Tiana Reid
@tianareid.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in the Department of English at York University in Toronto
I'll be in conversation with novelist Suzette Mayr next week at Scott Library. What will we talk about? What will we talk about!?
www.library.yorku.ca/web/blog/202...
www.library.yorku.ca/web/blog/202...
Let's Talk About It: A Conversation with Author Suzette Mayr - York University Libraries
Latest news, features and events at York University Libraries.
www.library.yorku.ca
November 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I'll be in conversation with novelist Suzette Mayr next week at Scott Library. What will we talk about? What will we talk about!?
www.library.yorku.ca/web/blog/202...
www.library.yorku.ca/web/blog/202...
Chekhov’s stories are essentially plotless.
Mirsky wrote they are a “biography of a mood,”
and Chekhov himself hoped to write
with the objectivity of a chemist.
rattle.com/glosa-by-dia...
Mirsky wrote they are a “biography of a mood,”
and Chekhov himself hoped to write
with the objectivity of a chemist.
rattle.com/glosa-by-dia...
Glosa by Diane Seuss - Rattle: Poetry
He took to reading Chekhov late at night
and studied up on Fox Talbot and calotypes.
rattle.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Chekhov’s stories are essentially plotless.
Mirsky wrote they are a “biography of a mood,”
and Chekhov himself hoped to write
with the objectivity of a chemist.
rattle.com/glosa-by-dia...
Mirsky wrote they are a “biography of a mood,”
and Chekhov himself hoped to write
with the objectivity of a chemist.
rattle.com/glosa-by-dia...
Help rebuild Accompong Town maroon community after the hurricane www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebui...
Donate to Help Rebuild Accompong Town, Cockpit Country After Hurricane, organized by State of Accompong
Help Rebuild Accompong Town: Help Jamaica's Indigenous People… State of Accompong needs your support for Help Rebuild Accompong Town, Cockpit Country After Hurricane
www.gofundme.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Help rebuild Accompong Town maroon community after the hurricane www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebui...
Such decrepit working, teaching, and learning conditions at York, alongside the building of the university's historically most expensive capital project ($280.5 million). thelocal.to/york-univers...
How York University Lost the Trust of Its Community | The Local
After program closures, questionable major capital projects, and increasingly fractious labour relations, what is the future of York University?
thelocal.to
October 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Such decrepit working, teaching, and learning conditions at York, alongside the building of the university's historically most expensive capital project ($280.5 million). thelocal.to/york-univers...
A bird flies—no, bangs—into the window at the environmental studies building.
September 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A bird flies—no, bangs—into the window at the environmental studies building.
"The drones were supplied by Canada’s police" www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
Deadly Haiti drone attack kills eight children in capital Port-au-Prince
The drone attack in Cite Soleil, one of the capital’s most dangerous neighbourhoods, has been blamed on Haiti’s police.
www.aljazeera.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"The drones were supplied by Canada’s police" www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
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The Alchemy Lecture 2025
Sound—at the Interregnum
Glen Coulthard
Canisia Lubrin
Madeleine Thien
Immanuel Wilkins
Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.)
Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU
Event type: Hybrid – in person and online
Sound—at the Interregnum
Glen Coulthard
Canisia Lubrin
Madeleine Thien
Immanuel Wilkins
Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.)
Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU
Event type: Hybrid – in person and online
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The Alchemy Lecture 2025
Sound—at the Interregnum
Glen Coulthard
Canisia Lubrin
Madeleine Thien
Immanuel Wilkins
Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.)
Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU
Event type: Hybrid – in person and online
Sound—at the Interregnum
Glen Coulthard
Canisia Lubrin
Madeleine Thien
Immanuel Wilkins
Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.)
Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU
Event type: Hybrid – in person and online
"The museums, libraries and foundations that emerged from the robber baron era — none of these were given for 'free': they were paid for and built by breaking unions (which transformed US union culture forever), open-firing on striking workers [...]" offshootjournal.org/no-good-olig...
NO GOOD OLIGARCHS
Offshoot Journal presents NO GOOD OLIGARCHS. Rockefeller isn’t better than Musk, Mellon isn’t better than Bezos because there are N O G O O D O L I G A R C H S: N O N E. Carnegie didn’t build concert ...
offshootjournal.org
September 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"The museums, libraries and foundations that emerged from the robber baron era — none of these were given for 'free': they were paid for and built by breaking unions (which transformed US union culture forever), open-firing on striking workers [...]" offshootjournal.org/no-good-olig...
"The revolution is madness. Without the madness of the revolution and its adventures you will never be liberated."
—Wisam Rafeedie, The Trinity of Fundamentals
—Wisam Rafeedie, The Trinity of Fundamentals
September 19, 2025 at 6:46 AM
"The revolution is madness. Without the madness of the revolution and its adventures you will never be liberated."
—Wisam Rafeedie, The Trinity of Fundamentals
—Wisam Rafeedie, The Trinity of Fundamentals
Adjudicated, monopolized, and sanctioned by the state, so-called freedom of speech has always been a principle meant to be enjoyed only by a certain few.
September 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Adjudicated, monopolized, and sanctioned by the state, so-called freedom of speech has always been a principle meant to be enjoyed only by a certain few.
Reposted by Tiana Reid
Hi! I'll be in conversation with Minh Nguyen on Saturday, October 4, from 3-5 PM at Art Metropole in Toronto artmetropole.com/events/book-...
