Signy Lynch
@signylynch.bsky.social
Theatre nerd, she/her | Contemporary intercultural, intermedial, diasporic & Black theatres in Canada; audience research; theatre criticism | Asst Prof at UofT (Mississauga and CDTPS)
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Looking to stave off the winter blues with some theatre?
Here are 9 local plays to check out in the coming weeks, as picked by The Grind's theatre critic Robyn Grant-Moran.
Here are 9 local plays to check out in the coming weeks, as picked by The Grind's theatre critic Robyn Grant-Moran.
Theatre Preview: What to See This Winter
The Grind’s theatre critic highlights local productions to check out in the coming months…
www.thegrindmag.ca
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Looking to stave off the winter blues with some theatre?
Here are 9 local plays to check out in the coming weeks, as picked by The Grind's theatre critic Robyn Grant-Moran.
Here are 9 local plays to check out in the coming weeks, as picked by The Grind's theatre critic Robyn Grant-Moran.
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Students reading by “candlelight” in my Book History and Materiality course.
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Students reading by “candlelight” in my Book History and Materiality course.
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Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE.
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
In the genocide in Sudan, Canada has a hand in the violence ⋆ The Breach
The massacres of civilians in Sudan are being fuelled by Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee restrictions. It’s time for Canada to end its complicity
breachmedia.ca
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE.
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
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Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
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I fear the future when the students use the LLM to write the thing and the prof uses the LLM to grade the thing, and the prof uses an LLM to write their tenure narrative, and the external reviewer uses an LLM to write their letter, and higher ed is just a bunch of LLMs talking to each other.
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I fear the future when the students use the LLM to write the thing and the prof uses the LLM to grade the thing, and the prof uses an LLM to write their tenure narrative, and the external reviewer uses an LLM to write their letter, and higher ed is just a bunch of LLMs talking to each other.
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Human Rights Watch says Israel forcibly displaced 32,000 Palestinians from three camps in the occupied West Bank during “Operation Iron Wall”, calling it a war crime and urging investigations into senior officials, including PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
🔗: aje.io/w2wwey | #Infograph
🔗: aje.io/w2wwey | #Infograph
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Human Rights Watch says Israel forcibly displaced 32,000 Palestinians from three camps in the occupied West Bank during “Operation Iron Wall”, calling it a war crime and urging investigations into senior officials, including PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
🔗: aje.io/w2wwey | #Infograph
🔗: aje.io/w2wwey | #Infograph
Just absolutely horrific and staggering.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Just absolutely horrific and staggering.
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This is not at all a dig at OP but many children of color learn this before they hit puberty.
I myself almost got expelled because I said some angry, “dangerous” words at a couple of meathead bullies in 7th grade.
I myself almost got expelled because I said some angry, “dangerous” words at a couple of meathead bullies in 7th grade.
One thing the NYC mayoral race underscored for me is how easily the phrase "I don't feel safe" can be weaponized. It's an argument I would hesitate ever to use again, even for a good cause. I hope we can all agree that we have the right to BE safe. Maybe we should leave it at that.
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is not at all a dig at OP but many children of color learn this before they hit puberty.
I myself almost got expelled because I said some angry, “dangerous” words at a couple of meathead bullies in 7th grade.
I myself almost got expelled because I said some angry, “dangerous” words at a couple of meathead bullies in 7th grade.
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This slide only contains one of the highlights the Canadian Arts Coalition cites, but does anyone else not feel like GREAT NEWS CELEBRATE NO NEW CUTS is something only we would do? ($6 mill over 3 years does not cover inflation on a $325M annual budget so actually it is a cut.)
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
This slide only contains one of the highlights the Canadian Arts Coalition cites, but does anyone else not feel like GREAT NEWS CELEBRATE NO NEW CUTS is something only we would do? ($6 mill over 3 years does not cover inflation on a $325M annual budget so actually it is a cut.)
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Canadian artists are bracing for cuts as PM Mark Carney signals austerity ahead of Tuesday's federal budget.
Arts groups warn that slashing 15% could devastate a sector still recovering from the pandemic, @tombeedham.bsky.social reports.
www.thegrindmag.ca/canadian-art...
Arts groups warn that slashing 15% could devastate a sector still recovering from the pandemic, @tombeedham.bsky.social reports.
www.thegrindmag.ca/canadian-art...
Canadian Artists Brace for Austerity: ‘Cuts Will Hurt Everyone’
With ministers instructed to reduce spending, Canada’s arts sector fears a major rollback of promised cultural investments. Advocates say austerity could shutter venues, erase jobs — and silence…
www.thegrindmag.ca
November 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Canadian artists are bracing for cuts as PM Mark Carney signals austerity ahead of Tuesday's federal budget.
