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itsmayana.bsky.social
Writer / Researcher on Indigenous-State Relations & Sociolegal Studies
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Stumps of Salt Spring Island (Hul'qumi'num & SENĆOŦEN Territory).

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February 14 is also Captain Cook FAFO Day 🌹

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We are in the "Palestinians are not indigenous but Afrikaners are" stage of Orwellian historiography

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It is so gratifying to see my research liberated from the paywalled world of academic journals. Thank you @thetyee.ca

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There’s something unimaginably bleak about the world’s richest man unilaterally deciding to stop food aid and medicine going to the world’s poor ‘to save money’

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I remember hearing about this police raid on a tiny Kansas newspaper. Man, the details are far more alarming than I realized! Most shocking: All the authorities involved are still in their positions. thisiscriminal.com/episode-302-...

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it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them

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Wrote the cover story for @newstatesman.com on the Five Pillars of Muskism www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...

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Cybertruck explodes outside a Trump hotel; James Woods loses his house to a winter wildfire; Trump threatens to annex Canada. 2025 is a Ryan Murphy production.

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In which Ralph Fiennes acts out the verified transcript of an MI6 agent admitting that he coordinated the overthrow of Iran’s last democratically elected government. In 1953.

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When we talk about "billionaires" in the US (of which there are about 800) we're usually talking more about centibillionaires with wealth of over $100 billion (of which there are about 12).

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Come for the @democracynow.org segment with comrades @srseikaly.bsky.social and Barbara Weinstein on the American Historical Association's vote on scholasticism in Gaza, stay for me talking about how Musk’s character in Diablo IV looks like the QAnon Shaman www.democracynow.org/shows/2025/1/6

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Historic canned fish brands with surprisingly lively graphic design.

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Canal City Hakata in Fukuoka, Japan. Designed by Jon Jerde (Opened 1996).

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An utterly damning and horrific image.

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I published two papers this year. One in BC Studies; the other in Canadian Historical Review. One is about the illegal sale of Senak’w in Vancouver; the other is about birds, conservation, and Indigenous consent. Find them here:

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"In 1913, the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs ruled that an island reserve of the Tsawout + Tseycum First Nations of the W̱SÁNEĆ should be surrendered and sold to the province for the purposes of a bird sanctuary." Another one from my sister @itsmayana.bsky.social utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

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LAST CHANCE to sign up for our poetry reading with NATALIE DIAZ, LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON, and JAMAICA OSORIO. The reading will be followed by a short moderated discussion by Leanne. Register here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...

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Introducing… Dr. Mayana Slobodian. With my supervisor, Dr. Mariana Valverde. #sociolegalstudies

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Wendy Brown and I talked about men, mania and MAGA 2.0 for @thedigradio.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

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Read here: ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bc...

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