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Alan Sears

@alansearslefty.bsky.social
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Queer socialist recently retired from Toronto Metropolitan University. Author of Eros and Alienation: Capitalism and the Making of Gendered Sexualities (Pluto Press, January 2025)

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Alan Sears @alansearslefty.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Ottawa friends - we will be doing an Ottawa launch for my new book Eros and Alienation at Octopus Books, 116 Third Ave on Mon Feb 3 at 7pm (doors open 6:30). I am honoured to be joined in conversation with Azar Masoumi, Dan Irving and Julie Tomiak.
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Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
NEW: Alan Sears on the generative desiring at the heart of revolutionary politics, a potential antidote to capitalism’s dehumanizing effects. www.midnightsunmag.ca/eros-and-rev...
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Eros and Revolution
Alan Sears on the generative desiring at the heart of revolutionary politics, a potential antidote to capitalism’s dehumanizing effects.
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Aslı Peker @aslipeker.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
NYU suspends students for an entire year for “significant and coordinated disruption” in the library, which refers to some students in keffiyehs studying quietly in the lobby, others sitting on the admin. floor asking for a meeting, a few holding banners, and some flyers dropped from an upper level…
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
As voucher programs expand, they worsen. In states with universal voucher programs, more of the public monies go to students already in private school and to wealthier families.
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GOP states are embracing vouchers. Wealthy parents are benefitting.
Most of the beneficiaries are incoming kindergarteners or students already enrolled in private schools.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 10/12/2024
I’ve been saying for years that sports newsrooms are wholly unprepared for this political moment. imo it’s journalistic malpractice not to have a writer on staff who can cover trans sports stories well. But I can’t even place freelance coverage at this point. It’s so bleak.
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Watch all the prison release videos from Syria. Let Syrians feed you a taste of freedom. Imagine your own society opening its doors and borders. Imagine being free one day yourself, truly free. That’s what this moment invites.
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Alan Sears @alansearslefty.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Powerful analysis of the situation in Syria by Joseph Daher
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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
URGENT: The House is voting THIS WEEK on including a ban on health care for trans youth who are dependents of US military personnel. We reject this attack on lifesaving care that could lead to patients being coercively detransitioned. Please stand with us to protect trans youth.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The empire of the United States most likely peaked with the end of the so-called Cold War that was hot for so many. The decline of the empire is signaled by the name of the so-called War on Terror, with Americans not realizing that the source of the Terror comes from inside of them.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 29/11/2024
Learn more about how to participate in #ReadPalestine Week at publishersforpalestine.org
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Alan Sears @alansearslefty.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Follow Midnight Sun Mag here on Bluesky for queer, anti-racist, anti-colonial, feminist, ecological marxist analysis
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Murray Cooke @murraycooke.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Save our bike lanes! We need more bike lanes in Toronto, not fewer. Bike lanes save lives. Get rid of Doug Ford. #bikeTO
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Katie @katiekats.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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Alan Sears @alansearslefty.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Thanks Murray Cooke for reminding us of the power of connecting in person - mobilizing, planning, evaluating, learning with and from each other. Social media tools can be useful in the process of building together, but cannot fill the void of missing mobilizations
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
"I’m less interested in conducting a postmortem of this election and tweaking the Democrats’ tactics than trying to understand how to build a movement." Robin D. G. Kelley:
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Notes on Fighting Trumpism - Boston Review
To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.
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