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Online Evening Course: Stuart Hall: Hegemony, Culture, and Politics Still a few places left for anyone interested in nationalism, culture, Marxism and postcolonial theory thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/courses/…

Donations of Blankets needed!! Hey everyone our overnight shelter is in need of blankets if you have any extras laying around. You can drop them off at 144 East Hastings. DM me Ill be around all day today and tomorrow.

Our writer-in-residence D. M. Bradford speaks w/ Jordan Abel, SF Ho, & @_c_n_ on a podcast episode they also co-produced w/ Future Ecologies. The episode focuses on writing & complicated relationships to land. Check it out: tinyurl.com/2u7kxtpa #sfuenglish @SFUFASS

@AnakanaSchofiel onward❤️

September in Gaza, new poem by Mohammed Moussa.

.@ZohranKMamdani I have told you this on the phone, in person, and I will reiterate it publicly: what you think of the phrase “globalize the intifada”—our beautiful uprising against occupation—is irrelevant, what matters is that it’s a slogan adopted by a movement that is partly responsible for your success and you mustn’t throw them under the bus. We are facing unprecedented levels of state-repression and institutional censorship, both our political organizing and speech are criminalized, and we are confronting genocide for God’s sake. That you choose to continue elevating Jewish feelings over the lives of Palestinians, over the fact of genocide, is nothing more than punching down on those who have helped elevate you, and not to mention, it is a bad electoral strategy considering you are quite literally winning and need not to bow down to Zionist pressure. The tens of thousands of volunteers who have canvassed for you in the scorching hot sun, they are not to be taken for granted. Their support isn’t unconditional. Remember that.

Black adolescents in Canada face barriers to mental health care access Black adolescents with mental distress are less likely to use mental health services than their White peers, and Black girls are the least likely to access care, news-medical.net/news/20250909/…

bring your own unique cultural background / as a member of a global community / best serving the rich / diversity — Cecily Nicholson, Crowd Source (2025)

regular every day people are sacrificing, throwing down, and doing what they can to resist & stop this fascist death machine currently targeting southern california. join the struggle. add to the winds of rebellion. people will be brave when they see others being brave🫡

My #BCPoetry interview series with @ReadLocalBC has come to an end for another year. As usual, in the final post this year's authors get a chance to pay tribute to a BC poet who inspired them. There's lots of love here and I hope you give it a read: readlocalbc.ca/2025/05/23/can…

"As with the best poetry, its intensely specific particular results in a universal." #SundaySentence by poet Hamish Ballantyne praising poet Cecily Nicholson (@_c_n_) tinyurl.com/5xwsc5x5

The Women’s Warrior Song was written more than 30 years ago by Martina Pierre (Saw̓t), an Elder in the Lil’wat Nation. It has since become a powerful song of resilience for the MMIWG:2S movement across Turtle Island. pentictonherald.ca/spare_news/art…

From New Westminster Schools: “It is with profound sadness that we share news that Kira Salim, teacher-counsellor at Fraser River Middle School and New Westminster Secondary School, was among those who lost their lives in the April 26 Lapu Lapu Day tragedy.”

51 student visa revocations and counting in the UC. This morning, the Council of UC Faculty Associations & UC-AFT 1474 sent the UC President a letter urging stronger action. Please urge your universities to similarly support students and keep them enrolled.

The moon is still the moon.

Cecily Nicholson, author of the award-winning collections Wayside Sang, From the Poplars, and the forthcoming Crowd Source has been named the University of California Berkeley’s 2025 Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry! Congratulations, Cecily! english.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berkel…

@Talonbooks thank you!🖤

“We are the ones we have been waiting for.” ✨ June Jordan, a trailblazing queer poet, was born #OTD in 1936. Jordan was a @Cal professor and founded Poetry for the People, or P4P. She lives on through P4P, which teaches students the power of poetry to change the world. 🌎🕊️

Mali has issued an arrest warrant for Mark Bristow, the CEO of Canadian mining company, Barrick Gold for money laundering allegations. Mali says the company owes it $500 million in unpaid taxes. The company has operated in Mali for 30 years. Australian mining company, Resolute agreed to pay Mali $160 million in taxes, after their CEO got arrested.