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Michael V. Smith

@michaelvsmith.bsky.social
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That writer performer filmmaker radical faerie professor curator consummate host and adorable gender-radical queerdo guy.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands. Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
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Sam G 🇨🇦 @itssamg.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
It’s funny that all the conservatives who thought Carney shouldn’t be interim PM because he wasn’t elected are okay with Poilievre staying on as the CPC leader even though he literally just LOST an election
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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Poetry-only press Brick Books marks its 50th anniversary, celebrating the “unlikely feat” of publishing nothing but verse for half a century. bit.ly/44CDJAc
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Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This was fun. Thanks for the questions, Kathryn Mockler!
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 17/04/2025
"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
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Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut
The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Feel free to recruit me international university even though I am not a scientist. I have other skills.
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Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Anyone want to bring me to their town for this fun karaoke + poetry event?
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Childhood's End🍁 @childhoodsend.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The rights hypocrisy of blaming social programs that help those in need and saying nothing of the blatant bl Corporate welfare for the rich... www.biv.com/news/canadas...
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Canada's oil and gas industry received $29.6B in subsidies in 2024, report finds
The subsidies dwarf the previous years total and come as Ottawa said it would wind down direct financial support for the industry
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/04/2025
Schiff: "That may end up being the most enduring image of the Trump presidency: The president out on a golf cart while peoples' retirement is in flames."
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Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It's crazy to be living in such intense times that every day there are multiple news stories of how despicable or heroic humans can be that each feel...legendary. This history is intense in the making. And fast.
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Ernest @fintechernest.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
“Trump has ordered border agents to look through personal devices for any anti-Trump sentiment and has turned away or detained dozens of Canadians vacationing or working in the US - legally.” 🎃🎃🎃 open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
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Canada’s New US Travel Warning: Leave Your Phone, Grab a Burner, and Maybe Skip the U.S. Altogether
April 2, 2025
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Kathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Part 3 of My Adventures in Book Publicity - Book Tours "Launching a book into the world is a mind fuck. It’s exciting but often devastating and can be humiliating."
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Launching a book into the world is a mind fuck. It’s exciting but often devastating and can be humiliating.
My Adventures in Book Publicity Part 3 | Book Tours
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It is truly sick that universities have preyed on international students for exploitatively exorbitant tuition fees and now they are allowing those same students to be thrown to the wolves with nary a fucking complaint.
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
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Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The Signal scandal isn't just about the security breach: it's also a window into Trump's mafia foreign policy. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Group Chat War Plans Provide a Window Into Trump’s Mafia State
American foreign policy is now all about incompetent shakedowns and cover-ups.
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Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Queers who lived thru the AIDS crisis know about living through genocide. Joy was a huge part of the struggle. There is no fight without joy. Joy will lift us up. Do not live in despair; that story is no place to build a home. Build your home in joy.
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Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I found one of my books in this list ffs.
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Please read all of this: an account of her own detention and the stories of other detained women as well.
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
X post by Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW
), featuring a verification badge. The post reads, "The USA is weird now. If you're a person under 30, you probably think it's normal but that's because you don't know. Trust me. It's weird."
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Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
As a genderqueer Canadian who posts about genocide like he cares for all life...I withdrew from my AWP panel and visit. Too dangerous to visit America. Too scary how basic human rights and decency are vanishing. #awp2025
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Sarah Slack @sarahjslack.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The AMS vote for a UBC student strike March 24 & 25 is live! Vote here ⤵️ ams.simplyvoting.com?fbclid=PAZXh...
Screenshot of a @palestinestrikeactionubc post on Instagram

VOTE YES!
Student Strike Advocating Divestment for Palestine
Whereas the AMS represents the UBC student body and has historically
taken a public stance on international human rights violations.
Whereas UBC has not condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza which have been
stated as “consistent with genocide” by the United Nations. Whereas
UBC Board of Governors has failed to act on student demands that UBC
divest from Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, and the other 28 companies
listed by UBC Divest as complicit in the genocide of Palestinians,
including by enabling illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories. I support the AMS student council calling for a 2 day
student strike on the 24th and 25th of March 2025 to demand that the
University of British Columbia divest from all companies complicit in
the Israeli government’s violence against Palestinians. Note: The
strike would include encouraging students not to attend class for the
duration. VOTING OPEN MARCH 10-17A banner in the colours of the Palestinian flag that says UBC STRIKE NOW unfurled by students outside the window of the Buchanan building at UBC Vancouver
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Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Friends, I'm putting a karaoke launch party together. Let your local festival know if you want a karaoke+poetry event in your town. It's going to be FUN!
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Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Finally finished the memorial zine for Kim Kinakin. Dm me if you love him too and would like a copy.
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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This would be a perfect time for Canada to start allowing US trans people into our country as asylum seekers.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 01/03/2025
40% Off Haymarket Books for Women's Liberation
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40% Off Haymarket Books for Women's Liberation
We've put together a reading list to celebrate the radical women who make and record our histories, and histories of struggle for feminist and gender liberation. In recognition of Women's...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
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Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I canceled a conference trip to the US cuz things are way too unstable for people like me. And changing fast.
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Trish Kelly Chornyj (Gonneville) @trishkellyc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It’s like the Trump administration had a big brainstorm session on the fastest way to end western civilization, and they decided that scapegoating EDI and ignoring the climate crisis would just take way longer than causing World War 3.
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Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Dr. Seuss cartoons about “America First” from 1941.
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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The US is killing itself while it endangers all of us in multiple large scale ways.
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Gail Anderson-Dargatz @anderson-dargatz.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Canadian writers, if you haven't already, sign up for the Public Lending Right. Check here to see if you're eligible. publiclendingright.ca
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The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program
It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program
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Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Thrilled to release the cover of my lyric memoir Soundtrack, about growing up and coming out in the shadow of AIDS. All framed by music albums/songs as mnemonic devices, for "where I was when." Pre-orders are open with @bookhugpress.bsky.social !
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Heather J. “Lives in a city on Lake Ontario” Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Canadian authors: registration for the Public Lending Right #PLR program is open now until May 1, 2025. This awesome program pays royalties to Canadian authors for books in Canadian public libraries. For those already enrolled, payments should be arriving soon. publiclendingright.ca
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The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program
It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 19/02/2025
Poetry may not save our bodies but it will save our souls. I read Whitman whenever America gets *particularly* shitty, to remind myself of its promise ❤️
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Audre Lorde on Poetry as an Instrument of Change and Feeling as an Antidote to Fearing
“As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas… a safe-house for that …
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Carmella Carmella @carmellacarmella.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Armed military police on UBC campus today to protect IOF war criminals invited to compete at sporting events as though they didn’t serve in an army that has killed at minimum a child every 30 minutes for the past 16 months. Monitoring from the rooftops like snipers.
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I had a great time discussing a poem from my new book Picturing where I talk about @kelliagodon.bsky.social and @michaelvsmith.bsky.social, the Desert Rat Writers Residency, and the 2020 movie Ammonite among other things. Check it out here: christalcooper.com/435-backstor...
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#435 Backstory of the Poem “A husband abandons his wife to the noted female paleontologist in order to continue his tour of the continent” from the poetry collection PICTURING by Jory Mickelson, publi...
ABOVE MIDDLE:  Jory Mickelson giving a poetry reading.  January of 2025. Click on the link to purchase PICTURING from End of Line Press. https://endlinepress.com/Picturing-by-Jory-Mickelson  Can you g...
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Kathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
@staranise99.bsky.social, @sinaqueyras.bsky.social Capilano Review, CanLit Responds, Peter Kropotkin, @booksandlilies.bsky.social, Fariha Róisín, Lisa Robertson, Rachel Gerry, Susan Sanford Blades, K.R. Wilson, @hollay.bsky.social, Aisha’s Story, @michaelvsmith.bsky.social, and more! 2/2
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Kathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Send My Love to Anyone’s February Gatherings which includes links and recommended readings and viewings! sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/gatherings... Mentioned this month: Liisa Kovala, @itsakirby.bsky.social, Omar El Akkad, @literalnobody.bsky.social... 1/2
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Gatherings - February 2025
Speech Dries Here on the Tongue, Plotless Queer Fiction, Planet Earth Poetry, Upcoming Omar El Akkad interview at Words Festival, How to Write a Love Poem, and more!
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
TT job in post-1960 lit, Lethbridge U: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 01/02/2025
For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
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40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
Black History Month is not only a celebration of the rich history of Black life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder to engage every day with that history as we ...
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Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Maybe it's a good time to share my feel-good doc about being gender-queer. Cuz, you know. We need to increase our gender joy. www.vimeo.com/michaelvsmit...
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Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.
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Tolu Oloruntoba @tolu.ca · 29/01/2025
My third collection of poems, UNRAVEL, will be published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada and the US on March 25. I am both excited and terrified to share it with the world. The cover was designed by Jennifer Griffiths.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/01/2025
This is downright genocidal. Revoking access to HIV meds will cause new infections to skyrocket while current patients deteriorate as HIV goes untreated.
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George Murray @bookninja.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
An important read.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 27/01/2025
BOOM, there it is 🎯
Sean Gallagher @WhatAboutClass tweets, “hard for me to see gender as biological if it requires a police state to enforce it"
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Aren't you
Tired
by Langston Hughes

I am so tired of waiting, 
Aren’t you, 
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two —
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
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