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MA (History) | Detoured into teaching Elementary Art + Learning Assistance | Mama of Jumoka the turtle 🐢 l Thesis: #YVR #landfill in Delta, 1958-81 | She/her

Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined April 2014
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First grade is wild. You’re learning how to be a human, how to write things down, how to manage friendships and follow rules, and all the while everybody’s teeth are falling out all over the place
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#Envhist colleagues: what are your favourite readings about how environmental history challenges conventional understandings/scales of space and time in the historical discipline? (This includes climate history, too.) Suggestions appreciated! #envhum #climhist
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PSA re: Orange Shirt Day
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This is where being a female scholar in a male dominated field stinks. Did a long phone interview + follow up for this story, providing context to sports in residential schools, and got an email from the author thanking me for the expert insights - and not even a single mention.
In Canada, where lacrosse was long used to commit “cultural genocide” against an Indigenous population, a series of horrid discoveries has forced a humbling conversation buff.ly/3ErJbqd
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Looking for ways to support Afghanistan and Afghan people? Here's a list of actions that you can take and avoid.
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APA, MLA, Chicago Style, me (writing a first draft, trying to cite from memory).
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ITS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE ITS A REGIONALLY CURATED SUBSCRIPTION BOX OF ARTISINAL APOCALYPSES
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What if, instead of putting shoes at the art gallery, the children's shoes are put at the stairs of the Catholic, Anglican, and United Churches?
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✍️ Call for papers: "Defining the Human in Environmental Humanities" @ Venice International University 9–11 June 2022. Proposal deadline 1 October 2021. Email: [email protected] #envhum #envhist #ecocrit #envirophil
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Okay, I heard a silly joke and now I want to share it: Q: Why did the non-binary prospector move out west? A: Because there’s gold in them/their hills
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For all my historians out there.
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Another example of coronialism. theguardian.com/world/2021/j…
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Interspecies football match of the day.
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Word of the day is 'exsibilate' (17th century): to hiss a poor performer off the stage.
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3,400 year old Ancient Egyptian painting palette with its colors still preserved. (MOMA)
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Here's @jkenney's "John A. Macdonald Day" statement, an attempt to change the conversation and take the heat off of the UCP's disastrous handling of the pandemic. It won't work, namely because the statement reveals he can't even get basic Canadian history right. Here's a thread:
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Unions, because it’s VERY unlikely three spirits will appear and scare your boss into doing the right thing.
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Growing up, my Muslim family never celebrated Christmas. This year I am not going home, because pandemic, so my roommates are teaching me how to have my first proper Christmas. I am approaching this with anthropological precision. Here are a few observations.
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