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Ornella Nzindukiyimana Supports Liberation
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Nzee-ndoo-kee-yee-mah-nah, PhD -- Historian of Black sportspeople -- Assoc. Prof. StFX U -- Co-President of BCSA -- Editor, Sport History Review -- She/Her/Elle -- ✊🏾 🇷🇼 🇨🇦
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Accidentally left my Do Not Disturb on on my phone and finally removed it to find that Outlook hilariously crashing out. If I owe you an email, don't hold your breath, apparently.
Outlook app saying I have 999+ emails waiting.
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Oh would you look at that! The Halifax Davis Cup will play out behind closed doors. And they're telling fans to watch from their hotel rooms. Literally. Unreal.

Anyway, here's to a free Palestine.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Section of the article subtitled: Halifax Pulls Funding: In August, the Halifax council had approved $50,000 in funding for the matches at the Scotiabank Centre as it is considered a tourism event, despite protesters opposing the decision. A city spokesman told CBC News in an email on Tuesday that the funding has been cancelled because the event no longer delivers "the tourism, economic and other benefits that would have been expected had it proceeded as originally planned." Mayor Andy Fillmore urged fans who already booked hotels and flights to still come to Halifax and cheer on Team Canada from their hotel rooms.
September 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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In very related news, I recently picked up this little book from @versobooks.bsky.social...
Photo of Legacy Russell's book, Black Meme
August 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Finally getting around to reading Rehearsals for Living. Hopeful and heartbreaking. But especially great at putting the finger on... well, a lot! It is helping me a lot as I prep for my History of Sport Futures course in the fall.

(The underlining is in erasable pen!)
Passage: "I'm dismayed, angry, horrified, at times. But to be surprised requires a level of naïveté, of feigned innocence, that is not possible if one has attended even briefly, to the lived realities of Black Peoples and Indigenous peoples globally." Cover for the book. It is authored by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
July 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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>>>>>
Better look at the sweater.
July 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Sydney's Negro League Museum vintage sweater on The Bear 🙌🏽👏🏽👌🏽
Sydney on The Bear wearing the sweater in question. It has a logo of the Negro Leagues Museum surrounded by baseball caps of 11 teams.
July 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Everything is changing.
Poorly Dawn Lines four panels comic Snail: Everything is changing, Mouse. It's all so shitty now. Mouse: What was it like before? Snail: Also shitty but in a familiar way.
July 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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The director won't come back to this crowd that's for sure. #goldcup
A Mexico fan lifts their jersey to show a back tee with "FUCK ICE" written across it.
June 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Ha! Called it 35 minutes ago!
My text to a friend: "Indiana can't get a grip but both counting them out"
June 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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If you get one little/coffee table book this year, get this. If you give one book gift this year, get this. So evocative.
Such a fantastic series from the @simuseumafro.bsky.social #NASSH2025
Game Changers book, part of the National Museum of African American History's Double Exposure series
May 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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#NASSH2025
Also added is the need to heed the fact that sport has been transformed into a political and economic battleground. We cannot abandon it. Jennifer Giuliano has notably reiterated the need for action, beyond advocacy.
Maria Veri giving her remarks Christine O’Bonsawin giving her remarks Malcolm MacLean giving his remarks Tanya Jones giving her remarks
May 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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#nassh2025
A consensus: As an academic society, we should all do better to support our members, but also to support the people rendered more vulnerable in the current moment.
The panelists listening the session chair.
May 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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#NASSH2025
Michael Walters, author of The Other Olympians presenting brief remarks on his sources.
May 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Well, f*ck*ng hell. Glad to know university is still good for *something*, at least.
Screenshot of a section of the articl4 that reads: “Most assignments in college are not relevant,” he told me. “They’re hackable by AI, and I just had no interest in doing them.” While other new students fretted over the university’s rigorous core curriculum, described by the school as “intellectually expansive” and “personally transformative,” Lee used AI to breeze through with minimal effort. When I asked him why he had gone through so much trouble to get to an Ivy League university only to off-load all of the learning to a robot, he said, “It’s the best place to meet your co-founder and your wife.”
May 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Tweet from April 29th: Actually, Spain and Portugal have been losing power ever since the seventeenth century
April 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Quite something. I wonder how many eligible voters failed to go vote.
Screenshot of two liberal races in which they won by 12 and 35 votes respectively. One is in Newfoundland over a Concervative and the other in Québec over a Bloc candidate.
April 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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My for you page on this app this morning, summed up. I agree with all this, of course.
A screenshot of three posts. The first is saying Emi Martinez was never the best keeper in the world. The second is about opposing fascism in the US by paying urgent attention to Christian nationalism. The third is a haiku like post about avoiding the abyss that is doomscrolling.
April 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Just voted! ✅️
Now the wait begins....
My Canadian federal election voting card for the special ballot waiting to be filled. You can also see my riding candidates list.
April 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Very painfully true. We remember.

Barakavumwa.

#Kwibuka31
Tweet saying: Those who saved their dogs while Tutsi were being raped and killed are back to teach Rwandans about human rights! Focus on Animal Rights! #Kwibuka29
April 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Oh no doubt. Hate it. I hope no one thought otherwise! Lol. Just... Trying to find silver linings 🙃
Gif of a pink troll with a flowery headband and even pinker hair from the movie Trolls (I assume since I never saw it) saying "there's always a bright side"
April 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Lol
Screenshot of a quoted tweet. The first tweet is a photograph of a confederation flag remix in which the red background is a pride rainbow flag. It is on the balcony of a residence. The tweet says, "gotta say. that's a new one for me." The quoting tweet says, "omg Pride and Prejudice."
March 30, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Becoming a theme in al corners. Telling you my senior seminar on sport and nation later this week will be off the charts.
Canada fan in the stands of the Nations League third place match between Canada and the US makes an elbows up right after the Canadian anthem and in the lead-up to the US anthem.
March 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Outlines by Audre Lorde
"we seek beyond history
for a new and more possible meeting"
I trace the curve of your jaw with a lover’s finger knowing the hardest battle is only the first how to do what we need for our living with honor and in love we have chosen each other and the edge of each other’s battles the war is the same if we lose someday women’s blood will congeal upon a dead planet if we win there is no telling.
March 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Look at this gorgeous Black Canadian Studies special issue co-edited by Janelle Joseph and Stephanie Latty!

It is titled "Nah! On the Possibilities of Ongoing Refusals in Black Canadian Studies"

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Cover for the Journal of Canadian Studies special issue. It features piece a collage piece that includes what looks like a Black woman in a surreal landscape.
March 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Am I out of touch? No. It's the children who are wrong! 😄
Mr. Skinner from the simpson Am I out of Touch Meme
March 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM