Sonja Boon

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

"(Ant)icolonial Figures: Characterizing Ants in 16th Century New Spain" by Elise Milburn is part of a series about “uncharismatic” species in environmental history Spanish sources viewed ants as destructive pests; Indigenous sources framed them as guides. niche-canada.org/2026/10/23/p... #envhist

if, after ten years of living with your kid, you can't come up with three things to describe what makes them special, then I feel sorry for your kid.

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Stanley Kubrick amassed 276 books on Napoleon for a film he never shot. Elizabeth Bishop spent twenty-six years on a moose poem. “A great work of art demands great labour,” writes Jason Guriel. “It wastes time, not water.” A rebuke against AI chatbot optimization: thewalrus.ca/chatbots-are-lou...

Expel this asshole www.narcity.com/u-s-embassy-...

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

having sent numerous fruitless emails to the facilities management folks about the state of the outdoor pool (which is only 3 years old) and heard how hard staff on site and the immediate mgr was trying to sort things out, none of this surprises me (sadly).

your answer is right in your first sentence: suffering from the president's tariff wars. Don't come up here to solve your problems. Go to Washington.

A few weeks ago, @persistencetheatre.bsky.social asked what feminism meant to me. I turned to some of the theorists who have made me think and imagine and dream, and today, Persistence published my blog post: www.persistencetheatre.com/blog/kneadings

new substack (content warning: infant death) substack.com/home/post/p-...

This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous

new substack: on archival overwhelm stitchingstories.substack.com/p/archives-a...

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

coming up next month, and I'm still madly stitching....

content warning; or, the same old fuckery. Because I'm so very tired of the ongoingness of sexual violence on university campuses, and the goings on at St. FX over the weekend have done nothing to improve my mood. content warning: sexual violence substack.com/home/post/p-...

new substack: in which I clean my office/creative space stitchingstories.substack.com/p/spreading-...

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Booktoberfest is coming up this weekend, on October 3! Over 60 authors and publishers plus readings and free workshops: all at Halifax Central Library. Hope to see you there!

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of course he is. more distraction. more chaos. it's all he knows, only now he's desperate, which makes him even more volatile than he was before.

It's clear as day - Bill C-39 undermines the fundamental right of workers to strike. This doublespeak from the Liberals does not change that. @canadianlabour.bsky.social @unifor.org @uswmetallos.bsky.social @teamsters.bsky.social @psac-afpc.bsky.social @cupescfp.bsky.social @pipsc-ipfpc.bsky.social

new substack: on the mystery books of my childhood and why every book is a mystery. stitchingstories.substack.com/p/reading-we...

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Peter Thiel has the wheel: “US Deputy Secty of Defense Stephen Feinberg has drafted a memo directing Defense Department subordinates to purchase up to $243.9 M in services from…[Thiel’s] Palantir…without a competitive bidding process…The memo’s subject line is called ‘Funding Palantir’.” 8/11/26…1/

Wake up, Canada. Just four companies control 80% of oilsands production. 60% of those companies' stock is owned by Americans. How is being an American petro colony in the "national interest", @mark-carney.bsky.social?

Heads up Nova Scotians: still pissed about this year's budge? sign up for pre-budget sessions to make your voice and interests/concerns heard before they foist the next one on us. www.nsarts.ca?fbclid=IwY2x...

new substack....the image doesn't match the title at all, but it does end up making sense, I promise. stitchingstories.substack.com/p/thinking-i...

Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

TFW you decide to make bread to use up the leftover whey but forget to use the whey. ah well. it will still taste good and there's always tomorrow.

what a stellar AfterWords lineup! afterwords.ca/festival-2026/

"culture of life" in action. Ghouls.

A new research project reveals 1000 UK people & organisations that benefited from the human enslavement trade www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

For International Sex Worker Pride Day, @oceanleaving.bsky.social on sex work, transness, resistance, justice, histories, and truth telling theindependent.ca/news/feminis...

There is a lot to say here, and one of them is how easy it is to disappear Indigenous peoples and histories from national narratives & how available the language race, national, and empire remains.