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Dr. Rine Vieth 🚐
@rinewithoutacat.bsky.social
move with care • researches anti-genderism, migration, law, govt, religion • makes comics, posters, podcasts, zines, balcony gardens • multilingual, mixed-methods • personal acct, but I cite my sources • usually MTL

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As some of you know, I'm working on a project looking at anti-gender/anti-trans politics and its impacts on SOGI asylum/refugee policymaking in Canada and the UK.

I'm looking for interviewees to discuss their experiences as legal professionals, community supporters, and NGO workers.

Please share!
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If you want a sense of the state of Canadian news gathering right now, I don't think any Canadian news sites have a story up about Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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This is a stark reason—one of several—to be very cautious here. Others: Almost everyone involved is an unreliable narrator. It’s night. It’s the new year weekend and so still a holiday time for most journalism staffing operations.

People are getting calls now, and getting to work, but be cautious.
Whatever the fuck is going on is clearly very bad and an era of fake/recirculated video making it very hard to tell what is real is making it even worse.
January 3, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti.

Mattia sips on an espresso during his.

Truly the heroes we need during these times.
January 2, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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UofT students: I'm offering a Black Radical Theory from the Global South class, JAA 377H on Tuesdays. We'll be reading folks like Neville Alexander, Keguro Macharia, Beatriz Nascimento, Grace Musila, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Wangui Kimari etc...
January 3, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Deciding to belatedly add the intention of "don't post stuff to just generate rage" because "look at this horrible thing!!" feels both too easy and unhelpful.

I want to be more intentional and more useful and more productive with communication and...well, we do not need constant cortisol-spikes.
Have decided on intentions for next year:

- Get stronger at the gym (as my body allows)
- Write a *rough* draft of a book I've wanted to write for a couple years (the outline is there)
- Do more comics + printmaking (see: fix my riso)
- Reconnect with old friends + connect more with new/er friends
January 3, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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New year, new mayor, new essay in @nybooks.com about what the Mamdani mayoral era might mean for the city's immigrant communities:
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Sanctuary City | Tanvi Misra
Come January, New York City will be led by an immigrant—and, in a series of firsts, by a Muslim Indian American from Uganda. This kind of representation
www.nybooks.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Ok so the Habs were not cozy hockey, but a 7-5 win (first win against Carolina in Carolina since April 2016?!) is indeed a win
*getting cozy for hockey-watching, but I like the way this is phrased so will not be deleting, you should all get some cozy hockey-watching if that's what you're into (or the existential anxiety of the Habs taking things to OT, yet again)
January 2, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Living Jan 1 as I intend to continue the year—still glowing from a lovely walk last night, texting a dozen friends, smooching my cat on the noggin, making some writing plans (and then writing), ending up on a migrant solidarity call, and then getting cozy hockey-watching.
January 1, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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Hearts starve as well as bodies
Give us bread but give us roses
January 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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when we all collectively lost our minds until the wee hours and by the end even the players didn’t care who won
Favorite sports moment of 2025? 🎉
January 1, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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Bernie Wagenblast, best known as the “please stand away from the closing doors” voice is the announcer for Mamdani’s inauguration.
January 1, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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Happy to share this open access article I co-authored with Dimitrios Theodossopolous
“On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology” anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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The swiftness with which Trump dismantled decades of meager, hard-fought protections exposed the limits of legal work.
twp.ai/4itNhb
In the Face of Anti-Trans Escalation, We Need More Than Legal Strategies
The swiftness with which Trump dismantled decades of meager, hard-fought protections exposed the limits of legal work.
truthout.org
December 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM
First walk of the year with a friend, complete.
January 1, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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I wish you, and me, and all of us, strength & solidarity & joy in the new year as we find our way together: which we have done this year already, and will arise tomorrow to do again. /thread
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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the point is that together we can find a way. the point is that. together.
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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you are here at the end of a year in which I'll bet you wondered what the point was, at some point
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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snakes leave behind whole skins. all manner of flying creatures, not just butterflies, do them one better, whole new selves from wriggling worms. rocks into gems. mystics die to the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. rebirth is the rule, not the stray exception, if we can grasp it
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Have decided on intentions for next year:

- Get stronger at the gym (as my body allows)
- Write a *rough* draft of a book I've wanted to write for a couple years (the outline is there)
- Do more comics + printmaking (see: fix my riso)
- Reconnect with old friends + connect more with new/er friends
December 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Interesting (ongoing) developments in Orr v Trump (the US passport gender marker case)—both around pointing out that we're very much in delay territory, and that Skrmetti isn't really what's at issue here.

(Yeah okay, I am rounding out 2025 by spending $1.70 on PACER because I was curious.)
December 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
My last @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social ep of the year is out!

I interviewed @usask.ca Law Prof Robin Hansen about her book "Prison Born" on Canadian prisons, ongoing anti-Indigenous harm, and gendered rights through the practice of infant-mother separation.

Listen: newbooksnetwork.com/prison-born
Robin F. Hansen, "Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow" (U Regina Press, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Thinking of this Lucille Clifton poem today.
December 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM