Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Watch my keynote! Three anchors: being authentic, using storytelling, and connecting to place. For UNBC's Teaching & Learning Conference. I talk about decolonization, inclusive education, and being neurodiverse-affirming. Shoutouts to Seanna Takacs and Gillian Judson. video.unbc.ca/media/id/0_j... 021 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A box of magic arrived... A box singing with music. A box spilling extraordinary art. A box of avian mythology. In Thin Air, 3rd album by @spellsongs.bsky.social. A gift of seven wonders: egg, nest, beak, song, feather, flight and migration. @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @juliefowlis.bsky.social 111 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I’m here at UNBC in Prince George to deliver my keynote tomorrow, on Learning in Place: Nature and Neuroinclusivity. What a gorgeous campus and location. 010 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026An amazing new course being offered by Dr. Dale Tracy at @kwantlenu.bsky.social. ENGL 3362: Environment & Literature Tue, 1-4pm, fall 2026, Surrey campus @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social 122 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Join us for a virtual book club discussion with KPU Indigenous Storyteller in Residence, Katłı̨̀ą, on her book, Mother Earth is our Elder: A Northern Indigenous Perspective on the Climate Crisis. Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cc678c... @kpumedia.bsky.social @kwantlenu.bsky.social 020 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 21/04/2026New resource! Place-based Education with an Indigenous Lens. I created this content in consultation with Indigenous colleagues at KPU, and Andrea Votto designed the website. wordpress.kpu.ca/place-based-... @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuscience.bsky.social 042 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 07/04/2026This Thursday! www.yorku.ca/cifal/back-o... 000 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Spring 2026 Wild Spaces events! To register use QR code in poster or this link: wordpress.kpu.ca/wildspaces/e... 000 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Join us for our next book club! Mar. 26 discussion. Theory of Water by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Climate+ Challenge and Wild Spaces Book Club Open to everyone. www.kpu.ca/library/book... @biidaasamose.bsky.social @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social 031 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 23/02/2026My chapter, "River in the Sky: The Fraser River Floods", appears in the book Poetic Inquiry for Synchrony and Love. cgscholar.com/publishers/b... 010 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Next Thursday. bccampus.ca/events/ #education #teaching #university #bccampus #BCTLC #westcoast 020 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Amazing project: “The River Knows What It Needs: Our Responsibilities to the Fraser,” documents a community dialogue about the health and revitalization of the Fraser Watershed, as situated within the laws of the Land since time immemorial. salmonasfamily.ca/about/river/ #river #Indigenous #SFU 010 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 01/12/2025The final Wild Spaces event of the year! An online webinar with Bridget McClarty on Awe, Relationship & Nature Connection. Details: www.kpu.ca/events/wild-... @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social #wildspaces #nature #education #natureconnection 051 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 24/11/2025River walk photos! With Cougar Creek Streamkeepers. Next week: Awe, Relationship, and Nature Connection w/ Bridget McClarty Wild Spaces registration: form.jotform.com/252744797551... (Photos by Arts Practicum student Jenn Hayward) @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social 010 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 20/11/2025The Runner interviewed me on the Decolonizing Educational Practices website I created in collaboration with dozens of others, as well as our community of practice. Link here: linktr.ee/leebeavington @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kpupolicystudies.bsky.social 040 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 16/11/2025My favourite Wild Spaces event of the year: our annual A River Walk in a Salmon Forest with Cougar Creek Streamkeepers! This Tuesday. Session is full. You can put your name on the waitlist in case of last minute cancellations. Register: form.jotform.com/252744797551... @kwantlenu.bsky.social 020 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Photos from the 41st event hosted by Wild Spaces! The Body as Geography with Parthi Krishnan. Next week: A River Walk in a Salmon Forest. (Photos by me and Arts Practicum student Jenn Hayward) @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpupolicystudies.bsky.social 010 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Join us next week as we discuss the fascinating book Is a River Alive? by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social. How did a river in India get erased? How do cloud forests carry rivers in the earth, land and sky? What does it mean to be enrivered? www.kpu.ca/library/book... @kwantlenu.bsky.social #wildspaces 1283 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Still a few spots left for next week's event, The Body as Geography with KPU geographer Parthi Krishnan! Sign up here: form.jotform.com/252744797551... @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpupolicystudies.bsky.social #wildspaces #geography #education #university 010 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 24/10/2025What a wonderful Fungi Forest Walk with KPU lab biology technician (and marvellous mycologist) Emily Betz! Sign up for upcoming Wild Spaces events here: form.jotform.com/252744797551... @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social 051 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Only a couple spots left! Fungi Forest Walk next Tuesday at KPU Surrey. Register: form.jotform.com/252744797551... @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kpumedia.bsky.social @kpupolicystudies.bsky.social #wildspaces #education #nature #university #fungi 011 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Fall Wild Spaces events: form.jotform.com/252744797551... 