Amanda Greer

september is over and i've come across zero (0!) jobs in my field i can apply for in my home country (canada) 🙃

Thanks to all the wonderful editors at Camera Obscura for helping to shepherd this along! Truly a dream place to publish for me, given that Camera Obscura has always been a space full of work by scholars I deeply admire.

On Education as Formal Violence: Learning Girlhood through Cinema's Curriculum of Reformation Abstract. This article argues that midcentury teen cinema develops and deploys a pedagogical cinematic form centered on the reformation of girl‐bodies, using the little‐discussed reform school exploit...

Delighted to say that my article in Camera Obscura, "On Education as Formal Violence," has been published! It examines the role of the reform school as both/neither school and/nor prison, and the gendered pedagogies imposed on "bad" girls in the 1950 film, So Young, So Bad.
#academicsky #filmsky

America Is Increasingly Unsafe for Black and Trans People. Will Canada Help? | The Tyee Zara Sluys X is claiming asylum north of the border. She faces a steep barrier.

Zara "Sluys X is preparing her application for Canadian asylum on the grounds that the United States is not safe for Black or trans people."

During 2025, "987 anti-trans bills have been introduced across 49 U.S. states."

Zara's fundraiser: gogetfunding.com/help-zara-re...
#Canada #USA #Deportation

best thing i've read this week, from www.dukeupress.edu/feminism-aga...:

"[...]history is far less cis than one might anticipate."

"Every sex and gender is a historically contingent, invented category. It's time to start treating them all that way."
#genderstudies #transtheory

A Day to Mark Thousands Lost to Unregulated Toxic Drugs | The Tyee Nine years into a public health crisis, advocates accuse government of ‘criminal negligence.’ A look at where BC stands.

"More than 18,000 British Columbians have died due to unregulated toxic drugs [..] over the last decade."

"[T]hese deaths were entirely preventable and caused by Canada's drug policy."

"[N]ot doing anything about it is criminally negligent."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Policing

Please consider supporting Haneen! Her accounts are systematically being removed, and her family is desperate. She is an incredibly kind person, just trying to keep her children alive during a genocide.

Saudi Arabia: Further Information: Women’s Rights Activist Re-Sentenced: Manahel al-Otaibi - Amnesty International On 21 August 2025, the appeals court of Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) resentenced fitness influencer and women’s rights activist Manahel al-Otaibi to five years imprisonment…

Saudi Arabia "resentenced fitness influencer and women's rights activist Manahel al-Otaibi to five years."

"[D]ue to her tweets in support of women's rights as well as posting photos of herself [..] without an abaya."

"[S]ubjected her to torture."
#SaudiArabia #Incarceration

Stop Censoring Palestine: A public call for accountability at the Harvard Education Publishing Group Hundreds of scholars, educators, and education practitioners condemn Harvard Educational Review’s cancellation of a special issue on Palestine, saying it aims to silence discussion of the genocide…

"We, the undersigned scholars, educators, and education practitioners write to express our alarm at the Harvard Education Publishing Group's cancellation of a special issue on Palestine and Education."

Sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#Massachusetts #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

"BOYCOTI SCMS 2026 FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS, THE SCMS BOARD OF DIRECTORS HAS REFUSED TO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE PALESTINE OR DECRY ANTI-PALESTINIAN RACISM AND THE ISRAELI GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE. INSTEAD, THE SCMS BOARD HAS: 1) IGNORED THE WISHES OF OVER 700 OF ITS MEMBERS TO MAKE A PUBLIC STATEMENT CONDEMNING THE ISRAELI SCHOLASTICIDE AND MEDIACIDE IN PALESTINE 2) ISSUED MASS MESSAGES TO DENY THE PERPETRATION OF RACISM AND HARASSMENT BY A PRO-ISRAEL AGITATOR AT THE 2025 CONFERENCE 3) DISABLED VITAL COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS FOR CAUCUSES AND SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS 4) INSTITUTED AUTHORITARIAN CHANGES TO THE ASSOCIATION'S ANNUAL ELECTION NOMINATION PROCESS WITHOUT RATIONALE OR EXPLANATION SEND A MESSAGE TO THE BOARD. BOYCOTT THE CONFERENCE. Scholars of Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine (SCMSSP, formerly PSWG)"

And there we have it. A call to boycott SCMS this year.

“A 2024 survey of more than 500 Palestinian children in Gaza revealed that 96% of them fear imminent death, […] 49% wish to die because of the war.”

“[UNICEF] called Gaza ‘the world's most dangerous place to be a child.’”

At Bronx School for Immigrants, One Teen Fights for an Education Under Trump A student detained by ICE. Another losing her resolve to stay in the U.S. ELLIS Preparatory Academy is fighting for its students as Trump’s immigration enforcement closes in.

"After Trump's win in the 2024 election, Bernard, the school counselor, noticed an uneasy quiet fall over the school."

