It is entirely possible to change and transform the world, to worldbuild a new/old future, to return to what we have forgotten, to create and make and innovate a new/old future. They’re not going to stop, unless we stop them.
Dr Syrus Marcus Ware
@syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
He/him. PhD. Activist. Assistant Professor. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Canada and Wildseed Centre for Arts & Activism. 🌈💕🌱
My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.
We are so excited for our toronto launch of Free to Be More at Wildseed Centre on Wednesday (June 17, 2026)! Join us 6-8:30pm for performances, a panel discussion and book signing. ASL provided. ❤️
Join us on Wednesday June 17, 2026 from 6-8:30 pm at Wildseed Centre with @anotherstoryto.bsky.social
Dr Syrus Marcus Ware@syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 2mo ago“This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, carpenter - You know, I would be free to be so much more…”- Assata Shakur……❤️
“This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, carpenter - You know, I would be free to be so much more…”- Assata Shakur……❤️
NEW BOOK(S) ALERT! 🌈🥰🌈 I’ve been writing and writing and have two new books coming out next year. This is the PM listing for the two books. I’m so thankful, and am excited about these offerings. They are as follows:
Boots Riley turns class struggle into comedy with I Love Boosters
Boots Riley wants you to wake up and smell the class struggle
I Love Boosters is telling a story about the power of working class solidarity.
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Award-winning Cree composer and cellist Cris Derksen, who had strong ties to Manitoba’s arts community, has died following a car crash in northern Alberta. They were 45.
Renowned composer, cellist Derksen dead after car crash
Award-winning Cree composer and cellist Cris Derksen, who had strong ties to Manitoba’s arts community, has died following a car crash in northern Alberta. They were 45.
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Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Cris Derksen, internationally renown Indigenous musician and composer, in a tragic vehicle accident in northern Alberta, returning from her father's funeral. A beautiful soul and musician. Such a loss.
It’s my /our birthday today and also our book birthday!!! Today Free to be More : Creative Activism’s in the Era of Black Lives Matter is officially out on @uofr_press ❤️❤️❤️ we are so excited for you to read it! 📚
I’ve had lung issues every time I’ve breathed in tear gas, even in “minimal” amounts, at protests. This shouldn’t be something you see every few weeks in police response to protests.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3mo agoTear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said. From the archives:
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
My favorite song to sing in middle school... and my favorite of the Civil Rights era anthems. "I wish I could be like a bird in the sky..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEP...
Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free (Montreux 1976)
YouTube video by TransatlanticMoments
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Map and Destroys Key Voting Rights Act Provision www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Map and Destroys Key Voting Rights Act Provision
The Supreme Court today struck down Louisiana’s congressional map and issued a ruling that eviscerates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and opens the door for states to enact discriminatory maps wit...
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As the inquest into the police shooting death of 16-year-old Eishia Hudson continues in Winnipeg, yesterday Scott Wortley, an expert in systemic racism in policing took the stand to speak on the case.
Expert on systemic racism took stand at police shooting death inquest | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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Ford has spent nearly $2million before taxes just on PR alone for his crummy Ontario place plan. Now he has announced he’s building a mega police playground with a marine and mounted units and a helipad allegedly for them to monitor the highway?!
Ep 4 of Kindred Transmissions drops this Wed., 8/11! Our host is joined by activist Syrus Marcus Ware to explore the artistic visions of Aiyyana Maracle, a Haudenosaunee scholar & storyteller whose work decolonizes understandings of gender & sexuality. Image courtesy of UVic. #TransHistory #DTA
Meanwhile, the number of grants mentioning the word “women” has declined, while women are hardest hit by NIH grant cancellations. Discrimination against women is as old as time is totally ok, but against men is not. #Pinks pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Women and early-career researchers hit hardest by NIH grant cancellations
Shortly after the second Donald J. Trump administration took office, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) canceled or paused thousands of previously awarded grants. Those cancellations did not a...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis administration is always coming up with ways to drain our nation's treasury. If it's not starting wars, encouraging bogus discrimination claims by white men, giving former Trump advisors >$1M because Donald is still mad at the Biden's FBI, it's Trump making a spurious $10B claim vs. the IRS.
RESIST // ENOUGH We made this banner at the @artmuseumuoft today in honour of and response to the brilliant exhibition on now: Hangama Amiri: PARTING/ فراق Curated by Elizabeth Diggon.
My spouse @qimoyocreative.bsky.social singing Don’t Crash Out! incredible Theo! Don’t crash out// you need that job to pay your bills*//don’t crash out….. [*till the revolution]
I am thrilled to announce the unveiling of a new wallwork/ Activist Wallpaer that I created of Mary Ann Shadd Cary for EQ Bank’s new offices on Ontario street at King, just around the corner from this historic location of Shadd’s toronto office, where she ran The Provincial Freeman. 1/
So thankful for the chance to be part of this convo on Sunday! @dykeseries.bsky.social “A beautiful conversation and a powerful statement for future dreamers of liberation - captured from the conversation between Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware and Ottawa Trans Library Co-Chair Joanis Sherry”❤️
m.youtube.com/watch?v=npv6... Thank you to the Ottawa Trans Library and Tea For Tara for the chance to speak together and signing story telling today! @ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social @dykeseries.bsky.social
Tea for Tara - Episode 2 - BLACK TRANS WORLDBUILDING FOR A FREER FUTURE
Join us for Guest Speaker & Storyteller Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware Live from the Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre
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Thank you to the @mackenzie.art.gallery and to @crystalmowry and Nicolle Nugent and the whole Mackenzie team for hosting me and for all of the care and magic! Thankful to have been able to dream into Black trans worldbuilding in my talk on Thursday evening here at the gallery 1/
Got to hold our book for the first time today! The cover is art by @rahbush7604 and it’s so gorgeous. So thankful! It’s amazing to see these chapters and this book in real life! What a journey it is to make a book- there’s so much behind the scenes. So happy to be launching in Regina this week!
It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
erininthemorning.com
hey real quick, someone ask Gavin Newsom about this tia
Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports