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Kris Singh

@krissingh.bsky.social
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Faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Caribbean and African literature. Surreyite.

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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/17/j...
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Jason Arday and the Machinery of Cruelty
I am sickened and deeply saddened by the death of Jason Arday. He was only 41, a young man whose life was cut short following a period of intense public controversy and scrutiny, much of it shaped by ...
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 12/08/2026
After a nerve-racking evacuation, workers who had come to B.C.’s Okanagan to help bring in the fruit harvest were told they couldn’t stay more than two nights and three days in emergency shelters for wildfire evacuees — because they’re not B.C. residents. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
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Migrant Workers Face a Housing Crisis in This Summer of Fire | The Tyee
Fleeing farmworkers are allowed only two nights at emergency shelters.
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Her parents, three sisters and two brothers believe they need to find justice for Michel, who was born in 1994 in Aquin, a city in the south of Haiti, who didn’t live to turn 32, attend her immigration hearing or even sleep in her own bed again." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘She showed love for everyone’: how did Daphy Michel end up frozen to death in a Pittsburgh bus shelter?
Haitian immigrant with mental illness found dead after ICE released her in 20F weather wearing summer clothes
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Haven't yet gotten to Mbue's debut, but this is her follow-up, an expansive work of postcolonial eco-fiction. Love how it lambasts His Excellency and its unorthodox structure. It's particularly good in its dissection of the politics of youth protest
Book cover of How Beautiful We Were: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Clicky Ponting is exceptional work www.nytimes.com/athletic/747...
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Clicky Ponting? Snapil Dev? How a cricketer clicking his fingers sparked a global scandal
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"Cultural expectations and technological artefacts exist in an inextricably intertwined way. Technologies are perhaps best understood, not so much as agents in their own right, but as thought-objects for the collective enactment and exploration of hopes, desires and political visions" (Streeter)
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"And it could also lead to a crisis of self, forcing humanity to confront how to manage – and relate to – what it has created: a new form of being, neither human nor animal" 🙄 www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/197efda...
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Keeping at bay the dangers of AI
A conversation with artificial intelligence ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Incredibly heartening scenes in India As Roy puts it, "the mockery and the humor, it’s just unbelievable. It’s unbelievable, what’s going on, the dancing, the singing. That old, really boring Gandhian protest style has gone. It’s just so exuberant and joyful"
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Geetanjali Shree: "The ministers, the bureaucrats, the police, are people’s representatives and public servants. They are not gods....Thank you, all you young ppl, for reminding us about democracy. Salaam to you. And a plea that the powers that be will do their duty wisely thewire.in/rights/minis...
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'Ministers, Bureaucrats, Police Are Not Gods': International Booker Winner Geetanjali Shree
The International Booker winner has thanked young people, 'for reminding us about democracy.'
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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
SX80 is now available! 🎊 This issue is available digitally through Duke University Press ; link 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Arundhati Roy on the Cockroach Janta Party: "It’s a thing of its own. A unique product of its times. It is vulnerable young people up against a vicious, vindictive government that has shown itself to be merciless to those who oppose it" thewire.in/rights/cockr...
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Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous
Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
AI's promise of broadly beneficial disruption is a lie
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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
sx salon presents our 52nd issue: Caribbean Ecologies As Caribbean nations continue to endure the ruinous effects of the climate crisis, this special section asks what it means to create, remember, and preserve the environments dear to us. Read the latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"The AI ​​economic-financial complex has become a tangled, impenetrable thicket; grasping its every convolution is a daunting challenge. Yet, everywhere one looks, one sees dead ends and unpredictable variables" newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Frédéric Lordon, Awaiting the Crash? — Sidecar
On the AI bubbles.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Read "Lost History," the story of Kathryn Mathews Updegraff and young Algerian women's participation in the National Liberation Army. Out now on our site: spectrejournal.com/lost-history/
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Lost History – Spectre Journal
Kathryn Updegraff captured a layered politics of resistance in Algeria—where women’s labor formed the backbone of revolutionary struggle.
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Canada continues to be in denial about its incel problem: "Put plainly, the target of the shooter’s ire was first and foremost the sexual liberation and bodily autonomy of women" (gift link) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/197efda...
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The Montreal shooting revealed how antiporn rhetoric is being taken up by incels
The shooter’s 104-page manifesto made clear that misogyny was the clearest of his motivations
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I learned so much from reading @kehyslop.bsky.social's in-depth explainer on Canada's proposed social ban for kids under 16. The legislation differs from UK and Australia's similar efforts for instance - read more here: thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...
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How Age-Restricting Social Media May Play Out | The Tyee
What Canada’s ‘pause’ on social media and AI chatbot accounts for kids could look like.
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"We need an international consensus that recognizes the threat Musk poses and works against it with boycotts, with the withdrawal of support and funding, and with whatever creative tools are available"
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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
From our new issue: "Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War" by @nisrinelamin.bsky.social traces key elements of the political economy of Sudan's war and situates it within a longer history of state violence. Freely available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
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Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War | Critical Times | Duke University Press
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A thoughtful take on the Commonwealth Short Story hubbub "This is what the AI controversy ultimately reveals—not a new problem introduced by technology, but an old one made newly legible." africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-...
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How to read postcolonial writing
The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive...
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
www.hilltimes.com/2026/05/20/b...
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Bill C-22 reveals a troubling trend with the Carney government - The Hill Times
Carney’s Liberals have left a lot to be defined through the undemocratic regulatory process. The plan is to be vague when shoving it down our throats via Parliament.
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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
“We were shocked to find that despite all the dizzying technological changes our world has seen in recent years, South Asian farmworker women in BC are still growing our food under archaic labour conditions,” said co-author of our Growing Justice report Anelyse Weiler.
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'Precarious labour': B.C.'s female farm workers at risk, new report says
Report raises concerns about lack of safety, wages and respect for female, South Asian farm workers on Fraser Valley farms.
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 06/05/2026
In several provinces, international students have access to public healthcare at no additional cost. In BC, however, they have to pay. And those fees have amounted to more than $400 million since 2020. pressprogress.ca/internationa...
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Here’s How Much International Students Have Been Paying for BC Healthcare
Despite federal study-permit caps, the contributions have continued to grow
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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From Palestine to Lebanon, A War Without Limits and the Wages of Impunity
The seventh Israeli invasion of Lebanon is being waged in both the shadow of genocide in Gaza and within the world that Israel’s permission to commit genocide has created. This is a world where intern...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 14/03/2026
An excellent analysis of the war on Black studies that also includes a deeply perceptive critique of the neoliberal logic of valuing disciplines based on # of undergrad majors: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Opinion | The Erasure of Black Studies
A report from the undoing of a field.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
It's day 2 of 48-hour flash matching fundraiser i'm running to support Migrant Workers Action in Lebanon With renewed escalation by Zionist entity, domestic migrant workers (undocumented or under Kafala) are among most displaced & vulnerable. Goal is 6K by weekend, just $800 away. contribute/share
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Donate to Reclaim Our Rights - Community-Led Humanitarian Assistance, organized by Migrant Workers' Action
The 2024 conflict showed how migrant community leaders were f… Migrant Workers' Action needs your support for Reclaim Our Rights - Community-Led Humanitarian Assistance
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lisa lowe @driftinghouse.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together
The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"No matter how crude or clumsy Trump may be in forcing his will upon the world, his grandiose and murderous entitlement is directly continuous with his predecessors’."
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"These attacks are causing much suffering for Iranian people, and it’s destroying the space in which Iranians were struggling for social justice and civil liberties” - Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, once imprisoned on death row in Iran. www.democracynow.org/2026/3/2/ira...
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Did anyone expect anything different?
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
In this cold!!! The level of determination is humbling & inspiring. We will win.
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Dr. Steph Chancy @chancyms.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Call For Proposals! LACDH 2026 in San Antonio. Theme "Transfronteras: Third Spaces in Digital Humanities" focused on Transborder Digital Humanities. Deadline to submit proposals, February 13. See guides.uflib.ufl.edu/lac-dh-sympo... for more information
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Bishop's words are ever more striking
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The longstanding practice of imperial impunity makes this possible, as it did with the extrajudicial boat bombings. No interest in legal legitimacy only in expanding its many methods of coercion
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
"George Floyd’s death was an event, but the story of his dying continues to unfold." Christina Sharpe in The Globe and Mail (gift link) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/197efda...
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The murder that led to an uprising around the world
The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, proved, again, there are people to whom seemingly anything can be done with impunity
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
AI hype produces this frantic rush into tech accelerationism. It's part of the disciplinary power of the AI project. This piece is great corrective: "Decomputing allows for not only a shift to less stuff in general but also to a focus on taking better care of what we already have"
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
"George Floyd’s death was an event, but the story of his dying continues to unfold." Christina Sharpe in The Globe and Mail (gift link) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/197efda...
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The murder that led to an uprising around the world
The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, proved, again, there are people to whom seemingly anything can be done with impunity
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
"Canada’s Liberal government is pushing through sweeping new legislation targeting refugees that observers fear will usher in a new era of US-style border policies, fueling xenophobia and the scapegoating of immigrants." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Canada bill targeting refugees feared to signal new era of US-style border policy
Bill C-12 includes many changes around border security along with new ineligibility rules for refugee claimants
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Same thing afoot in Canada "Crisis narratives sustain a political economy of fear, and have driven far-reaching transformations of Europe’s border architecture and migration policy" www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
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Ten years of fortress Europe has served only cruelty, profiteers and racists. The next decade is up to us | Maurice Stierl
The hard right and far right are the political winners from the migration ‘crisis’, but only because centrist parties keep legitimising them, says migration and border researcher Maurice Stierl
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Timothy Snyder in The Globe and Mail: "In the U.S., too, the connection between domestic repression and foreign aggression is coming into focus" www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/197efda...
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Trump’s mass deportation policy is taking American democracy with it
There are historical parallels to be observed with the Nazi regime’s deportations and Kristallnacht
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"If humanity is now defined by the presence of casual errors, American-centric colloquialisms, and a certain informal, conversational rhythm, then where does that leave the rest of us?"
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/w...
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Why Maids Keep Dying in Saudi Arabia
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The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
In his introductory essay to the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize for Literary Excellence, Matthew Monrose excavates the contradictions of Austin Clarke and bears down on what we can learn from his refusal to "stop scratching." ex-puritan.ca/dont-scratch...
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"Don't scratch too deep or I'll bleed": Archiving with Austin
Read Matthew Monrose's essay "'Don't scratch too deep or I'll bleed': Archiving with Austin" in Issue 71 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the winners and runners-up of the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize…
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Insightful piece. The long project of AI only pretends at broadening our future while in fact hemming it in
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
"History has proven that ‘Big Stick’ white supremacy—now allied with subordinate Hindu supremacist ideology—will only ever deny justice, peace and a dignified existence to the working class and marginalized communities of Our Americas." www.blackagendareport.com/why-caribbea...
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Why a Caribbean Zone of Radical Peace is Vital and Must Be Realized Through Working-Class Unity | Black Agenda Report
We must struggle for a radical peace in the Caribbean. Maurice Bishop offers us a guide.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
“.. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. “The Special Operations commander .. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions .. The two men were blown apart ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Kris Singh @krissingh.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
"The most common national issue that is said to be made worse by immigration is the housing crisis. Yet its main causes have little to do with immigration."
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