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Anthropologist, feminist, fietsster, research whisperer; settler in Amiskwaciwâskahikan aka Yeg🇨🇦 My research focussed on cultural responses to public health messages (MCH, HIV, COVID) Mostly skeet on bikes, climate∆, #FeministSky, just transition, urbanism

Municipal politicians wearing red and serving pancakes to the public at the traditional pancake breakfast, in Edmonton, Alberta.
Photograph of two academics: Dr PB Berge holds the book "From Red Dresses to Memory Stones" and points to the author, Dr Nicolette Little, who is sitting beside them. Both are smiling at the camera. In the background is a bookstore crowded with other people.
Reel from the Edmonton fight back rally, May 29th 2026.
Photograph, outdoors, daytime. Shot of a crowd in a Public Square. Puppet heads - signs complain about the UCP and Danielle Smith.
A poster advertising women's freedom to cycle day with a listing of all the events beginning from 10:00 a.m. 1:30 p.m.
Poster for a substack: reiterates the title of the article, and screenshots part of a poster listing percentages and safety features associated with bicycle lanes.
Photograph of people standing outdoors in a park with bicycles. We are all waving at our friend.
Photograph, daytime definitely brilliant blue clear sky is the backdrop for photo of a woman in a light jacket, holding knitting at an outdoor café table.
Post poster identifying sympathy for people who are uncomfortable celebrating Mother's Day
Photo, daytime, urban park. Statue in background has a bike leaning and in the foreground a man sits on a bench enjoying sunshine.
I wanted to photograph of a woman smiling with a bike in the background.
Graphic image outlining five facts about the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Cover of the Lancet February 2026. Text reads "the destruction that Kennedy has wrought in one year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for us health and science while he remains at the helm"
Screenshot of text which reads: "In 2024 Premier Smith urged the federal government Trudeau to increase Alberta's immigration allocations to 20,000 + annually, citing labour shortages and economic growth. Tonight she suggests immigration is the problem. So which is it?" Included is a screenshot of the letter Danielle Smith wrote to the prime minister in 2024 (too small to actually read).
Screenshot of a news photograph of Andrew mountbatten Windsor looking grumpy with caption that reads "x prince Andrew arrested on morning of his 66th birthday, as police search his homes in Sandringham and Windsor." Added commentary reads "Hahahahaha! I am so so HAPPY 😄😄😄 They've got him for misconduct in public office. If that's what they call being a pedophile and raping children, I'm just happy he's being arrested."
Illustration based on a papercut, shows a horse, on wavy surface, with characters for 2026. Red on ecru colours.
Screenshot of the title page for the article in The Walrus. Text reads: Quebec's Bill 1 will be secession by other means". Subtitle: "The province wants to replace Canada's Constitution with its own" By Stephen Thompson.
Screenshot from an Instagram reel by Matthew Rimski, where he is explaining the concept of strategic transparency. Strategic transparency is a strategy for deflecting critique and manufacturing trust and complicity with a speaker's overall goal.
Screenshot of the podcast descriptor, showing The Urbanist icon, and narrative description: "We're joined by former City of Toronto chief planner Gregg Lintern to discuss priorities for Canadian cities. Plus: we visit Cascadia to see what has come from the mega-region's decade long formal partnership."
Screenshot from a Facebook post from Sweden. Using multi-coloured bullet points, the post lists European nations of NATO and what they're sending in support of Greenland and Denmark. France has deployed mountain troops and is planning additional Land Air and sea assets. Germany has sent reconnaissance teams to train an Arctic conditions. Norway is contributing officers to joint planning and readiness. Finland and Netherlands are sending officers who are assisting in coordination and logistics. United Kingdom is participating in the multi-national effort.
Screenshot of a poster. Royal blue background with white font and accents of red and yellow. Illustration shows Darren markland, a glass of beer and text describes the new "Dagley dry hopped IPA" beer which has been created in honour of Darren Markland.
Cover from The Tragically Hip's "Fully Completely" album.
Cover of The Tragically Hip's "Road Apples" album (1991).
Photograph of the book cover the city after the automobile by Moshe Safdie with Wendy Kohn.
Screenshot of an Instagram page. Block background white font, with a photograph of a cyclist on a fat bike who has just fallen on an very icy bike lane surface. Text us people to report when to bike lane conditions to local radio and then the city administration's 311 app.
Graphic image. Black background large circle in gold with green Vine and red flowers wrapped around the gold circle. Inside the circle is a list of names: Genevieve Bergeron, Helen Colgan, Natalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Havernick, Maryse Lagniére, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Tremblay, Sonia Pelletier, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz.
Photograph, daytime, outdoors. A bicycle stands on snow covered ground. Strapped to the back of the bicycle is a Christmas tree. Strapped to the front of the bicycle are handlebar mitts, also called pogies.
Photograph, daytime, outdoors, winter: photograph of the Edmonton Queen riverboat, in the North Saskatchewan River, with lacey edged frizzle pan ice forming.
Screenshot of the header for the Instagram account named yegwinterbike, AKA "nobody bikes in winter".
Photograph, daytime, outdoors, winter. Snowy scene of a bridge entrance, with a bicycle parked on the right hand side in about 7 cm of snow, and a manual mechanical snow brushing machine stopped, unattended, on the left hand side of the frame. Evidence of bicycle tracks and footprints in the unplowed snow of the foreground.
Digital red poppy from the Canadian Legion. Dedicated in memory of Donald Young Leslie, 11 April 1894 - 19 May 1917. https://mypoppy.ca/
Photograph, daytime, outdoors, autumn. Photograph is of a westbound bike lane on 103 Avenue in Edmonton. The lane ends about 4 m from a multi-user path which is a major part of the bicycle route infrastructure in the downtown core. A car is parked between the last painted bike symbol and the access to the multi-user path.
Screenshot of a painting by Glen Rabena. Stylized Anishinaabe style art shows two blue jays with spirit lines in red connecting them to sky and ground.
Photograph, outdoors, daytime, summer. A woman rides a bicycle on a brick path she is dressed in the manner of 1890s with a long skirt puffy sleeved jacket and boater hat.
Photograph, outside, daytime, autumn. A man and a woman wearing Halloween costumes pose for the camera. In the background is a public park with bicycles parked. The man is wearing the costume of the character called David pumpkins. The woman is wearing a classic witches hat and cape.
Photograph (screenshot) of Trey Yesavage, American baseball pitcher. On Oct 29, in the 5th game of the World Series, he broke the rookie pitching record: 7 innings, 12 strikeouts, only 1 run.
Photograph of Prince Harry & Megan Markle, at the World series game, wearing LA Dodgers hats. Commentary on the photograph reads: uncommon wealth over, Commonwealth, it appears?!🔥 Explainatiin: The photograph and comment is shaming Prince Harry who, as a member of the Commonwealth and family which is the Canadian head of state, therefore should be supporting the team from the Commonwealth, the Canadian Blue Jays. Americans are not members of the Commonwealth.
Screenshot of a Facebook post. From Daveberta.ca. Text reads: "I briefly logged into Edmonton mayoral candidate Tim Cartmell's Zoom town hall tonight because I was curious what his final pitch would be with 4 days left in the campaign. I logged out shortly after he spent what felt like a lot of time talking about how bad his Council colleagues have been to him for the past 4 years before he then started talking about how he's really good at working as part of a team. I have avoided saying much about them mayoral candidates in this year's election but even this was too much for me." Screenshot includes a photograph of Tim Cartmell.
Screenshot of the Cycliq website, with a yellow circle marked around an icon of the US flag and the words "United States". It is in the bottom left corner, white font against a black background. Above that, in black font against a grey background are the words "Designed in Australia", overlaid with a lime green circle.
Screenshot of a complaint to the city of Edmonton vis the 311 app. It includes a photograph of four Lime bikes, parked at metal bike lockup stations. There are no chains between the bikes and the stations. The text of the complaint reads: "Lime bikes BLOCKING public bike lock ups. The rented bikes do not need to be locked to something, but their staff keep parking their bikes where we need to lock up our bikes to prevent theft. (I know it's Lime's s staff because I've seen them, and users never park so neatly).
Photograph, daytime, outside. A bright blue sky on an autumn day, with elm trees in the background. The leaves are golden against the blue sky. In the foreground is a bicycle on a kickstand in the middle of a residential street. The bicycle is a white framed step through with a woven basket and flowers on the basket. There is nothing and no one else on the street.
Photograph, outdoors. Photograph of a androgynous character in a white leather coat with black belt and black gloves, white scarf, black sunglasses white hair and red drizzle coming from the lips. Figure standing with a black bicycle. Background is blurred but shows a male figure with a yellow coat and vague buildings. Photo is from Edmonton's Halloween critical mass ride, 2024.
Poster. Orange background poster advertising Halloween Day of the dead critical mass. Images show a skull with a black suit riding a bicycle and a figure in a witch's hot and orange dress riding a bicycle.
Photograph daytime outdoors: A man wearing a cap and lime green PFD paddles a canoe in the North Saskatchewan River. In the foreground is a bicycle balanced across the canoe. In the background is a bridge crossing the river. This guy is slightly cloudy with patches of blue. Reflected in the water are hints of urban buildings.
Screenshot of a post on x from @IngleWitch. Text reads: "Don't engage posts with scams or malicious links weekly disguised as news or obituaries. A few days of dealing with these folks shows it's purposeful. Appealing to the posters better nature, or responding that it's fake is the engagement they're seeking. Report. Block. Move on" Dated September 24th 2025.
Poster from the 1976 Peace Race. An illustration (sketch) of a stylized peloton of cyclists wearing multicolored jerseys against a backdrop of beige and green. Lettering reads Praha - Warszawa - Berlín. 29 Mezinårodni Zåvod Mîru. 8-12 Kvetna, 1976.
Photograph, interior. A selfie of two smiling women, one older, silver-haired, wearing glasses, the other younger, brunette, wearing a shirt with the slogan "PEACE FOR ALL". The younger woman is Edmonton City councilor Erin Rutherford.
Photograph, outdoors, summer, daytime. A woman in a yellow bicycle helmet stands in front of a monument of a police officer and a child. A bicycle leans on the monument podium.
Screenshot of a Facebook post so stop three photographs: 1) Dr. Ahmed Seyam, a surgeon with Médecins Sans Frontiers / MSF, wearing surgical fatigues and looking very tired. 2) Dr Seyam, in a car with his young daughter. Both are smiling and happy and well-fed looking. 3) a badly wounded child with a large head bandage and bruised eyes, wearing what looks like a flack jacket.
“My name is Weam. It’s a beautiful name for me, because my mother gave it to me. She died of cancer when I was eight years old-- so I love my name, because my mom loved it. It’s also perfect for me because it means ‘peace, love, and harmony.’ And everyone who meets me says that I’m positive energy shining everywhere. I’m a team leader for twenty-three pharmacists. ‘The pharma army,’ we call it. Ask anyone: we are the happiest team in the hospital. After we start our morning meeting, I’ll put on a bit of music for everyone. If they want to dance, they can dance. If they want to sing, they can sing. We are working 24 hours, seven days a week without stopping. They are under so much stress, all the time. There are always mass casualty incidents. And everyone in Gaza is living their own nightmare: with the bombings, the displacements, the hunger. So I’m just trying to make it easier for them. When I help others, it feels like I’m doing something right, that I’m still useful in this life. In Islam, if you speak a good word to someone else, it is also a good thing for you. So if someone smiles, and says: ‘Good job, you did it, you survived another day.’ This is a big deal for us. So I try to keep a smile from ear to ear. But on the inside, no. I am not happy at all. I haven’t slept for more than three hours since the war began. We are all screwed up in this world. Even if you are still alive in this moment, maybe in five minutes you will die. The smallest spark of light can be destroyed in the blink of an eye. How can anyone be happy when they are surrounded by so much death? But there is something that my mother said to me, right before she died. It’s the only memory that I have of her. She told me: ‘Weam, please keep that smile on your face. Because everyone loves your smile.’ So that’s what I’m trying to do. I’m trying. You will find that even when I’m crying, I am smiling.”
Salt, Snow, Earth By Naomi Foyle Salt bites Snow. Snow slaps Earth. Earth pounds Salt. And so it goes, on and on and on round and round in every shade of hand — claw-teeth, hard palm, fist — Salt, Snow, Earth, Snow, Earth, Salt Bite, Slap, Pound. Slap, Pound, Bite A game to get the blood up. Heart pumping. Skin singing. No breath or time to ask Whose bodies are blanketed? Whose bodies blanked out? What are the odds white wins?