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Collaborative for Racial Justice @collabracialjust.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In this blog, Bahar Banaei reflects on the daily contours of racial violence and the aporias inherent to the law. This is a short meditation on a visit to a Denyse Thomasos exhibit four years ago; the rise of putative fascism; and a CRJ gathering inspired by this theme. tinyurl.com/ywrtwmr6

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Spectres of Law — Collaborative for Racial Justice

In December 2022, members of the Collaborative for Racial Justice (CRJ) visited the career retrospective of Trinidadian-Canadian artist, Denyse Thomasos (1964-2012), at the Art Gallery of Ontario ...

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Collaborative for Racial Justice @collabracialjust.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Research fellow Patrick Michael Teed has a new essay out in Diacritics, reexamining the presumed antagonism between Afropessimism and Black feminism. The article is open access and available for everyone to read. @patrickteed.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social tinyurl.com/37t3ffyb

$There is a cream-coloured background with an abstract acrylic painting. The header reads "diacritics: a review of contemporary criticism". Below, there is a textbox that reads: "This essay provides an immanent critique of the Afropessimist-Black feminist impasse through a close reading of Iyko Day's "Phobic Pessimism, Philic Feminism by Patrick Michael Teed. Afro-Feminism Before Afropessimism." Delineating how the assumption of an antagonism between Afropessimism and Black feminism necessarily flattens both while relationally constructing the two in a spectacularized field of enmity, this essay reads the demand for their non-coincidence as a staged violence refracting antiblack gendered fantasies. Through this antagonism, both Afropessimism and Black feminism are deployed from without to extend the interlocutory projects of civil society's antiblack discourse. And so, this essay argues, the inability to reckon with the conjuncture of Black feminist Afropessimism reveals how Black thought is scaled through the academy precisely by way of its disappearance in a gendered schema that both forecloses and fixes, indeed forecloses by way of fixing, the Black female imago."$

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 17/07/2026

Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.

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Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach

Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities

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Collaborative for Racial Justice @collabracialjust.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

"This is a ghost story. But '…that's getting too far ahead of the story...'" Join us on April 16 for our inaugural public lecture with Professor Antony Farley, "From Failing Hands We Throw" Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/crj-public...

Text on a dark background that reads: "From Failing Hands We Throw: This is a ghost story. But “…that's getting too far ahead of the story, almost to the end, although the end is in the beginning and lies far ahead” (Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man). In the beginning was the unspeakable.
The modern era began with genocide in the Americas, colonialism in India, and “the conversion of Africa into a commercial hunting ground for the gathering of black skins” (Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1). Bodies were marked to have and to have not. White was marked to have. Black was marked to have-not. Laws were spun to tether people to capital as owners, as owners of instruments of continuous dispossession."

Text on a dark background that reads: "Languages, philosophies, and eschatologies were destroyed, dropped out of the universe like collapsed stars, and turned into capital, the rule previously-accumulated labor over labor, the rule of white-over-black, the sovereignty of death over life. We cannot say what happened when the world ended, the words were lost, the meanings were lost, lost to the violence, lost to the singularity. The mass of those murders was beyond the beyond, beyond all meaning, beyond enlightenment’s possibility.
Born of world-spanning violence that was and remains too much to bear, we are unable to articulate what we are, how we should live this death, what the world is, or how to break faith with the unspeakable. This is a ghost story."

Poster with a picture of a man in a black t-shirt with a landscape of buildings behind him. The text on the page reads: "Anthony Farley, James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Albany Law School.
Anthony Paul Farley is the James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Albany Law School. His work exists at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the critique of political economy. A recent work, “Blackness, Repetition, and Non-Philosophy,” appeared in Oxford Literary Review 46.1 (2024): 31-48. Farley was the Gretchen Hoadley Burke ’81 Endowed Chair at Colgate University in 2023-2024 and the Peter Rodino Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rutgers Law School in 2020. Farley, a member of the American Law Institute and the governing board of the Society of American Law Teachers, is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia."

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Collaborative for Racial Justice @collabracialjust.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The CRJ is a co-sponsor of the upcoming Monstrous Intimacies at 15 conference happening in June! Follow them for updates.

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Collaborative for Racial Justice @collabracialjust.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The Collaborative for Racial Justice is excited to present “From Failing Hands We Throw” a public lecture by Professor Anthony Farley. Join us on Thursday, April 16, at 3:00 PM at York University. Reception will follow. Register Now! 🔗 www.collaborativeracialjustice.org/events/2026-...

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2026 Public Lecture: Professor Anthony Farley — Collaborative for Racial Justice

The Collaborative for Racial Justice is excited to present “From Failing Hands We Throw” a public lecture by Professor Anthony Farley. Join us on Thursday, April 16, at 3:00 PM. Reception will follow....

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Collaborative for Racial Justice @collabracialjust.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Join us on April 16, 2026 for our inaugural public lecture with Professor Anthony Farley. Anthony Farley is the Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Albany Law School. A reception will follow. Location: Room 280 N York Lanes, York University, Toronto, ON. 🔗 tinyurl.com/22fkdksm

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CRJ Public Lecture: Professor Anthony Farley

Join us on April 16, 2026 for the Collaborative for Racial Justice’s inaugural public lecture with Professor Anthony Farley.

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Monstrous Intimacies At 15 @monstrousat15.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Mark your calendars! Monstrous Intimacies at 15—a colloquium dedicated to Christina Sharpe's monograph—will be held in Toronto, Ontario on June 22-24, 2026! @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

Poster for "Monstrous Intimacies at 15," an in-person colloquium dedicated to the impact of Christina Sharpe's first monograph. It will be held June 22 - 24, 2026 in Toronto, Canada. The poster features a photograph of a light taken by Boz Deseo Garden.

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