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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 · 25/08/2026
The green picture one is a kkk-inspired white supremacist conference. The purple one looks like a much better (and safer) time.
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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
Because they don’t want to stop what they’re doing. But we are organized, we are connected. We will stop this death march and destruction. We will build a better place for all of us. Touch change. Get involved. Fight back. They’re not going to stop, unless we stop them. And we can. And we will.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
crip folks building care networks, all of us resisting and co-creating and building and making and testing and helping and loving together. All over the world! There is so much activism and resistance and of course this will never be reported or shared by the state or state media.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We seem to be waiting for something, but they’re not going to stop unless we stop them. And look, look at how we’ve been stopping them! There are incredible Land and water defenders, communities resisting anti-Blackness, queer and trans people making safe places for our kin and families,
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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
abcnews.com
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
Made possible thanks to @uofr_press @anotherstorybookshop @5otterliterary @wildseedcentre
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Light refreshments. ACCESS NOTES: ASL Interpretation provided, accessible washrooms and doorways and entrance, well light rooms with level ground. There is an eventbrite to register for this free event: freetobemore.eventbrite.ca
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Free to Be More Toronto Book Launch
Please join us for the launch of Free To Be More: Creative Activism in the Era of Black Lives Matter!
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
FEATURING performances and a panel discussion with: Britta B @original.courage Courage Bacchus @isakvail Isak Vaillancourt @iamnataliewood Natalie Wood @ravynwngz Ravyn Wngz @theodore.walkerrobinson Theodore Walker Robinson @winsom.winsom Winsom Winsom
freetobemore.eventbrite.ca
Free to Be More Toronto Book Launch
Please join us for the launch of Free To Be More: Creative Activism in the Era of Black Lives Matter!
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Come celebrate the incredible Artivist communities across the country that made this book possible 🫶🏾. We’d love to celebrate with you!
freetobemore.eventbrite.ca
Free to Be More Toronto Book Launch
Please join us for the launch of Free To Be More: Creative Activism in the Era of Black Lives Matter!
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
We’re excited for the Toronto book launch of Free to Be More: Creative Activism’s in the Era of Black Lives Matter (URP, 2026)! Join us Wednesday, June 17th from 6-9pm at the Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism at 24 Cecil street for performances, a panel discussion and book signing.
freetobemore.eventbrite.ca
Free to Be More Toronto Book Launch
Please join us for the launch of Free To Be More: Creative Activism in the Era of Black Lives Matter!
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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
📙📗📔📘📒📘📔📙📕📗📚📚📚📚📚I am excited to share these two offerings and am thankful to the editors and reviewers who have made this process so fulsome and care-full.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Have had such a good experience working with the team there and am excited for this book to come out full of lessons from the front lines! 📕
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
There are a couple dozen of the Activist Portraits in the book, and lots of art. Additionally, I have a new memoir of 30 years of organizing and activism, creative activisms, and trans justice that will be out next year on House of Anansi Press.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I have a new book about Black trans worldbuilding, abolition, and disability/ Mad arts called Irresistible Revolutions coming out next year via Duke University Press! It’s been amazing working with the team there and I’m so excited for you to read this book!
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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.
winnipegfreepress.com
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
Thank you to all of the activists and artists who made this book possible and to @raanaa_yaminah and @dr.dbiyounganitafrika for the chance to co create this offering. 🌈🌈🌈📚📚📚📚
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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.
youtu.be
Expert on systemic racism took stand at police shooting death inquest | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This spa issue, therme controversy, it was all to get to build the cop playground, but announcing that in 2020 after the defund uprisings would have played bad so he’s done this slow release of the facts. We got him to sell the jet, let’s keep going! #abolition
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
And the cops will be there to police our dissent against his government. And the functioning large and beautiful science centre that is sitting empty in the north of the city still exists and sits empty with a perfectly intact roof after mega snowfalls because he lied about the science centre too.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
And after all this, the police playground is for mounted police for protest control and crowd control, we would be paying through the nose for more cops, more utilities for cops, more weapons for cops and this is not even part of the already bloated TPS budget- this is provincial.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
And then the jets he wants to fly from there would destroy all the plans for the portlands because now it would be a jet flight path so the 536 new units of affordable housing would have to be scrapped and all the condos etc too.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
And then he wants to take over the other toronto islands and turn it into a jet runway and destroy the beach and the island and the animals living there who fled from his butchering of Ontario place where they used to live.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
He wants to take over the whole waterfront: build a cop playground, start flying jets from the tiny island, build a massive parking garage and a helicopter pad where a nature preserve/natural island once was. He destroyed the trees and dug up all the life and now wants to plant….cops.
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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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Dr. 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
Thanks to all of the participants who dreamed this up together and jammed through side by side play for 1.5/2 hrs to create this! 🧵🧵🧵🧶🧶🧶🪡🪡🪡🪡💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾❤️🧿🧿🧿🌈🌈🌈🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 RESIST// ENOUGH!
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
and lots of upcycled textiles from some buy the pound clothing sales. You can make a banner out of anything! Thank you to Beck and Barbara Fischer for hosting and to the gallery team for helping to make today so engaging!
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Our banner is multi textured and has a 3D globe to make the O for ENOUGH, lots of blue, silver and pink lamé, numerous sequins and so much more- working with materials I sourced from Affordable Textiles, a BIPOC/Caribbean run store in downtown toronto,2/
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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
Some shots here from an artist talk I gave about Shadd and the work in February this year.
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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This mural celebrates Shadd’s life and legacy in toronto. You can visit this work at 25 Ontario Street in downtown Toronto! Thank you to @shannonlinde and the team at EQ for supporting this acquisition and installation!
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