Art Metropole / Memorial Park Book Launch
artmetropole.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Hi! I'll be in conversation with Minh Nguyen on Saturday, October 4, from 3-5 PM at Art Metropole in Toronto artmetropole.com/events/book-...
“All these schools are fake” - University of Toronto students on my commute to… school. Bonne rentrée a tous!!! 🙃🙃🙃
September 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“All these schools are fake” - University of Toronto students on my commute to… school. Bonne rentrée a tous!!! 🙃🙃🙃
Haneen Salem, a photojournalist in Gaza, is raising funds for new camera equipment
chuffed.org/project/1469...
chuffed.org/project/1469...
Support Haneen, a journalist in Gaza, and fight against the erasure of truth
My name is Haneen Salem, a journalist and photographer from Gaza. Since the beginning of the war, my life has become a daily journey between rubble and death, carrying my camera to document the storie...
chuffed.org
September 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Haneen Salem, a photojournalist in Gaza, is raising funds for new camera equipment
chuffed.org/project/1469...
chuffed.org/project/1469...
Reposted by Tiana Reid
Some had even hired the RSF as private security to protect their massive projects.
August 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Some had even hired the RSF as private security to protect their massive projects.
Reposted by Tiana Reid
Every once in a while I get angry at the Sudanese millionaire class esp. those who signed that port deal with the UAE in 2022. They have done nothing for Sudan's civilians during this war re: food + evacuations (at least not that I'm aware of) and set the stage 4 for the war early on.
August 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Every once in a while I get angry at the Sudanese millionaire class esp. those who signed that port deal with the UAE in 2022. They have done nothing for Sudan's civilians during this war re: food + evacuations (at least not that I'm aware of) and set the stage 4 for the war early on.
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Join 600+ signatories of the no-scabbing pledge 🌹
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Open letter to Columbia administration on replacing union instructional labor
Columbia has eliminated almost all graduate teaching positions in the Core Curriculum, the first-year writing program, language classes, and labs in STEM. Signatories of the open letter pledge not to ...
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August 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Join 600+ signatories of the no-scabbing pledge 🌹
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"this symbolic framing has come at a cost. It overlooks the right of Gazans to define their own image, to reject imposed roles and archetypes. It also constructs a conceptual framework in which weakness, exhaustion, and fatigue are not permitted." alrifaq.substack.com/p/engineerin...
Engineering Reality: Towards a Deeper Understanding of Gaza
By Bahaa Shahira Raouf, published on Al-Akhbar on 20 July 2024. Translation by Noha AbuShammala.
alrifaq.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"this symbolic framing has come at a cost. It overlooks the right of Gazans to define their own image, to reject imposed roles and archetypes. It also constructs a conceptual framework in which weakness, exhaustion, and fatigue are not permitted." alrifaq.substack.com/p/engineerin...
I love city cyclists. One comrade just did a THUMBS DOWN at a driver cutting off a bike lane hehe
August 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I love city cyclists. One comrade just did a THUMBS DOWN at a driver cutting off a bike lane hehe
"I am a black man number one, because I am against
what they have done and are still doing to us; and
number two, I have something to say about the new
society to be built [...] " — C. L. R. James via ch. 2 of The Undercommons because it's that time of year
what they have done and are still doing to us; and
number two, I have something to say about the new
society to be built [...] " — C. L. R. James via ch. 2 of The Undercommons because it's that time of year
August 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"I am a black man number one, because I am against
what they have done and are still doing to us; and
number two, I have something to say about the new
society to be built [...] " — C. L. R. James via ch. 2 of The Undercommons because it's that time of year
what they have done and are still doing to us; and
number two, I have something to say about the new
society to be built [...] " — C. L. R. James via ch. 2 of The Undercommons because it's that time of year
Corey Devon Arthur's latest, for Scalawag's Abolition Week
"Prison guards are making pornographic movies starring the prison population using body cameras."
"New York State Department of Corrections [..] is recording and storing videos of naked, mostly Black and brown people under the threat of violent force."
#NewYork #USA #Policing #Incarceration
"New York State Department of Corrections [..] is recording and storing videos of naked, mostly Black and brown people under the threat of violent force."
#NewYork #USA #Policing #Incarceration
A new directive permits prison guards to record strip searches using body cameras – Scalawag
Prison policy directs guards to make pornographic movies starring the prison population using their body cameras.
scalawagmagazine.org
August 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Corey Devon Arthur's latest, for Scalawag's Abolition Week
“survival took on a new shape: We became people without a place, without paperwork, without permanence, like bureaucratic ghosts.” www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We Left Gaza. But Our Pain Came With Us.
Palestinians who escaped the horrors of Gaza face a new trauma: the dislocation of exile from our homeland.
www.thenation.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“survival took on a new shape: We became people without a place, without paperwork, without permanence, like bureaucratic ghosts.” www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Reposted by Tiana Reid
1000 faculty hit the picket lines tomorrow, 930 am, lockout by @dalhousieu.bsky.social. A first for CDN research intensive universities. A reckless move by the Board - jeopardizing the fall term, ruining relations with faculty for years to come. Join us on the picket lines to #keepdalstrong!
August 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
1000 faculty hit the picket lines tomorrow, 930 am, lockout by @dalhousieu.bsky.social. A first for CDN research intensive universities. A reckless move by the Board - jeopardizing the fall term, ruining relations with faculty for years to come. Join us on the picket lines to #keepdalstrong!