Lesley Bikos
@lbikos.bsky.social
PhD Sociology, assistant prof., policing, prison industrial complex, criminalization, abolition. Co-liberation, community, radical love for. the. win. she/they
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Lesley Bikos
@lbikos.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Hey friends! New account, new followers 👋🏻. Posting recent works that may be of interest. ‘Taking the Temperature: An Intersectional Analysis of Diversity Acceptance in Canadian Police Services’ in BJC. If you don’t have free access, msg me w/ email, I’ll send a copy academic.oup.com/bjc/article-...
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February 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
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Alrighty, so, since a lot of folx suddenly want to discuss Indigenous peoples a couple of reminders:
* capitalize the “I” on Indigenous;
* don’t talk over Indigenous peoples. If you listen you can learn more;
* you having a relationship with an Indigenous person and using that to silence another /1
* capitalize the “I” on Indigenous;
* don’t talk over Indigenous peoples. If you listen you can learn more;
* you having a relationship with an Indigenous person and using that to silence another /1
January 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Alrighty, so, since a lot of folx suddenly want to discuss Indigenous peoples a couple of reminders:
* capitalize the “I” on Indigenous;
* don’t talk over Indigenous peoples. If you listen you can learn more;
* you having a relationship with an Indigenous person and using that to silence another /1
* capitalize the “I” on Indigenous;
* don’t talk over Indigenous peoples. If you listen you can learn more;
* you having a relationship with an Indigenous person and using that to silence another /1
Hey friends! Anyone know of an abolition starter pack and/or critical criminology one? I’ve tried searching but can’t seem to find any… I feel like that’s impossible and I’m just doing it wrong 🙃
November 21, 2024 at 3:37 AM
Hey friends! Anyone know of an abolition starter pack and/or critical criminology one? I’ve tried searching but can’t seem to find any… I feel like that’s impossible and I’m just doing it wrong 🙃
Hey friends! New account, new followers 👋🏻. Posting recent works that may be of interest. ‘Taking the Temperature: An Intersectional Analysis of Diversity Acceptance in Canadian Police Services’ in BJC. If you don’t have free access, msg me w/ email, I’ll send a copy academic.oup.com/bjc/article-...
November 20, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Hey friends! New account, new followers 👋🏻. Posting recent works that may be of interest. ‘Taking the Temperature: An Intersectional Analysis of Diversity Acceptance in Canadian Police Services’ in BJC. If you don’t have free access, msg me w/ email, I’ll send a copy academic.oup.com/bjc/article-...
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🚨 IT’S PUBLICATION DAY!!! 🚨
“The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American game” is now OFFICIALLY available. This brilliant 🧵 by @nkalamb.bsky.social is the go-to resource for the book and related work.
@uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
“The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American game” is now OFFICIALLY available. This brilliant 🧵 by @nkalamb.bsky.social is the go-to resource for the book and related work.
@uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
November 19, 2024 at 12:53 PM
🚨 IT’S PUBLICATION DAY!!! 🚨
“The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American game” is now OFFICIALLY available. This brilliant 🧵 by @nkalamb.bsky.social is the go-to resource for the book and related work.
@uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
“The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American game” is now OFFICIALLY available. This brilliant 🧵 by @nkalamb.bsky.social is the go-to resource for the book and related work.
@uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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Today is our LAUNCH DAY for "We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition" (edited by me & Kim Wilson)!!!🥹❤️
For each copy of the book you buy from @haymarketbooks.bsky.social this month, they will donate a copy of the book to someone in prison.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2446-w...
For each copy of the book you buy from @haymarketbooks.bsky.social this month, they will donate a copy of the book to someone in prison.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2446-w...
November 19, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Today is our LAUNCH DAY for "We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition" (edited by me & Kim Wilson)!!!🥹❤️
For each copy of the book you buy from @haymarketbooks.bsky.social this month, they will donate a copy of the book to someone in prison.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2446-w...
For each copy of the book you buy from @haymarketbooks.bsky.social this month, they will donate a copy of the book to someone in prison.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2446-w...
Appreciation post for our local libraries who do so much vital work in our community. Imagine how much more they could do with proper, consistent funding. Well funded libraries are a key part of healthy, vibrant communities. We appreciate you #ldnont library team! Fund community. Fund care ✊🏻❤️
Don’t toss it—fix it! Join us Nov 20, 6-8 pm at East London Library for a free Repair Café! Bring small appliances, clothes, & more for free repairs. Register now! https://buff.ly/4hG9koT
November 20, 2024 at 5:20 AM
Appreciation post for our local libraries who do so much vital work in our community. Imagine how much more they could do with proper, consistent funding. Well funded libraries are a key part of healthy, vibrant communities. We appreciate you #ldnont library team! Fund community. Fund care ✊🏻❤️
Grateful more orgs/people in #ldnont are pushing back re: the police budget. The recent narrative by the police chief, select police board/city councillors that it’s only the same few people protesting is dismissive and false. We know it. They know it. We persist fam 👊🏻 🫶🏻 lfpress.com/news/local-n...
Opposition building to proposed cut to community grants: 'Vital services'
The leaders of nearly three dozen London nonprofits have signed a letter to city councillors urging them not to cut a $500,000 grant program
lfpress.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Grateful more orgs/people in #ldnont are pushing back re: the police budget. The recent narrative by the police chief, select police board/city councillors that it’s only the same few people protesting is dismissive and false. We know it. They know it. We persist fam 👊🏻 🫶🏻 lfpress.com/news/local-n...
If you haven’t, check out the All My Relations podcast. Just listened to this 🔥 episode about Indigenous feminism, Rematriation, and decolonization www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/podcast/epis...
LISTEN | All My Relations
www.allmyrelationspodcast.com
November 17, 2024 at 7:58 PM
If you haven’t, check out the All My Relations podcast. Just listened to this 🔥 episode about Indigenous feminism, Rematriation, and decolonization www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/podcast/epis...
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Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
November 15, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q