Lucia (Lucy) Costa

The Right to Oblivion — Harvard University Press A New Yorker Best Book of the Year

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"The parts of our lives that are not being surveilled and turned into data diminish each day. We are able to configure privacy settings on our devices and social media platforms, but we know our efforts pale in comparison to the scale of surveillance"

How Radical Activism Transformed Mental Health in Brazil Anti-asylum movement in Brazil led to creation of a national network of community centers, which stands in contrast to the failed mental health system in the United States. Anti-asylum movement in Bra...

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World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed The world’s oceans have failed a key planetary health check for the first time, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, a report has shown. In its latest annual assessment, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said ocean acidity had crossed a critical threshold for marine life. Continue reading...

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

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Out now: “Complaining is futile? Feasibility of using complaints in the regulation of social care” in Social Policy Review 37 eds Stephan Köppe, Andrea Parma & Bożena Sojka @brisunipress.bsky.social. Many thx to the research participants & Thx SSHRC. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-o...

Bursting the bubble (zone): Resisting Toronto’s anti-protest bylaw Toronto’s new bubble zone anti-protest bylaw is both more and less dangerous than it may appear at first glance. Less because the bylaw’s enforceability and constitutionality are shaky, more because t...

Bursting the bubble (zone): Resisting Toronto’s anti-protest bylaw

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Palestinian photojournalist Abdel Rahim Khudr breaks down after discovering the loss of 48 family members in an Israeli air attack that hit his home in northern Gaza on the first day of Eid al-Adha.

Hell of a photo

Sebastião Salgado captured the world like no other photographer The death of the esteemed black-and-white photographer leaves behind a rich library of over 500,000 images showing Earth in all its beauty and darkness

RiP #SebastiãoSalgado

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Toronto wants to expand community crisis service to the TTC Toronto is looking to grow its community crisis service, which responds to 911 and 211 calls without a police presence. If approved, the program would be expanded to include the Toronto Transit Commis...

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Trump's Hammer, Our Hope 🌱 Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, & @astra.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the cascading crisis and how we can fight back. Tuesday, April 8 at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend:

Trump's Hammer, Our Hope 🌱

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, & @astra.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the cascading crisis and how we can fight back.

Tuesday, April 8 at 5:00 pm ET

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RIP Sandra Harding 😔

A Carney in charge of the circus Canadians in the bottom 50% income bracket should buckle up

“ There is no material difference between having someone beat you up and insult you versus having someone beat you up and apologise. ”

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2025 Word of the year: " GUARDRAILS "

Dear Corporations leaving Pride Toronto : We always knew it was about Pink Washing @pridetoronto.bsky.social

I cast my vote against Doug Ford and the Ontario Conservative Party in the advanced polls.

York U launches Mad Studies Hub, a new organized research unit - YFile Learn more about the Mad Studies Hub, York University's 32 Organized Research Unit, which will pursue interdisciplinary collaboration to explore oppression and mental health.

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It shouldn't shock me at this point but Trump's latest remarks about taking over Gaza is unconscionable.

Directed by Sook-Yin Lee, this film delves into the complexities of modern relationships, exploring themes of sex work and polyamory in 1990s Toronto.

Ironic and sharp life punchline as Trump takes office this week: It was 13 years ago today on January 22 1973 that the USA Supreme Court handed down Roe v Wade decision which legalized abortion .

Rejection of the hijab is not a psychiatric diagnosis On Nov 2, 2024, the world witnessed the protest of a young student on the grounds of Tehran's Azad University, Iran. This young woman was reportedly harassed by the university's morality guards (param...

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Indigenous Science and Food Sovereignty - CCA Reports Both Indigenous and western science can be applied to address a range of important systemic...

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YouTube video by AJ+ It’s Bisan From Gaza, And The Rubble Is Still Home

Bisan Owda is a Palestinian journalist, activist, and filmmaker, renowned for her videos documenting her experiences during the Israel–Hamas war in Gaza. Please take a moment (away from LA) to check out this incredible work discussing housing situation in Gaza

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A single stamp is now $1.44 🫤

I went to this book launch awhile back . Important arguments made in this book about porn content particularly in an industry that relies on algorithms and AI.

What an utterly strange and bizarro juncture in political and historical time we inhabit these days.

Alan Young, Legal Trailblazer and Beloved Osgoode Professor, Passes Away at 69 | Osgoode Hall Law School - York University Alan Young, Legal Trailblazer and Beloved Osgoode Professor, Passes Away at 69 - Discover the global and local impact Osgoode Hall Law School is having in the media and legal culture.

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Until At Dawn We Wake — Charlotte Dalwood

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