Identical twin, artist, #activistloveletters, activist, DJ, Resistance on the Sounddial, abolitionist and PhD. @BLM_TO /co-founder @BLMCanada_
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Joined February 2010
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I wrote about anti-Blackness in the arts: canadianart.ca/features/give…
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Live at Queen's Park for a rally against Doug Ford's plan to put police back in our schools teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1MnxnwQmV…
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Q&As with podcasters Pamela Hensley @PL_Hensley (How I Wrote This), Nathan Whitlock @nathanwhitlock (What Happened Next), and Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware (No Future No Cry) bit.ly/40MnX3T
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If you missed the episode of @CommotionCBC - here is the full podcast with @JustSayRad / @theashleyray / @TeriHart / @syrusmarcusware
Episode produced by yours truly! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcas…
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Back w/ my friends at @CommotionCBC • producing a full show w/ da homie @JustSayRad •
Friday’s Wrap includes:
The New Conclave Film…
A) Hasan Minhaj’s New Netflix special
C) Popcorn Bucket Craze continues!
@theashleyray @TeriHart @syrusmarcusware join the chat on CBC.
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Truly grateful to have the brains of @laracroftbarbie @KathleenNB and @syrusmarcusware reflecting on Liam Payne’s death and the way it’s being covered, and the consequences for fandom youtube.com/watch?v=DsSb9dXx…
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Dr. @syrusmarcusware is a Vanier Scholar, visual artist and assistant Professor at the School of the Arts, McMaster University.
Find Syrus’ #nbTO24 exhibition “And the spaces between us smiled” between HTO Park & Harbour Square Park.
🔗 toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/fes…
ALT Headshot of curator Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware
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This year’s Nuit Blanche features three distinct exhibition areas developed by three Toronto-based curators: Su-Ying Lee, Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware and Danica Pinteric, each creating a continuous experience along the Toronto waterfront.
Meet the #nbTO24 curators👇
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“What would happen if we designed our performance experiences around how we wanted people to feel while at the event?” @syrusmarcusware explores this question with reference to ‘welcome, we’ve been waiting’ by @rodneydiverlus in Volume 197: bit.ly/CTR197d
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“This movement has become so capitalist. I gave them their pride, but they never gave me mine.” 😓The way this 2001 Sylvia Rivera interview with activist Kristi Tho’mas still rings true. #PrideMonth #Transcestors VIDEO CREDIT: archived by @tourmaliiine, shared by @syrusmarcusware
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Last June, @syrusmarcusware reviewed Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by @immissmajor and @tmeronek, also a nominee in Transgender Non-fiction.(@versobooks)
xtramagazine.com/culture/mis…
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Fun filled @CommotionCBC with @elamin88 tomorrow (Thursday) 🏆🏆🏆🏆
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We talk #BlackTwitter with @ThatDudeMCFLY & @syrusmarcusware
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And Therapy TikTok with @JhanellePeters
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11a EST (half hour in NL) and live on YouTube
Or wherever you listen to podcasts!
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There are 1000 Black women doctors on here who could give it to you alphabetically before breakfast. What even are you “trying”? The answers to this question have been discussed so extensively you could see them from space. I’m a white man and I could do 10 from the couch.
The American Cancer Society is trying to find out why Black women have the highest death rate for most cancers. cbsn.ws/3QGqdnp
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Thank you to everyone who has signed on so far - including @NaomiAKlein, @avilewis, @syrusmarcusware, @ojoagi, @reeraw, @cliff_caines, and nearly 100 other artists and cultural workers expressing solidarity ⚡️ There's no power like the power of the people!
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.@fordnation says they value the arts and these @OPSEU Local 535 workers? Then get their employer- funded by govt- to the table and get these workers what they deserve: fair wages, F/T work, protection against contracting out, and liveable hours of work! #onpoli #NoDealNoAGO
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400+ @agotoronto workers are on strike! They are sick and tired of precarious part-time, contract work, and unfair wages. They are struggling to pay bills! @NeilLumsdenMPP says he knows their value? Then SHOW THEM THE MONET! Inve$t in arts&cultural workers! #onpoli #NoDealNoAGO
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Wish I had this when the toddler I nannied put her toys in jail- amazing how early it comes up
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My youngest built quite the carceral enclosure with magnablocks today. No better time than tonight to read with her our newly arrived copy of “Abolition is Love” by @syrusmarcusware & Alannah Fricker.
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
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to be fair- difficult to build anything non-enclosed with those magnablocks. great book recommendation!!!!
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In this final episode of Imagine 2080, we explore the power of dreaming new futures into existence through art, collaboration and innovation.
Tune in to hear from @SamanthaNutt, @syrusmarcusware, @raisamirza, @jessmthornton & Jesse Wente.
Listen here: lnkfi.re/imagine2080
