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Shellene Drakes-Tull
@shellenedrakestull.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, educator & storyteller living in 🇨🇦 with 🇧🇧 roots. Emerging novelist. I write about Black Canadians @ The Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, & Byblacks.

Find my work here: https://www.clippings.me/shellendrakestull
Sometimes, you just need a break from socials because life. I'm back! Wanna see some of what I've been writing? www.clippings.me/ShelleneDrakesTull
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June 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Hi folks! Happy 2025--I needed a social media break to bring in the New Year. I'm back, ready to cause havoc in these social media streets 🙃
January 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The Canadian government has all sorts of money except for the Black public servants who are suing them. What do Black people have to do to get treated fairly?

byblacks.com/news/item/37...
Feds Spend Millions In Court Denying That Black Employees Faced Discrimination Even When Internal Reports Prove Otherwise - ByBlacks.com | #1 online magazine for Black Canadians
Lawsuits, internal reports, first-hand accounts—what more do Black people need to do to make people believe us?
byblacks.com
December 17, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Bluster versus Bluster. Lord help us all.

Ford threatens to cut off energy supply to U.S. in response to Trump’s tariffs

www.cp24.com/politics/que...
Ford threatens to cut off energy supply to U.S. in response to Trump’s tariffs
Ontario Premier Doug Ford threated to cut off energy supply to the U.S. in response to the tariffs President-elect Donald Trump plans to impose on all Canadian imports.
www.cp24.com
December 11, 2024 at 11:57 PM
I was 14 years old, living in Montreal, and I heard our neighbour pounding on our door.

"Is your sister home? There was a shooting at a university downtown."

She wasn't a student at École Polytechnique where 14 female students were gunned down on December 6, 1989. Today is the 35th anniversary.
Remembering Montreal's École Polytechnique massacre 35 years later: Photos
Friday marks the 35th anniversary of the tragic Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, where a gunman targeted and killed 14 women simply because of their gender, sparking a nationwide reckoning on viole...
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December 6, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Food is a right, not a privilege. People can barely afford to eat today. We gotta spend $800 more? Bare madness.

Canadians to spend $801 more on food in 2025: report

www.cp24.com/news/canada/...
Canadians to spend $801 more on food in 2025: report
Food prices in Canada are likely to increase by three to five per cent next year, according to a newly released report, but wild cards like climate change and Donald Trump could have unforeseen impact...
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December 5, 2024 at 5:21 PM
I am the proud child of immigrants. Here's part of my mother's story of coming to Canada from Barbados.
Shellene Drakes-Tull: It’s easy to scapegoat immigrants. But where would Canada be without people like my mom?
My mother, like so many others, didn’t just come to Canada for a better life — she came to help build a better Canada.
www.thestar.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:48 PM
And so the chaos begins. I mean, the man hasn'teven taken office yet and he's starting with the threats. SMH. Is this y'all king??
www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-tariff-25-1.7393160
Donald Trump promises 25 per cent tariff on products from Canada, Mexico | CBC News
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive order imposing a 25 per cent tariff on all products coming in to the United States from Mexico and Canada.
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2024 at 2:14 AM
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.--James Baldwin

I would say instead of country, world because anti-Blackness is global.

To be blissfully ignorant some days would be a blessing.
November 23, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by Shellene Drakes-Tull
The grocery monopoly in #Canada is largely responsible for the gouging. #GalenWeston 🎩 #Roblaws
November 20, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Being an #introverted Black woman who is an #entrepreneur is a different type of hard 😭 That's why I arrive at events late--I don't want to talk to anyone. I'm early today 😭
November 20, 2024 at 3:31 PM
People are struggling because #food and #housing, and #transit, and #utilities, and the price of everything is just too damned high. Who else financially fighting for their lives?
Shellene Drakes-Tull: Food is a right, not a luxury
It doesn't matter whether you indulge or stick with the basics, food is just too pricey, Shellene Drakes-Tull writes.
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:54 PM
So today's goal is to write my column and finish my book proposal but why am I SO DAMNED TIRED? I didn't leave the house since Friday because of this cold and I am exhausted. Jesus be a caffeinated IV drip. Lawd.
November 18, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Where are the #BlackCanadians? Let's get together 🇨🇦 ❤️
November 16, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Someone wrote in their bio, "Black and tired," and I feel that in my soul. The '20s have drained me.
November 16, 2024 at 3:12 PM
This what happens when you have no integrity or morals. This can't make up for the hell these women went through, but I hope Ms. Moss and Ms. Freeman never have to work another day of their lives.
Rudy Giuliani’s watch collection being FedExed to GA election workers Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss: “This is the accumulation of 60 years of hard work. Many of these watches hold great sentimental value!
November 15, 2024 at 3:52 PM
#Canadians are also 'dissatisfied' with #democracy and are leaning into US-style #politics. Our federal #elections will happen in 2025 and the question is, "Is the US election a harbinger of what's to come here?"
Shellene Drakes-Tull: Satisfaction in democracy is slipping. We need more than ever to defend it
The U.S. election season highlights just how bad things can get when we begin to flirt with authoritarianism, because, in the end, it’s everyday people like you and me who
www.thestar.com
November 9, 2024 at 6:49 PM
#Canadians have thoughts and opinions about the US election. My opinion is: this is #America. The US population can fool itself. #Media can look for reasons, but it's all about #misogynoir.

Kamala wasn't a perfect candidate, but this wasn't about her #politics. It was about her #identity.
This is America: He Gets To Be Lawless. She Has To Be Flawless. - ByBlacks.com | #1 online magazine for Black Canadians
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are not taking the same exam.
byblacks.com
November 9, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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