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uOttawa PhD student specializing in ritual studies; researching ritual in Christo-fascism in Canada and abroad; if I pin you, it's probably research; granola aficionado; bike commuter; 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally; probably posting with a dog in my lap 🇨🇦
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It’s looking a lot like Martial Law to me. Trump doesn’t need to declare it. It’s already in our streets. This is who backed up ICE in Minneapolis today, the ATF, FBI, city cops and sheriff’s dept. They’re not bringing these vehicles or dressing in full combat gear for the undocumented immigrants.

here's the clip

Welcome to the resistance, Woke Warrior Elon Musk

they rolled this out maybe two years ago and it’s one of my FAVOURITE town centre pram pit stops. cake, toys, public bathrooms, free to enter for everyone, toddler heaven

Throwing a Hail Mary here… I know this is a long shot but, has anyone got a copy/photos of this? I’m an (American) independent researcher & need it for a research project. #AcademicSky #Sociology

this is "Was there any sign of violence?" "You mean, other than the dead body?" level of walking-into-it.

Hey #ottbike, either of these look familiar to anyone? They've been left at Bank and Regent for days, unsecured.

A PhD means making a significant and original contribution to body of knowledge. This doesn't mean winning the Nobel Prize. #PhDchat #PhDforum #ECrchat #postdoc

Some of those who burn crosses are those who work forces.

Democrats… learn something from this

There is some hope.

Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

"Why are there so may different flags for Pride Month?" A lot of LGBTQ folks like having a flag that represents their specific identity. Non-LGBTQ folks often do the same. There isn't just the U.S. flag; there are flags for states, counties, cities, military branches, etc. Who's it bothering?

Hegseth has ordered that the USNS Harvey Milk, named for the iconic gay rights icon, be renamed. Harvey Milk served as a diving officer and later as a diving instructor for four years in the U.S. Navy. That this would happen at the start of Pride is intentional. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

ICE goons roleplaying Call of Duty while in front of a Mexican restaurant with a sign that says “Make Tacos not Walls”, as if the symbolism could get more on the nose

Okay Liberals, it is no longer just Indigenous people being harmed by the Federal Government’s wildfire response, white people are too, so you can care now.

Scotty is a sweet soul I know from years ago when I was staff at a family camp in Quebec. Please, #ottawa: keep a lookout for him if you are on or near transit or anywhere downtown. He is vulnerable and loved. And please share widely. missingpeople.ca/missing-man-...

This statement from Jonathan Joss's husband is heart breaking. No, headline writers, he wasn't "killed in an argument with a neighbor." He was *deliberately murdered* for being gay right after his dog was decapitated. Bet the murderer calls himself a "Christian." THIS is why Pride is important.

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

This is what happens when we don't have kink at pride

Rest in peace Jonathan Joss

I for one will be doing what I do every day: proclaiming my identity in a one-woman Shame Parade.

It's familiar terrain for scholars of religion. For some folks, it just seems impossible to imagine that one could study or teach *about* religions (in terms of their human and historical aspects) in a genuinely academic manner without somehow seeking to either attack or champion them.

“Can’t we acknowledge how anti trans policies hurt cis people?” Sure, right after we start acknowledging the harm they are doing to trans people. I’m all about intersectionality, but they’re not taking away hormones, breast implants and it her surgeries from cis women, they are from trans folks.

No end to the depravity: the Bronx high school abducted by ICE and hidden from his lawyers has received a serious medical diagnosis that he can’t be informed of because he has literally been disappeared by the state. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/02/n...

Watched a doc on Charlotte von Mahlsdorf - a trans woman who survived the Nazis (beat her own Nazi father to death!), survived a brutally homophobic regime in East Germany, and then had to survive skinhead attacks, but never stopped finding and loving other queer people, and creating her own worlds.

again, this staggering idiot — this living monument to gross stupidity — is basically the intellectual guru of the sitting vice president

US courthouses are now sites for entrapment. History will consider these people the way they look at those who owned enslaved people, who burned crosses, who were members of the Nazi Party.

US senator calls for the destruction of a civilian ship that intends to deliver humanitarian aid

"The hallways...were absolutely lined with ICE agents. And immigrants were scared to leave, even though their cases were still open. What happened was that ICE agents then stormed into the courtroom, kicked out the attorneys, and detained everyone in the courtroom over the judge's objections."

"The message is clear: we have lost a great deal in our collective efforts to accommodate the automobile. We have lost so much that some can't even see it."

Another fine example of a P³ (public-private parntership). Makes you wonder why we keep doing these. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

The modern condition of waking up to horrible news from all over the world and just having to shove that all back down and get on with your silly little job 😞

Read this horrifying testimony from Israel's massacre of people just trying to get food:

Took the opportunity to rectify a failure in my parenting: got the kids to watch School of Rock.

Nice shirt!! 😂 Correct answer: d