Marvellous Grounds

Book and web project mapping and archiving QTBIPOC spaces and histories in Toronto/Three Fires Territories and beyond.

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A beautiful poem narrated in a video comic on queer Muslim South Asian identity, made by Aleena Vereena. https://t.co/cHRiEIJm8s

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#NewPost "This project was one of the most powerful ways I have ever felt a sense of belonging, and I can only hope that I can share this feeling through my prints." - Tracey Yu https://t.co/YXQPBzj8iU

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For @yorkustudents - please contact Dr. Jin Haritaworn if you are interested in this course for the Fall term! It will be taught online. More info on our new Insta: https://t.co/v1Da27DFRt

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“Who are the spaces within gay villages and queer city areas planned and designed for?” - Jc Elijah (Eli) M. Bawuah @JcElijahMB https://t.co/V7BTV95ZZC

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In a city where queer of colour DIY arts spaces are disappearing, this soundscape piece produced by Joanna Delos Reyes @joannatweetsome aims to archive and honour 187 Augusta as a space for QTBIPOC creation, art, community and healing. https://t.co/N72nEurINf

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"The dystopic crossroad of the pandemic and the uprisings gives rise to a multiracial and multi-species vision of planetary interdependence..." - Dr. Jin Haritaworn #NoGoingBack https://t.co/FJ56yOAYJ2

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‘I think this is a turning point in my art practice. To be like, “okay, but if it’s not rage, how can I generate this energy from joy?” It’s very different, it feels like a different texture, to create from joy instead of rage.’ - Decolonial Killjoy https://t.co/4QKmrEjHjx

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"what does a world in which we are fully safe to be our full, whole, beautiful and badass selves, free of oppression, of white supremacy, of racial and colonial capitalism look like?" - Snjezana Pruginic https://t.co/269uip49xC

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“Spaces of incarceration are both nowhere and everywhere, blended into our landscapes. But their invisibility is no coincidence. We hide the things we don’t want to see or that we don’t want to be seen.” - Tings Chak @t_ings, Undocumented Zine:
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"As the rhetoric of activism, abolition, and social justice become increasingly mainstream, we must resist notions that carceral logics have the power to solve oppression." - Kenley Ferris https://t.co/GXJPXLGaLQ

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What do prisons have to do with telecommunications and mental health? In this podcast, Erin Baird, Kenley Ferris and Sabika Zaidi @sabika_zee introduce the “Bell Let’s Talk” campaign by prisoner justice organization @PASAN_TO https://t.co/uUoOA3dPgD

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“We need to challenge the systemic racism and ableism that the PIC [Prison Industrial Complex] is fueled on in order to understand what is happening within carceral spaces.” - Syrus Marcus Ware https://t.co/hom4NZnrbi

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Check out the amazing work BLM Freedom School does https://t.co/1F4I36OneQ

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“Police have no place in schools working with children. They are not trained to do that. It’s just not safe to have police in schools.” - LeRoi Newbold, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Freedom School
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Watch and read our panel discussion with three founding members of Tkaronto/Toronto Mutual Aid. @edwardhswong #MutualAid
https://t.co/lMa9Z11OVt

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Abolition is not a slogan.” – Dr. Vanessa Thompson
Activist scholars, Kafia and Laura, host a podcast called Abolition After Crisis, where they discuss the past, present and future of the prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition. @k4fia https://t.co/zbMust353T

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“Abolition is not a slogan.” – Dr. Vanessa Thompson Activist scholars, Kafia and Laura, host a podcast called Abolition After Crisis, where they discuss the past, present and future of the prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition https://t.co/zbMustkFVr

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“If you actually believe in abolition, do something about it. Go visit people in prisons. Write them a letter; support bail funds. ” – Aanya Wood https://t.co/UyYGngq28O #abolition

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"I fight for you, for us, because too many of our community members have taken their lives because they weren’t free to be who they felt on the inside, and other countless reasons." - Moka Dawkins. Read more: https://t.co/0HUbWBFDg3 @justiceformoka