Whitney Blaisdell

Pleased to have published some findings on the role of memory in play environments, in the Children, Youth and Environments journal. muse.jhu.edu/pub/579/arti... Please get in touch and I'm happy to send a copy along.

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.

IG nytimes

I agree with this motion but for some reason "WHEREAS the only other event that generally starts around 10:00 p.m. is fireworks" made me lol

One of the most unheralded parts of making streets safer for children is the amount of time it frees up for parents.

Opinion: Gutting humanities signals the end of innovation in business and STEM Lose the humanities, and you lose the very ground of science and business that depend on it.

Without humanities studies, I would not have been a very good scientist. My humanities classes were a master class in creativity, envisioning new futures and how to think. The skills we learned in our humanities classes brought creativity to all our endeavors.
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

Second Annual Bike ‘Show & Tell’ a Safe Space for the Cargo-Curious More than 100 people gathered in South Minneapolis recently to display, chat about and ride cargo bikes of all shapes and sizes.

Communities all over MN are seeing more & more cargo bikes. With so many styles and models to choose from, events like these are a great way to let folks learn more minus bike shop stress.

Check out this @streets.mn article by @lauragmitchell.com about a recent event!

streets.mn/2025/07/02/s...

Cadmus Delorme Named Next Chancellor of the University of Regina On July 1, 2025, Cadmus Delorme will take over from Pam Klein to become tenth chancellor of the University of Regina.

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗿! 🤝

15 years after Cadmus Delorme walked the halls of the #UofRegina as a student, he's returning as the University’s 10th Chancellor.

Read how his appointment represents both a return and a new beginning for the U of R. ⬇️

www.uregina.ca/stories/2025...

Timely report as we’re discussing the impact of motor vehicles on children’s play.

“A child is killed every day on our roads, yet cars are being made so large that children are invisible from the driver’s seat. How is that acceptable?”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

😍

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

This is a hell of a thing to read.

Photo of a wooden frame with many rectangular compartments filled with printed images of meadow plants and flowers

Hay Meadow, collagraph prints (waxed) on blocks in vintage type case, (detail) by Hester Cox, UK printmaker #WomensArt

On my way into work this morning I saw this, on a rare “home zone” in Bristol, where cars do not have priority.

Imagine the time and energy this must have taken! Imagine the sense of belonging, of “my space, my street, my community”. Imagine if all children had this. @playingout.bsky.social

Print of a field at night with plants with circular white seedheads under a full moon in a dark sky

'Night Clocks' by contemporary printmaker Lisa Benson #WomensArt

Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages

Fuck this, absolutely fuck this, everyone who loves audiobooks loves their favourite narrators because they are great at their jobs and interpreting the author's words and they make the experience what it is www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Four smiling people raise their fists in front of a mural depicting striking workers.

Two people sit at a table while another speaks at a podium. The table has a banner that reads "National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. www.hunter.cuny.edu/ncscbhep. Hunter: The City University of New York."

Last month, our Local joined our @uaw.org siblings at the Hunter
College National Conference for Collective Bargaining in Higher
Education to talk about addressing sexual harassment in academia through
worker-led programs like EPIC, and fighting Trump 2.0 by coordinating
mass actions.

Speculative world building alongside children at the Regina Early Learning Centre, Melanie Monique Rose, @brittanytomin.bsky.social, and Emily Ashton

Silk robe displayed on a mannequin in an art gallery, with multicoloured flowers printed on pearly white fabric.

Spotted at the Ottawa Art Gallery last month: Melanie Monique Rose (2023), The Flower People Robe — feat. prairie plants and flowers eco-printed on silk charmeuse. Courtesy of the Saskatchewan Craft Council. #textileart

Would be so cool if a spread like this was printed on paper bags

A child tows two cats on sit-scooters behind her with her bicycle. She has another cat in the front basket of her bike.

Taking the cats for a ride
Central Park, New York City
March 20, 1976

📷Barbara Alper

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor offer hope through understanding, allowing us to counter their narratives with a far better story. @naomiaklein.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social

Great to hear that Scarth Street Mall in Regina will remain a pedestrian-only public space! I couldn't be at the meeting today so submitted a communication alongside @whitneyblaisdell.bsky.social on the importance of this space. I look forward to upcoming plans for future activation! #yqrcc #yqr

“As a child, I did not know how special libraries were—I thought it was just how society worked—I thought there always were and always would be public libraries.” Brewster Kahle Digital librarian, Internet Archive

This #NationalLibraryWeek, we're celebrating the power of libraries to endure—even in the face of unprecedented challenges.

In our latest Vanishing Culture essay, @brewster.kahle.org shares why preserving the library system matters now more than ever: blog.archive.org/2025/04/07/v...

Ceramics by Jennifer Zee, clay artist, printmaker and scientific illustrator, aka ginkgozee on Instagram #WomensArt

Politicians don’t get to dictate what is taught and researched at Canadian colleges and universities.

Research and institutional funding shouldn’t come with political strings attached.

Join us: education2025.ca

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Was pleased to attend and present some recent work alongside collaborators at the Provoking Curriculum conference. I had never attended Provoking before, and I loved it!