Maria Vamvalis, PhD
@mariavamvalis.bsky.social
Founder of Anayennisi. https://www.anayennisi.org/. Climate justice education for relational well-being. Working in service of collective regenerative systems change through education, facilitation, research, public speaking, strategy & writing. she/her
I will be giving a talk next Friday (September 18th) on reclaiming scholarship from extractive logics. Come join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/reclaiming...
Reclaiming the Field from Extractive Logics
Global Transformative Education Network research to practice webinar with Dr Maria Vamvalis.
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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 ...
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What does it cost a generation to hear “wrong venue” for every venue they try? Caring for youth mental health has to include whether they have real avenues to be heard on the defining crisis of their lives. #climatejustice #youthmentalhealth www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney government asks court to strike down climate litigation | CBC News
The federal government is asking a court to toss out a high-profile environmental lawsuit, arguing it has no business directing Canada's climate policy.
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Alberta wants neutrality in classrooms, but what if ‘viewpoints’ are lived experience?
Alberta wants neutrality in classrooms, but what if ‘viewpoints’ are lived experience?
Difficult stories are not obstacles to democratic education. Learning how to communicate about them are conditions for it.
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It was so fantastic to speak with the incredible @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social for her Climate Magic Podcast. We spoke about the kind of education needed to help us stay with the trouble and keep a more beautiful world on the horizon. www.khsu.org/2026-08-20/p...
Putting the Soul in Climate Education
The role of an educator in this moment of the climate emergency is to be a culture-shaper. This is part one in a four-part series Climate Magic is curating for all the educators looking for inspiratio...
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Beauty does not require a happy ending but a right relationship with truth.
Commission an immediate public inquiry to ensure we never see a tragic death like Dr Arday's again. goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Make yourself unavailable to being authored by forces that cannot love you well.
The wildfire haze has reached dangerous levels where we live. Another day we must stay inside while our pup languishes from no walks outside. Yet our Prime Minister's vision for the country is to be able to "feed, fuel, and defend ourselves"? How do we "defend" ourselves from this?
Oh my - did I ever love this commentary today.
Rob Brezsny@rob-brezsny.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy horoscopes aren't rooted in any belief system, doctrine, mystical wishing, well-rationalized bias, or rebellion against science. They're fueled by poetry: in service to the liberated imagination Read them here: tinyurl.com/NotJustBeingNice tinyurl.com/WildnessCelebration
Make something alive out of what modernity tells you is over. Love from lineage that honours ancestral transmissions. Let portals become the sky. Remember that truth always looks too bright before it becomes the new horizon.
Such a powerful interview! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/06...
Love, loss, and rootlessness: The Chat with Ellis Scott · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
Ellis Scott’s debut novel Night Terminus (Dundurn Press) traces the determination and resilience of the gay diaspora as the AIDS crisis unfolds and ...
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Sharing my recent talk on AI and the Living World: Toward Ecological and Transformative AI Literacy for educators. We need to open space for critical and courageous conversations about this technology and the criteria needed to guide us when considering its use. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Cg...
AI and the Living World: Toward Ecological and Transformative AI Literacy
YouTube video by TDSB EcoSchools
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Happening tomorrow!
OISE Alumni & Friends@oisealumni.bsky.social · 4mo agoAI and the living world & how to think critically about it. Join OISE alum @mariavamvalis.bsky.social to explore on May 20: https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/home/scan/events/05-20-26-ai-and-living-world-toward-ecological-and-transformative-ai-literacy @hongyunlyu.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
Deeply concerning. Bill C-22 aligns Canada with the most oppressive regimes around freedom of expression and privacy.
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 4mo agoCountries where Signal is no longer available: • Russia • China • Iran • ...Canada? "Secure messaging service Signal, which uses end-to-end encryption, is warning it would withdraw from Canada if asked to compromise its users’ privacy under Bill C-22"
Learn to sing the spells modernity exiled back into your own skin. The Earth's resurrection requires it.
Structural oppression perpetuates itself not only through force but through the systematic degradation of the interior capacities that would make genuine resistance and genuine regeneration possible. 1/4
AI is reshaping education at a remarkable pace – but what does its rise mean for the planet? Join OISE alum @mariavamvalis.bsky.social to explore: https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/home/scan/events/05-20-26-ai-and-living-world-toward-ecological-and-transformative-ai-literacy @uoftenvironment.bsky.social
Let's be clear: regeneration is not optimization. It is not making a damaged system run more efficiently. It is the return of living capacity to what has been deadened and the restoration of genuine relational coherence to what has been fragmented. What was broken can find a new, more truthful form.
"The call is coming from inside the house. Patriarchy goes deep. Overcoming it is a multitrack, generations-long effort."
‘Petro-masculinity’ is destroying the planet. Can eco-masculinity help save it? | Andrew Boyd
It’s crucial to understanding how gender is affecting our ability to rally behind a shared ecological vision
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Getting boys in on climate action. hechingerreport.org/getting-boys...
Getting boys in on climate action - The Hechinger Report
Studies suggest girls care more about the planet and climate action. A new project explores how schools and other institutions can encourage more boys to act, too
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A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...
New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
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This McSweeny's nailed the moment. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fis...
Fisher-Price Is Pivoting to AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons Manufacturing
“We at Fisher-Price have always believed in the power of imagination. In discovery. In the joy of a child pressing a button and hearing a satisfying sound. T...
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Cannot say enough about this excellent film, Palestine 36. www.tiff.net/events/pales...
Palestine '36
Festival favourite Annemarie Jacir takes us back to Palestine in the 1930s, charting the lives and ambitions of those living under British rule. Jeremy Irons and Hiam Abbass round out a tremendously s...
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Big thanks to @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social for this thoughtful interview about some of my ongoing scholarship on masculinity, climate change, and education. Check it out: www.khsu.org/show/climate...
Is it 'unmanly' to care about climate change?
What’s pulling so many men away from climate action?
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Be unapologetic in nurturing the kind of beauty that terrifies oppressive systems and nourishes the land. The kind of beauty that can’t be possessed, but only witnessed and blessed.
Had such a beautiful time leading a session on regenerative facilitation for the fantastic national food security network, Right to Food. I loved seeing some folks name "presence is resistance" as one of their key takeaways from the workshop.
