Wayde Compton
@waydecompton.bsky.social
Author of Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics (U of Alberta P). Assistant Professor of Writing at the University of Victoria.
"My legacy as a descendant of the Taíno and African peoples who withstood Cristoforo Colombo and his ilk" communitycentricfundraising.org/2025/11/10/m...
My legacy as a descendant of the Taíno and African peoples who withstood Cristoforo Colombo and his ilk
This is the story of one holiday of many that keeps the room’s colonial mythology alive. In telling it, I hope to help reconstruct the room in truth, so that its warmth no longer depends on exclusion.
communitycentricfundraising.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"My legacy as a descendant of the Taíno and African peoples who withstood Cristoforo Colombo and his ilk" communitycentricfundraising.org/2025/11/10/m...
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I've said it before and will say it again... if you have to check the results of AI because of its ability to lie then there is no point in ever using AI because you can't trust it.
And yet, companies have invested all that cash so have to push that fucking shit on everyone and every fucking app.
And yet, companies have invested all that cash so have to push that fucking shit on everyone and every fucking app.
August 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I've said it before and will say it again... if you have to check the results of AI because of its ability to lie then there is no point in ever using AI because you can't trust it.
And yet, companies have invested all that cash so have to push that fucking shit on everyone and every fucking app.
And yet, companies have invested all that cash so have to push that fucking shit on everyone and every fucking app.
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(2/2) We loved hearing from local authors, @waydecompton.bsky.social and @candietanaka.bsky.social, who both have titles in the collection; as well as local publisher, Brian Lam
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social.
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social.
July 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
(2/2) We loved hearing from local authors, @waydecompton.bsky.social and @candietanaka.bsky.social, who both have titles in the collection; as well as local publisher, Brian Lam
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social.
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social.
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An all-around fabulous list.
10 Canadian poetry books to expand your mind.
Canadian poetry—not actually written in maple syrup! Not entirely about beavers! (Although I have certainly written about beavers.) Canada is a complicated place, living in the shadow of the U.S., …
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July 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
An all-around fabulous list.
“The operative principle underlying the music that Africans brought to the New World is that it must help people to live.” — Kim Johnson, The Illustrated History of Pan
July 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“The operative principle underlying the music that Africans brought to the New World is that it must help people to live.” — Kim Johnson, The Illustrated History of Pan
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Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
June 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
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New in Perspectives: A New Kind of Corner Store
Public grocery stores are gaining ground in U.S. cities. Is it time for Canadian cities to do the same?
@vassb.bsky.social asks: if we can run public water and transit, why not food?
🔗 perspectivesjournal.ca/municipal-grocery-stores/
Public grocery stores are gaining ground in U.S. cities. Is it time for Canadian cities to do the same?
@vassb.bsky.social asks: if we can run public water and transit, why not food?
🔗 perspectivesjournal.ca/municipal-grocery-stores/
A New Kind of Corner Store | Perspectives Journal
A grocery model that puts affordability and access ahead of margins could nourish something we’re starved for: a little more stability, and a little more imagination.
perspectivesjournal.ca
June 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New in Perspectives: A New Kind of Corner Store
Public grocery stores are gaining ground in U.S. cities. Is it time for Canadian cities to do the same?
@vassb.bsky.social asks: if we can run public water and transit, why not food?
🔗 perspectivesjournal.ca/municipal-grocery-stores/
Public grocery stores are gaining ground in U.S. cities. Is it time for Canadian cities to do the same?
@vassb.bsky.social asks: if we can run public water and transit, why not food?
🔗 perspectivesjournal.ca/municipal-grocery-stores/
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new usa student visa requirement:
must set their social media profiles to "public," saying additional screening part of the vetting process to exclude applicants who "pose a threat to us national security."
must set their social media profiles to "public," saying additional screening part of the vetting process to exclude applicants who "pose a threat to us national security."
