Alan Sears
@alansearslefty.bsky.social
Queer socialist recently retired from Toronto Metropolitan University. Author of Eros and Alienation: Capitalism and the Making of Gendered Sexualities (Pluto Press, January 2025)
Ottawa friends - we will be doing an Ottawa launch for my new book Eros and Alienation at Octopus Books, 116 Third Ave on Mon Feb 3 at 7pm (doors open 6:30). I am honoured to be joined in conversation with Azar Masoumi, Dan Irving and Julie Tomiak.
January 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Ottawa friends - we will be doing an Ottawa launch for my new book Eros and Alienation at Octopus Books, 116 Third Ave on Mon Feb 3 at 7pm (doors open 6:30). I am honoured to be joined in conversation with Azar Masoumi, Dan Irving and Julie Tomiak.
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NEW: Alan Sears on the generative desiring at the heart of revolutionary politics, a potential antidote to capitalism’s dehumanizing effects.
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Eros and Revolution
Alan Sears on the generative desiring at the heart of revolutionary politics, a potential antidote to capitalism’s dehumanizing effects.
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January 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
NEW: Alan Sears on the generative desiring at the heart of revolutionary politics, a potential antidote to capitalism’s dehumanizing effects.
www.midnightsunmag.ca/eros-and-rev...
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NYU suspends students for an entire year for “significant and coordinated disruption” in the library, which refers to some students in keffiyehs studying quietly in the lobby, others sitting on the admin. floor asking for a meeting, a few holding banners, and some flyers dropped from an upper level…
🚨 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 🚨- NEW YORK, January 8, 2025.
Press Release: New York University Launches Unprecedented Campaign of Collective Punishment Against Students Protesting Genocide
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Press Release: New York University Launches Unprecedented Campaign of Collective Punishment Against Students Protesting Genocide
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January 8, 2025. Press Release: New York University Launches Unprecedented Campaign of Collective Punishment Against Students Protesting Genocide
NYU Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine Press Inquiries: medianyufjp@proton.meIG: @nyu_fsjpX: @NYUFJPalestine FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK, January 8, 2025 – In a draconian case of collect…
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January 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
NYU suspends students for an entire year for “significant and coordinated disruption” in the library, which refers to some students in keffiyehs studying quietly in the lobby, others sitting on the admin. floor asking for a meeting, a few holding banners, and some flyers dropped from an upper level…
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As voucher programs expand, they worsen. In states with universal voucher programs, more of the public monies go to students already in private school and to wealthier families.
GOP states are embracing vouchers. Wealthy parents are benefitting.
Most of the beneficiaries are incoming kindergarteners or students already enrolled in private schools.
www.politico.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:49 AM
As voucher programs expand, they worsen. In states with universal voucher programs, more of the public monies go to students already in private school and to wealthier families.
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I’ve been saying for years that sports newsrooms are wholly unprepared for this political moment. imo it’s journalistic malpractice not to have a writer on staff who can cover trans sports stories well. But I can’t even place freelance coverage at this point. It’s so bleak.
Work has been drying up for trans writers for years. Of course, part of this is bc work has been drying up for all journalists.
However, with trans issues as the top priority of the Republican party there's a strong journalistic argument for increasing or maintaining that capacity.
However, with trans issues as the top priority of the Republican party there's a strong journalistic argument for increasing or maintaining that capacity.
December 10, 2024 at 5:47 AM
I’ve been saying for years that sports newsrooms are wholly unprepared for this political moment. imo it’s journalistic malpractice not to have a writer on staff who can cover trans sports stories well. But I can’t even place freelance coverage at this point. It’s so bleak.
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Watch all the prison release videos from Syria. Let Syrians feed you a taste of freedom. Imagine your own society opening its doors and borders. Imagine being free one day yourself, truly free. That’s what this moment invites.
December 9, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Watch all the prison release videos from Syria. Let Syrians feed you a taste of freedom. Imagine your own society opening its doors and borders. Imagine being free one day yourself, truly free. That’s what this moment invites.
Powerful analysis of the situation in Syria by Joseph Daher
A useful antidote to the Assad apologetics masquerading as “anti-imperialism”.
"The political compass of revolutionaries should be the principle of solidarity with popular and progressive struggles from below." #Syria
December 10, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Powerful analysis of the situation in Syria by Joseph Daher
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URGENT: The House is voting THIS WEEK on including a ban on health care for trans youth who are dependents of US military personnel. We reject this attack on lifesaving care that could lead to patients being coercively detransitioned. Please stand with us to protect trans youth.
December 10, 2024 at 3:30 PM
URGENT: The House is voting THIS WEEK on including a ban on health care for trans youth who are dependents of US military personnel. We reject this attack on lifesaving care that could lead to patients being coercively detransitioned. Please stand with us to protect trans youth.
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The empire of the United States most likely peaked with the end of the so-called Cold War that was hot for so many. The decline of the empire is signaled by the name of the so-called War on Terror, with Americans not realizing that the source of the Terror comes from inside of them.
December 9, 2024 at 7:32 PM
The empire of the United States most likely peaked with the end of the so-called Cold War that was hot for so many. The decline of the empire is signaled by the name of the so-called War on Terror, with Americans not realizing that the source of the Terror comes from inside of them.
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Learn more about how to participate in #ReadPalestine Week at publishersforpalestine.org
November 29, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Learn more about how to participate in #ReadPalestine Week at publishersforpalestine.org
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November 24, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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Thanks Murray Cooke for reminding us of the power of connecting in person - mobilizing, planning, evaluating, learning with and from each other. Social media tools can be useful in the process of building together, but cannot fill the void of missing mobilizations
I've finally made the switch over from Twitter.
It's good to have an alternative, but really, we need to be having in-person meetings and conversations with co-workers, friends, family, neighbours, strangers. And reading books and newspapers. And organizing for change.
It's good to have an alternative, but really, we need to be having in-person meetings and conversations with co-workers, friends, family, neighbours, strangers. And reading books and newspapers. And organizing for change.
November 17, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Thanks Murray Cooke for reminding us of the power of connecting in person - mobilizing, planning, evaluating, learning with and from each other. Social media tools can be useful in the process of building together, but cannot fill the void of missing mobilizations
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"I’m less interested in conducting a postmortem of this election and tweaking the Democrats’ tactics than trying to understand how to build a movement." Robin D. G. Kelley:
Notes on Fighting Trumpism - Boston Review
To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.
www.bostonreview.net
November 12, 2024 at 8:39 PM
"I’m less interested in conducting a postmortem of this election and tweaking the Democrats’ tactics than trying to understand how to build a movement." Robin D. G. Kelley: