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Yutaka Dirks

@dirksy.bsky.social

Tenant organizer/housing policy analyst, parent, PhD student, writer. Likes: literature, feminism, comic books, decolonization, crime fiction. Winnipeg, Treaty 1.

280 Followers  |  477 Following  |  213 Posts  |  Joined: 15.11.2024  |  2.1071

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116. Two Sex Addicts Fall in Love - Jess Taylor

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115. Young Warriors in Love - Richard Van Camp

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The need to challenge racist borders and to fight for the rights of #migrants and #refugees has never been greater and it can only increase.

07.11.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

114. The Line - Amor Towles

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Indeed, he was allowed to to kill all those children because he is so rich

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113. Three Women of Chuck’s Donuts - Anthony Veasna So

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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.

The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

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112. Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality - Lindsay Wong

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111. Lockwood - Bryan Washington

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110. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver

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109. Warm Up - V.E. Schwab

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108. Charlie Martz - Elmore Leonard

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107. Paul’s Tomb - Will VanDenBerg

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106. The Raft - Stephen King

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πŸ””TOMORROW!!πŸ””

"HOUSING FIRST" REQUIRES HOUSING FIRST WEBINAR
Join the Social Housing and Human Rights (SHHR) Coalition for a webinar that explores the Finnish Housing First model. Register here: tinyurl.com/yc2zpysj

03.11.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Crime fiction & climate change… nice to see my local paper @winnipegfreepress.com review of the @rhppress.bsky.social anthology On Fire and Under Water

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Next week Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 2 pm, join us as we host Alex Neve for a lecture titled Universal Human Rights: The case for strengthened domestic implementation in Canada. The event will be held in 108 St. John's College.

Learn more about Alex Neve below ⬇

#umanitoba #humanrights

28.10.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I spy @keithrosson.bsky.social Fever House. Excellent novel!

30.10.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

27.10.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

if you turn away every time you feel discomfort, your world will contract and contract and contract until you are incapable of connecting to others or imagining other ways of existing in the world

25.10.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 529    πŸ” 176    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Thanks everyone who made it to our lunch n learn organizing meeting! We are building the campaign to protect tenants in Manitoba!

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105. Just a Howl - Will Richter

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104. The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin

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103. Speech Sounds - Octavia E. Butler

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I taught Human Rights Advocacy in January and found the same when I used the Black Lives Matter uprising in 2020 as a reference. Nevermind Idle No More (another of my β€˜ancient’ examples)…

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102. The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe

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101. Duke Alvarez: American Mummy Outlaw; or, The Undead Years of Phillipe LaFontaine - Johnathan Fahey

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Friday Oct 24th noon - Join @r2hmb.bsky.social to learn how we can hold MB Premier Kinew to his word: End Huge Rent Hikes & Protect Tenants! Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

19.10.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

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Thank you for writing! It was a nice bonus to learn you’re from Winnipeg (I moved here a few years ago).

18.10.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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