"Bridget just wanted to know if her friend was OK. And Bernard didn't know what to tell her."
#NewYork #USA #Ecuador #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩'𝐬 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚
Three weeks before Trump's inauguration, I began building a comprehensive archive of independent journalism on state violence in Trump's America—an abolitionist educational resource designed to counteract state propaganda.

Here's a navigation guide.
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A State Unknown: LGBTQ+ Advocate Talap Mamyrkanov Faces Deportation At an Uzbek restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, we ate plov, manti, and shashlik, and talked for a couple of hours. It was summer. The chicken wings he’d insisted on ordering grew cold; I leaned back in my…

"This no bother me. You person. You my friend, bro."

"Talap's support has had a tremendous impact on [..] each one of my trans and non-binary fighters."

Talap was "detained during a check-in with his immigration officer."
#NewYork #USA #Russia #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

The Canadian Company Staffing ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Carney’s government awarded GardaWorld millions in contracts and isn’t ruling out more.

"Quebec-based GardaWorld, which has [..] been awarded a US$8-million contract for work on ['Alligator Alcatraz'], has also been awarded more than $100 million in Canadian government contracts since Carney won the Liberal leadership."
#Canada #Florida #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Comforting to know I wasn’t alone!! Hadn’t fainted in a theatre before and haven’t since

Hi! This happened to me at this exact point in the film 💀 was this at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver, by any chance??

An SF couple’s life unraveled after one ICE check-in A routine ICE check-in tore a San Francisco couple apart. Now, Sandra awaits asylum in detention while Roberto is left behind.

"For the past weeks, Roberto has been sleeping on a friend's couch, too distraught to spend the night alone in his house."

"This July, Roberto's wife Sandra was arrested by ICE."

"She's my home."
#California #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

On 6 months of Harms Committed...

Last Fall, I momentarily imagined a public archive where one could easily access a feed of credible journalism detailing the history of police brutality for any location. A passing thought inspired by dissertation research.

Harms Committed is and isn't that.
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Donate to Helping Bounce Back from the Fire, organized by Shaleesa Rowley On the morning of April 10th 2025, I woke up to a fire alarm & smoke creeping up my … Shaleesa Rowley needs your support for Helping Bounce Back from the Fire

hey Bluesky! My cousin was displaced by a horrible fire in Toronto and is now left to start rebuilding her belongings entirely from scratch. For those who know Toronto, you know what a battle that is. If you can, please consider donating here to help her rebuild: gofund.me/2fd17eb9 #toronto

Emma Seligman (2 comedies) and Jane Schoenbrun (2 horror films, plus working on a new slasher)

"[P]ages are devoted to setting out an immigration policy for an independent Alberta. 'Natural born Canadians' will have preference. [...] Why? Well, folks born in Canada [...] 'have at least a fighting chance of being able to drive acceptably on snow and ice.' I’m not making this up."

Danielle Smith, Queen of Measles Alberta leads the continent in stoking the disease’s resurgence. The province’s former top doctor lays blame.

"Danielle Smith can now call herself Queen of Measles."

"Thanks to Smith's weak and chaotic leadership, vaccine skepticism and open disregard for public health experts, the number of cumulative measles cases had as of Friday passed 1,179 in Alberta."
#Alberta #Canada #Healthcare

Journal Club: The Voices of Trans Children — Assigned A 2025 study takes the time to interview and speak with trans children to better understand the scope of the impacts of restrictions on gender affirming care.

"Kennedy has unearthed evidence that current NHS staff is attempting to intimidate trans kids and their parents from procuring puberty blockers by legal means, issuing threats of calling social services and preventing trans children from accessing gender-affirming care as adults."
#UK #Healthcare

“Culture is no longer merely a reflection of the past; it has become its erasure. It functions as pedagogy — through what Ariella Aïsha Azoulay names as ‘imperial technologies,’ and what I have called “disimagination machines.’”

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Kelowna’s New Tent City Policies ‘Make People Want to Give Up’ Unhoused residents say decampments and new rules are affecting their autonomy, health and safety.

"[T]hey slashed open tents, forced people to move and threw out people's belongings."

"It created absolute chaos and hell for everyone who was living there."

"[D]ecampments increase the risk of a fatal overdose or medical emergency."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Housing

“The only way out is through a male guardian, marriage or jumping off the building. Old men or former convicts who did not find a bride would look for a bride in these institutions. Some women would accept this as the only way out.”

‘There are no places for us to just be free’ • The TRiiBE Black teenagers spoke to The TRiiBE about teen trends, how they’re treated in the Loop, and what solutions could fill the gap in youth-oriented spaces.

"[A] revised curfew ordinance [..] would give the Chicago police superintendent [..] the power to declare a curfew in response to a teen trend, or gathering of 20 or more."

"I feel like there should be a space where teens can meet up and not be watched by 100 policemen."
#Illinois #USA #Policing

a person is walking across a bridge at sunset ALT: a person is walking across a bridge at sunset

fingers crossed for a one tree hill reboot sponsored solely by sugar-free versions of different crush flavours that all the cast members have to incorporate into their scenes