Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenJewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 18/03/2025ALL EYES ON PALESTINE: The Israeli military is resuming its all-out assault on Palestinian families in Gaza, drastically escalating its violations of the ceasefire, killing and wounding hundreds. 20789616
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenJoanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Two daily #SmallPress #books: 1. Until We Are Free: contributors include: @biidaasamose.bsky.social, @drdryden.bsky.social, and @sarahjama.bsky.social. 2. From My Mother's Back: A Journey from Kenya to Canada (Njoki Wane, Wolsak & Wynn) 💙📚 #BookSky #BlackSky #reading #nonfiction 0143
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Horrifying Canadian higher ed news: York University, one of the country’s major R1s, is apparently suspending admission to a number of key programs (including GWS, languages, classics, and enviro biology)—very likely auguring cuts. This appears to be straight out of the West Virginia playbook. 13275131
OmiSooreDryden @drdryden.bsky.social · 17/02/2025#Montreal we are postponing our event tomorrow #Feb17. We will definitely keep you posted abt new date 031
OmiSooreDryden @drdryden.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Thank you #Vancouver and Cross & Crows!! 🖤🌈🩸✊🏿🏳️⚧️ 060
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2025What crime did the person commit that merits detention? Related: it’s been three weeks since Elon Musk vigorously saluted his fellow Nazis at the inauguration 13593132
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/02/2025READ THIS ASAP: “If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them. To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comTrump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith ButlerThose who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage 9593233
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenBee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 07/02/2025"As much as the Caribbean is made of islands of European experimentation and exploitation, the region is also full of hidden laboratories for Afro-Indigenous sovereignty." - @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social Dark Laboratory is making connections, sparking thought, and verifying ideas I've had. Love it. 0134
OmiSooreDryden @drdryden.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Thank you @malindasmith.bsky.social #Calgary a fantastic evening. Check out livestream on @shelflifebooks.bsky.social instagram page! 0102
OmiSooreDryden @drdryden.bsky.social · 04/02/2025#Calgary #BookLaunch Join us #Feb5 7pm at Shelf Life Books. I’ll be in conversation with @malindasmith.bsky.social #GotBloodToGive @shelflifebooks.bsky.social 122
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenRadical Events Ottawa @rad-events-ottawa.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Coming up in Ottawa - many educational events about Palestine, book launches w/ @drdryden.bsky.social & @alansearslefty.bsky.social, a community gardening workshop, a Valentine's fundraiser for Gaza, a @briarpatchmag.bsky.social Skate-a-thon, and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/ 185
OmiSooreDryden @drdryden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Join me tomorrow #Feb3 2pm @uottawa.bsky.social #GotBloodToGive #BookTalk 193
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenChani Nicholas @chaninicholas.bsky.social · 19/01/2025WELCOME AQUARIUS SEASON! AHEAD OF YOUR TIME AS AN EXTREME SPORT! APATHY IS OUT! FREEDOM AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! ORGANIZE! REVOLUTIONIZE! FUTURIZE! REFUSE TO OBEY IN ADVANCE! CEASEFIRE IS THE FLOOR! COLLECTIVE LIBERATION IS THE GOAL! LIFE IS SHORT! THE OLIGARCHY IS HERE! NEVER LET THEM STEAL YOUR JOY! 21824142
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenGulzar R. Charania @grcharania.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Looking forward to the Ottawa launch of Got Blood to Give by @drdryden.bsky.social 052
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenOctopus Books @octopusbooks.ca · 28/01/2025Join us to celebrate the launch of @drdryden.bsky.social's book, Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation. Mon Feb 3, 2pm-4pm University of Ottawa, FSS building rm 4007 Presented by the Joint Chair in Women's Studies & the Interdisciplinary Centre for Black Health at Ottawa U 163
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenNandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan says that sanctuary cities “will see a higher number of more collateral arrests.” This is another criminalization of solidarity. 071
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenNPR @npr.org · 27/01/2025The long trek home by Palestinians comes as mediators helped end twin crises over ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon.npr.orgThousands of Palestinians begin returning home to a devastated GazaThe long trek home by Palestinians comes as mediators helped end twin crises over ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon. 2030436
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/01/2025UN human rights experts have condemned the arrest of prominent Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah in Switzerland, saying it raised concerns about freedom of speech.aje.ioUN experts slam Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah’s arrest in SwitzerlandThey call the arrest of Electronic Intifada website’s founder ‘shocking’ and urge the Swiss government to release him. 9564181
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 27/01/2025A blistering attack on 'gender-critical' transphobia disguised as feminism by @saranahmed.bsky.social. feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/a-noisy-part 111020
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 25/01/2025The #WeeklyRead is “On Receiving Accounts from Others” by Sara Ahmed. The article appears in "Unaccountably Queer", a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (35:3) edited by Teagan Bradway Read this article for free through March 31, 2025:buff.ly 04912
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/01/2025POTUS is shutting the US government down, except for immigration enforcement and military activities. That’s the story. He’s shutting the whole government down. He’s closing up every aspect of the United States operation, except the parts with guns. 663026919
OmiSooreDryden @drdryden.bsky.social · 25/01/2025A few places where I’ll be… pls join me and share w friends #GotBloodToGive #AntiBlackHomophobia #BloodDonation 132
