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Rachel Warburton
@rwarby.bsky.social
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English prof, Early modern, histories of sexuality
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This seems important. Ontario academics take note. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
‘Mind-boggling stupidity’: The consultancy that captured universities
Nous Group has slowly taken over the university sector, filling VCs’ offices with ex-staff and buying ‘incredibly sensitive’ data that is sold back for benchmarking.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
June 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
rwarby.bsky.social
Yep.
natsechobbyist.bsky.social Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist.bsky.social · May 24
Republicans’ idea of Small Government™️ is when a small group of white men get to tell the rest of what to do and what we can do.
May 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Not that I needed a warning. But this is where we’re at.
April 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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My current hot take: Mark Carney is a Joe Clark Conservative. Discuss.
March 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Every Canadian should read this. If you think we are immune to American-style devastation of education, we are not.
Inside Doug Ford’s Plan to Starve Ontario’s Universities | The Walrus
What happens when a government stops believing in education?
thewalrus.ca
March 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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An unhappy but important read.
Blame Canada
Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory
snyder.substack.com
March 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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“The End of the University as We Know It”, by Meghan O’Rourke www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
Opinion | The View Inside Trump’s Assault on Universities (Gift Article)
The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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On a lighter note…
March 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
In an alternative, better world, Doug Ford would have a lot less power right now
Our first-past-the-post voting system means Ontario voters are being shortchanged.
www.thestar.com
March 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Trudeau: "They're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin- a lying, murderous, dictator. Make that make sense. Canadians are reasonable and we are polite. But we will not back down from a fight...Canada will be implementing 25% tariffs against $155b of American goods."
March 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Dear Ontario: Vote!
February 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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February 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Glad Day Books haul.
February 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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RIP Marianne Faithfull. 😢
January 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.

Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.

Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
January 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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wokestudies.bsky.social
Useful resource for students and theatre folk ...
Shakespeare's Globe: Finding Queerness in our records.
Free pdf book download (156 pages)
#sexuality #gender #LGBTQ #history #queer #performance #drama
cdn.shakespearesglobe.com/uploads/2025...
"Researchers should note that this subject guide facilitates access not just to the records of the Shakespeare Globe Trust, but to the staging of works from the Early Modern corpus and both language and representation may now be offensive. However, even new writing can represent Queerness in ways that reinforce negative stereotypes (e.g. promiscuity, predatoriness and the spreading of disease) and productions can add queerness to characterisation that is little more than a titillating joke. More recent productions have content warnings in pre-publicity (which may specify homophobia, for example), and these are added to the catalogue for the recordings of those productions, but earlier productions of the same play do not have such warnings"
January 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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wokestudies.bsky.social
Free educational resource from the Globe Theatre, London:
"Tracing Race in our Records" (146 pages)
#Shakespeare #history #drama #TeamEnglish
cdn.shakespearesglobe.com/uploads/2025...
January 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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wokestudies.bsky.social
Also highly recommended:

"Finding Gender in our Records" (146 pages)

[ A free educational resource from the Globe Theatre, London ]

#Shakespeare #history #drama #TeamEnglish #performance #gender #literature

cdn.shakespearesglobe.com/uploads/2025...
January 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Holy doublespeak!
U.S. Department of Education Ends Biden’s Book Ban Hoax
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced that it has dismissed 11 complaints related to so-called “book bans.”
www.ed.gov
January 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Comfort food for discomfiting times.
January 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Love this!
Missouri trans 'snitch form' down after people spammed it with the 'Bee Movie' script | TechCrunch
Concerned citizens armed with fanfiction and the "Bee Movie" script took down a government-run website in Missouri.
techcrunch.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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The very definition of speaking truth to power.

youtu.be/ACcD8FA15uY
Bishop confronts Trump on immigration and gay rights: ‘They fear for their lives’
YouTube video by Guardian News
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January 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Just putting this here.
Signs You Are a Gen-Xer Who’s About to Turn Sixty
1. You own music in so many formats that your collection could be housed in an audio museum. 2. Back in your day, people feared measles more than t...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM