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Emily Regan Wills

@ajnabieh.bsky.social
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Prof @ uOttawa School of Political Studies. Co-Director, Community Mobilization in Crisis (cmic-mobilize.org). Activist & community-engaged research and teaching. Queer mom, American in diaspora, Canadian-in-training.

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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 14h
Two productive meetings for me today, both with staffers, neither with the party in government. Both included support for at minimum the goals of the action plan, and some concrete planned actions coming out of this. Now to charge my phone and head to the reception!
Emily, looking tired, wearing a Senate visitor’s pass. Emily, smiling, in front of the Terry Fox statue on Sparks Street in Ottawa.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 19h
Bike helmets are not permitted in the senate! They checked it.
A claim tag reading “unauthorized item ticket” from the parliamentary protection service.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 20h
The first Action Plan made a huge difference for organized queer life in Canada - especially for small organizations and those serving intersectional communities (2 Spirit, Black, rural, Francophone, newcomers, etc). We need continued investment to keep the momentum alive.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 20h
In true Ottawa fashion, I’m joining @queermomentum.ca and many other orgs in today’s lobby day for the renewal and expansion of the 2SLGBTQIA+ Action Plan… and I’m doing it with a bike helmet clipped to my purse. Follow along to see what I’m doing today!
On October 6th, Rainbow Haven is headed to Parliament Hill to speak up for Two-Spirit, queer and trans people.
rainbow havenWe are joining queer, trans and allied organizations from across Canada for a Queer Day of Action calling on the Government of Canada to Renew and Expand the Federal 2SLGBTQIA+ Action Plan.We're bringing our message to Ottawa -
But we need your help to make sure we are heard.
Add your voice to our campaign:
QueerMomentum.ca/Budget26
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is a great, creepy read - highly recommend!
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thanks to the bike nerds at MEC I now know that this was my seat’s weird back rubbing on my cargo basket. One saddle scrounged from their spare parts bucket and ten dollars later, my bike is quiet.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I really like imagining what fictional characters would do in different situations…which is why I write fanfic. Because if I want to see the paper dolls in my head do something I think about it, and then write it down. Why does AI want to do my hobby for me?
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When I had my interview at uOttawa the first stop my guide took me to was the departmental espresso machine. (There was then some comedy because no one had checked if the milk was fresh…it was not.)
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a great intro to minimal computing in education. It’s also making me think about recent conversations about the value of friction for learning - are we burning resources we don’t have to make learning “frictionless,” which then undermines the whole process?
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Summoning #bikesky for help: my front wheel on my trike is making this noise. I’ve cleaned and lubed the axel and it hasn’t made a difference. Brakes were replaced a month ago (probably about 150km). Wtf is wrong, and is it something I can DIY, or do I need to go to a shop?
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a great piece on universal design for learning (UDL).
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyone good at indoor plants? I transplanted some of the mint from my garden early last week and brought it to my office. When I came in after a 4 day wknd, some leaves had turned brown. I’ve watered & soil is wet but more are browning. My office gets zero direct sunlight, is that the problem?
A rather sad looking pair of mint plants on an office windowsill.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I went and checked the Yale Daily News Website: my letter to the editor published in the first week of September, 2001 calling for grief and nonviolence isn't archived there, but someone's response saying I was calling for national suicide is.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm an early subscriber to Ravenous and this is exactly why I'm excited to see it. Go support worker-owned food reporting - they're having a subscription sale!
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Women’s leisure time is the first thing to disappear with work and family responsibilities.” - Student during the lit review portion of her dissertation defence. Damn, just at me next time.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oh ho ho, the author of Hammajang Luck has ANOTHER Be Lesbian Do Heist novel??? This is a great day.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Mount Sinai hospital saved my life and my leg when I was 16. And now they’re denying that life-saving care to kids like mine. Keep the pressure on.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
RT with your home I’d actually say my home river was Ridley Creek (left), although the Delaware was the major river obviously. Then the East River for a while. Now it’s the Kichi Sibi/Ottawa River (right).
A medium-sized creek through a mid-Atlantic forest in early winter. A teenager in a pink hoodie stands in front of it. The Kichi Sibi/Ottawa River at sunset.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As an American-Canadian: if you can boycott the US, you should. Full stop.
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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 08/09/2026
Flat illustration of a Common Loon wading through black water- white mono-line ripples silhouette their body
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I delivered a free suburban weekly newspaper, and my compensation was largely based on how many raffle tickets I sold per month. I absolutely hated doing door knocking but tried to force myself to do it. I still remember which houses had dogs.
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Disciplinary mechanisms do be like that." --Michel Foucault
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This might be the funnier YouGov poll: Canada's retaliatory tariffs are above water with US adults:
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Today I biked TWELVE WHOLE KILOMETERS and got to hang out with the river and then eat ice cream. Fantastic day.
The Ottawa River (Kichi Sibi) seen from Remic Rapids. There are red Muskoka chairs in the grass facing the river, and stacked stone sculptures in the shallow water. A hand holds a cone of ice cream in the foreground (Peach tea vegan ice cream in a salted blue corn come) with a purple tricycle blurrily visible in the background, along with some people.
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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Services I provide for my cats
Chicago streets and sanitation truck with the first s missing so it says treets and sanitation
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I feel like a weird political scientist most of the time but also I really fit in with a group of people who make jokes about omnibus bills.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The sign is changed; I guess it’s really back to work.
Emily’s office door. The letter board at the center reads “OFFICE HOURS TUES 130-430 OR BY APPOINTMENT. BONNE RENTRÉE!”
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The late lamented Mayrig in Beirut. Followed shortly by Chez Panisse Cafe (the one with a normal menu, not a prix fixe - my wife is picky) in Berkeley.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I bought a new sticker for my tablet and realized it accidentally made a good pairing with my favorite sticker on there.
An iPad with four stickers. One is from the Refugees and Migrants in Our Common Home project, one is from R-Space: Leadership Rooted in Refugee Realities. The one in the center features a Canada goose spreading her wings and honking with blue, pink, and white baby geese at her feet. The one next to it features a white goose who has bent her wings like arms so her hands  are on her hips, with the text Today I Am a serious goose.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'm submitting for reimbursement for interviewee honorariums - I paid out of pocket but would ideally like this couple hundred dollars back - and the category in the reimbursement software? "Test subject." My yikes face can be seen from space.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I’m hoping to be able to transfer money to Fadi today or early tomorrow to pay their moving expenses. Can you help out?
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I’m hoping to be able to transfer money to Fadi today or early tomorrow to pay their moving expenses. Can you help out?
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Some of you may remember Fadi, a young man in Gaza I have been fundraising for. Fadi and his wife, parents, and sisters are being displaced yet again, and need to raise 1000 shekels (just US$300) by Friday to be able to move. I’m donating C$25. Can you match me? chuffed.org/project/1322...
chuffed.org
Safety and Medical Treatment for Fadi and Afnan
My name is Emily, and I'm a professor in Canada. I'm running this campaign for Fadi, shown here with his nephew, and his wife Afnan. Originally from Gaza City, Fadi and Afnan are displaced in Khan You...
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 15/07/2026
A new year, a new goal! Help us raise $180,000 before Rosh HaShanah for the Gaza Soup Kitchen, which provides food and medicine to thousands of displaced Palestinians each day.
givebutter.com
High Holy Days 5787 Tzedakah Campaign
By Gaza Soup Kitchen
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
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Keanu Reeves as Neo in The Matrix
Alt: Keanu Reeves as Neo in The Matrix
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Please PLEASE someone interview me about this, I would love to come on your television or radio show and just scream AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH. Signed, a professor of American politics.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Please, Canadian news media, PLEASE invite me to give a quote about this news story, PLEASE.
An iPhone notification from the CBC News app:
CBC POLITICS
Trump threatens increased tariffs for wildfire smoke that has
"unnecessarily invaded' U.S.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Yesterday I was reading government press releases from the Harper govt on queer refugees and sighing a lot. Today I’m reading government press releases from the Trudeau govt on queer refugees and I’m sighing even more but with very different motivations.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
CBC headline from two weeks ago: “Carney says Trudeau-era climate plan was ‘too expensive’ and ‘divisive’
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Five living authors I've read five books by: Martha Wells Ben Aaronovich Ann Leckie Nghi Vo Malka Older (Yeah, I’m hella predictable.)
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Darryl Leroux is a colleague and a settler researcher who studies white claims to Indigenous ancestry; someone he correctly identified as having falsely claimed to be indigenous won a defamation case against him. If you have the ability to support his legal case, it would be much appreciated.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This right here. The birthright citizenship decision isn’t a victory, it’s just barely holding on to the actual fucking law. The trans sports decision and campaign finance decisions are a disgrace. It’s a fucking mess, guys.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is interesting to me, because my wife and I planned for me to be ‘mom’ in this pattern, but when she got laid off I became ‘dad.’
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I saw a big announcement about this in Lyon, his hometown, last week. Important to note that his wife, Simonne Vidal, is being inducted along with him, in recognition of her own contributions both to his research and the Resistance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonne...
en.wikipedia.org
Simonne Vidal - Wikipedia
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Graffiti spotted in La Laguna, Canary Islands: “Nazis out of our classrooms.”
A cement wall saying Fueta Nazis de Nuestras Aulas.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"My mayor Muslim / my bagels Jewish / my Christian Dior / Knicks in Four" is basically Keats to me
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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
For Canadians: This well-written petition re the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement closes soon! It very notably emphasizes the STCA's impact on those seeking refuge in the US, but who are facing the CBP/ICE ramp-up. I encourage you to read, sign, and share! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
ourcommons.ca
Petition e-7120 - Petitions
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Happy Pride Month! I just printed pronoun stickers for the @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social Women’s Caucus social tomorrow, which is open to people of all genders!
Two sheets of stickers on a white back ground with pronoun pairs printed on them.
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
As a @thenewschool.bsky.social @nssrnews.bsky.social alum, this is bullshit. Time for the university to break down to its component parts and let it be built up again to actually serve its purpose(s).
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Emily Regan Wills @ajnabieh.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is blasphemy. I raise the “tofu spread” banner high. (Also, nearly every bagel place has vegan cream cheese because it’s all downstream of kosher food culture.)
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