Signy Lynch

Asst prof @ UofT (Miss. & CDTPS) | Contemporary intercultural, intermedial, diasporic & Black theatre in Canada; audience research; theatre criticism | She/her

[Signy Lynch @SignyLynch]

It's finally here - my article for @CanTheatreRev "Casting Audiences: How Theatre Passe Muraille’s ‘Black Out Nights’ Challenge Conventional Approaches to Audience." Thanks to @FatumaAdar and @magicalmudge for chatting with me! https://t.co/yBEKcNzxmT (apologies for the paywall)

[Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb]

The Art Institute of Chicago has censured a faculty member for making an assignment that has “anything with Palestine in it,” in this case just quite literally the existence of a Palestinian.

US higher education is actively policing Palestinian existence as ‘antisemitism.’

[Richie Assaly @rdassaly]

Hot off the press!

Latest issue of @TheGrindTO features extensive coverage of the @TenantsUnionTO and the citywide fight for dignified housing

[Thomas Dekeyser @ThomasDekeyser]

As the academic whose book is cited multiple times in this article, I want to make it clear: the data center revolt is great and we need more of it. (Getting a little sick of journalists purposefully misreading my arguments)

[Talk to Al Jazeera @TalktoAlJazeera]

Former International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda explains how the head of Mossad met with her to tell her to stop investigations into Palestine or else her and her family's security could be compromised.

Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/lpsgqJaIYv

[Sofi @Sofidicecosas]

Tener una amiga haciendo la tesis es como ver un documental de un animal sufriendo. No podés hacer nada para ayudarla, solo queda apoyar desde lejos y desear que pueda salir viva de esta.

[Steve Price @Steve_R_Price]

Imagine back in the heyday of online essay mills, if the push had been to teach students to use essay mills ethically and to develop essay mill strategies. Or if we had accepted that essay mills were okay for grammar and organization but taught Ss to make the essays their own.

[Variety @Variety]

Hannah Einbinder is not concerned about being blacklisted by Hollywood when it comes to supporting Palestine. She champions Melissa Barrera, Susan Sarandon and other actors speaking out:

"I think what they know is what I know, which is that the cost of not speaking is higher, you know? There is a greater toll in not speaking and you just gotta have your priorities straight. I am under no impression that my one small career could ever measure up in comparison to even one human life.

@KeringGroup

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

Our recent @Amnesty report “I’d never seen so many bodies,” documents a sustained campaign of brutal violence by the Allied Democratic Forces against civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Based on survivor testimony and field research, the findings reveal killings, abductions, torture, widespread sexual violence, and the recruitment of children: crimes that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

While global attention has focused elsewhere, communities in North Kivu and Ituri have endured relentless attacks, deepening displacement and an escalating humanitarian crisis. These atrocities must not be ignored. The Congolese authorities and the international community must urgently strengthen civilian protection, ensure justice for survivors, and end the enduring impunity that allows these crimes to continue.

Read the report: https://t.co/qhLlfE9p7n

[ontologoff 🛜 @ontologoff]

The product of universities treating Black studies as a DEI project, vulnerable to the axe, when the money dries up. Instead of treating Black Studies as an important field of study whose absence reveals incomplete programmes and curricula.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Artificial intelligence is "incredibly unpopular technology" that is essentially being forced on people, says writer @astradisastra. Data centers are facing stiff resistance in communities across the United States, providing "local choke points where people can come together and push back on the billionaire Big Tech agenda."

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

An 85-year-old French widow spent 16 days in federal immigration custody after the death of her husband, an American military veteran. Her stepson, a U.S. federal employee, allegedly intervened to have her taken custody, a judge found. Read more: https://t.co/EtV6mPqMvt

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

The documentary that the BBC refused to air - Gaza: Doctors Under Attack - won a Bafta last night.

The documentary shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities. The decimation of Gaza’s healthcare system including the detention of healthcare workers is central to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Amnesty awarded Gaza: Doctors Under Attack at the Amnesty Media Awards last week. The work of everyone involved in making this documentary and fighting for it to be broadcast shows the importance of journalists willing to speak truth to power.

#Bafta #Baftas

[Dr. Jill Andrew, PhD (she/her) @JILLSLASTWORD]

God bless our elders❤️

[𝔐𝔢𝔤𝔞𝔫 🍇 @saint_witch_]

It’s insane to me because I think the only universities that survive this crisis with a research reputation intact, who will not be known as degree mills, will protect & defend their humanities programs.

Like congrats, now your university is an over-expensive AI trade school.

[Dallas Duncan @DallasDuncanMD]

If openly displaying Palestinian symbols or identity is deemed unacceptable, imagine how unsafe it feels to simply be Palestinian. This should upset all of us. The failure of leadership across Canada’s medical community and academic medicine to confront and stop anti-Palestinian racism is unacceptable.

[John Michael McGrath @jm_mcgrath]

Clark, worth noting, one of the few people to unambiguously have been found (by the Integrity Commissioner) to have violated the province's ethics rules for MPPs in relation to the Greenbelt scandal.

The IC's report was never acted on by the legislature.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

When Covid hit, Canadians were given $2000 a month to survive.

Many struggled to stay afloat on CERB, and yet we expect disabled Canadians to survive on half that.

Disability is expensive. The crip tax is real.

Forcing disabled people into legislated poverty is eugenics.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

On fashion’s big night out, we turned the lens onto the garment, retail, warehouse, and delivery workers who make the fashion industry possible.

Read the full piece: https://t.co/XewKoacIIi

[Luke Savage @LukewSavage]

I'm in today's Star with a piece on the Canadian government's "sovereign wealth fund", which is not in fact a sovereign wealth fund at all. Mark Carney may be talking like a Nordic social democrat but he is governing like a Thatcherite.