@londonmikmaq
Oinpegitjoig Mi'gmaw. Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc. Teaches 18th-century lit and Indigenous Studies.
Really pleased that my video lecture on queer British history, 1714-1785 is now on YouTube: youtu.be/nTrxX28_dKw?... #HistoricalAssociation #LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerHistory #18thcentury
The Albini sessions for In on the Killtaker (my personal fav Fugazi LP) are up on Dischord's Bandcamp page with money going to charity: fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
Canadian Actress Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Returns Toronto Film Critics Award in Response to Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech
Wearing fancy dress suggests a broader sense of well being
panels of birchbark with embroidered images of strawberries and people gathering them
Some 19th-century Mi'gmaw embroidery, done on birchbark with moosehair. It depicts strawberries, and women dressed in their fancy ceremonial dress gathering strawberries (the fruit is medicine associated with women, renewal, and the heart).
I'm teaching Lote next week!
A thronging widow’s walk
Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat
the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial
I imagine every flat in this building consists of furniture covered in sheets, dusty floorboards, and silence but for the sighing of ghosts.
A building in the ornate Victorian gothic style
A sunny Victorian gothic Scottish day.
Looks a bit like a John Ruskin study of moss and lichen
CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.
At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.
Northern California’s first condor egg in 100 years reported in redwood tree
Who COULDN’T use some good news? ‘ Scientists with the Yurok Tribe say that two of dozens of condors released to the wild in Humboldt County since 2022, to reestablish the endangered birds, have paired up, built a nest in a redwood tree and appear to be tending to an egg.”
#californiacondor
A rare moment with no clouds, lonely or otherwise.
Really like this tree root's mossy energy.
Small blooming daffodils and a mossy mound.
Daffodils and moss on a sunny morning in the west end of Glasgow.
A rare instance of admin as balm
I was hooked from that point on
He didn’t specify but that seems right- I could’ve used your expertise!
Partial minutes from the library committee meeting today:
Art historian: Oh, what’s that on your tie?
Librarian: It‘s a medieval Arabic map of Sicily.
We must stand against U.S. imperialism.
For a deeper analysis of imperialism, war, extractivism, and a left internationalism that could organize against these forces, consider the titles on this list.
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One of the immortals: Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday with his mother Mayme Natachee at Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico in 1952. ‘Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond…They are an old council of clowns, and they are listened to.’ - House Made of Dawn
Another of the immortals: Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday with his mother Mayme Natachee at Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico in 1952. ‘Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond…They are an old council of clowns, and they are listened to.’ - House Made of Dawn
"These attacks are causing much suffering for Iranian people, and it’s destroying the space in which Iranians were struggling for social justice and civil liberties” - Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, once imprisoned on death row in Iran. www.democracynow.org/2026/3/2/ira...
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
The thing is that this isn’t just weakness from Democrats like Schumer, it’s a performance so they can help launder a war they fully support