From the March 19 press conference, PhD student and SOS ED Kaitlin Kharas talks about the importance of grad student research and how poor pay is forcing them into poverty and driving a brain drain of some of Canada’s most talented scientists and researchers #SupportOurScience

#SupportOurScience stands with graduate students, postdocs, and parliamentarians across Canada as we await #Budget2024 . We look forward to new multiyear investments in scholarships, fellowships and grants for science and research!

'The (WNHHN) launched a feminist housing agenda for 🇨🇦 and maybe you’re wondering why such a thing ... exists. I’ll tell you why: because, historically, policy decisions that affect—and contribute to—the housing crisis have been taken primarily by men.' loom.ly/4clMn74

This year’s theme for #InternationalWomensDay is #InvestinWomen : Accelerate Progress, which is timely considering divestment in necessary housing and policy solutions has led to today’s crisis: womenshomelessness.ca/investinwomen/

A THREAD 🧵

Starting now

*achoum* I guess these books haven't been checked out in a while.

A little sad how empty the stacks are at the uni library. Though it's been a minute since I came across a reference I couldn't access online.

Book order came in!
Prison Land by Brett Story
Coming back to jail by Elizabeth Comack (@fernpub)
The Tenant Class by Ricardo Tranjan

(My partner thinks I need a hug. My work does get pretty heavy.)

A brief (and simplified) autopsy of our housing crisis …🧵

“If we properly invest in housing as a #community , pple are going to be able to sustain living. Instead, we keep investing in #policing ..which keeps us in this state of violence due to #poverty & lack of access to resources.” Member, #OttawaBlackDiasporaCoalition . Read more ⬆️

Really excited to share this community work on reimagining safety and advancing visions for decarceral cities by Carceral Studies Research Collective and the many contributing community groups here in Ottawa.

“When did we as a city and society come to accept the weaponizing of bylaw enforcement as more important than literal survival?” City is more concerned with hiding homelessness than solving it | The Province #housingisaright #stoppunishinghomelessness theprovince.com/opinion/op-ed/…