Oriana Confente

digital writer, film photographer, maker of things | @uwaterloo alum, MA rhetoric & communication design | she/they

[sarah madoka currie / クリ窓花 @kawaiilovesarah]

this thread is now UPDATED with the full mutual aid seminar take-up: how can i show up for others now, today, safely?⭐️💜 #UWaterloo @UWaterloo

(25 tweets / 12 slides) the entire slide deck is also given to you @ the end for you to use for whatever you need.

[Oriana Confente @OConfente]

Remember when my grad class visited the DP library and found stuff like this in the Imprint archives? Like so many other institutions, UW has a history of violence. These aren’t isolated incidents. Empty platitudes don’t protect staff & students.

[Oriana Confente @OConfente]

Created some collages highlighting the creepy history of subordinating women on campus at @UWaterloo, featuring newspaper clippings pulled from the library archives (mostly dated between the '60s and '70s).

[Aimée Morrison @digiwonk]

Who is speaking. What are they saying. The shocking attack was a classroom knife attack that injured a professor and two students, in a philosophy course on gender. We need specific, concrete nouns here. Name it.

[Aimée Morrison @digiwonk]

The university says "there is no risk to the campus community" but a gender studies class by a female prof in the humanities targeted deliberately feels a lot like collective ideological danger that has now tipped into violence. You can't arrest one person and call it a day.

[Oriana Confente @OConfente]

Respectfully, is silence what’s needed right now? Or a clear, direct, and LOUD statement against hatred, violence, misogyny, etc. Silence does not make members of the campus community feel safe or protected.

[University of Waterloo @UWaterloo]

Today at 3:15pm, our campus community will gather in the Arts Quad in recognition of the shocking attack and trauma we endured yesterday.

Remarks will begin at 3:30pm followed by a moment of silence at 3:37pm.

[winkyj 詹詠琪🍊 @winkyj]

Rally to Stand Against Misogyny and Hate!
Thurs 4pm UW Campus!
Hate has no place here!
Everyone Belongs!

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤

[Oriana Confente @OConfente]

https://t.co/T8eoPPRJFQ

[Concordia University Press @ConcordiaPress]

Thanks to @OConfente and @MtlReviewofBks for this great review of @aketchum22's Ingredients for Revolution! https://t.co/2cpGfr4cIH

[Oriana Confente @OConfente]

@tristanbergh Great leads!! Thank you!

[Oriana Confente @OConfente]

Breaking my Twitter silence because I watched Party Girl (1995) last night and absolutely need to ID this sweater. Anyone know who made it? Or if there’s a pattern out there for it? #knitting

[Oriana Confente @OConfente]

Does hftwt have the answer?!

[Robyn Maynard @policingblack]

Solidarity w/ the Ontario education workers organizing for decent working conditions. Funds are always available for surveillance, jails, repression, while life affirming social needs are decimated. education is a social need and good and workers deserve our support right now.

[Oriana Confente @OConfente]

What’s left of the Self at the end of the World? at the salon du livre anarchiste mtl. Crafting string figures thru conversation, carving curiosities & concerns, smashing reflections on Self & Things,illuminating strategies & temporalities,composting thru corridors of (un)knowing

[Oriana Confente @OConfente]

!!! I recently checked train routes between Calgary and Vancouver because I figured there must be an easy alternative to flying between 2 major cities and I was alarmed at how complicated/EXPENSIVE it is. Grateful to be along the QC-Windsor corridor or idk if I’d go home as much.

[Shannon Dea @ShannonDea1]

My kid is moving from Regina to Montreal with a stop in Toronto. She wants to fly less during the climate crisis, so she decided to take the train. What she has discovered provides a glimpse into just how hard it is for carless western and remote Canadians to travel. 1/n

[Oriana Confente @OConfente]

My research group is presenting at the salon du livres anarchiste / montréal anarchist bookfair next weekend! We’re discussing queer ecologies, phenomenology, and what’s left of the self at the end of the world. Msg if you want to come by & I’ll share details 📚

[Oriana Confente @OConfente]

@Becaquesnel thank you sm!!!!

[Oriana Confente @OConfente]

I was privileged to photograph the latest line of bags designed by Luna and hand-painted by Amalia Naranjo 🌙🍊 https://t.co/NZLabfznEA

[Oriana Confente @OConfente]

Also listened to an amazing talk from Thyrza Nichols Goodeve on Donna Haraway, Max Liboiron (Pollution is Colonialism/CLEAR lab), art writing, and making-with #SFSIA

[Oriana Confente @OConfente]

Reza Negarestani talking about phenomenal self model 101 at #SFSIA yesterday