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I would gladly join any other robed technophobes looking to stand up against AI in the humanities

“how people should protest the right way” is a parlor game played by people whose experience of protest is watching the news on tv

One striking quotation from the article shared here about how anti trans rhetoric is never in good faith
"Because the goal was never to improve care or protect children — it was to eliminate transgender people from public life entirely."

Read about some amazing pei trans history here!

EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept perceived reduced rights Akua Reindorf said law never permitted self-ID, but trans campaigners call remarks ‘profoundly unhelpful’

What nonsense is this?
An equality and human rights commissioner telling a group of people that they must accept fewer rights?

This commission is not fit for purpose.
##TransRightsAreHumanRights

Amazing panel on trans histories at CHA this year.
Great work from @jameyj.bsky.social, Renée Szematowicz, Elio Colavito, and @ainopihlak.bsky.social !

A Beacon of Light: Hidden 2sLGBTQ+ Histories in Saint John’s The Lighthouse by Meredith J. Batt Atlantic Canadian port cities have some of the most colourful and vibrant queer spaces and stories. Saint John, New Brunswick is no exception. In 2020, the first summer of the p…

Read our next post in the Queering Atlantic Canada series! Meredith J. Batt explores the history of St. John’s The Lighthouse.

Make sure to check out the rest of the series, edited by Jess Wilton @oncewilting.bsky.social

Do you know anybody working as a scholar, researcher, archivist, activist, or artist who might want to write about Atlantic Canada queer history? If so, send them my way!

#NS #PEI #NL #NB #queerhistory #canadaqueerhistory #AtlanticCanada

Next article of the series out now! This convo with Sarah was so fun and I can't wait to see what they'll do next
Read about some cool Atlantic Canada queer history here and in the previous posts

I am team “AI should not be used in any level of education” and this thread is super important.

some gorgeous queer Black poetry to read for the last day of Black History Month and beyond <3

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If you missed the CBC interview earlier you can hear it here!

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Someone asked me how it's possible to study queer history because "isn't it mostly based on rumours?"

Boy did I have some rough news to break about studying history in general

Meredith J Batt and I will be on CBC Halifax at 440 today! Tune in to hear more about the Queering Atlantic Canada series

The reason the archives are so cold isn't to preserve the records.

It's actually because if historians were allowed to be warm while researching they would never leave and their articles would never be finished.

(Jokes, because obviously we historians aren't finishing their articles anyway)

Getting nervous as heck about this talk 😬
but still looking forward to giving it! 😃
You can sign up to watch it online at the link below ⬇️
#cdnhist #envhist #envhum #histstm

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#nspoli

Houston's government in NS is trying to pass a bill that will seriously threaten our democracy and move us closer to authoritarianism.

If you're terrified at what's happening in the US, this is the time to act. Fascism doesn't happen overnight, it's a slow erosion.

Contact your MLA.

Guess it means I'll just have to marry her so that I can become her true soccer husband

Watching my SO's soccer game and she just made the most killer save. All the other soccer husbands watching their wives are jealous 😌

It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame

I don’t mean to say that historical fiction can’t be criticized in terms of its presentation of history. But I think it’s a serious problem that far more public ink goes to critiquing novelists’ source work or directors’ casting decisions than the gutting of libraries, archives and history programs.

Embroidery of person holding a giant sign that reads no LGB without the T

Full stop.

Second post of the series!

The fact is, Canada is deeply implicated in the same kind of fascist forces we see at play in the U.S. In fact, many of the alt-right thought leaders there are Canadians! So if you want to fight this you MUST root it out at home first, and nationalism isn't know for that kind of nuance. Do better.

Thank you!

12 There is no neutrality. Non-commitment is a betrayal of the responsibility we owe our fellow humans and the living world. Study history. Form discussion groups. Organise. Slava Ukraini! Black Lives Matter. Women, Life, Freedom! Free Palestine! Vive le Canada !

AFRICAN HERITAGE MONTH AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT ASHA JEFFERS CLAUDETTE BOUMAN HABIBA DIALLO ANDRE FENTON CORY LAVENDER TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 7PM HALIFAX CENTRAL LIBRARY PAUL O'REGAN HALL, 1ST FLOOR

hope to see you on the 25th!

i don’t trust people who aren’t overly caffeinated and don’t use “fuck” as a sentence enhancer.

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth