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Jen Rinaldi
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Legal studies associate professor | queercrip theorist | committed to deinstitutionalization and prison and police abolition | she/her
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Book award celebration. My heart feels full.
Poster and books on a table, all red covers with the text Population Control: Theorizing Institutional Violence Vase of flowers all in bright warm colours
October 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Upcoming event
2025 Canada Prize Award Celebration. Thursday October 23, Reception 6:30 pm, Panel 7:15 pm Research and Academic Centre West Lobby, Brantford Campus, 150 Dalhousie St. Celebrating the book Population Control: Theorizing Institutional Violence winning a 2025 Canada Prize. Featuring Annalise Clarkson, Rie Croll, Jordan Nguyen, Siobhan Saravanamuttu, and Tess Sheldon.
October 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Around Morocco
July 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Happy Pride 🌈
June 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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At the Critical Perspectives conference on UVic campus, which is bursting with clusters of flowers in every hue.
May 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Presented on boundary drawing in disability care work at the @sociologyireland.bsky.social, on the Emerald Isle 🇮🇪☘️🥃
White woman in a blue knit shawl standing before a green valley on a clear day. Carved out rock with water running through, houses in the distance. Tall waterfall falling in steps into a rocky ravine, surrounded by greenery.
May 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Get it together Windsor
An electoral map all in blue indicating Conservative wins, including two Windsor ridings.
April 29, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Fellow Windsorite John Scott’s industrial, apocalyptic Firestorm exhibit at the McMichael Canadian Art Gallery.
Wall of paintings depicting machinery Painting of a car with engravings. Text: apocalypse, condensed version Painting of a jet plane pointed down and away from its target. Text: winners, loser, operation, (brief lives), target. Painting of a figure with spiky hair frowning, holding a large sign that reads RESIST. Small text adjacent reads why.
April 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Upcoming webinar for healthcare practitioners and social workers: Reproductive Justice in Healthcare.

Wednesday April 16, 1-2p Eastern / 10-11am Pacific.

To register, email DoNoHarmResearch@gmail.com.
Live Webinar: Reproductive Justice in Healthcare. Project - Do No Harm: Toward the Abolition of Carceral Forms of Perinatal Clinical Care. This community engaged research project is studying how healthcare providers--nurses, midwives, and social workers--relate to reproductive justice. In this webinar we will share results from a scoping review of health scholarship and community expertise, and we will discuss opportunities for project involvement. Featuring Dr. Amy Wright, MScN, PhD, NP-Pediatrics, NCC-BC, CNeoN(C); and Mwila Chailunga, RN, BScN, UofT. Wednesday April 16, 1-2pm Eastern / 10-11am Pacific. To register, please email DoNoHarmResearch@gmailcom.
March 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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A gift I hope I can keep alive.
White orchid blossoms on an arching branch.
March 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I am trying a new practice where I assign myself reading homework ahead of travel. The selection has been a bit of a mixed bag. I would welcome more contemporary Irish author recommendations. #BookSky
Book pile, from top to bottom: Keegan’s Small Things Like These, O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait, Rooney’s Beautiful World Where Are You, Murray’s The Bee Sting, French’s The Hunter, Lynch’s Prophet Song.
March 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Day Two of the Canadian Law and Society Association conference begins with an artist talk featuring Jessica Field’s incredibly complex experiment-exhibit of AI characters developing under aggressively capitalist conditions.

www.jessicafield.ca/artificial-l...
February 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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The conference Law and Society in an Age of Connection and Distraction, hosted by the Canadian Law and Society Association, kicks off at Ontario Tech University with a Curator Talk led by Robert McLaughlin Gallery’s Olexander Wlasenko.
February 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Christina Leslie’s Sugar Coat at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery
February 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Some amateur painting with the niblings
Amateur landscape painting with a blue sky and clouds, snow capped mountains, evergreen trees, and a meadow with flowers.
January 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Might as well provide an example.
A desiccated skull on a platter with a blond wig. The text in a word bubble: “A law may be defined as an assemblage of signs declarative of a volition conceived or adopted by the sovereign in a state, concerning the conduct to be observed in a certain person or class of persons, who in the case in question are or are supposed to be subject to his power.”
January 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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A recent film I can’t shake.

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters.

#filmsky
#filmchallenge
A movie poster, mostly empty blackness. A backyard with green grass, lawn chairs, trees, people milling about in what might be a garden party, all along the bottom edge. Text: The Zone of Interest.
January 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters.

#filmsky
#filmchallenge
Movie poster with three stacked images, from top to bottom: face of a white man (Ethan Hawke) in a blue and black room, a Petrie dish spliced with the planet Saturn with the title Gattaca, a white woman (Uma Thurman) with blurred faces in her background.
January 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters.

#filmsky
#filmchallenge
Black movie poster featuring a white man in a suit standing before a stained glass window, arms outstretched. Text: Network. Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall. Television will never be the same.
January 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters.

#filmsky
#filmchallenge
Movie poster: a woman and a man lying next to each other on cracked ice. Text: You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
January 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters.

#filmsky
#filmchallenge
Three movies posters each featuring multiple characters. Text from left to right: Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
December 31, 2024 at 6:06 AM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters.

#filmsky
#filmchallenge
Animated movie poster of a flaming bull facing off with a white unicorn. Text: The Last Unicorn.
December 30, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters.

#filmsky
#filmchallenge
Movie poster of an overexposed 90s-era photograph, featuring a young girl and a man facing forward and smiling with a beach behind them. A crease from folding runs between the two people as a dividing line. Text: Aftersun.
December 29, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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Can't think of one without the other.

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters.

#filmsky
#filmchallenge
Movie poster featuring a young man and woman arms, wrapped around one another. Text: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise. Movie poster of a man and woman on the water, passing under a bridge. Text: Before Sunset.
December 28, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters.

#filmsky
#filmchallenge
Movie poster: white blank background with a dancing couple. Text: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Dirty Dancing. First dance, first love, the time of your life.
December 27, 2024 at 11:22 AM