000 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 06/10/2025This semester's book club choice is very close to my heart: Is a River Alive? by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social. www.kpu.ca/library/book... 130 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 16/07/2025I made a music video for @itspetergabriel.bsky.social. He will release it tomorrow, July 17. Here’s a screenshot of the creative process from Final Cut Pro. 010 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 09/07/2025When you're a mega fan of Rivers, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, @stanleydonwood.bsky.social, and @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social. 010 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Now online! Indigenous Pedagogies, today at noon. Join Shannon Leddy, author of Teaching Where you Are, for a talk on Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies. Open to all. Message me for link. #Indigenous #decolonize #education #university #teaching @kwantlenu.bsky.social 010 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 27/05/2025I'm leading an online writing workshop next Tuesday. Open to everyone. Let's get creative together! This workshop is inspired by Felicia Rose Chavez' The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom Register here: www.kpu.ca/learningcent... @kwantlenu.bsky.social 032 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Salish Sea Assembly, water defender event. Open to everyone! This great event is next Tuesday, May 27, at the Totest Aleng Indigenous Learning House in South Surrey: www.surrey.ca/arts-culture... 000 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Land-based learning this Thu! Join us for a walk & talk with Sonya Ballantyne, KPU's Indigenous Filmmaker/Writer in Residence. Award-winning filmmaker, founder of Code Breaker Films & named a Barbie Role Model. Register: form.jotform.com/251115316175... @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social 011 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Wild Spaces summer speaker series just announced! Full details and to register: form.jotform.com/251115316175... Open to the KPU community. If you are external to KPU and would like to join us please send me a note. @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social @kpupolicystudies.bsky.social 011 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Summer course: Corporate Accountability and Historical Justice Study mechanisms developed to hold corporations accountable for their actions, particularly human rights violations and environmental degradation. Taught by Fabricio Telo. @kwantlenu.bsky.social @kpuarts.bsky.social 000 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Recently finished Is a River Alive? by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social. A profound book utterly relevant to the world today. Stunningly written and researched. Rivers run through everything, and we need to honour and protect them. I will read this again and bring this book into my teaching and research. 010 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 19/03/2025New course: Green Criminology. I wish this course existed when I was a student! Looking for an interesting class to take this summer? Care about nature, environmental justice, and getting outside of the classroom? 021 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Our final session of the Indigenous Speaker Series is with the incredibly knowledgeable Robert Jago. The first three events filled up so sign up fast! Wed, Mar. 26, 1pm, outdoors at KPU Surrey Open to students, staff and faculty Details and to register: form.jotform.com/250496841196... 000 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Decolonizing Educational Practices. Meaningful territorial acknowledgements, cultivating cultural safety, authentic Indigenous resources, relational and place-based teaching, and more. I created this website in collaboration with many others. @kwantlenu.bsky.social wordpress.kpu.ca/decolonization 051 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Indigenous Speaker Series starts tomorrow! Open to the KPU community. Full details and to register: form.jotform.com/250496841196... 031 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Find Your Writing Voice workshop next Wednesday. www.kpu.ca/learningcent... 000 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Once again our cats remind me of the best things in life. 010 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024New Zealand. Hobbits, poets, Fernery, and Thom Yorke. #poeticinquiry #Hobbiton #fernery #thomyorke 010 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Hosted two Wild Spaces events in Nov. Fungi Forest Walk (with Emily Betz) and A River Walk in a Salmon Forest (with Erika Eliason & Cougar Creek Streamkeepers). Co-hosted by the Office of Sustainability. Great discoveries, conversations, and connections. Wild Spaces: wordpress.kpu.ca/wildspaces 020 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 29/11/2024New course @ KPU! INDG/BIOL 1492 – Indigenous Perspectives in Biology Instructors: Anthony Fernandes & Lee Beavington Open to all KPU students 000 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 20/11/2024KPU Wild Spaces, with funding from the xéʔelɬ KPU Pathway to Systemic Transformation, is hiring two Indigenous research assistants. Job posting: tre.tbe.taleo.net/tre01/ats/ca... Open until filled. Salary is $21/hour. Applicants must be current KPU students. 100 0
Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024New Wild Spaces blog: Forgotten History of Poplar Island. This local island has connections with the Qayqayt First Nation. Read about Poplar Island’s development over the years, as well as its dark colonial past. By Arts Practicum student Iuliia Astashova. wordpress.kpu.ca/wildspaces/2... 020 0