Thanks to all of the participants who dreamed this up together and jammed through side by side play for 1.5/2 hrs to create this! 🧵🧵🧵🧶🧶🧶🪡🪡🪡🪡💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾❤️🧿🧿🧿🌈🌈🌈🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 RESIST// ENOUGH!

and lots of upcycled textiles from some buy the pound clothing sales. You can make a banner out of anything! Thank you to Beck and Barbara Fischer for hosting and to the gallery team for helping to make today so engaging!

Our banner is multi textured and has a 3D globe to make the O for ENOUGH, lots of blue, silver and pink lamé, numerous sequins and so much more- working with materials I sourced from Affordable Textiles, a BIPOC/Caribbean run store in downtown toronto,2/

A black banner with a neon orange fringe with multi coloured Ankara print text that spells out Resist in cursive and // ENOUGH in block letters. It says Resist // Enough when read as a whole banner. There are pink and purple ostrich feathers and sequins embellishments across the banner.

Participants from the workshop standing front of the exhibition didactic wall with the banner held up between them. Some participants stand and some sit cross legged in the floor in front of the banner.

A colourful clash of textiles and feathers against a black backdrop

Participants stitching and gluing the letters on the banner, working around a rectangle table with the banner laid flat upon it.

RESIST // ENOUGH
We made this banner at the @artmuseumuoft today in honour of and response to the brilliant exhibition on now: Hangama Amiri: PARTING/ فراق
Curated by Elizabeth Diggon.

My spouse @qimoyocreative.bsky.social singing Don’t Crash Out! incredible Theo! Don’t crash out// you need that job to pay your bills*//don’t crash out…..
[*till the revolution]

Some shots here from an artist talk I gave about Shadd and the work in February this year.

This mural celebrates Shadd’s life and legacy in toronto. You can visit this work at 25 Ontario Street in downtown Toronto!
Thank you to @shannonlinde and the team at EQ for supporting this acquisition and installation!

In this mural I have drawn Shadd in repetition, along with drawings of plants that would have been growing along her route to the office in the 1850s: Lucerne Blue-Eyed Grass and Butterfly Weed.

The paper’s introduction read “The Provincial Freeman will be devoted to the elevation of the Colored People… For like reasons, the Freeman must be a straightforward, out outspoken ANTI-SLAVERY PAPER.” – The Provincial Freeman (24 March 1853)”.

I am thrilled to announce the unveiling of a new wallwork/ Activist Wallpaer that I created of Mary Ann Shadd Cary for EQ Bank’s new offices on Ontario street at King, just around the corner from this historic location of Shadd’s toronto office, where she ran The Provincial Freeman. 1/

So thankful for the chance to be part of this convo on Sunday! @dykeseries.bsky.social “A beautiful conversation and a powerful statement for future dreamers of liberation - captured from the conversation between Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware and Ottawa Trans Library Co-Chair Joanis Sherry”❤️

Tea for Tara - Episode 2 - BLACK TRANS WORLDBUILDING FOR A FREER FUTURE Join us for Guest Speaker & Storyteller Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware Live from the Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre

m.youtube.com/watch?v=npv6...

Thank you to the Ottawa Trans Library and Tea For Tara for the chance to speak together and signing story telling today!

@ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social
@dykeseries.bsky.social

This is a movie I often listen to while commuting! It does hold up!

Oh it’s just typical flying stuff but so glad that it had a good outcome! Thanks so much for coming to the talk!!! We had a wonderful time!

What a day! Glad she was there.

So they chatted amongst themselves and then did go to get her and the trans person did my scan. She was so gentle and kind and respectful . I’d rather no borders (no borders! no bosses! No landlords! As the grafitti says!)

I had seen a trans femme working earlier in security section, when does this ever happen? So I said, I’d like a trans person to do the scan. I’m a trans person and if I get to pick I’d like to request another trans person do this intimate scan.

We can’t wait to come back (hopefully in the summer lol!). Although @bearbergman, my dear friend/neighbour fr toronto who now living here, sounded like absolute prairie-based artist talmbout « really, as long as it’s -20 c and above it’s not bad. Just once it dips below -20 it REALLY feels cold »

Thank you to scholar @garneau_david for leading a conversation Friday and for such deep and powerful questions. Last night we got to see @deafcrowscollective Deaf Tempest show and feel so lucky to have overlapped with this while in town. Thank you Regina for a wonderful, whirlwind trip!

I also got to meet with scholars at @cseturegina and talk about socially engaged theatre practice and praxis and to jam with students and faculty from @balfourartscollective and from @uofreginaofficial during the book launch for Free to Be More at the university on Friday!

and to have visited some if the incredible exhibitions on at the gallery! I am so thankful to have been able to meet with the RAYN at the gallery, a local Regina youth council with the Mackenzie and @dunlopartgallery while visiting!

Thank you to the @mackenzie.art.gallery and to @crystalmowry and Nicolle Nugent and the whole Mackenzie team for hosting me and for all of the care and magic! Thankful to have been able to dream into Black trans worldbuilding in my talk on Thursday evening here at the gallery 1/

Got to hold our book for the first time today! The cover is art by @rahbush7604 and it’s so gorgeous. So thankful! It’s amazing to see these chapters and this book in real life! What a journey it is to make a book- there’s so much behind the scenes. So happy to be launching in Regina this week!

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

hey real quick, someone ask Gavin Newsom about this
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On Meta. And no stress- this happens a lot when I’m on the air. AntiBlackness runs so deep here, as does transphobia.

I was called an N-word lady on video about the BAFTAS that I did w/ Commotion. They’ve deleted the worst comments, but there’s still one up, will deleted soon calling me transphobic slurs, a “thing” and other violence. Likely bots but hateful people too. How sad for them that this is their life.

Today on the show, @syrusmarcus tells @elamin about what we can learn from this incident, and all the questions it’s raised around how we navigate race and disability in public spaces.

For the full conversation, find and follow Commotion wherever you get your podcasts. Link in bio. 🔗

when an attendee with Tourette’s Syndrome uttered a racial slur in front of award presenters #MichaelBJordan and #DelroyLindo.

The biggest story coming out of this year’s # #BAFTA awards wasn’t about a winner, but about the editing of the broadcast itself.

There’s been a lot of discussion online about the #BBC’s decision to broadcast the moment