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@gkinsman
Queer, anti-capitalist, abolitionist activist. Author of The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles (2024) and co-author of The Canadian War on Queers. Active supporter of the Palestinian, Sudanese and Congo struggles against genocide!!
On April 5, thousands are gathering in Washington D.C. to stand up against the U.S.'s continued support for the genocide in Gaza and the Trump administration's wave of domestic suppression.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/the-...
Sending you healing vibes, Gary!!!!!! Xoxoxo
Please check this out if you have a chance!
Thanks @alexmcclelland.bsky.social for this. From my hospital room I really appreciate this!
Take Your Meds, Honey, my review of Gary Kinsman's Regulation of Desire Third Edition in the Anarchist Review of Books: https://www.anarchistreviewofbooks.org/
Check out my review of @gkinsman.bsky.social's The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles, Revised Third Edition from @concordiapress.bsky.social in my favourite, The Anarchist Review of Books (winter issue:
www.anarchistreviewofbooks.org)
Radical Events Ottawa for the week of March 10th, including Ellen Gabriel on Indigenous resistance, Israeli Apartheid Week events, fundraiser for Bank Block tenants, and much more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...
We also need to talk about remote access management on faculty tech. There has been a barrage of hostile FOIPOP requests from zionists trying to discredit faculty researchers who work on human rights and genocide, too. We need explicit policies at every uni, reviewed by CAUT.
Oh, how inspiring...do we want to be governed by Cons beholden to the off-the-deep-end fringe of their party or by Liberals with renewed enthusiasm for neoliberalism, military spending, and resource extraction? What a sense of hope and political possibility... #cdnpoli
Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.
Attacks by the Israeli army and settlers have resulted in the killing of at least 97 Palestinians, including 16 children, this year across the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/87sra9
A 2024 ACLU report on the Louisiana ICE facilities, including the Jena/LaSalle one (operated by private prison company GEO Group) is called "Inside the Black Hole"
For those interested in a law-policy perspective on conversion practices, I have a book!
This is what criminalization does - the scope has simply expanded - and why we all need to be putting refusal and resistance to criminalization at the center of our anti authoritarian/antifascist struggles.
‘Ceasefire’ is a hollow word for Palestinians – the killings, displacements and denial of aid continue | Nesrine Malik
In some ways we have been here before & can draw on strategies from our histories & lineages AND current political conditions are starkly different & require us to significantly level up our commitment to community defense.
We need to pull out all the stops in defense of students - we're all next
Deportability has always been an urgent issue. Ask migrant sex workers.
Columbia's Provost evidently sent this message to faculty forbidding them from moving classes offline or canceling them amid ICE activity on campus.
There's a lot of confusion swirling so it may help to explain that the below is actually fairly normal following an ICE arrest. ICE often transfers people to the deep South where some of the largest detention centers are located, and the ICE Detainee Locator system can take up to 24 hours to update.
Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the Gaza genocide a year ago today. His memory should stir a fire in our souls, and force us to evaluate our commitment to a better world. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/reme...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The end result of this is trans people can't travel to the USA without the risk of being permanently banned from entering the USA on grounds of "gender fraud".
Already know trans folks in high tech fields who will be cancelling plans to give talks in America.
Ariel speaking to a small crowd gathered at the Human Rights Monument
I gathered today with Overdose Prevention Ottawa and harm reduction workers from across the city, to speak out against the Ford government’s decision to close the supervised consumption site at Somerset West Community Health Centre.