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/01/2025It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you. 89109273675
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenOctopus Books @octopusbooks.ca · 22/01/2025It's a full house at the launch of Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy & Curriculum from the Gender & Sexuality Studies Classroom, with editor @nataliekt.bsky.social. Featuring Ottawa-based contributors to the book Gulzar R. Charania, Kelly Fritsch, Dan Irving, & Megan Rivers-Moore. 1152
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenGulzar R. Charania @grcharania.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Reminder. Tomorrow👇 083
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenCandida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Spent most of today prepping to teach Langston Hughes poetry to first year students tomorrow and I have a feeling they are going to be very here for thi 021
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/01/2025Israel’s devastating war on Gaza and the US support for it will 'haunt' outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken for the rest of his life, says former diplomat Hala Rharrit, who quit in protest over the war last year ⤵️ aje.io/p6kz8yaje.ioGaza atrocities will ‘haunt’ Antony Blinken, says former US diplomatHala Rharrit calls for accountability for US officials who ensured the flow of arms to Israel despite abuses in Gaza. 33429106
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenDr. Malinda S. Smith @malindasmith.bsky.social · 10/01/2025New book, _Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation_ (Nov 2024) by Dalhousie professor, @drdryden.bsky.social, examines why Black and queer Canadians may be hesitant to donate blood | CBC www.cbc.ca/player/play/... 012
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenBee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 26/12/2024Missed it yesterday but December 25th 1831 was the Baptist War in Jamaica, when the preacher Sam Sharpe led a rebellion of 60K enslaved people, fighting for wages for their labour. It started out peacefully but quickly escalated, and became the largest slave uprising in the British West Indies. 32318
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/12/2024California forcibly sterilized hundreds of women. Then, it 'allowed' them to apply for compensation. But only ≈15% of the affected women have gotten compensation so far. Many were denied. And the deadline to apply/appeal is in just 10 days, leading to an unfair rush many don't know about:boltsmag.orgFor Survivors of Forced Sterilization in California Prisons, a Rushed Shot at JusticeA state board deciding reparations for women sterilized against their will rejected most applications. Advocates are now racing against a January deadline for victims to appeal. 271452835
OmiSooreDryden @drdryden.bsky.social · 21/12/2024as the sun renews, may our own commitments for liberation, freedom, justice, and peace also be renewed #WinterSolstice2024 #EndGenocides 030
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenAruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Maybe the most difficult piece I’ve had to write, but the most joyful, too. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/a...nytimes.comLorraine O’Grady Was Ready for Fame (Gift Article)Through her writing and performances, the artist helped new audiences to understand the cultural roots of racism and sexism. 2269
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenRefuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 15/12/2024This week Sam speaks w @raquelwillis.com (co-founder of @genderlib.com) about the fascist campaign to erase trans people & the need for radical defiance. Also Philly-based street artist Yomi on making powerful art to confront fascism & challenge passivity. refusefascism.org/2024/12/15/g...refusefascism.orgGender Liberation, Radical Defiance & The Power of Street ArtSam recaps some of the fascist developments from this past week and interviews author and activist, Raquel Willis, co-founder of The Gender Liberation Movement (@genderlib). Raquel discusses the curre... 03210
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenAlicia L. @dykearchive.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Nikki Giovanni. Rest well. ♥️ 032
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenKen Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Monday at Intellectual Publics 6:30pm ET!! Aisha Beliso-De Jesús @beliso-dejesus.bsky.social & Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez @dryofiggy.bsky.social in conversation on Beliso-De Jesús's new @dukepress.bsky.social book "Excited Delirium." www.gc.cuny.edu/events/excit... It's going to be so deep & smart!gc.cuny.eduExcited DeliriumAisha M. Beliso-De Jesús and Yomaira C. 12612
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenThomas Birmingham @thomasbirm.bsky.social · 08/12/2024BREAKING: Yale student body has voted OVERWHELMINGLY in favor of divesting the university’s holdings in weapons manufactures, including “those arming Israel” Of 3,338 students, over 76% voted in favor of divestment. The Yale Daily News reports unprecedented engagement in the vote. 81024246
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenSonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024I've updated the Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading list! If you know of any other fantasy and science fiction works by Palestinian writers around the world, do let me know! soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...soniasulaiman.comRead Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading ListThe following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na… 9243189
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenMondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 05/12/2024Families in Gaza are surviving on scraps of bread and contaminated canned food, and my children dream of a simple chicken meal. In a land once full of life, only ashes remain.mondoweiss.netHow my family has survived the famine in GazaIt is a daily struggle for survival under the Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza. Families are surviving on scraps of bread and contaminated canned food, and my children dream of a simple chicken meal. In… 18549
Reposted by OmiSooreDrydenMatthew Behrens @matthewbehrens.bsky.social · 04/12/2024May we all take inspiration from the life and work of Rabbi David Mivasair, a lifelong human rights champion who has fearlessly challenged, in the great prophetic tradition, those who support and sustain the systems of apartheid and genocide. Equally important, he walks with and accompanies those 1188