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Michael Orsini

@morsini.bsky.social
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Professor, Feminist and Gender Studies | Political Studies, University of Ottawa

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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
See you tonight at Dominion Chalmers, Ottawa! @uminnpress.bsky.social @morsini.bsky.social @nataliekt.bsky.social @anneemcguire.bsky.social @remiyergeau.bsky.social @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social carleton.ca/cdash/event/...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival Book Launch and Discussion - Carleton Disability and Access Studies Hub (C-DASH)
Authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire argue that we live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic ab...
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Join @anneemcguire.bsky.social and I for the Ottawa book launch of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin on Friday, Sept 25, 6-9 pm at Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 290 Lisgar St. We'll be in conversation with @remiyergeau.bsky.social, @morsini.bsky.social & @nataliekt.bsky.social carleton.ca/cdash/event/...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival Book Launch and Discussion - Carleton Disability and Access Studies Hub (C-DASH)
Authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire argue that we live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic ab...
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Michael Orsini @morsini.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
pleased to join this wonderful group of scholars to celebrate the contributions of interpretive scholar extraordinaire Dvora Yanow. Zoom link here: uqz.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Flier features book cover in blue, text "How does a policy mean" in yellow. list of speakers appears below image of cover: Merlijn van Hulst (Tilburg), Michael Orsini (Ottawa), Nick Cheesman (ANU), Richard Holtzman (Bryant), Robin Harper (CUNY), Ruth Wodak (Lancaster), Severine van Bommel (UQ), Stephen Jeffares (Birmingham) and Dvora Yanow (Wageningen)
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Stephen Brown @stephenbrown.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
It's official, folks. Canada has abanadoned its feminist foreign policy www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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No more feminist foreign policy, Carney says
Prime Minister, who made the comments at the G20 summit in Johannesburg, has placed less emphasis on feminist policies than the Trudeau government
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/11/2025
Everywhere universities are under assault. Some are shooting themselves. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
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Michael Orsini @morsini.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Great to co author with an amazing doctoral student Darby Babin !
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Michael Orsini @morsini.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Join @ottawahealthlaw.ca Oct 2–3 for a national conference: Reframing Mental Health Law: Emerging Controversies and Cross-Sector Perspectives. Keynotes: @Kwame_McKenzie & Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt. Student rates available. Hope to see you there! www.ottawahealthlaw.ca/conferences/...
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Reframing Mental Health Law – Emerging Controversies and Cross-Sector Perspectives
Conference @University of Ottawa October 2/3, 2025
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Stephen Brown @stephenbrown.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
At a time when LGBTQI+ rights are under attack around the world, some countries are decriminalizing same-sex relations. My analysis of the case of Mauritius is now available on the Politics, Groups, and Identities journal website. Free to download. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌍 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
Journal article "Escaping the multicultural trap: strategic: litigation and the decriminalization of same-sex relations in Mauritius", by Stephen Brown, University of Ottawa. Abstract: Mauritius is widely praised for policies that have minimized tensions between ethno-religious groups. Other types of groups, however, are excluded from that sociopolitical ordering of society. In particular, LGBTQI+ Mauritians have long been stigmatized and criminalized by an anti-sodomy law, enacted by the British colonial administration. Despite a reputation for a strong commitment to human rights, the Mauritian government never repealed that law. Drawing in large part on interviews with LGBTQI+ activists in Mauritius, this article analyzes how and why they challenged that anti-sodomy law in court, what they achieved and what the implications are. It argues that the state’s and political parties’ emphasis on traditional cultures made it difficult to convince the government to act, leaving strategic litigation as the best option for getting LGBTQI+ rights recognized. Grounded primarily in constitutionally guaranteed rights and harnessing support from international nonstate actors, their court cases succeeded in carving out greater space for LGBTQI+ rights within the conservative multicultural framework, even though the verdict was rather limited in scope. Significant pressure will be needed to achieve more political and social change, potentially including more strategic litigation, which poses a significant challenge to LGBTQI+ activists.
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Disability Justice Network of Ontario @djno.ca · 03/07/2025
Do you love what we do, pals? It's time to take your shot to join our Board of Directors! We're particularly looking for someone who can strengthen our fundraising/grant-making work (so we can keep the lights on and do the stuff we need to do!) More here: www.djno.ca/post/joi...
Alt: On a background that is three bands of colour: light yellow, grey-black, and an indigo blue. White text: "Join the Disability Justice Network of Ontario Board" The DJNO logo replaces the words "Disability Justice Network..." above.
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Michael Orsini @morsini.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Thanks so much for including our piece, "Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’" on your student reading list!
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CNN @cnn.com · 01/07/2025
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the end of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as a new analysis found that its demolition could contribute to 14 million deaths in the next five years.
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Rubio hails end of USAID as study says its elimination could contribute to 14 million deaths in next 5 years | CNN Politics
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the end of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Tuesday as a new analysis found that its demolition could contribute to 14 million deaths in the...
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Daniel Dickson @daniel-dickson.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thrilled to share this new article I co-authored with Megan Linton! We explore the ways that Canadian disability housing policy is 'haunted' by systemic ableism. Read it to discover how Canada continues to exclude, eliminate and extract from people with disabilities through supported housing.
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🇨🇦 CPSA ACSP 🇨🇦 @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org #OpenAccess A Haunting Legacy: Systemic Ableism in Canadian Housing Policy for People Labelled with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities cup.org/4kEVc05 Daniel Dickson @usask.bsky.social & Megan Linton @carleton.ca #FirstView @morsini.bsky.social
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Michael Orsini @morsini.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
excellent piece on systemic ableism in housing policy by Dickson and Linton. open access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A Haunting Legacy: Systemic Ableism in Canadian Housing Policy for People Labelled with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities | Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science ...
A Haunting Legacy: Systemic Ableism in Canadian Housing Policy for People Labelled with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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Stephen Brown @stephenbrown.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
With Canada's federal election less than a week away, where do the various political parties stand on foreign aid and what should we expect once the winner is declared? For my answers to those questions, check out my new blog post. www.mcleodgroup.ca/2025/04/elec...
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Election 2025: What are the parties saying about foreign aid? - The McLeod Group
McLeod Group blog by Stephen Brown, April 23, 2025 The recent turmoil in Washington has reshaped Canada’s 2025 election campaign, driving fundamental discussions on how Canada should position itself i...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/04/2025
RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
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RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
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Gina Starblanket @ginastar.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Project MUSE - Native American and Indigenous Studies: Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2025 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54601
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Can you win a Pulitzer because someone put you on a chat group by mistake?
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Who could have predicted this other than everyone
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
When the Pine Needles Fall, EllenGabriel and my's new book, was #2 on the independent bookseller's bestseller list for January! Thank you all for supporting this book, and shop local/independent when you can: btlbooks.com/book/when-th...
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Today is the release date for the French edition of Ellen Gabriel and my’s book, When the Pine Needles Fall! www.editions-rm.ca/livres/quand...
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Michael Orsini @morsini.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies welcomes Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel as our keynote for the Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture. She is joined by Professor Audra Simpson (Columbia University). Free. ASL provided. Registration link here: forms.office.com/r/jxNWPaYXhN
Text Indigenous Acts of Resistance in white against green/orange backdrop. Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, Author of When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance. Image of Indigenous women Ellen Gabriel and Audra Simpson on right of poster. Below image of Simpson it reads: in conversation with Audra Simpson, Professor Columbia University.
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Darby M. @transfattyacids.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Should I use this as an opportunity to start over and actually be A Professional Adult on this app? Hard to say! But if you like open access academic articles, here’s one from me to you. And yes I did cite my fave film critic @judysquirrels.bsky.social ✨ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Genderqueer reflections on Weird Barbie - Darby M. Babin, 2024
For better or worse, Barbie (2023) was part of a summer blockbuster phenonemon. Much of the fanfare around the film included conersations about feminism, ‘girlh...
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/01/2025
Ontario universities are cut to the bone. They're being financially strangled by the Ford government, via a merciless, stupid tuition freeze and the lowest per student funding in Canada, ever. If this gov't is re-elected, one of the best uni systems in the world is dead.
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Policy & Politics @policy-politics.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Looking for some high impact research to read over the holidays? 🎁Check out our most cited papers of 2024. They’re free to access until the end of Jan 😍 policyandpoliticsblog.com/2024/12/11/t... #publicpolicy #PolicySky #PoliSci #PolicyProcess
Top 10 most highly cited articles published in 2024 – free to access until 31 January 2025 

