Samantha Thompson
@spthompson.bsky.social
Geographer. Postdoc @UBC Centre for Climate Justice, Adjunct Assistant Prof @UVic. PhD from UW Geography. Care, housing co-ops, renters’ experiences, urban politics. w/Radical Housing Journal, Right2Housing research cluster, Place+Space Collective. she/her
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Issue 7.1 is live! 🥁
"Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz
radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
"Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz
radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
June 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Issue 7.1 is live! 🥁
"Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz
radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
"Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz
radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
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Update: Motion passed unanimously.
HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT.
HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT.
June 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Update: Motion passed unanimously.
HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT.
HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT.
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🧱✨ Welcome to the Radical Housing Journal ✨🧱
We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation.
📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...
We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation.
📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...
May 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Radical Housing Journal is now on Bluesky - follow for updates about when our journal issues are out, new articles, and other info!
Feeling lucky that I had already planned to vote in my old neighbourhood of Champlain Heights, with its short(er) voting lines today.
April 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Feeling lucky that I had already planned to vote in my old neighbourhood of Champlain Heights, with its short(er) voting lines today.
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Here’s a little ‘By-election basics’ I did with Gloria Macarenko on Friday #vanpoli
On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Vancouver by-election 101 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Vancouver by-election 101 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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April 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Here’s a little ‘By-election basics’ I did with Gloria Macarenko on Friday #vanpoli
On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Vancouver by-election 101 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Vancouver by-election 101 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Proposition 1A grabbed nearly 58% of the election night vote tally, signaling social housing is on the way to victory in Seattle. The measure would tax big businesses to raise over $50 million annually to fund social housing.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/11/s...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/11/s...
February 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Proposition 1A grabbed nearly 58% of the election night vote tally, signaling social housing is on the way to victory in Seattle. The measure would tax big businesses to raise over $50 million annually to fund social housing.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/11/s...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/11/s...
Really love how prominent Housey has been in this campaign. I miss that mascot.
Blocky & Housey & Curby agree: YES ON PROP 1A! Polling is tight so send your ballot in TODAY, Tuesday is the deadline. Tax Seattle's wealthiest businesses to fund social housing!
@houseourneighbors.bsky.social
@houseourneighbors.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Really love how prominent Housey has been in this campaign. I miss that mascot.
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I am grateful @spthompson.bsky.social for her review of my book @dukepress.bsky.social in @antipodeonline.bsky.social
"I suspect that for me and many others, this monograph will become a consistent bookshelf companion that we return to
time and time again"
antipodeonline.org/2025/01/09/f...
"I suspect that for me and many others, this monograph will become a consistent bookshelf companion that we return to
time and time again"
antipodeonline.org/2025/01/09/f...
For a Liberatory Politics of Home - Antipode Online
Samantha Thompson (University of Victoria) on Michele Lancione’s For a Liberatory Politics of Home Read Review
antipodeonline.org
January 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I am grateful @spthompson.bsky.social for her review of my book @dukepress.bsky.social in @antipodeonline.bsky.social
"I suspect that for me and many others, this monograph will become a consistent bookshelf companion that we return to
time and time again"
antipodeonline.org/2025/01/09/f...
"I suspect that for me and many others, this monograph will become a consistent bookshelf companion that we return to
time and time again"
antipodeonline.org/2025/01/09/f...
I have a new review out now in @antipodeonline.bsky.social of @michelelancione.bsky.social 's excellent work, For a Liberatory Politics of Home. There is much to think with in this book and it's one I'll be coming back to for a long time.
antipodeonline.org/2025/01/09/f...
antipodeonline.org/2025/01/09/f...
For a Liberatory Politics of Home - Antipode Online
Samantha Thompson (University of Victoria) on Michele Lancione’s For a Liberatory Politics of Home Read Review
antipodeonline.org
January 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I have a new review out now in @antipodeonline.bsky.social of @michelelancione.bsky.social 's excellent work, For a Liberatory Politics of Home. There is much to think with in this book and it's one I'll be coming back to for a long time.
antipodeonline.org/2025/01/09/f...
antipodeonline.org/2025/01/09/f...