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Daniel Sailofsky

@dansailofsky.bsky.social
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Assistant professor, University of Toronto | Studying violence and harm, labour, gender and sport | Basketball obsessive, book reader | he/him To pre-order Playing Through Pain: www.uncpress.org/book/9781469685878…

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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Oh man seeing it in print is something else!
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
every time I think a new level of depravity has been reached, they sink lower. go to Google maps and search Beit Hanoun, and you can see the Israeli branding on Gaza. won’t be long till Google removes it I imagine, but it’s still there now.
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
no mention in headlines in the Western press that the Palestinian prisoners were all women and CHILDREN and of course no questioning why Israel holds children in detention
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
though there was finally a ceasefire last week, the occupation and our fight against it is far from over. proud to see this out in print, open-access, based on our panel last year on sport and Palestine in a time of crisis. journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
really cool and important piece on shoes and sustainability by @bwd.bsky.social, on the difficulties of making truly sustainable consumer products in a hyper competitive capitalist marketplace www.espn.com/espn/feature...
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Can basketball sneakers make the world a better place?
NBA stars are known to break out special-edition shoes when playing on Christmas Day. While many undoubtedly will be rocking red and green colorways, several are also pondering how their signature lin...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
😍😍😍😍😍
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
why can’t I watch Syla Swords against #10 Oklahoma tonight on any Canadian sports network smh
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
classic case of 'I wish I wrote this' - this sums up my feelings almost exactly
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
pretty surreal to see this in print! we’re talking about all violence and harm here - physical, psychological, structural, political thanks to the people at @uncpress.bsky.social for trusting the vision!
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Here’s my pitch for why you should read this book: it’s not about what Derek and I have to say, tho I think we make a persuasive case; it’s the stunning and riveting and never-before-heard testimony of former players. Their stories are *still* shocking to me. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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The End of College Football | Nathan Kalman-Lamb | University of North Carolina Press
In this book, Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential challenge to one of America's favorite pastimes: college football. Drawing on twenty-fi...
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Based on the discourse the last few days, it seems like everyday working people understand structural violence/social murder, but ruling elites and the media class that represents their interests don’t, or don’t want to funny how that works
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
a propos of nothing in particular, Engels wrote a great little section on social murder that I cite in my book to help explain structural violence www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
so proud of these folks stay safe and stay loud never again for anyone
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
please, please, please listen to this episode. we need it playing on loop across North America at this point
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
a person’s opinion of Dillon Brooks as a player is my barometer for if I think you understand basketball dude is such a gamer and does so many important things, more than making up for the occasional silliness
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
What I can’t shake in all of this is that the brawl and the pepper spray and all of it is a massive story precisely because it is framed as aberrant violence. But a HBCU player was just killed on the field in the banal violence that *is* football, and that warrants barely a footnote.
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“I will never do to anyone else what was done to me”
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I wish all public intellectuals had the courage and conviction of Sally Rooney www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Sally Rooney: Killing in Gaza has been supported by Ireland’s ‘good friend’ in the White House
Our Government is basking in the moral glow of condemning the bombers, while preserving a cosy relationship with those supplying the bombs
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The University is proud to announce that we have hired a Chief Advancement Officer, who will be in charge of all things advancement in the area of progress.
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“capitalism breeds innovation”
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Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.
Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
from @michaelgrange.bsky.social on (ducks) X, this Raptors court for tonight looks absolutely 🔥🔥
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
it’s here! so proud to know, work with, and call these two guys friends @derekcrim.bsky.social @nkalamb.bsky.social
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
beyond the fact that Israel has killed athletes, coaches, referees and administrators and used Yarmouk stadium as a detention camp, Israel’s continued inclusion in the international sport system signals that their conduct is acceptable - it’s sportswashing of the highest order
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
the universities have no money …except for more senior administrators with vague titles like “associate director of corporate affairs”
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I’m officially making the switch. Twitter has become so unbearable that even the sunk cost can’t keep me there. I post about social issues - gender, labour, violence - in sport and outside of it, leftist politics and more generic NBA and WNBA fandom stuff!
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Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Playing through Pain by @dansailofsky.bsky.social challenges us to rethink a system that profits from harm & exposes how capitalism fuels violence in sports—from life-altering injuries to exploitation and “sportswashing.” uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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Daniel Sailofsky @dansailofsky.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
an important conversation that I feel fortunate to have been a part of - worth a listen!
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