Dr Syrus Marcus Ware

Oh it’s just typical flying stuff but so glad that it had a good outcome! Thanks so much for coming to the talk!!! We had a wonderful time!

What a day! Glad she was there.

So they chatted amongst themselves and then did go to get her and the trans person did my scan. She was so gentle and kind and respectful . I’d rather no borders (no borders! no bosses! No landlords! As the grafitti says!)

I had seen a trans femme working earlier in security section, when does this ever happen? So I said, I’d like a trans person to do the scan. I’m a trans person and if I get to pick I’d like to request another trans person do this intimate scan.

We can’t wait to come back (hopefully in the summer lol!). Although @bearbergman, my dear friend/neighbour fr toronto who now living here, sounded like absolute prairie-based artist talmbout « really, as long as it’s -20 c and above it’s not bad. Just once it dips below -20 it REALLY feels cold »

Thank you to scholar @garneau_david for leading a conversation Friday and for such deep and powerful questions. Last night we got to see @deafcrowscollective Deaf Tempest show and feel so lucky to have overlapped with this while in town. Thank you Regina for a wonderful, whirlwind trip!

I also got to meet with scholars at @cseturegina and talk about socially engaged theatre practice and praxis and to jam with students and faculty from @balfourartscollective and from @uofreginaofficial during the book launch for Free to Be More at the university on Friday!

and to have visited some if the incredible exhibitions on at the gallery! I am so thankful to have been able to meet with the RAYN at the gallery, a local Regina youth council with the Mackenzie and @dunlopartgallery while visiting!

Thank you to the @mackenzie.art.gallery and to @crystalmowry and Nicolle Nugent and the whole Mackenzie team for hosting me and for all of the care and magic! Thankful to have been able to dream into Black trans worldbuilding in my talk on Thursday evening here at the gallery 1/

Got to hold our book for the first time today! The cover is art by @rahbush7604 and it’s so gorgeous. So thankful! It’s amazing to see these chapters and this book in real life! What a journey it is to make a book- there’s so much behind the scenes. So happy to be launching in Regina this week!

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

hey real quick, someone ask Gavin Newsom about this
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On Meta. And no stress- this happens a lot when I’m on the air. AntiBlackness runs so deep here, as does transphobia.

I was called an N-word lady on video about the BAFTAS that I did w/ Commotion. They’ve deleted the worst comments, but there’s still one up, will deleted soon calling me transphobic slurs, a “thing” and other violence. Likely bots but hateful people too. How sad for them that this is their life.

Today on the show, @syrusmarcus tells @elamin about what we can learn from this incident, and all the questions it’s raised around how we navigate race and disability in public spaces.

For the full conversation, find and follow Commotion wherever you get your podcasts. Link in bio. 🔗

when an attendee with Tourette’s Syndrome uttered a racial slur in front of award presenters #MichaelBJordan and #DelroyLindo.

The biggest story coming out of this year’s # #BAFTA awards wasn’t about a winner, but about the editing of the broadcast itself.

There’s been a lot of discussion online about the #BBC’s decision to broadcast the moment

Ware is part of the Black August Arts Residency Collective, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter–Canada, curator of the That’s So Gay show, and author of numerous papers, articles, and books. He is co-editor of the best-selling “Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada” (URP,2020

AboutArtist: Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Arts, McMaster University, exploring social justice frameworks and Black activist culture. He is a Vanier scholar, visual artist, activist, curator, and educator, with works presented across Canada and internationally.

Join visiting artist Syrus Marcus Ware as he shares his artistic and community practice, and explores how creative work can imagine and build more just, inclusive futures.

📆 February 26, 2026
⏰from 7 - 10 PM
📍 Mackenzie Art Gallery.

With some of my drawings a few years ago❤️ portrait of Addis* and of Yaniya Lee

Date: February 27th, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM (CST)
Location: Education Building (ED) 191, University of Regina Main Campus (3919 University Drive South, Regina, SK)

This is a free event and open to the public, however space is limited, so if you’d like to attend, please RSVP (link in bio).

“Please join the Faculty of Media, Art and Performance (MAP) and the University of Regina Press for a special edition of Art For Lunch at the University of Regina!

Featuring artist and author Syrus Marcus Ware, in conversation with David Garneau, they launch their new book,

The final Africa and Black Diaspora Studies (ABLD) Seminar of the 2025–2026 academic year! This session, Neurodiversity, Research Creation, and Access in Academic Spaces, will explore how research creation shapes scholarship and opens new points of access for underrepresented students and scholars.

Image: Audre Lorde (at left) teasing Barbara Smith about her braided hair, 1979. Credit: Photo by Tia Cross. Lorde is on the left side of the sepia tinted photo. She wears a patterned Ankara print top and matching head scarf. Smith smiles widely showing her teeth and tongue and squishing up her eyes as audre reaches out and rubs her braided head. She wears a white ribbed turtle neck with stripes across the chest and a puffy 1970s/80s vest

Happy birthday Audre Lorde!

Thank you to @drdryden.bsky.social and Suzanne Lenon for all their labour and support to make this special issue!

Syrus holds a copy of TOPIA against his cheek. He is smiling and wearing a spiked septum piercing and a brown tshirt. The TOPIA cover has a bright red and blue artwork on it and text reads “volume 50: Beyond : queerer possibilities of elsewhere and imagining otherwise

The front page of my article in TOPIA. I hold the book open and the title reads Hope for a generation: speculative fiction as a tool for racial justice and systems change followed by the abstract in English and French.

A random page from the article on a diagonal, held by syrus’ hand. You can see his thumb and a silver thumb ring

Got my copy of TOPIA in the mail! I wrote an article about speculative fiction as a tool for radical change and about the possibilities of rooting into ‘hope for a generation’ as Fat Freddy’s Drop sings about.

Alt text: the four images are of random passages of text from our article with raven and Theo and I talking about 2SQT Black and Indigenous crip justice and arts!

Watch the brilliant Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware, speaking on abolition. "We can dream bigger, we can get freer. We keep us safe." Thank you. #Toronto #police #corruption #canada #abolition #cdnpoli

#BlackDisabledMagic #Cripping #arts #IndigenousArtists #BlackArtists