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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware

@syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
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He/him. PhD. Activist. Assistant Professor. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Canada and Wildseed Centre for Arts & Activism. 🌈💕🌱

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Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · 25/08/2026
CAHN is releasing the first public full-length report on the Dominion Society of Canada, a white nationalist non-profit that uses propaganda and political campaigning to promote mass deportations on the basis of race, ethnicity, and religion. 🧵
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Dominion Society of Canada: The White Nationalist Non-Profit with a Mass Deportations Agenda
The Dominion Society of Canada (DSC) is a white nationalist organization that uses propaganda and political campaigning to promote mass deportations on the basis of race, ethnicity, and religion.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It is entirely possible to change and transform the world, to worldbuild a new/old future, to return to what we have forgotten, to create and make and innovate a new/old future. They’re not going to stop, unless we stop them.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We are so excited for our toronto launch of Free to Be More at Wildseed Centre on Wednesday (June 17, 2026)! Join us 6-8:30pm for performances, a panel discussion and book signing. ASL provided. ❤️
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The world's first trillionaire did this
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
did you guys know they still allowed good news
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Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time: Report
The amount of solar power generated in the U.S. is continuing to grow.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Join us on Wednesday June 17, 2026 from 6-8:30 pm at Wildseed Centre with @anotherstoryto.bsky.social
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
“This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, carpenter - You know, I would be free to be so much more…”- Assata Shakur……❤️
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE LAUNCH OF
FREE TO BE MORE FREE
Creative Activism in the Era of Black Lives Matter

EDITED BY
Syrus Marcus Ware &
Ra'anda Yaminah Ekundayo
WITH dbi.young anitafrika

WEDNESDAY JUNE 17 6:00 PM
Wildseed centre for Art & Activism
24 Cecil St, Toronto
INCLUDING GUEST PANELISTS
AND PERFORMERS

Britta B, Ravyn Wngz,
Theodore Walker Robinson, Winsom Winsom, Isak Vaillancourt and more
Admission is free and all are welcome.
Books will be available for purchase from
Another Story Bookshop.

University of Regina Press uofrpress.ca
BOOKSHOP
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
NEW BOOK(S) ALERT! 🌈🥰🌈 I’ve been writing and writing and have two new books coming out next year. This is the PM listing for the two books. I’m so thankful, and am excited about these offerings. They are as follows:
Blue border and white text box that describes two book deals : Irresistible Revolutions (Duke University Press, 2027) and Lessons from the Front Lines (House of Anansi Press, 2027)
Deal report for two books
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The Verge @theverge.com · 22/05/2026
Boots Riley turns class struggle into comedy with I Love Boosters
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Boots Riley wants you to wake up and smell the class struggle
I Love Boosters is telling a story about the power of working class solidarity.
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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 17/05/2026
Award-winning Cree composer and cellist Cris Derksen, who had strong ties to Manitoba’s arts community, has died following a car crash in northern Alberta. They were 45.
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Renowned composer, cellist Derksen dead after car crash
Award-winning Cree composer and cellist Cris Derksen, who had strong ties to Manitoba’s arts community, has died following a car crash in northern Alberta. They were 45.
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Cris Derksen, internationally renown Indigenous musician and composer, in a tragic vehicle accident in northern Alberta, returning from her father's funeral. A beautiful soul and musician. Such a loss.
Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Cris Derksen, internationally renown Indigenous musician and composer, in a tragic vehicle accident in northern Alberta, returning from her father's funeral. A beautiful soul and musician. Such a loss.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
It’s my /our birthday today and also our book birthday!!! Today Free to be More : Creative Activism’s in the Era of Black Lives Matter is officially out on @uofr_press ❤️❤️❤️ we are so excited for you to read it! 📚
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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 12/05/2026
I’ve had lung issues every time I’ve breathed in tear gas, even in “minimal” amounts, at protests. This shouldn’t be something you see every few weeks in police response to protests.
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 29/04/2026
My favorite song to sing in middle school... and my favorite of the Civil Rights era anthems. "I wish I could be like a bird in the sky..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEP...
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Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free (Montreux 1976)
YouTube video by TransatlanticMoments
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Map and Destroys Key Voting Rights Act Provision www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Map and Destroys Key Voting Rights Act Provision
The Supreme Court today struck down Louisiana’s congressional map and issued a ruling that eviscerates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and opens the door for states to enact discriminatory maps wit...
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
As the inquest into the police shooting death of 16-year-old Eishia Hudson continues in Winnipeg, yesterday Scott Wortley, an expert in systemic racism in policing took the stand to speak on the case.
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Expert on systemic racism took stand at police shooting death inquest | APTN News
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Ford has spent nearly $2million before taxes just on PR alone for his crummy Ontario place plan. Now he has announced he’s building a mega police playground with a marine and mounted units and a helipad allegedly for them to monitor the highway?!
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
What Extreme Heat Is Like in U.S. Prisons
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Summer Heat in Prison: Just How Hot Are Our Nation’s Prisons?
Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how hot their prisons get in the summer. One prison reached 117 degrees.
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Digital Transgender Archive @transgenderarchive.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Ep 4 of Kindred Transmissions drops this Wed., 8/11! Our host is joined by activist Syrus Marcus Ware to explore the artistic visions of Aiyyana Maracle, a Haudenosaunee scholar & storyteller whose work decolonizes understandings of gender & sexuality. Image courtesy of UVic. #TransHistory #DTA
Pictured: colored photograph of Aiyyana Maracle wearing a pink silk robe printed with red and white flower decals. She sits in a green chair, tilts her head to the right, looks down towards the camera, and smiles, holding a brown feather in her lap between her folded hands, which are manicured with red nail polish.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Meanwhile, the number of grants mentioning the word “women” has declined, while women are hardest hit by NIH grant cancellations. Discrimination against women is as old as time is totally ok, but against men is not. #Pinks pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Women and early-career researchers hit hardest by NIH grant cancellations
Shortly after the second Donald J. Trump administration took office, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) canceled or paused thousands of previously awarded grants. Those cancellations did not a...
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
RESIST // ENOUGH We made this banner at the @artmuseumuoft today in honour of and response to the brilliant exhibition on now: Hangama Amiri: PARTING/ فراق Curated by Elizabeth Diggon.
A black banner with a neon orange fringe with multi coloured Ankara print text that spells out Resist in cursive and // ENOUGH in block letters. It says Resist // Enough  when read as a whole banner. There are pink and purple ostrich feathers and sequins embellishments across the banner. Participants from the workshop standing front of the exhibition didactic wall with the banner held up between them. Some participants stand and some sit cross legged in the floor in front of the banner. A colourful clash of textiles and feathers against a black backdropParticipants stitching and gluing the letters on the banner, working around a rectangle table with the banner laid flat upon it.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
My spouse @qimoyocreative.bsky.social singing Don’t Crash Out! incredible Theo! Don’t crash out// you need that job to pay your bills*//don’t crash out….. [*till the revolution]
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I am thrilled to announce the unveiling of a new wallwork/ Activist Wallpaer that I created of Mary Ann Shadd Cary for EQ Bank’s new offices on Ontario street at King, just around the corner from this historic location of Shadd’s toronto office, where she ran The Provincial Freeman. 1/
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
So thankful for the chance to be part of this convo on Sunday! @dykeseries.bsky.social “A beautiful conversation and a powerful statement for future dreamers of liberation - captured from the conversation between Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware and Ottawa Trans Library Co-Chair Joanis Sherry”❤️
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=npv6... Thank you to the Ottawa Trans Library and Tea For Tara for the chance to speak together and signing story telling today! @ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social @dykeseries.bsky.social
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Tea for Tara - Episode 2 - BLACK TRANS WORLDBUILDING FOR A FREER FUTURE
Join us for Guest Speaker & Storyteller Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware Live from the Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Thank you to the @mackenzie.art.gallery and to @crystalmowry and Nicolle Nugent and the whole Mackenzie team for hosting me and for all of the care and magic! Thankful to have been able to dream into Black trans worldbuilding in my talk on Thursday evening here at the gallery 1/
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Got to hold our book for the first time today! The cover is art by @rahbush7604 and it’s so gorgeous. So thankful! It’s amazing to see these chapters and this book in real life! What a journey it is to make a book- there’s so much behind the scenes. So happy to be launching in Regina this week!
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/02/2026
hey real quick, someone ask Gavin Newsom about this tia
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I was called an N-word lady on video about the BAFTAS that I did w/ Commotion. They’ve deleted the worst comments, but there’s still one up, will deleted soon calling me transphobic slurs, a “thing” and other violence. Likely bots but hateful people too. How sad for them that this is their life.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The biggest story coming out of this year’s # #BAFTA awards wasn’t about a winner, but about the editing of the broadcast itself. There’s been a lot of discussion online about the #BBC’s decision to broadcast the moment
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Join visiting artist Syrus Marcus Ware as he shares his artistic and community practice, and explores how creative work can imagine and build more just, inclusive futures. 📆 February 26, 2026 ⏰from 7 - 10 PM 📍 Mackenzie Art Gallery.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
With some of my drawings a few years ago❤️ portrait of Addis* and of Yaniya Lee
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
“Please join the Faculty of Media, Art and Performance (MAP) and the University of Regina Press for a special edition of Art For Lunch at the University of Regina! Featuring artist and author Syrus Marcus Ware, in conversation with David Garneau, they launch their new book,
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The final Africa and Black Diaspora Studies (ABLD) Seminar of the 2025–2026 academic year! This session, Neurodiversity, Research Creation, and Access in Academic Spaces, will explore how research creation shapes scholarship and opens new points of access for underrepresented students and scholars.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Happy birthday Audre Lorde!
Image: Audre Lorde (at left) teasing Barbara Smith about her braided hair, 1979. Credit: Photo by Tia Cross.

