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ethnographer.bsky.social
Dr. Young-Leslie {use alt-text, humans} ElbowsUp! 🇨🇦🚲
@ethnographer.bsky.social
Anthropologist, feminist, fietsster, research whisperer; settler in Amiskwaciwâskahikan aka Yeg🇨🇦
My research focussed on cultural responses to public health messages (MCH, HIV, COVID)
Mostly skeet on bikes, climate∆, #FeministSky, just transition, urbanism
Remembering Arch, who survived WWII to become my grandfather d/t a medical discharge, his sister Dora, who supported the war effort as a nurse, their brother PTE Donald Young Leslie who died age 23, in the battle for Vimy Ridge, France, and his twin Arthur, who served in the US army. #LestWeForget🇨🇦
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Aaand... today CBC called to ask for a cyclist's response to complaints from some apt residents re: loss of free on-street car storage (AKA "guest parking") & tight u-turn. I pointed out the 🚲lane *should* intersect the MUP just 5m away, b/c drivers will block bike lanes, whenever they can: #yegbike
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
That was a magical, heart-stopping series with a heart-breaking end. Proud of the Jays! ❤️‍🩹 I think Mayor Olivia Chow & the Blue Jays
organization should still put on whatever parade they had planned, just to honour those magnificent athletes & what wonderful sport it has been.
#BlueJays
November 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
You could join the Riverdale Witches!
I've always thought Miss Gulch was badly rep'd in the original Wizard of Oz. She was just an emancipated woman, with career as a teacher in a rural area... like her suffragette sisters fighting for the vote, she rode a bicycle because it gave her freedom.
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This morning's @coffeeoutside.bsky.social
8am, and bike commuters' Samhain celebrations are already underway in #Yeg!
#bikesky #yegbike
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
OMG!!!
What a performance by young Trey. His parents ❤️‍🔥must be bursting. This is a wonderful World Series, two incredible teams, amazing atheletes.
Game 5
7 innings
12 Strikeouts
1 run
Rookie World Series record for Trey Yesavage
#JaysInSix
🇨🇦🐦⚾
October 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
There's colonial 'royalty' and then there's true Canadian royalty.

#PrinceHarry #JustinBieber
#JaysVsDodgers
@bluejaysaggr.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Hey Alberta! There's a #PublicEducation party happening at the Ledge, right now!
#Abpoli #Red4Ed
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Posted on @Daveberta's FB feed this morning. Reminded me of what you were saying.
I think what many people are forgetting this year, is that in the previous election, many of the Cartmell types were *unelected* because Edmontonians were tired of their attitudes.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1Krf...
October 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Right you are! I saw the USA flag, before I noticed the "designed in Australia". Thanks again.
October 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
@limebikelitter.bsky.social
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I support micromobility. And kudos to our local Lime franchise for trialing winter bike rentals. BUT: Don't make me 311 you!

(Seriously, Lime need to give their staff & users better direction re: where to park them.)
#Micromobility #Urbanism+
October 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Cranksgiving is coming (Sunday).
I'm deciding which bike to ride.

My vintage (1970) Sekine, aka Erminie Silverspokes, clearly wants to take some lanes:

#Bikesky #Thanksgiving #Yegbike
October 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
October 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Come to Edmonton for Nov 1st!
We do the best Hallowe'en rides:;
share.google/images/Vtd2s...
October 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Darren Markland was a Renaissance man with a moral compass truer than Polaris. While forever grateful to have called him friend, I mourn the loss his death represents to the world, and grieve the pain that his wife, sons & close friends are experiencing. That this lodestar is gone just plain *hurts*
September 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Wise advise, pertains here as well, from a friend still on Xitter:

x.com/IngleWitch/s...

#FakeObitScam
September 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Tears of joy.
Canada's Rugby 15s side *UNDEFEATED*
September 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Great ☀️ morning at @coffeeoutside.bsky.social
Happy camping-by-bike, Dave!

#yegbike
September 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
You got me looking up other posters from the Peace Races :)
Eg:
September 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
At tonight's #YEG Ask Her forum on women's issues in the municipal election, I got to speak with @erinrutherford.bsky.social! I don't live in her ward, but I know her record on Council. She's been fair, forward thinking, & fiscally & environmentally responsible. Edmonton needs her to be re-elected🤞🏼
September 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
@coffeeoutside.bsky.social
Seriously? *I* (of all ppl) am first to Coffee Outside this morning?!
#Yegbike
#bikesky
August 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
August 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Dear Brandon (@humansofny.bsky.social), your FB stories featuring the Palestinian staff of @msf.org are beautiful -in the way of obsidian: crystal, smooth, dark, razor sharp. Thank you for making these heros' voices accessible.

www.facebook.com/share/p/16iL...
August 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Naomi Foyle's poem Salt, Snow, Earth has me riven, and riveted. Carol Rumens' analysis of the poem and the wider collection it is part of, is equally razor-lensed.

What are the odds indeed?

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

#poetry
August 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
July 22. Anniversary of the Jasper Wildfire. I'm in Thessaly, suffering the severe 40° heat wave and gritty Sahara winds. The ambient temperature (tising) and humidity levels (falling) are reaching the wicked fire weather inflection point.
July 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM