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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware
@syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
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He/him. PhD. Activist. Assistant Professor. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Canada and Wildseed Centre for Arts & Activism. 🌈💕🌱
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · Mar 1
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.
Syrus crosses his arms across his chest and his tattoos show: touch change written in large cursive letters across his arms. Syrus stands in front of a very large scale drawing he made of a 1970s trans activist on the wall of Grunt Gallery in Vancouver as part of his solo show there. There are words also drawn on the wall that read: we went out in the blackest of nights…. Syrus smiles with pink and purple dreadlocks and shows off his tshirt that reads “museums are not neutral” Syrus stands in from of two of his 12 ft x 6 ft tall graphite on paper drawings of activists Queentite Opaleke and Joh Vettivelu. Syrus holds papers in his hand and a microphone and wears a large Ankara fabric tunic. The drawings are up at the AGYU for his group show there in 2016.
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erininthemorning.com
I will always remember this Mamdani ad.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/as-some-de...
As Some Dems Run From Trans People, Zohran Mamdani's Latest Ad Shows Real Support
The 2 minute ad features Sylvia Rivera's story, Mamdani's commitment to transgender people, and even music from the legendary late trans artist SOPHIE.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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juliaserano.bsky.social
wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
New Poll: Voters Prefer Democratic Candidates Approach To Trans Rights Over Republicans
A new poll, which surveys voters who will partake in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races, found that voters were not impressed with Republican anti-trans positions.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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michaelhendricks.bsky.social
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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kconnor.bsky.social
🚨Critical BREACH OF PRIVACY🚨 and trust for any 🇨🇦 researcher (trainees to PIs) who have been involved with ANY grant or scholarship submission (or their review!!!) to ANY of the TriCouncils (CIHR NSERC SSHRC) in the last 20 years!

Also see this petition & thread 👇🏻
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
will kim is still in ICE detention
ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · Sep 4
will taeheung kim, a korean american scientist and doctoral candidate with a green card, is still being detained by ICE. he's been in detention since July 21, first at SFO for over a week and then in various ICE facilities all over the country.
Instagram post from Stop AAPI HAte; horrific new details emerge about CBP's unlawful detainment of u.s. permanent resident returning from south korea. reports detail how CBP trapped tae heung "will" kim under inhumane conditions for over eight days at an airport. officers moved kim several times to "confuse and disorient him" kept the lights on at all times, gave him minimal food and no bed--forcing hi to sleep on a row of chairs.
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
@qimoyocreative.bsky.social made this delicious baked squash dish and it was so delicious!!!!
A white backing dish sits in the over, full of 9 slices of orangey-yellow squash with a dark green rind. The squash is marinated and glazed and covered in sesame seeds and chives.
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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xtramagazine.com
“I think in an interdependent sense, we are all responsible for one another, but in an individual sense, I can’t make you change,” @lewispants.bsky.social tells @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social in an interview. 'Radical Unlearning' is out today.
‘Radical Unlearning’ explores what it takes to shift our beliefs | Xtra Magazine
Lewis Raven Wallace's new book digs into the science of personal transformation
xtramagazine.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
My grandmother turned 99 this week! I’m so thankful for her!
Syrus faces his grandmother with his back to us and presents her two giant silver Mylar balloons filled with helium in the shape of 99. His grandmother is a white woman with white hair and a blue sweater and she is visible between the two 9 balloons and she is smiling at Syrus and looks happy!
October 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
We reprised Black Bunker in Kitchener today for the @cafkabiennial 2025! It was really lovely and electric! (They do the electric slide in the performance :) !)
September 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
September 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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foe.org.au
Wonderful news!

'After months of pressure from community environment advocates, the NSW gov accepted that all 176,000 hectares of state forest that were assessed for potential inclusion should be protected in the Great Koala national park'.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW locks in great koala national park and brings in immediate ban on logging
Minns government to create one of the largest national parks in the state as forest advocates welcome ‘historic’ victory
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
@dirtykingofpop 🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴
August 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
You Know Bam Magic! Trans comedy mocking transphobes is a great genre!
August 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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thegrindto.bsky.social
NEW: Police Chief Plays Loose with the Truth on Radio Call-in Show

Toronto’s chief of police got grilled on excessive use of force at Palestine solidarity protests, and he defended the police breaking people’s bones and inflicting concussions.
Police Chief Plays Loose with the Truth on Radio Call-in Show
Toronto’s chief of police took listener calls live on NEWSTALK 1010. He got grilled on excessive use of force at Palestine solidarity protests, and he defended the police breaking people’s bones and…
www.thegrindmag.ca
August 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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mxashmc.bsky.social
Thanks to @sandela.bsky.social and @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social and @matthewgreen.bsky.social for a great conversation exploring the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of the left. Such brilliant humans. I hope for more of this in #HamOnt - here’s to the revolution we all need!
July 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
Me and my studio assistant were renting two cars for our research creation trip at the airport. The person at the counter didn’t believe I was a professor, insisted on writing down what I was using the 2 cars for (research trip) and then wanted to know name of research institution before he was let
July 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
Been awake since 8 and this whole morning I’ve thought it was Saturday! I can’t believe how firmly I believed it- I was like, oh I forgot to do xyz (all my Friday tasks) but was happily settled into my Saturday. Theo is up and clarified our current position in time and space lol.
July 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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thebreakdownab.bsky.social
Niccolaides when asked if he had read the books that the Red Deer School Board chair claims are part of a book ban list...

"I don't have the time"

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
July 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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emmaberquist.bsky.social
should a brown man be mayor? We asked a eugenicist
July 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
Thinking of all the activists roughed up at Queens Park today. Stop bill 5 !!!
July 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
Happy trans march everyone! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 button by ifetayoalabi
Syrus wears a hello darling dress and a he/him button and lavender glasses and smiles at the camera
June 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
cops out of schools press conference was so powerful despite the rain! Here’s some photos by Errol Young from @jfaap and the last is a banner I designed!
Charmaine speaking in a white shite holding a mic and an umbrella looking fierce A speak in a red headscarf holds a mic and speaks loudly Robyn speaks in a black Balzer with her hair down to her shoulders holding a mic Keep cops out of schools banner
June 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
ASL provided! THURSDAY JUNE 26 noon at Queens Park, south in front of legislation building. Join us for press conference and rally about keeping our schools safe! Keep cops out of schools- they don’t keep Black and BIPOC students safe, and in fact put them in danger. #BlackLivesMatter #NotGoingBack
June 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
ASL provided! THURSDAY JUNE 26 noon at Queens Park, south in front of legislation building. Join us for a press conference and rally about keeping our schools safe! Keep cops out of schools- they do not keep Black and BIPOC students safe, and in fact put them in great danger. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Protect all students! Rally and press conference June 26 12 noon queens park How to support: endorse this statement . Attend the rally and press conference. Share your support for this campaign on socials with hashtag #NotGoingBack We know that … SRO programs harm students and enable systemic racism. For wants police back in schools- say no!
June 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
My vows were long and syrus style lol but here is one paragraph from near the end, for Theo: “I read June Jordan’s Love Poems from 1980 and though I understood them on one level, I understand them anew, with you at my side. With you I feel like Ive found home. 1/
Syrus and Theo hug, in mascots shirts made by Theo and skirts by deseiye! Milo and lwrds hold up a pink and neon yellow banner that says syrus loves Theo while syrus and Theo look on Family together with syrus and Theo after their wedding. Everyone is sliming and grouped around the couple in a tree lined cobble stone street Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland sing harbour to syrus and Theo at the start of the wedding.
June 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM