Nisha 🏳️‍🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus

cdn slam champion / 8th poet laureate @cityofedmonton / disabled diabetic / A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH (@arsenalpulp), COCONUT / MFA at UBC

[Nisha 🏳️‍🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus @AnotherNisha]

After many months, I wrote a brief introduction to disability justice, and how love has been central to how celebrating and dreaming disabled futures will save us. Please read it here! And many thanks to @gutsmagazine and @notvanishing https://t.co/ZFOpq0yGio

[Nisha 🏳️‍🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus @AnotherNisha]

@kristelxo How are the lines? lol

[Nisha 🏳️‍🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus @AnotherNisha]

@LeTabby Yup, trying to figure it out too as I can't breathe. There was a fire on Sask drive and 71 Ave called in 30 min ago but this might be new

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

To every student and young person who stood up on university campuses against what are now officially deemed war crimes: you are heroes and your persecutors are trash.

[Nisha 🏳️‍🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus @AnotherNisha]

@bellyofawhale @twuc Okay okay I posted in that place too, pls come one and all 🙏🏽

[Ali A Olomi @aaolomi]

the united states is holding the entire world hostage so israel can keep on killing

[Tamara Nassar @TamaraINassar]

Hours ago, AOC voted for a resolution designed to conflate criticism of Israel and Zionism, on one hand, with anti-Semitism on the other. No one believes your act anymore, @AOC. You're on the side of the genocidaires.

[0live 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇺 ⚢ 🐇🐈🦌 @0liviaolive]

i hold extremist political views such as "people should have their basic needs met" and "war crimes are bad" and "we should not accelerate the apocalypse for the profits of a few oil companies"

[Nisha 🏳️‍🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus @AnotherNisha]

it's only ever about money for some of you.

[Nisha 🏳️‍🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus @AnotherNisha]

you can say no. you can say, this is not enough. you can say, I don't care that AI is everywhere, that there are those that think it is inevitable. it isn't. you are bankrupting the future, you are bankrupting my students and peers, when you should be fighting. I get it now

[Nisha 🏳️‍🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus @AnotherNisha]

AI has already used marginalized writers' works, so that big publishers, staffed by countless wh*te people, can use us? I am shaking that this is okay for the union. that this racial injustice is okay, too

[Nisha 🏳️‍🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus @AnotherNisha]

I'm the one on the ground teaching students who are frequently stunted by their reliance on AI, who lack literacy, who could look to us published writers for leadership and guidance and still be taught the value of protecting our own voices

[Nisha 🏳️‍🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus @AnotherNisha]

we should be taking these AI owners to court for our works that have already been used, not making it okay to take more under some 'acceptable' use. you don't get it, do you? what AI will be taught from our work will be more than what we can monetize and 'fairly' compensate

[Nisha 🏳️‍🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus @AnotherNisha]

AI is being shoved into everything. sure. but acting like we have no choice but to let it, and that we should take our dues and our royalties for it, is defeatist and morally unjust to be okay with it. first publishing gatekeeps us, and now only the published get the reparations

[Nisha 🏳️‍🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus @AnotherNisha]

take your land acknowledgements out of your website if you don't mean them. I am ashamed to be a member of an organization that will tell us writers are underpaid and then turn around and throw us under the bus because there's 'no use' fighting environmentally exploitative tech

[Nisha 🏳️‍🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus @AnotherNisha]

@twuc should be ashamed. we should not be accepted short-term scraps in favour of lasting, long-term harm. forget how AI systems use water as a coolant for these machines, in a country where water is stolen and controlled, and how this is environmentally devastating

[Nisha 🏳️‍🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus @AnotherNisha]

so the writers' union of canada wants to support the use of letting AI be trained on our writing now that writers are being offered royalties. this is unacceptable and humiliating. AI is exploitative and writers should have a fucking backbone in preventing their own obsolescence

[Preston D. Mitchum @PrestonMitchum]

As a reminder: guilty people shouldn’t be executed either.

[nick @unionnick]

Cornell just became the first university of the spring semester to suspend a student for pro-Palestine organizing. They’re intentionally targeting an international student & one of the most visible advocates for divestment on our campus—the Cornell community won’t tolerate this.

[Kyle Church @KyleDChurch]

god, "mass clearance" is just about as close as you can fly to the sun on euphemisms for ethnic cleansing. these fucking ghouls.