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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware
@syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
He/him. PhD. Activist. Assistant Professor. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Canada and Wildseed Centre for Arts & Activism. 🌈💕🌱
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Hello! Welcome ❤️ I’m an artist, activist and scholar based in Tkaronto in Northern Turtle Island. I’m a parent and a twin and long time abolitionist. I believe we will get free together and am working with my communities to build and grow and bring about change together. ❤️✊🏾until we are free.
The final Africa and Black Diaspora Studies (ABLD) Seminar of the 2025–2026 academic year! This session, Neurodiversity, Research Creation, and Access in Academic Spaces, will explore how research creation shapes scholarship and opens new points of access for underrepresented students and scholars.
February 19, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Happy birthday Audre Lorde!
February 19, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Got my copy of TOPIA in the mail! I wrote an article about speculative fiction as a tool for radical change and about the possibilities of rooting into ‘hope for a generation’ as Fat Freddy’s Drop sings about.
February 19, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
February 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I have a new chapter in Alex Bulmer and Debbie Patterson’s new book, Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts: Deaf and Disabked Artists Raise the Curtain on Cripping the Stage (Coach House Press, 2026), and an excerpt from the script for MBL Freedom, my 2022 project about the colonization of Antarctica.
February 19, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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“Police banged their shields in unison and advanced, screaming [“move”]. At intervals, they pepper-sprayed the crowd, fired tear gas, and beat demonstrators with their batons at will. […] This cycle of violence continued for nearly 40 minutes.”

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Anti-Garda demonstration in Montreal ends in extreme SPVM violence
Canada’s close ties to ongoing ICE operations and how resistance to GardaWorld ended in the SPVM pepper spraying, tear gassing and beating demonstrators.
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February 17, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Write down/draw what you’re dreaming into, in the now…I wanna come alongside your dreaming and jam together as we world build. I’m sure others in your life want this too, they also want to share their dreams. www.instagram.com/reel/DUv0w8V...
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Write down/draw what you’re dreaming into, in the now…I wanna come alongside your dreaming and jam together as we world build. I’m sure others in your life want this too, they also want to share their dreams. So today is a day to share it widely…When we are freer in the near future after throwing off the chains that bind us, imagining forward ten years to 2036, how might you be spending your time? This freer world we’re building towards…what does it actually look like? Feel like, smell like? My world smells sweet and fecund and alive and not like chemicals and smoke and car exhaust. How do you gather? Where do you live? In wha community are you embedded? How do you spend your time… this feels like something delicious to dream into. What if your time was your own? What if food and shelter and the things you needed to live and thrive, even, were sorted out, were a given in the world we built? What would you do if not having to hustle, to struggle, to fight to survive?
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February 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Our new collaboration Revolutionary Threads// radical TEXTiles: Audre Lorde, up at Old Town Hall Gallery in Newmarket.
February 14, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Posting this for history but also posting this for strategy-this is how folks hid and got along the route.
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
You don’t need a badly “drawn” comic of what an algorithm /ai thinks you do for works and hobbies. You do need water for your grandchildren to not die of thirst. We will need air in Black communities being polluted by the data centres. Plus aren’t you so much more than that?
February 11, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Picture books are for everyone. This month, I will try to feature some of my favorites each day. #PictureBooksAreForEveryone #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #AbolitionIsLove

@syrusmarcusware.bsky.social and Alanna Fricker
February 2, 2026 at 12:18 AM
We must end the safe third country agreement with the US
Toronto-based 2SLGBTQI+ community centre and charity The 519 wants to discuss Ottawa’s safe third country agreement with the United States. The agreement says individuals must claim refugee protection in the first “safe country” they enter.

Read our report: zurl.co/8gcoM
January 31, 2026 at 9:23 PM
It’s been such a joy to collaborate and make this new textile work with Theodore Walker Robinson for an upcoming show, The Promise We Carry, at Old Town Hall Art Gallery in Newmarket.
January 30, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained.

Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk
January 28, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Clear car lanes, unusable bike lanes, two days after the blizzard (Tuesday aft). It’s a ton of snow & will take time sure, but you have mayoral candidate Brad “I sleep with a bat” Bradford trying to say it’s the other way around to gin up rage & culture war stuff.
January 28, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Why are they sending Slave Catchers and secret police abroad?
January 28, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.
January 28, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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Malcolm X got shot from the first got damn row .

I don’t see this as inevitable or inescapable

This should be a straight up discussion we have about safety and security if we are ya know actual thinking about people
January 28, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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In case you missed it: a white man threw a bomb at an indigenous Elder on Invasion Day. He has not been charged with terrorism.
January 28, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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I love this song. 😌
Minneapolis, MN -

A view from the inside entrance to the lobby of the hotel where the noise demonstration against ICE is happening.
January 26, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Groundswells of change are afoot. Seeds planted by our ancestors are blooming or at least budding and we are getting to worldbuild together.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Come join us for a feee zine making hang at Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism (@wildseedcentre). Trans folks have unique experiences in the classroom and in academic spaces and this zine workshop will help us explore our experiences and just jam about how we’d love to learn.
January 21, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
January 15, 2026 at 6:44 AM