Arts groups warn that slashing 15% could devastate a sector still recovering from the pandemic, @tombeedham.bsky.social reports.
www.thegrindmag.ca/canadian-art...
Arts groups warn that slashing 15% could devastate a sector still recovering from the pandemic, @tombeedham.bsky.social reports.
www.thegrindmag.ca/canadian-art...
Among many other things to say here, I'm very curious what she means by this 'undeniable' harm. Who was harmed? How were they harmed? I suspect the answers range from 'got their feelings hurt' to 'faced consequences for racial discrimination or sexual harassment'
This is an absolutely incredible thing to say. As someone in Ivy-ish (Duke) classrooms from 2016-2022… I call bull.
Or she was saying offensive shit.
Or she was saying offensive shit.
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Among many other things to say here, I'm very curious what she means by this 'undeniable' harm. Who was harmed? How were they harmed? I suspect the answers range from 'got their feelings hurt' to 'faced consequences for racial discrimination or sexual harassment'
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Look, I'm not saying students are perfect. Like the rest of us, they're in the process of becoming, and sometimes unskillful. But in my experience, faculty who've embraced Lepore's stance are often those who said something shitty and/or stupid to their students and are now feeling the consequences.
October 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Look, I'm not saying students are perfect. Like the rest of us, they're in the process of becoming, and sometimes unskillful. But in my experience, faculty who've embraced Lepore's stance are often those who said something shitty and/or stupid to their students and are now feeling the consequences.
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Trump and his sniveling minions continue to fling their feces. They fear strong voices. Mediocrity at its most cliche. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
www.aljazeera.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Trump and his sniveling minions continue to fling their feces. They fear strong voices. Mediocrity at its most cliche. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
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'If the ceasefire holds, this language is an augur of the future. One where there is no reckoning, no addressing of root causes. Only a hurtling into the imperatives of cleanings-up and workings-out. All the while illegal occupation continues'.
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
'If the ceasefire holds, this language is an augur of the future. One where there is no reckoning, no addressing of root causes. Only a hurtling into the imperatives of cleanings-up and workings-out. All the while illegal occupation continues'.
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It’s wild that there are people who are like “I’m scared my professor is anti-fascist”
October 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s wild that there are people who are like “I’m scared my professor is anti-fascist”
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wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this
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Bubbling up is a rightwing question: "How would the left have felt if everything George Floyd said on social media was used against him?"
M-kay.
1. George Floyd was a private citizen killed, via homicide, by the state
2. Charlie Kirk was a public figure worth $12 mil with a VERY public record
M-kay.
1. George Floyd was a private citizen killed, via homicide, by the state
2. Charlie Kirk was a public figure worth $12 mil with a VERY public record
September 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Bubbling up is a rightwing question: "How would the left have felt if everything George Floyd said on social media was used against him?"
M-kay.
1. George Floyd was a private citizen killed, via homicide, by the state
2. Charlie Kirk was a public figure worth $12 mil with a VERY public record
M-kay.
1. George Floyd was a private citizen killed, via homicide, by the state
2. Charlie Kirk was a public figure worth $12 mil with a VERY public record
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A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28
Trump-Epstein 'friendship' statue removed from National Mall one day after it appeared
A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28.
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September 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28
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this is the most chotinered a chotiner interview has ever chotinered
September 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
this is the most chotinered a chotiner interview has ever chotinered
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Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Disruption across Italy as tens of thousands protest against Gaza war
Schools and stations closed and ports blocked in one of Europe’s biggest demonstrations opposing Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Israel’s culture minister vows to defund ‘Israeli Oscars’ after film about Palestinian boy wins big
Via CNN
Via CNN
Israel’s culture minister vows to defund ‘Israeli Oscars’ after film about Palestinian boy wins big | CNN
Israel’s minister of culture has vowed to cut funding for the country’s film academy and its annual awards show after a movie about a Palestinian boy’s dream of seeing the ocean won big.
www.cnn.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Israel’s culture minister vows to defund ‘Israeli Oscars’ after film about Palestinian boy wins big
Via CNN
Via CNN
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It would be funny if it wasn‘t so sad arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/e...
Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources
Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.
arstechnica.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It would be funny if it wasn‘t so sad arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/e...
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Covid is known to have long lasting imapcts regardless of previous health status.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
I get out of breath walking up the stairs these days, admits Usain Bolt
The legendary Jamaican sprinter feels his generation was ‘just more talented’ than today’s, though he no longer runs and is ‘into Lego now’
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Covid is known to have long lasting imapcts regardless of previous health status.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...