucking complaint.
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This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
leiterreports.typepad.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
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The Signal scandal isn't just about the security breach: it's also a window into Trump's mafia foreign policy. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Group Chat War Plans Provide a Window Into Trump’s Mafia State
American foreign policy is now all about incompetent shakedowns and cover-ups.
www.thenation.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Signal scandal isn't just about the security breach: it's also a window into Trump's mafia foreign policy. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Queers who lived thru the AIDS crisis know about living through genocide. Joy was a huge part of the struggle. There is no fight without joy. Joy will lift us up. Do not live in despair; that story is no place to build a home. Build your home in joy.
March 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Queers who lived thru the AIDS crisis know about living through genocide. Joy was a huge part of the struggle. There is no fight without joy. Joy will lift us up. Do not live in despair; that story is no place to build a home. Build your home in joy.
I found one of my books in this list ffs.
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I found one of my books in this list ffs.
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Please read all of this: an account of her own detention and the stories of other detained women as well.
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Please read all of this: an account of her own detention and the stories of other detained women as well.
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America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
As a genderqueer Canadian who posts about genocide like he cares for all life...I withdrew from my AWP panel and visit. Too dangerous to visit America. Too scary how basic human rights and decency are vanishing. #awp2025
March 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
As a genderqueer Canadian who posts about genocide like he cares for all life...I withdrew from my AWP panel and visit. Too dangerous to visit America. Too scary how basic human rights and decency are vanishing. #awp2025
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The AMS vote for a UBC student strike March 24 & 25 is live!
Vote here ⤵️
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Vote here ⤵️
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March 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The AMS vote for a UBC student strike March 24 & 25 is live!
Vote here ⤵️
ams.simplyvoting.com?fbclid=PAZXh...
Vote here ⤵️
ams.simplyvoting.com?fbclid=PAZXh...
Friends, I'm putting a karaoke launch party together. Let your local festival know if you want a karaoke+poetry event in your town. It's going to be FUN!
Thrilled to release the cover of my lyric memoir Soundtrack, about growing up and coming out in the shadow of AIDS. All framed by music albums/songs as mnemonic devices, for "where I was when." Pre-orders are open with @bookhugpress.bsky.social !
March 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Friends, I'm putting a karaoke launch party together. Let your local festival know if you want a karaoke+poetry event in your town. It's going to be FUN!
Finally finished the memorial zine for Kim Kinakin. Dm me if you love him too and would like a copy.
March 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Finally finished the memorial zine for Kim Kinakin. Dm me if you love him too and would like a copy.
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This would be a perfect time for Canada to start allowing US trans people into our country as asylum seekers.
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This would be a perfect time for Canada to start allowing US trans people into our country as asylum seekers.