U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications
The U.S. State Department said it is restarting the process for foreigners applying for student visas but all applicants will now be required to unlock their social media accounts for review.
www.npr.org
June 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
new usa student visa requirement:
must set their social media profiles to "public," saying additional screening part of the vetting process to exclude applicants who "pose a threat to us national security."
must set their social media profiles to "public," saying additional screening part of the vetting process to exclude applicants who "pose a threat to us national security."
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I'm old enough to remember occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, a never ending war of terror that killed over 4 million people.
And using same rhetoric we hear now- manufacturing consent through racist demonization. And blatant lies.
People's liberation never comes through imperialist terror, ever.
And using same rhetoric we hear now- manufacturing consent through racist demonization. And blatant lies.
People's liberation never comes through imperialist terror, ever.
June 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I'm old enough to remember occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, a never ending war of terror that killed over 4 million people.
And using same rhetoric we hear now- manufacturing consent through racist demonization. And blatant lies.
People's liberation never comes through imperialist terror, ever.
And using same rhetoric we hear now- manufacturing consent through racist demonization. And blatant lies.
People's liberation never comes through imperialist terror, ever.
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"A call for work that celebrates the complex, the cross-genre, the formally mixed, the abject, the unstable, the code-switched (or the code-kept) resistant text. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize and publication in The Capilano Review."
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June 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"A call for work that celebrates the complex, the cross-genre, the formally mixed, the abject, the unstable, the code-switched (or the code-kept) resistant text. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize and publication in The Capilano Review."
thecapilanoreview.com/language-the...
thecapilanoreview.com/language-the...
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I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
"The future is always here in the past." — Amiri Baraka
May 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"The future is always here in the past." — Amiri Baraka
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Hey all—there’s lots of new material on the Soundin’ Canaan website, including an interview with one of my favourite poets and a key figure in the book: @waydecompton.bsky.social. We talk Black Canadian poetry, my DJ methodology, citizenship, American annexation, and more. @wlupress.bsky.social
SOUNDING OUT AND TUNING IN
Paul db Watkins and Wayde Compton discuss DJ methodologies, Black Canadian poetry, and citizenship in a conversation that highlights the interplay of sound, music, and literature. Watkins advocates…
soundincanaan.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Hey all—there’s lots of new material on the Soundin’ Canaan website, including an interview with one of my favourite poets and a key figure in the book: @waydecompton.bsky.social. We talk Black Canadian poetry, my DJ methodology, citizenship, American annexation, and more. @wlupress.bsky.social
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Today in my #CriticalMediaPractice class at #UVic: a conversation with @waydecompton.bsky.social about race in media, and "how to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism".
March 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today in my #CriticalMediaPractice class at #UVic: a conversation with @waydecompton.bsky.social about race in media, and "how to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism".
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"the white avant-garde is prone to assuming that its fetish for formal innovation is automatically progressive. White avant-garde writers . . . use a nomenclature of alterity, but the effect is the same as the one that perennially produces white normativity in general."
— @waydecompton.bsky.social
— @waydecompton.bsky.social
Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics - University of Alberta Press
Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this persona...
ualbertapress.ca
March 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"the white avant-garde is prone to assuming that its fetish for formal innovation is automatically progressive. White avant-garde writers . . . use a nomenclature of alterity, but the effect is the same as the one that perennially produces white normativity in general."
— @waydecompton.bsky.social
— @waydecompton.bsky.social
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A big thank you to everyone who came out to my Victoria book launch—especially to @waydecompton.bsky.social for the excellent reading and interview. It was both a celebration of Soundin’ Canaan (@wlupress.bsky.social) and an opportunity to hear poetry and be in community.
March 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A big thank you to everyone who came out to my Victoria book launch—especially to @waydecompton.bsky.social for the excellent reading and interview. It was both a celebration of Soundin’ Canaan (@wlupress.bsky.social) and an opportunity to hear poetry and be in community.