Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
@biidaasamose.bsky.social
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe writer, musician, intellectual www.leannesimpson.ca
Register for ScALE. in person and online! October 29.
Ordinary Notes@hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 2w agoScALE. The Alchemy Lecture. Date: Thursday, Oct. 29 Time: 5 - 8 p.m.; Reception: 5 - 6 p.m. Venue: Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, CIBC Lobby Registration now open. In person: dashboard.eventcombo.com/ms/ev/80054/... Online: dashboard.eventcombo.com/ms/ev/80196/... JOIN US!
On this day in 1958, Mohawk lawyer, activist, educator, and author, Aywahande Patricia Monture-Angus is born. As an abolitionist, she played a key role in getting Canadian prisons to allow Indigenous ceremonies and healing circles inside. anticolonialhistory.com/event/297/
“I want my body to remain whole, wrapped in a pristine white shroud, unmarred by the stain of red.” Mayar Nateel writes about her mother’s hands, marked by fear since 2014, and the ordinary death she now dreams of amid genocide in Gaza. Read now on The Key. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/gaza-genoc...
Diary from Gaza: “I Dream of an Ordinary Death”
The road to Khan Yunis once passed through familiar streets and landmarks. Three years into the genocide, the journey is marked by destruction.
thekeymagazine.com
One more day to keep the hope going for Spark ✨️ Support this essential community center that uplifts d*splaced people and equips them with resources and skills. The latest is hosting English classes for students...! 195/300 by Sunday. chuffed.org/project/spar...
Using Signal? Use it safely. And remember, just because it’s on Signal doesn’t mean it’s not subject to subpoenas, search warrants, or discovery.
Interrupting Criminalization@interruptcrim.bsky.social · last mo.Many activists & organizers use the Signal app instead of regular SMS texting for increased privacy 🧵 Swipe for practical steps to: • limit records • lock your device • protect your identity • verify contacts • avoid scams Save & share with people who use #Signal! #DigiSec #SecurityCulture #OpSec
I'm going to keep posting this by @blacklikewho.bsky.social because i think its analyses are right on. It is urgent and brilliant. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
canadiandimension.com
For years, people have asked @tanuja.bsky.social and me how we built and sustained Understory, our spiritual and emotional support group for activists. So we made a toolkit to help others build spaces of their own.
The Understory Toolkit
Creating spaces of reflection, belonging, and collective care
organizingmythoughts.org
🚨 THREE WEEKS UNTIL RIVER RUN 🚨 Join Chrissy Isaacs and Clayton Thomas Muller at River Run fighting for mercury justice. 📅 September 23, 2026 🕛 12 PM ET 📍 Toronto, ON Watch. Share. Join Grassy Narrows. RSVP: https://freegrassy.net/river-run-2026-rsvp
I'm excited to join the podcast, Another Education Is Possible, as a co-host for their third season. Stay tuned for interviews with Mark Bray (@mark-bray.bsky.social) on anarchist education, Leanne Simpson (@biidaasamose.bsky.social) on The Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, and many more!
Another Education Is Possible@anothereducation.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnnouncing Season 3 of Another Education Is Possible substack.com/@anotheredis...
And then there were four! Alchemy Lecture books that is!
The Machine That Came for Jason Arday | The Nation To arrive through a remedy is not to arrive on sufferance. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Machine That Came for Jason Arday
It wasn't a scandal but a machine—funded, transatlantic, and still running.
thenation.com
Solidarity with Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who has been treating children the world over for 40 years. He made his first trip to Gaza during First Intifada in 1989 But he is now facing UK high court case accusing him of posts supporting terrorism & antisemitism observer.co.uk/news/interna...
‘Everything hurts’: The UK surgeon mending young minds an...
British-Palestinian Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah continues to treat victims of Israel’s wars, but is facing a UK high court case accusing him of posts supporting terrorism and antisemitism
observer.co.uk
"It would look like asking each Palestinian neighborhood what they wanted...It would look like more schools, more parks, more playgrounds. It would look like safe streets and safe children. It would look like the Muhammad Abu Khdeir Square, and Omar Hussam Yaqoub Shuwaiki Circle..."
Designing Our Future
by Mahdi Sabbagh with Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin May 6, 2026—I begin my day reading about the “real estate expo” that took place at the Park East Synagogue on New York’s wealthy white Upper East Side neigh...
offshootjournal.org
One month until River Run! Chrissy Isaacs & Clayton Thomas-Müller will be at River Run fighting for mercury justice. Will you march with them? On Sept. 23, thousands will march through Toronto with Grassy Narrows - will you? RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/river... #RiverRun2026 #GrassyNarrows
This is a survival & legal fund for a Palestinian student facing protracted state violence and dispossession. We CANNOT find solutions for him without money! Every dollar helps. Make it weekly. 5/259 by Sunday. chuffed.org/project/ahmedf
Help survivor Ahmed get back on his feet
Ahmed is my best friend and colleague, and I am running this campaign on his behalf. Ahmed F is an art therapist, educator, and student. Since being displaced from Gaza in 2024, he's been striving to ...
chuffed.org
"Simpson finished one of the most captivating sets of the festival with a powerful cover of Willie Dunn's "I Pity the Country." Although the song was written in 1971, it sounds like it could've been written yesterday. Simpson and her band left the stage to thunderous applause and a standing ovation"
Exclaim!@exclaimdotca.bsky.social · 2mo agoSook-Yin Lee Made Sudbury's Up Here Festival a Mystical Pizza Party
The gatekeepers and obfuscators are already attempting to rewrite the Arday affair with no indictment of the university as institution and with even less implication for the actors who willing hold up and insist on its deadly culture. Your fine slick words cannot evade our eyes. We see you.
"The destructive and disastrous consequences of expanding fossil fuel production extend far beyond any single territory," the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) said in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith.
UBCIC calls on Carney, Smith to halt pipeline advancement
The UBCIC is calling on the prime minister and premier of Alberta to halt plans to construct the West Coast pipeline.
aptnnews.ca
“And me and my anger sit, folding a paper bird / Letting the curtains turn to beating wings” #Weakerthans #Prisons
Winnipeg Free Press@winnipegfreepress.com · 2mo agoA few weeks ago, the erstwhile punk-rock-poet John Samson Fellows taught an auditorium full of people how to fold a paper cup.
"It’s important for us to understand that these are not tools for us to reclaim our culture and for us to reclaim our language. These are tools to extract from who we are to erase us. And that’s extremely scary." says organizer Krystal Two Bulls.
You Can’t Drink Data: Native Communities Are Resisting the AI Death Cycle
“These are tools to extract from who we are to erase us,” says organizer Krystal Two Bulls.
truthout.org
Want to support mutual aid groups and unions at the forefront of relief efforts in Sudan and learn from the brilliant Robin DG Kelley? Here is your chance: Secure your spot now. August 20th, 6 pm. Sliding scale. Zoom. See link below. chuffed.org/project/work...
A new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
breachmedia.ca
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is continuing to support mutual aid work in North Darfur and Kordofan and has recently started supported the tea vendors union as they rebuild their livelihoods. To support go to: www.sudansolidarity.com.
Wildfires are spreading across Turtle Island, destroying many Indigenous communities' homes. It is our time support in whichever ways we can in order to provide resources that they need during these difficult times. Please consider donating ! #MutualAid #WildfireResources
Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars
Stealing Cars: Property, Automobility, and the Colonial Crisis of Car Culture
Long Ride | Historian John Munro delves into the past in order to understand how the primacy of private property shapes mobility hierarchies in the present
urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com
Summer Vol. 2 19/20 "Surface Tension" leannesimpson.bandcamp.com/track/surfac... Words by @biidaasamose.bsky.social Music by @ansleysmusic.bsky.social , Nick Ferrio, and producers Jonas Bonetta and @jimbryson.bsky.social Backing vocals by John K. Samson and co-writers #MusicSky #folkmusic 🎶
![These are simple stolen moments
And we love when we are able...
And there are beating wings
Reminding me if you fly
Forever you can have
Two summers
And the river only goes
One way
And you can't get lost
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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