liam

assistant to the way life is shaking out, @bertaadvantage lower canada correspondent, alleged historian, actual trade unionist (they/them)

[liam @liamjdevitt]

my latest, in which I: 1) talk about cape breton; 2) try and make queer/deindustrialization make sense; 3) see how much mileage I can get off of a Simpsons gag

[ActiveHistory.ca @ActiveHist]

"Just because queer community did not exist in the way we might think it always does in urban centres, that doesn’t mean it did not exist at all." Next post in our @deindustrialpol series, from @Concordia's @liamjdevitt, is live now.
https://t.co/SIf37KnY1M

[liam @liamjdevitt]

@sbirlios WHAT

[Alberta Advantage 🌾 @BertaAdvantage]

NEW EP: We joined forces with Unmaking Saskatchewan to dig into just what is wrong with our provincial wings of the NDP. @sbirlios @warmandpunchy
https://t.co/wMTQPq31cb

[liam @liamjdevitt]

no contest, bill cronon forever my goat

[iwsfutcmd will see you at VC5 @iwsfutcmd]

i'm actually more interested in popular history works that historians universally agree "yeah, that's a solid one."

first one that comes to mind is "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by @CharlesCMann

[Arundeep Singh @arundeepyeg]

The moral of the story was that the other kids with Canadiens jerseys were right to look down at the protagonist for his Leafs jersey.

[liam @liamjdevitt]

@Jameshasaface not to mention her dissent in Gosselin v Québec calling for a positive interpretation of s7 charter rights, ie the gov must provide life, liberty and security of the person in terms of welfare policy

[🏳️‍🌈basil IS DOING THE JOHN MUIR TRAIL! 🫐 🦢 🍎 @CARSYXHEKAJ63]

i think this is more representative of montreal as a place than anything else ive ever seen

[liam @liamjdevitt]

nothing is more horrifying to the angloid mind than learning, gasp, another language

[Evan Scrimshaw @EScrimshaw]

To be clear: I don’t see tweets from people who don’t follow me and I don’t follow in my mentions

However, there’s a very simple answer: Bill 101 and the language requirements made it functionally impossible for my (yes, uniligual) parents to get jobs after they got degrees

[Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings]

I think it’s close-minded if you are an Anglo living in Quebec who has not considered at least some of the arguments for separation— the modern established separatist movement is trash but it has a long history as a liberation rather than merely a nationalist movement

[liam @liamjdevitt]

@EScrimshaw oh god not « won’t someone think about the anglos who moved to Toronto » literally no one cares

[Sam Hersh @SamHersh01]

As a Montreal anglophone who actually grew up in Montreal, I apologize for Evan Scrimshaw.

We are not all like this.

[ray @comradempp]

Quebecers:

[liam @liamjdevitt]

This pearl clutching « stand for Canada » shit is so fucking funny— sovereigntists, especially QS types, are not frothing at the mouth to Eliminate The Canadian Nation, and you’d know that if you had more that 1 brain cell, Evan

[Evan Scrimshaw @EScrimshaw]

“Immense respect” for a separatist who is going to “continue the fight for all the causes he’s championed” … “in a critical moment for Quebec”

Avi Lewis take a fucking stand for Canada

[liam @liamjdevitt]

@JFLisee JF, mon cher, Simone de Beauvoir était elle-même une philosophe inspirée par la tradition marxiste, et elle a collaboré avec la PCF. Il n’y a pas vraiment de contradiction majeure entre ces deux points de vue, même s’ils sont présentés de manière caricaturale, comme tu l’as fait.

[liam @liamjdevitt]

All the people freaking about Boulerice being at least sovereignty-curious and him and Avi still being cool with each other really need to pick up a book or at least think for more than a microsecond about the fact that the politics of QC are not those of the ROC

[first lady of outremont @jelly___roll]

Rip Leonard cohen u would have loved today

[Judith Butler Bible Thumper @philosophysux]

Signifierrrrrrrr where are youuuuuuuuu im so drunkkkkkk

[liam @liamjdevitt]

@sbirlios calling her constituency office to ask her time and location of birth