Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ

Anishinaabe | She/Her | 🌈 | PhD @UofT_PolSci | Host @REDsurgence | #LANDBACK

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

Finally leaving this trash app—Follow me on blue sky!

[Globalnews.ca @globalnews]

A recreational soccer team in Toronto says controversy surrounding its league’s gender policy has sparked a bigger conversation about accessibility and support for LGBTQ+ athletes.

READ MORE: https://t.co/Q1qbRHpu4d

https://t.co/Q1qbRHpu4d

[Joy Henderson @Joyhenderson78]

Don't expect to pull thinking voters (which you clearly need) with soundbite politics. It's not inspiring, engaging or even convincing that things will be better under your rule.

If you are not organizing for your parties to be better, don't feel entitled to the votes.

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

Leanne Simpson writes about how truly loving the land means you don’t retreat when it’s hurting, that’s when you dig your heels in and love harder.

[Wagon Burner 🪶 @oodhamboi]

white people lose one election & they want to leave the country. How do you think Indigenous ppl feel about all the depraved atrocities happening on our own lands? We don’t have the luxury of going anywhere.

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

Murray Sinclair. Tobacco down for you. Hard to even put the impact into words.

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

It costs the railroading and violations of truly free consent of First Nations, to be clear.

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

And this is what those electric cars actually cost

[Emma McIntosh @EmmaMci]

“After question period, I talked to Doug Ford. He came to me and this is what he said: ‘You know how we’re going to pay for that long-term care facility in Sioux Lookout? We’re going to need to open up the mines in the north.’"
https://t.co/xgcqxk4C1V

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

One of the biggest carbon sinks in the world…so many want to take it

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

Can consent be freely given in a region with the longest boil water advisories in Canada? Some of the most egregious housing insufficiencies?

Totally have capacity to deal with these insatiable corporations’ desire to exploit the region.

[Maclean’s Magazine @macleans]

Mining claims are skyrocketing in the Ring of Fire. More than 33,000 were staked by the end of last year—a 30 per cent increase in just 12 months. It’s the new northern front. https://t.co/3Q3ypHpWj2

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

Is it really a witch hunt when every investigation comes back with evidence of profound racism and wrongdoing??

[Dennis Ward @DennisWardNews]

"Here we go again. Another investigation into the Thunder Bay Police Service orchestrated by the political leadership of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation and their advisors for what only can be described as a misguided witch hunt," says former police chief.
https://t.co/HN9BZuzXxX

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

It’s a year later and I still struggle to find the words for all the feelings I have about Palestine. The grief, the love, the rage.

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

that they would do the work to let me know before I had to put it back in so I could get a breath. I was getting paid to be there so didn't feel like I could check out and was sitting alone for hours and it was all I could do to not sob. So small but so big.

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

Thinking of acts of solidarity (big and small) today and reminded of the CBC staff member, who, having seen me fidget uncomfortably for hours in the studio listening to the Pope speak, told me they got it, that I could take my earpiece out and

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

Big Indigenous politics news...

[Alessia Passafiume @alespassafiume]

Some major news:

The Métis Nation of Saskatchewan has pulled out of the Métis National Council, citing problems with the Métis Nation of Ontario.

They say the MNO represents people who are not Métis.

#cdnpoli
https://t.co/NcRkfHz4wD

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

10. Days. There is much to march about. This is high up there.

[Dennis Ward @DennisWardNews]

In the last 10 days, 4 Indigenous people have been killed in interactions with police. https://t.co/DvYpkSB57x

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

My brain is goo watching this

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

“She’s a Marxist” is killing me

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

Whenever I try to crack a joke with my students and they don’t laugh, I am immediately reminded of when my brother characterized lecturing as “stand up but boring”. Humbling.

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

I love that they’re trying to say this is actually good for these workers so they will be less exploited.

As if having ~less people to exploit~ is what would make the wealthy so much less harmful.
https://t.co/z4DoNVw6hw

[Shani Gwin @ShaniGwin]

Indigenous People are not “becoming more articulate” or “skilled” we are just participating more successfully in your systems. We are still successfully participating in our own system too.

Watch your words.