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Joy Henderson

@joyster78.bsky.social
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She/they, student, Scarborough. Mother to kids, pets and plants. Queer, disabled and unapologetically Afro-Indigenous (Lakota). Brain is crammed with random knowledge. Crafty, Capricorn and obnoxiously opinionated. Undefeated Queen of Typos.

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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My critique of DEI is not about people putting unqualified people in positions, because that is clearly untrue. My critique about DEI is uncritically putting people in positions without examining their actual views, values and whether their vision is in alignment with anti-oppressive values.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Zionists are pushing people into more and more polarized positions. As if genocide want enough, they target people protesting genocide. When they really should be reading the writing on the walls, that power isn't popular support and power does eventually fade.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
And while I'm here talking about professors, there seems to be a couple of types. Those who actually enjoy teaching and learning with their students. And those who got their PhD and see teaching as their birthright and do it however they see fit. (Not usually well)
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Why do profs turn the classroom and academia into the Hunger Games for students? Do they think people can really produce their best under these conditions?
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Regarding the Ontario NDP (and generally all progressive parties). I have to wonder how much social media serves as the canary in the coal mine to these parties. It's not the be all to end all, but the ONDP has been bleeding support, consistent with criticism on social media.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Genuine question for white people in North America, especially those with a few generations on this stolen land. What is your culture and can you define it, and has it been passed down from where your ancestors came from?
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This has me so fucked up with rage right now. I can honestly say that if a transphobe got in my face right now, they'd be walking away with a few less teeth.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I asked a question about where is the political activism in the US at the other place and immediately had dozens of white leftists saying how hard it was. One (and I wish I were kidding) listed getting a dog-sitter as a barrier. And, I cant
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This is challenging, since I am the judgey type, but I also understand this too. Revolution requires relation.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Good morning Blue sky. What has me up so early? My therapist unknowingly opened a box and all the things I had neatly compartmentalized are out and dancing in my brain.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Who knew, Dubya did something good.
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Weyodi OldBear- The Root and The Seed is available. @weyodi.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The House is on Fire The Foundation Long Cracked Is Opening Wide But in that space Light is Reaching Ground Hidden for the Last 500 Years And Soon Green Shoots will Rise
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Support Your Neighbourhood Shelter! The first batch of window signs and stickers have just dropped, and distribution is coming soon! Unhoused people are our neighbours 💕 Many thanks to Katie Carey for the illustration: katiecarey.ca
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Is it just me, or are the 80s and 90s a pretty unique era of child, youth and then young adult, centred representation?
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Boy Twitter Democrats are a hot mess. Tell me Blue sky Democrats aren't blaming the people who did not vote for them, because they had a serious issue with their stance on genocide (amongst many other things)? Please? Pretty please?
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Was I added to a writer/book list. I'm getting a lot of readers following me. Which is awesome, but sadly, the only thing I'm writing these days are assignments. 😅
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Activists today would do so well studying historical activism. So much beautiful inspiration and so much important knowledge.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It's days like these that I'm glad I went to grad school instead of doomscrolling social media for shit Trump has done..
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Today I restate my demands that white folks are not allowed to quote MLK until they have read all of his works, AND have to re-read them for 10 years annually before quoting.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
There are 6 missing Black boys in the Toronto area, at what point do we start not seeing this as a coincidence? Link to story. www.instagram.com/reel/DEqx9mi...
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
An update. Her husband Auriel Willette from rwjms.bsky.social has sent a letter to various orgs in my community demanding my removal of participation and employment. Accompanied with a bunch of "incriminating" tweets, half of which do not even relate to his concern.
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Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (@rwjms.bsky.social)
Through specialized training, patient-centered medicine, and an innovative curriculum, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, located in New Brunswick and part of Rutgers Health, prepares students to bec...
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
This account and her husband are harassing a Black disabled woman, simply because said woman committed the crime of blocking her. I don't know why white folks feel entitled to our time, our peace and our solidarity when they are being problematic, or...ever.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
this is part of why all the pearl clutching shit about how "americans can't just execute people" re: Luigi fell so fucking flat. um the cops execute people every single day and brutalize other people further for noticing they did that
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Why does it seem like 90% of pretendian hunters were raised by white folks. Maybe y'all should work on that lil imposter syndrome problem you have, instead of coming for other NDNs online. 🤷🏾‍♀️
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Okay, I don't know what happened, but I gained several hundred followers over the past two days. Hi! Some of you might be new, some of you might know me from twitter. I'm trying this new thing here, like being able to have a conversation. MAGA types, TERFs, Zionists, incels blocked on sight.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
90% of Toronto neighbourhood Facebook groups is people telling others that there is a coyote in the neighbourhood
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
That feeling when you submitted your final paper for the semester.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
My study buddy says it's time for a break.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I will be aggressively blocking on this app. If you cannot hold a conversation like an adult, if you think transgender rights are optional, if you both sides genocide, if you use the word r*tard, or are any of the isms, you will be blocked.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Periods of great social and cultural transition also feature increases in protest-related violence—AND in state violence. From 1971-72, there were 2,500 protest-related bombings. In 1985, the police bombed a Black liberation group (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...). 10/ time.com/4501670/bomb...
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The Bombings Across America That We've 'Forgotten'
And what has changed since
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
What this amazing story, (that I love) Is missing, is that the formerly enslaved peoples had some help. And it was from the local Natives. They teach us that the only way to break the chains and fuck up colonialism is together. 💜
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I've been thinking about pretendians and the harm that has resulted to Afro-Indigenous peoples. White people's nonsense always has consequences for Black folks. But also, not dismissing the anti-Black racism in Indigenous communities. Decolonize, means ridding yourself of that garbage too.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
So I was at home with my bestie and some guys came to the door fundraising for Sunnybrook. My bestie wanted to launch outside to ask why these Scarborough men were fundraising for any hospital but SHN. 😂 Seriously though, our hospitals are in DIRE need, please please donate or share!
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Stosh @stosh44.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Barbra Banda. She plays so well, she has to be a man. She's tall, she's athletic, she doesn't satisfy the white male gaze, she must be a man. White women are defending these beliefs white men are feeding to them like obnoxious pigeons.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Apparently pro-Palestinian things aren't allowed? #FreePalestine.
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 23/11/2024
The right does indeed have a big Bluesky problem. X gave the right an opportunity to 'own the libs' and persuade the persuadables to join their side. Bluesky could deprive them of both. Gift article to read and share. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The Right Has a Bluesky Problem
The X exodus is weakening a way for conservatives to speak to the masses.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
So my kid has to go get his passport for exams, because 1. The school won't accept digital school ID. 1a. The school does not hand out physical school ID anymore. 2. The school does not accept driver's licences. What in the hell?
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/11/2024
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Nah, I don't even feel good dunking on her anymore.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Seriously, what is left on twitter? Right wing politicians like Ghamari or MacLeod debasing themselves further? Women who look like the crypt keeper barking about trans women in they bathrooms? Zionists calling Lego anti-Semitic?
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We organize, or we die. I'm not being hyperbolic, bad shit is coming and we really really really need to start identifying our objectives now.
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Joy Henderson @joyster78.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Colleges and universities that have "placement coordinators" need to hire at *least* two, to ensure skills transfer, continuity of knowledge and relationships and it's a huge friggin job. Pay them well and keep them happy. The benefit to your students and schools will be immense.
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