Julie Vig
@vig-orous.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. @yorkuniversity. Proud parent of little humans and cats. Loves reading old texts in Braj and Punjabi as much as snowboarding.
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“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”
- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
August 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”
- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
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The logics that made transatlantic slavery last for over 400 years remain a steady underpinning for how people understand in everyday ways who deserves to live and who deserves to die. Free Palestine. Let my people go.
July 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The logics that made transatlantic slavery last for over 400 years remain a steady underpinning for how people understand in everyday ways who deserves to live and who deserves to die. Free Palestine. Let my people go.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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In her unparalleled new report, Francesca Albanese comprehensively indicts economic complicities with "the Israeli illegal settler-colonial enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territory, which now functions as
a genocidal machine."
You must read the whole report.
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
a genocidal machine."
You must read the whole report.
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
July 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
In her unparalleled new report, Francesca Albanese comprehensively indicts economic complicities with "the Israeli illegal settler-colonial enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territory, which now functions as
a genocidal machine."
You must read the whole report.
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
a genocidal machine."
You must read the whole report.
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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call me crazy but I don't think we should.
We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
call me crazy but I don't think we should.
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Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
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New York Fucking City. A full mile of people filled to the brim. Fascism is going to lose.
April 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New York Fucking City. A full mile of people filled to the brim. Fascism is going to lose.
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Disgruntled that admissions into gender studies & in indigenous studies (to name a few) is suspended at York. How easily we turn our backs on the first EVER program in gender studies in Canada! Also, we only abide by TRC commitments to "indigenize" our programs when it's trendy?
February 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Disgruntled that admissions into gender studies & in indigenous studies (to name a few) is suspended at York. How easily we turn our backs on the first EVER program in gender studies in Canada! Also, we only abide by TRC commitments to "indigenize" our programs when it's trendy?
Friends and colleagues: Please share widely within your circles and write to York administration to protest this devastating decision.
From Religious Studies at York Twitter account: The administration at York University has suspended admissions to the Religious Studies program . . .
The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.
The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.
February 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Friends and colleagues: Please share widely within your circles and write to York administration to protest this devastating decision.