Ian Liujia Tian
@ianliujiatian.bsky.social
Queer marxism and other historical materialism tendencies. X survivor, Assistant pro of WGS, Mount Saint Vincent University, Mi'kmaq Nation.
Co-convener of Queer Asias Research Lab: https://www.queerasiasresearchlab.com
Co-convener of Queer Asias Research Lab: https://www.queerasiasresearchlab.com
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First Cambodia, now Laos. China’s military expansion is yet another example of its imperial ambitions. It is important to note that Ban Keun airport, where this military training center is located, is the same airport that the U.S. used to bomb Vietnam. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
Satellite images show attack jets at Chinese military facility in Laos
New ‘support and training centre’ prompts concern in region but China says it is ‘not directed at any third party’
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2026 at 9:03 PM
First Cambodia, now Laos. China’s military expansion is yet another example of its imperial ambitions. It is important to note that Ban Keun airport, where this military training center is located, is the same airport that the U.S. used to bomb Vietnam. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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About three months ago Tavia Nyong’o & I conceived of a collection of essays on The Epstein Class and the University meant to consider the ubiquity is sexual violence in the university & the fundamental fact that access to young women has long been a side perk of university employment & attendance.
October 7, 2026 at 1:18 PM
About three months ago Tavia Nyong’o & I conceived of a collection of essays on The Epstein Class and the University meant to consider the ubiquity is sexual violence in the university & the fundamental fact that access to young women has long been a side perk of university employment & attendance.
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The National Post recently crossed a dangerous line by publishing call for violence against Canada's federal NDP leader.
"Avi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be dealt with, Postmedia is."
NEW from @smohyeddin.bsky.social who breaks it all down:
ricochet.media/media/nation...
"Avi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be dealt with, Postmedia is."
NEW from @smohyeddin.bsky.social who breaks it all down:
ricochet.media/media/nation...
National Post crosses dangerous line by publishing call for violence against NDP leader
Avi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be ‘dealt with’ — Postmedia is
ricochet.media
October 3, 2026 at 4:34 PM
The National Post recently crossed a dangerous line by publishing call for violence against Canada's federal NDP leader.
"Avi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be dealt with, Postmedia is."
NEW from @smohyeddin.bsky.social who breaks it all down:
ricochet.media/media/nation...
"Avi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be dealt with, Postmedia is."
NEW from @smohyeddin.bsky.social who breaks it all down:
ricochet.media/media/nation...
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“Alberta government and the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation would each own 45% of the pipeline, with … Pembina Pipeline Corporation owning a 10% stake through the construction phase.”
Mark Carney said a new pipeline had to be privately financed, but now taxpayers are on the hook again.
Mark Carney said a new pipeline had to be privately financed, but now taxpayers are on the hook again.
West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC News
The federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati...
www.cbc.ca
October 1, 2026 at 10:22 PM
“Alberta government and the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation would each own 45% of the pipeline, with … Pembina Pipeline Corporation owning a 10% stake through the construction phase.”
Mark Carney said a new pipeline had to be privately financed, but now taxpayers are on the hook again.
Mark Carney said a new pipeline had to be privately financed, but now taxpayers are on the hook again.
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What a country builds with public money is a statement of what it values. We must build for those already living through fires, floods, and extreme weather—not for the balance sheets of companies unwilling to risk their own capital on a new pipeline.
Stop the West Coast pipeline. Not even the oil companies are asking for it
Seniors for Climate Action Now! is calling on the Carney government to reject the proposed West Coast oil pipeline, arguing the project has no credible economic, moral, reconciliation, or climate case...
canadiandimension.com
October 1, 2026 at 3:31 PM
What a country builds with public money is a statement of what it values. We must build for those already living through fires, floods, and extreme weather—not for the balance sheets of companies unwilling to risk their own capital on a new pipeline.
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Canada is preparing to spend tens of billions building a pipeline the oil companies themselves won’t finance.
If this project made economic sense, industry would be leading it. Instead, the public is being asked to take the risk while foreign-owned oil companies collect the returns.
If this project made economic sense, industry would be leading it. Instead, the public is being asked to take the risk while foreign-owned oil companies collect the returns.
Stop the West Coast pipeline. Not even the oil companies are asking for it
Seniors for Climate Action Now! is calling on the Carney government to reject the proposed West Coast oil pipeline, arguing the project has no credible economic, moral, reconciliation, or climate case...
canadiandimension.com
September 28, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Canada is preparing to spend tens of billions building a pipeline the oil companies themselves won’t finance.
If this project made economic sense, industry would be leading it. Instead, the public is being asked to take the risk while foreign-owned oil companies collect the returns.
If this project made economic sense, industry would be leading it. Instead, the public is being asked to take the risk while foreign-owned oil companies collect the returns.
Friends! We are launching Queer Asias Research Lab! You can find us here: www.queerasiasresearchlab.com
Please join our list serve to get updated events and workshops information! Our inaugural event will be a professionalization workshop!
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Queer Asias Research Lab
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September 26, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Friends! We are launching Queer Asias Research Lab! You can find us here: www.queerasiasresearchlab.com
Please join our list serve to get updated events and workshops information! Our inaugural event will be a professionalization workshop!
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Mark Carney is selling his “productivity mega deduction” as a way to boost investment. But decades of corporate tax cuts have instead fuelled record profits, rising dividends, and historic wealth inequality, write Jared A. Walker and @silasxuereb.bsky.social of @c4tf.bsky.social.
Trickle down hasn’t worked for the last 40 years. Why does Carney want to try it again?
Instead of ensuring our sovereignty, the Carney government is auctioning off more and more control over Canada’s economy to whichever foreign oligarch has the deepest pockets. If Canada wants to incre...
canadiandimension.com
September 16, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Mark Carney is selling his “productivity mega deduction” as a way to boost investment. But decades of corporate tax cuts have instead fuelled record profits, rising dividends, and historic wealth inequality, write Jared A. Walker and @silasxuereb.bsky.social of @c4tf.bsky.social.
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Three musicians Ed Sheeran could have asked to open for his tour that no one wants to be part of, but he can’t because Israel murdered them in a GENOCIDE.
September 16, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Three musicians Ed Sheeran could have asked to open for his tour that no one wants to be part of, but he can’t because Israel murdered them in a GENOCIDE.
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Since the 2010s, ballroom culture has begun to flourish in China. In this conversation with @ianliujiatian.bsky.social, three ballroom participants discuss how this still-emerging scene has become a vital venue for trans and nonbinary people to build community and alternative kinship.
Making Transnational Ballroom in China | Made in China Journal
Ballroom culture emerged in Black and Latinx communities in the United States in the twentieth century as drag balls (Jones 2017). In the middle of the century, it developed into a comprehensive syste...
madeinchinajournal.com
September 16, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Since the 2010s, ballroom culture has begun to flourish in China. In this conversation with @ianliujiatian.bsky.social, three ballroom participants discuss how this still-emerging scene has become a vital venue for trans and nonbinary people to build community and alternative kinship.
Friends! I am sharing a hot off the press article on queer workers, spaces, and cruising that will be a part of my book! You can find the online first version of “Queer Wandering” at Gender, Place, and Culture. See link for first 50 free access in the comments!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Queer wandering: cruising as a contingent practice of placemaking in China’s migrant urban villages
How do sexual and gender non-conforming workers carve out space on the underside of global capitalism? Based on an ethnography of rural-to-urban migrant garment workers’ cruising practices in a Sou...
www.tandfonline.com
September 11, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Friends! I am sharing a hot off the press article on queer workers, spaces, and cruising that will be a part of my book! You can find the online first version of “Queer Wandering” at Gender, Place, and Culture. See link for first 50 free access in the comments!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Canada’s future should not be shaped through an invite-only gathering of the ultra-wealthy. It should be determined democratically by the people who live here, with the public good and long-term sustainability taking precedence over private profit.
Carney’s CEO summit could put public assets on the table
This September, a who’s who of global finance will descend on a luxury hotel in downtown Toronto for an invitation-only event, the first-ever Canada Investment Summit. As Bianca Mugyenyi writes, the s...
canadiandimension.com
September 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Canada’s future should not be shaped through an invite-only gathering of the ultra-wealthy. It should be determined democratically by the people who live here, with the public good and long-term sustainability taking precedence over private profit.
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"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis."
Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.
Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.
The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
canadiandimension.com
September 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis."
Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.
Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.
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Israeli restrictions on food entry are stalling recovery from famine in Gaza as malnutrition cases climb, an IPC report finds. Two-year-old Hashem Abu Mustafa, born hungry in a Rafah tent, may already be beyond saving.
mondoweiss.net/2026/08/gaza...
mondoweiss.net/2026/08/gaza...
