Karen Baylis

Committed Reprobate, was a girl once.

[Karen Baylis @KOortmerssen]

Say NO to involuntary treatment!

Check out Pivot's position paper and send a message endorsing the 7 recommendations for life-affirming solutions: https://t.co/8Nym9HuKW8 https://t.co/nyLUNLr63t

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

Diversify the curriculum all you want. Even refer to it as "decolonizing the curriculum" but at least don't claim this alone transforms material conditions of domination if the pedagogy used & knowledge attained is not praxis-oriented. You can't read your way out of coloniality.

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

"It’s institutionalised racism we want to talk about, not unconscious bias or racial awareness. It’s the stuff that kills that we want to talk about, the stuff that stunts lives that we want to talk about.”
https://t.co/qhp5g36G0u

[Karen Baylis @KOortmerssen]

@NicoGagelmann @BrownHospMed @Sthanu5 @nihardesai7 @PanktiMehta24 Dx: imperfect pitch Treatment: they’re forked

[Animikii @animikii]

Just like Land Back and Cash Back, #DataBack is about recognition, restitution, and reclamation of our data and data systems.

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[Karen Baylis @KOortmerssen]

@ThatEricAlper Piano Man

[Karen Baylis @KOortmerssen]

I mean. I know I feel a lot of connection with Ivan, but this is next level kindredness👇:

[Ivan Coyote @ivancoyote]

I’m doing some embroidery by the fire waiting for my dough to rise and listening to the radio and I don’t recall the exact moment I became my own grandmother but I’m all good with it.

[Karen Baylis @KOortmerssen]

@emilykmay Yes and Baptist (no longer religious at all)

[Karen Baylis @KOortmerssen]

@sophiaphotos https://t.co/2unWWiNlWl

[David Harvey | @davidharvey.org on Bluesky @profdavidharvey]

I've made 6 free online courses to help you read Marx:

Reading Marx's Capital Vol 1 (2019 & 2007 eds)
Reading Marx's Capital Vol 2
Reading Marx's Grundrisse
Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason
The ABC of Contemporary Capital

https://t.co/K4VuPusiP3

[Karen Baylis @KOortmerssen]

@ChillAsHellYYJ If the harbour taxis are running, this was a fave of my grandkids!

[Karen Baylis @KOortmerssen]

@rgay Pick. Me.

[Karen Baylis @KOortmerssen]

My fave Liz Truss funny tweet, so far:

[Karen Baylis @KOortmerssen]

@Thea604 @bcit @bcndp @momsstoptheharm @CANdrugpolicy @VCHhealthcare ❤️❤️❤️

[Karen Baylis @KOortmerssen]

10,000 people have died due to toxic drug supply in BC since the public health crisis was announced. Time to stop tabulating, reporting and commenting. Time for action.

[Ahmed Ali @DrAhmednurAli]

“That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.”

— Noam Chomsky

[Cindy Blackstock @cblackst]

The healing narrative puts the work back on the victims. We need to talk about the justice narrative as there is more “healing” to be done by the offender than the victim.

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

It's been a year.

I am fairly shy and awkward and avoid talking about myself, so I hope these broader reflections offer something generative for community, movements & aligned organizations.

https://t.co/AdCfMSsnOm

[Karen Baylis @KOortmerssen]

@rgay Of course it is

[Karen Baylis @KOortmerssen]

The wellness-to-white-supremacy pipeline is alive and well: https://t.co/b2u6fc3nnP via @ccpa