Cheryl Thompson
@DrCherylT
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Tier 2 Canada Research Chair, Author, Associate Professor Find me on @drcherylt.bsky.social and Mapping Ontario's Black Archives on Instagram @mobaprojects_
Toronto, Ontario
Joined March 2016
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This Black History Month feels different, that's how I start this one.💪🏾 #GloriaBaylis #PhyllisMarshall #CyMclean #MyronSutton #OscarPeterson #ArchieAlleyne #GloriaSimpson #OntarioHumanRights #Resilience #BlackJoy #TorontoHistory #Nightclubs #JazzDance #BlackHistoryMonth2025
#topoli #onpoli #BHM2025 Today on @spacing, @DrCherylT on racism, official and unofficial, in the Toronto night club scene, and the Black musicians who broke the barriers.
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I would like to see more equality in those who hate equity. White men, please leave room for others to complain about their underrepresentation, underpay, and limited career advancement opportunities. It's unfair. 🤦🏾♀️
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🔥 is such a powerful element. On the one hand, it's meant to destroy. On the other hand it provides warmth. We need it for heat to cook food, but if left to itself, it can cause destruction. We're meant to fear 🔥 but we need 🔥. Very challenging moment. Thinking of California.
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For White Canadians to keep talking about 🇨🇦 the great of 50+ years ago is so delusional. And to suggest that the so-called diversity of today is the "reason" the country has challenges even more delusional. White folk running govt since 1867. They should turn that 🪞 around.
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Can someone point the PC leader in the direction of a book? The evidence of "this obsession with race" is there. One of the earliest books was written by a White American man in 1971 - so a trusted non-wokeism source - called The Blacks In Canada. Check the index for "wokeism".
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RT @chiboyBigGod: @EndWokeness Not @EndWokeness posting a blurred pic of miss France with her face barely showing and comparing it with the…
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What in the world. This is why we need to #StayWoke in 2025 and not let the forces take this country back 100 years. Absolute foolishness Renowned novelist says London board's teaching ban of his book is like 'burying our heads in the sand'
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Honestly, the federal NDP ... I just can't anymore. They should hold a new leadership race, too. Wishy washy as hell and non-committal and evasive and contradictory and vague and just not viable a choice
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I hope folks realize now that performative feminism is basically the same as being a card-carrying sexist. It's more dangerous. We ignored the blackface in 2019. Even though folks said it's about character, nothing is more reflective of present character than past character
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Over 30 years ago, a theatre production rocked TO, made intl news, brought up issues of race, racism, community, and the need to build Black performance spaces in #Toronto. Still work to be done, but this article charts a period many do not remember, but need to #ShowBoat1993
Did you know Toronto's Black community protested the 1993 production of Show Boat? @DrCherylT revisits the roots of this resistance in TRIC 45.2’s special issue on Black performance in Canada:
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How Microsoft not telling you that Windows 11 update will take hours?
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Global warming isn't just about heat events in the summer it also makes snow/ice events worse, like what in the world is happening in cottage country right now??? And our govt worried about bike lanes
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@Laws0fLove I love that this is a public forum. I'll leave this comment here without commenting. It speaks for itself.
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If you're not familiar with the "Canada First" --"Its real heirs ... sought an instrument to protect and advance "superior" Anglo-Saxon values and institutions and a vehicle for the definition and assertion of Canadian nationhood." Basically, it's racist.
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