Dr Syrus Marcus Ware

Thanks to @sandela.bsky.social and @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social and @matthewgreen.bsky.social for a great conversation exploring the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of the left. Such brilliant humans. I hope for more of this in #HamOnt - here’s to the revolution we all need!

She said of course! He had lied and said it wasn’t allowed as if we couldn’t look it up on our phones while at the counter with him. The new worker we spoke to was kind and apologized but boy we were over it/ tired/pissed/ exhausted …!

Im fine, we’re fine, and we’re able to do our research but it shouldn’t be like this. Afterwards I went to get the car in the parking lot and saw another staff from the same company. I asked her if it was allowed to rent two cars with more than 1 driver with her company.

And it shouldn’t matter if I’m a prof I should be treated with dignity even if I wasn’t a dr and etc. He didn’t believe I would have two credit cards to rent the two cars. When I presented them he didn’t believe the hold amount would go through. Can you imagine? Of course you can.

Tenure time comes around. It doesn’t even matter what car rental place it was because this is about something larger and this was a driving while Black extra experience last night. In light of day I question telling him where I do research- I shouldn’t have to tell him what I’m even using car for

It down and put it with my registration as if I might be trying to pull a fast one and just steal these two mini vans. Lol. But for early career Black researchers we are expected to conduct our research and these are the barriers to do our work. Yet we are assessed the same as white colleagues when

Saïd « this isn’t because you’re colored ». But in saying that he showed me that it was in fact because of anti-Blackness . Sigh. So I actually needed the card and it was 12 am and we’re at the airport pick up sport so I just told him, McMaster university, the research institute is Mac. And he wrote

Before he would let me rent the car. I questioned all of this. I showed him their online policies that countered these weird rules he was placing on me. Finally I just put it on the table « I am used to getting poor treatment when accessing services as a Black person but this is extra awful » and he

Me and my studio assistant were renting two cars for our research creation trip at the airport. The person at the counter didn’t believe I was a professor, insisted on writing down what I was using the 2 cars for (research trip) and then wanted to know name of research institution before he was let

Been awake since 8 and this whole morning I’ve thought it was Saturday! I can’t believe how firmly I believed it- I was like, oh I forgot to do xyz (all my Friday tasks) but was happily settled into my Saturday. Theo is up and clarified our current position in time and space lol.

Niccolaides when asked if he had read the books that the Red Deer School Board chair claims are part of a book ban list...

"I don't have the time"

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

should a brown man be mayor? We asked a eugenicist

Thinking of all the activists roughed up at Queens Park today. Stop bill 5 !!!

Syrus wears a hello darling dress and a he/him button and lavender glasses and smiles at the camera

Happy trans march everyone! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 button by ifetayoalabi

Charmaine speaking in a white shite holding a mic and an umbrella looking fierce

A speak in a red headscarf holds a mic and speaks loudly

Robyn speaks in a black Balzer with her hair down to her shoulders holding a mic

Keep cops out of schools banner

cops out of schools press conference was so powerful despite the rain! Here’s some photos by Errol Young from @jfaap and the last is a banner I designed!

ASL provided! THURSDAY JUNE 26 noon at Queens Park, south in front of legislation building. Join us for press conference and rally about keeping our schools safe! Keep cops out of schools- they don’t keep Black and BIPOC students safe, and in fact put them in danger. #BlackLivesMatter #NotGoingBack

This must be stopped immediately”! ❤️❤️❤️❤️Keep our schools spaces for learning and for care not for anti-Blackness and carceral harm!

Generations of young Black people have been harmed by SRO programs, and Bill 33 rolls back the clock on racial progress, threatening to expose a new generation of Black learners to harm and violence in their schools.

The proposed legislation—to return to the failed policy of stationing police in schools—endangers the safety, health, and well-being of Black, Indigenous and racialized youth.

Racism in policing is endemic, causing mass surveillance, arrest, incarceration and brutality against Black communities, and particularly young Black people: this has been recognized by the Toronto Police Service, the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and the Supreme Court of Canada.

of police-in-school (SRO) programs under Bill 33, Supporting Children and Students Act, 2025.

Schools must remain safe places for young Black and Indigenous students to learn.

From the organizing team: “PROTECT BLACK AND ALL STUDENTS: FORD WANTS POLICE BACK IN SCHOOLS –– SAY NO!

We are a group of Black and allied parents, educators and researchers voicing our opposition to the Ontario government’s legislation which mandates the return

Protect all students! Rally and press conference June 26 12 noon queens park

How to support: endorse this statement . Attend the rally and press conference. Share your support for this campaign on socials with hashtag #NotGoingBack

We know that … SRO programs harm students and enable systemic racism.

For wants police back in schools- say no!

ASL provided! THURSDAY JUNE 26 noon at Queens Park, south in front of legislation building. Join us for a press conference and rally about keeping our schools safe! Keep cops out of schools- they do not keep Black and BIPOC students safe, and in fact put them in great danger. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@qimoyocreative.bsky.social

I love you theo. Im from memphis, from the south, and in my family we say, “ i love you on purpose”. I love you theo , on purpose. Again and again and again. “

With you I realize that we are the ones weve been waiting for. As Jordan states,

and the ones who stood without sweet company
will sing and sing
back into the mountains and
if necessary
even under the sea
we are the ones we have been waiting for

Syrus and Theo hug, in mascots shirts made by Theo and skirts by deseiye!

Milo and lwrds hold up a pink and neon yellow banner that says syrus loves Theo while syrus and Theo look on

Family together with syrus and Theo after their wedding. Everyone is sliming and grouped around the couple in a tree lined cobble stone street

Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland sing harbour to syrus and Theo at the start of the wedding.

My vows were long and syrus style lol but here is one paragraph from near the end, for Theo: “I read June Jordan’s Love Poems from 1980 and though I understood them on one level, I understand them anew, with you at my side. With you I feel like Ive found home. 1/

WE KNOW THAT... • School boards have spoken: SRO programs harm students & enable systemic racism • SRO programs criminalize young people in spaces meant for learning • Police-in-school programs contravene equity policies and human rights protections • SRO's enable police violence against students • Effective alternatives exist to make schools safe • Youth arrests have gone down since SROs were removed and outcomes have improved

PROTECT BLACK ALL STUDENTS FORD WANTS POLICE BACK IN SCHOOLS-SAY NO!

RALY PROTECT BLACK & ALL STUDENTS DO NOT BRING BACK POLICE-IN-SCHOOLS PROGRAMS RALLY & PRESS CONFERENCE JUNE 26TH | 12PM QUEENS PARK KIDS WELCOME! #NotGoingBack #PolicelnSchoolsCauseHarm

HOW TO SUPPORT • ENDORSE this statement as an organization or as an individual (tinyurl.com/ProtectBlackStudents) • ATTEND the rally and press conference, June 26th at 12PM at Queens Park • SHARE your support for this campaign on socials using the hashtag #NotGoingBack #PolicelnSchoolsCauseHarm

June 26 2025 at noon- queens park! NO COPS IN SCHOOLS! keep our kids safe!! #BlackKidsMattsr #BlackLivesMatter #NoCopsOnScools #Abolition

Allergies have me mouth breathing after this month but I know this isn’t ideal. Tips for remembering to breath through your nose?

Amazing!!!!