Lorde is on the left side of the sepia tinted photo. She wears a patterned Ankara print top and matching head scarf. Smith smiles widely showing her teeth and tongue and squishing up her eyes as audre reaches out and rubs her braided head. She wears a white ribbed turtle neck with stripes across the chest and a puffy 1970s/80s vest
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Got my copy of TOPIA in the mail! I wrote an article about speculative fiction as a tool for radical change and about the possibilities of rooting into ‘hope for a generation’ as Fat Freddy’s Drop sings about.
Syrus holds a copy of TOPIA against his cheek. He is smiling and wearing a spiked septum piercing and a brown tshirt. The TOPIA cover has a bright red and blue artwork on it and text reads “volume 50: Beyond : queerer possibilities of elsewhere and imagining otherwise The front page of my article in TOPIA. I hold the book open and the title reads Hope for a generation: speculative fiction as a tool for racial justice and systems change followed by the abstract in English and French. A random page from the article on a diagonal, held by syrus’ hand. You can see his thumb and a silver thumb ring
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SaskAttitude @saskattitude3.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Watch the brilliant Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware, speaking on abolition. "We can dream bigger, we can get freer. We keep us safe." Thank you. #Toronto #police #corruption #canada #abolition #cdnpoli
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I have a new chapter in Alex Bulmer and Debbie Patterson’s new book, Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts: Deaf and Disabked Artists Raise the Curtain on Cripping the Stage (Coach House Press, 2026), and an excerpt from the script for MBL Freedom, my 2022 project about the colonization of Antarctica.
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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 17/02/2026
“Police banged their shields in unison and advanced, screaming [“move”]. At intervals, they pepper-sprayed the crowd, fired tear gas, and beat demonstrators with their batons at will. […] This cycle of violence continued for nearly 40 minutes.” williamwilsonphotography.substack.com/p/anti-garda...
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Anti-Garda demonstration in Montreal ends in extreme SPVM violence
Canada’s close ties to ongoing ICE operations and how resistance to GardaWorld ended in the SPVM pepper spraying, tear gassing and beating demonstrators.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Write down/draw what you’re dreaming into, in the now…I wanna come alongside your dreaming and jam together as we world build. I’m sure others in your life want this too, they also want to share their dreams. www.instagram.com/reel/DUv0w8V...
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syrusmarcus on Instagram: "Write down/draw what you’re dreaming into, in the now…I wanna come alongside your dreaming and jam together as we world build. I’m …"
Write down/draw what you’re dreaming into, in the now…I wanna come alongside your dreaming and jam together as we world build. I’m sure others in your life want this too, they also want to share their dreams. So today is a day to share it widely…When we are freer in the near future after throwing off the chains that bind us, imagining forward ten years to 2036, how might you be spending your time? This freer world we’re building towards…what does it actually look like? Feel like, smell like? My world smells sweet and fecund and alive and not like chemicals and smoke and car exhaust. How do you gather? Where do you live? In wha community are you embedded? How do you spend your time… this feels like something delicious to dream into. What if your time was your own? What if food and shelter and the things you needed to live and thrive, even, were sorted out, were a given in the world we built? What would you do if not having to hustle, to struggle, to fight to survive?
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Our new collaboration Revolutionary Threads// radical TEXTiles: Audre Lorde, up at Old Town Hall Gallery in Newmarket.
Syrus stands in front of their new work in yellow and red and blue pants and in a turquoise and bright orange sweater by Hello Darljng. He wears a turquoise n95 mask and glasses and points at the work on the wall beside him. Syrus and theos new work “radical TEXTiles//Revolutionary Threads is mounted on a white wall. The artwork is a grid of nine 16 inch x 16 inch hand woven textiles in red green and black, three across and three down. There is neon yellow banner bettering that spells out The Masters Tools Will Not Dismantle The Masters House, a quote by Andre Lorde. A tenth textile square spells out audre lorde in neon yellow. The ninths panel is being unravelled and threads pool down and out of the frame into coils on the floor of the gallery. Theo stands in front of their new textile in a black Biddell work suit and wearing Black goth boots. They wear a neon green fanny face and hold their hand out towards the textile work, smiling. They hold their white cane with red leather handle. Syrus and theos new work “radical TEXTiles//Revolutionary Threads is mounted on a white wall. The artwork is a grid of nine 16 inch x 16 inch hand woven textiles in red green and black, three across and three down. There is neon yellow banner bettering that spells out The Masters Tools Will Not Dismantle The Masters House, a quote by Andre Lorde. A tenth textile square spells out audre lorde in neon yellow. The ninths panel is being unravelled and threads pool down and out of the frame into coils on the floor of the gallery. Syrus and theos new work “radical TEXTiles//Revolutionary Threads is mounted on a white wall. The artwork is a grid of nine 16 inch x 16 inch hand woven textiles in red green and black, three across and three down. There is neon yellow banner bettering that spells out The Masters Tools Will Not Dismantle The Masters House, a quote by Andre Lorde. A tenth textile square spells out audre lorde in neon yellow. The ninths panel is being unravelled and threads pool down and out of the frame into coils on the floor of the gallery.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Posting this for history but also posting this for strategy-this is how folks hid and got along the route.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
You don’t need a badly “drawn” comic of what an algorithm /ai thinks you do for works and hobbies. You do need water for your grandchildren to not die of thirst. We will need air in Black communities being polluted by the data centres. Plus aren’t you so much more than that?
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
www.instagram.com/reel/DUgitsW...
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syrusmarcus on Instagram: "We can dream bigger, we can get freer. No one is coming to save us but the great news is that we don’t need a lone saviour from afa…"
We can dream bigger, we can get freer. No one is coming to save us but the great news is that we don’t need a lone saviour from afar- we keep us safe. We can change this- all of this- and build something so beautiful together. It will never ever ever be “too late” to get involved.
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Julie Hoffman, EdD @hoffiecup.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Picture books are for everyone. This month, I will try to feature some of my favorites each day. #PictureBooksAreForEveryone #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #AbolitionIsLove @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social and Alanna Fricker
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