1. Policy learning governance: a new perspective on agency across policy learning theories Bishoy Zaki 

2. Types of learning and varieties of innovation: how does policy learning enable policy innovation? Nihit Goyal and Michael Howlett 

3. Crisis management in English local government: the limits of resilience Tania Arrieta and Jonathan S. Davies 

4. Expert perspectives on the changing dynamics of policy advisory systems: the COVID-19 crisis and policy learning in Belgium and Australia Marleen Easton, Jennifer Yarnold, Valerie Vervaenen, Jasper De Paepe, and Brian W. Head 

5. Social identities, emotions and policy preferences Johanna Hornung  and Nils C. Bandelow 

6. The democratising capacity of new municipalism: beyond direct democracy in public- common partnerships Iolanda Bianchi 

7. The politics of anger: emotional appraisal mechanisms and the French pension reform protests Johanna Kuhlmann and Peter Starke 

8. Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’ Jennifer M. Kilty and Michael Orsini
 
9. The challenges experts face during creeping crises: the curse of complacency Ahmad Wesal Zaman, Olivier Rubin, and Reidar Staupe-Delgado

10. Identifying proactive and reactive policy entrepreneurs in collaborative networks in flood risk management Per Becker, Jörgen Sparf, and Evangelia Petridou
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Michael Orsini @morsini.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Free access to our article until Jan 31st. doi.org/10.1332/0305...
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Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’
Over the past three decades, Canada has expanded its capacity to confine citizens in ways that disproportionately affect Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities and people grappling...
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Disability Justice Network of Ontario @djno.ca · 25/11/2024
Over the last few months, we have hosted several focus groups to connect with Black & racialized disabled folks across Ontario to better understand what their experiences with the healthcare sector have been like. We are hosting two virtual focus groups in the month of December to further this work!
A graphic promoting a focus group to explore medical racism and ableism in healthcare. 

The large title reads: "EXPLORING MEDICAL RACISM & ABLEISM IN HEALTHCARE". The text emphasizes a call for participation in a focus group to address medical racism and ableism experienced by Black, racialized, and disabled individuals in Ontario healthcare. It states that the focus group will create an informative toolkit to combat these issues. The flyer lists two virtual sessions:

December 3, 6-8 PM
December 12, 6-8 PM
Compensation: All participants will receive $50 for their time and insights.

QR Code: A QR code is provided for easy registration or access to further information on a website. A link to register or learn more is included. http://tinyurl.com/36pyfh2p 

Contact emails (koubra@djno.ca and sabreina@djno.ca) are provided for further inquiries.

The flyer also includes a logo and a name, Disability Justice Network of Ontario, in the footer.
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Sara Ghebremusse @saraghebremusse.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
My departing remarks, delivered at a farewell event in June 2023. @carolmliao.bsky.social's been trying to get these out of me for a year now.
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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Tried to roundup a list of folks in critical disability studies & disability justice work that I know of who are already on here, please lmk if there's someone else i should add! go.bsky.app/NJWgurk
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