Gaza isn’t able to recover from famine as acute malnutrition soars across the Strip, new report finds
Israeli restrictions on food entry are stalling recovery from famine in Gaza as malnutrition cases climb, an IPC report finds. Two-year-old Hashem Abu Mustafa, born hungry in a Rafah tent, may…
mondoweiss.net
August 30, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Israeli restrictions on food entry are stalling recovery from famine in Gaza as malnutrition cases climb, an IPC report finds. Two-year-old Hashem Abu Mustafa, born hungry in a Rafah tent, may already be beyond saving.
mondoweiss.net/2026/08/gaza...
mondoweiss.net/2026/08/gaza...
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Enraging. Universities are underfunded in every province (esp Ontario), colleges are closing, int'l students can't get post-grad work permits, admitted students stuck in Gaza are being ignored, but sure, let's give UofT & McGill a few temporary rockstars www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...
Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities (Gift Article)
A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Enraging. Universities are underfunded in every province (esp Ontario), colleges are closing, int'l students can't get post-grad work permits, admitted students stuck in Gaza are being ignored, but sure, let's give UofT & McGill a few temporary rockstars www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...
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Rachel Reid, who wrote the popular “Heated Rivalry” novel, has donated $300k to Annapolis Valley Regional Library, “one of the most significant private gifts” in their history.
“I credit my local library for being a huge part of the reason I’m a published author today,” Reid said
#Halifax #HaliSky
“I credit my local library for being a huge part of the reason I’m a published author today,” Reid said
#Halifax #HaliSky
‘Heated Rivalry’ author donates $300,000 to Nova Scotia libraries
Several Nova Scotia libraries that faced possible closures this summer are getting a major cash boost from one of the province’s most famous authors.
www.ctvnews.ca
August 17, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...
August 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM
The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...
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“To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments… As a prominent Black scholar, you know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob. And then, one day, the attacks come.”
Racist humiliation has lethal consequences.
Racist humiliation has lethal consequences.
The Media Lynched Jason Arday
The death yesterday of Jason Arday, a 41-year-old Black scholar who resigned from the University of Cambridge after waves of attacks over the last few weeks, hits close to home. His death left me so d...
theemancipator.org
August 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
“To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments… As a prominent Black scholar, you know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob. And then, one day, the attacks come.”
Racist humiliation has lethal consequences.
Racist humiliation has lethal consequences.
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Community members finally saw the aftermath of Namaygoosisagagun after a wildfire hit the First Nation.
See their reactions and insight into how they are coping with life away from home, tonight on APTN National News.
Watch live: www.youtube.com/@aptnnews
See their reactions and insight into how they are coping with life away from home, tonight on APTN National News.
Watch live: www.youtube.com/@aptnnews
August 14, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Community members finally saw the aftermath of Namaygoosisagagun after a wildfire hit the First Nation.
See their reactions and insight into how they are coping with life away from home, tonight on APTN National News.
Watch live: www.youtube.com/@aptnnews
See their reactions and insight into how they are coping with life away from home, tonight on APTN National News.
Watch live: www.youtube.com/@aptnnews
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This is outrageous. They are plopping down a data centre right in the middle of Brick Lane with its racialised population. The proximity of the space to the City gives high frequency traders just a fraction of a second more. At the cost of environmental racism:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Battle over data centre on London’s Brick Lane tests the ...
Community groups are outraged the government has overruled council objections to approve the new server farm instead of more housing
observer.co.uk
August 10, 2026 at 1:05 AM
This is outrageous. They are plopping down a data centre right in the middle of Brick Lane with its racialised population. The proximity of the space to the City gives high frequency traders just a fraction of a second more. At the cost of environmental racism:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Russia just used a cluster bomb in Kyiv
Cluster bombs used against civilians is a war crime
This has to end
Putin has to be “put away”
People can only take so much and
there is absolutely no reason for this other than Russia are blood thirsty criminals
Cluster bombs used against civilians is a war crime
This has to end
Putin has to be “put away”
People can only take so much and
there is absolutely no reason for this other than Russia are blood thirsty criminals
August 5, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Russia just used a cluster bomb in Kyiv
Cluster bombs used against civilians is a war crime
This has to end
Putin has to be “put away”
People can only take so much and
there is absolutely no reason for this other than Russia are blood thirsty criminals
Cluster bombs used against civilians is a war crime
This has to end
Putin has to be “put away”
People can only take so much and
there is absolutely no reason for this other than Russia are blood thirsty criminals
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Planned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer could slash more than $50B from public health care over a decade, David J. Climenhaga reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth
July 24, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Planned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer could slash more than $50B from public health care over a decade, David J. Climenhaga reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth