Tiana Reid

Poster for "Monstrous Intimacies at 15," an in-person colloquium dedicated to the impact of Christina Sharpe's first monograph. It will be held June 22 - 24, 2026 in Toronto, Canada. The poster features a photograph of a light taken by Boz Deseo Garden.

Mark your calendars! Monstrous Intimacies at 15—a colloquium dedicated to Christina Sharpe's monograph—will be held in Toronto, Ontario on June 22-24, 2026! @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

Nathaniel Mackey: "Perhaps all kinship is wounded, incomplete, short of its ideal"

The cover of Lucky Jefferson’s 17th issue Bond. Orange moths gravitate around a light. The word “bond” is hand drawn with a barbed wire style

Our THIRD release of the year is here!

In our 17th anthology, #Bond, we partner with Juan Hernandez, a currently incarcerated artist, to bring together the poetry, prose, and art of 18 currently and previously incarcerated creatives, as well as those connected to them and the system.

No blood money for the arts For people in Canada, defending Palestinian life has required multi-pronged strategies, from organized labour actions to pressuring liberal cultural institutions that manufacture consent for genocide ...

Nearly 200 artists are boycotting the Scotiabank Photography Award over the bank’s investments in Israeli weapons maker Elbit Systems, rejecting cultural prestige built on war profiteering and genocide.

@tianareid.bsky.social on the growing cultural boycott and the fight to divest art from war.

🚨NOW OPEN🚨

The Claire Harris Poetry Prize is now open for submissions!

The biennial prize will be awarded to a full-length debut poetry collection by a writer who is Black, Indigenous, or from another racialized community.

Details at gooselane.com/ClaireHarrisPoetryPrize

There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this?

This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.

A Canadian-made armoured vehicle was spotted on Minneapolis streets the day ICE murdered Alex Pretti.

The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel.

What’s more:

Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.

“so much black history is about black people forced to migrate”

Oh, it’ll be even better after a break I bet!

Standing upright, her eyes meeting my disapproving look, she mutters between teeth reddened by cola nuts: “Lady, death is just as beautiful as life has been.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter

The Year That Was and Wasn’t We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?

“In my twenties my watchword was ‘nothing even matters’ à la Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo (RIP) and now, well into my thirties, I can resolutely say that everything does.” ← @tianareid.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

Another way out: You can't just wait for tyranny to go away The Epstein scandal exposes not just individual monsters but a political order built for them to thrive

“Bahro pointed out the same disillusionment with elections, unchecked corporate expansion, and political malfeasance that Ervin encourages us to use to organize the ideological defeat of capitalism, fascism, and empire.” From @williamcson.bsky.social’s latest: prismreports.org/2026/01/07/a...

Join us tomorrow night in Toronto! We are fundraising for Sondos Sabra and her family. I’ll be reading, along with many others.

Israeli forces fire live rounds and teargas as they storm Birzeit University The Israeli raid has left over 40 Palestinians, mostly students, injured and choking

“‘This is not an isolated incident, unfortunately,’ he said, explaining that Israeli forces had repeatedly stormed the university's campus.”

www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli...

last year gone!

Screenshot of text reading in part: Most important: Genocide, still. Least important: Whatever it was, wouldn’t it be so insignificant that I wouldn’t even remember it? Something like: a forgettable face, the same old headache, scrolling through my phone. I mean, my first thought was that 30 minutes ago I started crying in the Montreal airport because I couldn’t find a car to take me on a 90-minute ride. I was tired, I was hungry, I had a headache, and I also felt as I did as a child: a baby that had fucked everything up. “First world problems,” I hear people say on loop. In a universe of both the illusion of choice and the possibility of revolution, I wonder if we should take more responsibility for our own little problems, collectively produced as they are by the rotting imperial core and the international elite. All that to say, in my twenties my watchword was “nothing even matters” à la Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo (RIP) and now, well into my thirties, I can resolutely say that everything does

My reply:

The Year That Was and Wasn’t We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?

I was asked, what were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

Fears Palestine Action hunger striker will die in prison after 43 days without food Teuta Hoxha's body is the "only form of resistance she has and that's what she is using against the state", her sister says.

Teuta Hoxha, “on day 43 of a hunger strike…could die in prison if the UK government does not intervene.” news.sky.com/story/fears-...

York University Censored Exhibition at Goldfarb Gallery then Fired the Curator Artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam says York demanded changes to her exhibition critiquing university repression of pro-Palestine protest. Then the admin fired the curator, a decision dozens of faculty members…

“I think it’s important to share that the university administration heavily scrutinized the animation … We were concerned that the exhibition might be cancelled altogether, as the administration cited ‘possible safety issues." www.thegrindmag.ca/york-univers...

I am told we "discuss writing about place, the personal as critical position, and how art criticism can open up broader cultural histories and experiences by using art to write about something else.”

Minh Nguyen and Tiana Reid - Momus Tune in to a special bonus episode of Momus: The Podcast featuring a live recording from the launch of writer and critic Minh Nguyen’s...

The live recording of my October conversation with Minh Nguyen about her book Memorial Park: Revisiting Vietnam is now up on the Momus podcast! momus.ca/podcast/minh...

Toronto climate these days reminds me of Angelina Weld Grimké's "A Winter Twilight:"

A silence slipping around like death,
Yet chased by a whisper, a sigh, a breath

For a Cultural and Academic Boycott of the UAE – Spectre Journal TAGATU3 call for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE.

"As the UAE systematically destroys Sudanese universities, schools, archeological sites, cultural institutions and heritage, it continues to rise globally as a cultural and academic powerhouse." spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...

Issue 4 Pinko Magazine’s fourth issue is finally here. The only print magazine of gay communism in English has returned with 100 pages of new essays, analysis, art, interviews and archival material from the f...

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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Calls It Quits After Thousands Die Seeking Its Aid The aid group GHF oversaw relief in Gaza during a period defined by the killings of Palestinians seeking food during famine.

“Aid groups are concerned that the GHF’s tactics would be replicated by the Board of Peace in Gaza and in other conflict zones across the world. They fear it normalizes private logistics and security firms managing humanitarian aid to turn a profit.” theintercept.com/2025/11/25/g...

Giving up Tuesday

I hope they read it! I’ve been trying to do some poli ed this semester around AI use and their writing assignments, and your piece is helpful, clarifying, mobilizing. TY! I also relate to the slow unproductive work of writing and am trying to learn to cherish it

AI is death. Fight for a life in this world before it’s too late.

Just sent this to my students as recommended reading for exam season: “AI is Death” by @kandistmallett.bsky.social

kandist.substack.com/p/ai-is-death

Sign the Petition Don't Waste Buildings - Don’t Waste Stong House and Other Buildings on York’s Campus

"this is not only about Stong House, it addresses the broader issue of deferred maintenance across the university’s existing buildings, including student residences that urgently need upkeep and effective pest control" chng.it/sZ2wp9v4