fburrill.bsky.social
Settler historian (@UNB) of working-class formation and disintegration, focusing on deindustrialization, settler colonialism, and white supremacy in Quebec and the Maritimes. Organizer involved in tenant and migrant justice struggles. Huge baseball fan.
👤 Joined on 18 February 2025
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@fburrill.bsky.socialThe real outcome of the Alberta referendum is "we'll stay in Canada but we FUCKING HATE IMMIGRANTS and we have a mandate to make their lives miserable, try to stop us and we'll have another hissy fit." I can't celebrate that.
Show PostFive yrs ago, I drove to Watertown on short notice because a radio host who helped raise $28K, $1 at a time, to send the SD legis. to DC had "relics" to loan me. When I interviewed here, I learned he donated them to SDSU Archives. And five years later I'm a professor, using them. I love what I do.
Show PostIt is worth noting that the thing “the AHA” overwhelmingly meant to the generation of PhDs whose time on the market straddled the greatest collapse of academic hiring in memory was a large, mandatory and out-of-pocket annual expense for the privilege of a few ten-minute interviews in hotel suites
Show PostFuck Canada and also fuck separatists.
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