Patty Thille
Feminist, sociologist, accidental urbanist. Associate Professor @UManitoba 🇨🇦 Critical physiotherapy network exec member (https://criticalphysio.substack.com/).
Collective care and justice are my focus.
- Striking to read this and flip through a number of countries in your head to which it might apply:
- Reposted by Patty ThilleHi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
- Reposted by Patty ThilleThat’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
- #Alberta folks who are Canadians and have no desire to play the separation game: make sure to get your name on this!
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- Reposted by Patty ThilleDon't use milk for tear gas! Only wear safety goggles if they're shatter proof! Avoid wearing contacts because they make tear gas worse! Cover up, so you don't need sunscreen because sunscreen also clings to tear gas! Memorize the # of a lawyer or loyal friend who can bail you out!
- Sending solidarity for #NoKings from Canada!
- Come work with me! We are hiring two tenure-track #Indigenous Scholars in the Depts of Physical Therapy & Respiratory Therapy at the University of Manitoba. You needn't have a therapy background; lots of possibilities in terms of how to contribute: viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...
- The new Indigenous Scholars will be connected to a growing community in other departments and health sciences programs. They can supervise graduate students in more than one program through cross-listing.
- Please help amplify this to help us reach as many Indigenous #academic folks as possible!
- Reposted by Patty ThilleIncredible, heartbreaking interviews by @reportrix.bsky.social. Quote: "“You show your love really weird," the girl says of [Premier] Smith." 💔 www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/sports/well-... The kids, they know what's going down. They're fighting for their actual lives. No bluster. No exaggeration.
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- "Maybe, for all of her rhetorical crusading, she might actually prefer to see these new pipelines stay on the drawing board. Being able to blame Ottawa for the lack of progress is a useful political cudgel, one she deploys at almost every available opportunity" #abpoli
- "It distracts her voters from focusing on her own government’s failures, which range from failing healthcare and education systems and numerous corruption scandals to one of the highest unemployment rates in the country."
- Reposted by Patty Thille"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
- Our world lost one of the great ones today. I'm so thankful for all Jane Goodall brought into our lives. RIP
- Excellent way of visualizing and explaining the choices facing each of us collectively: Will #reconcilation move beyond the symbolic or performative to transformative, impactful change? It's up to we non-Indigenous folks here in #Canada to keep doing the hard work and staying on the path.
- September 30th is National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. As we approach this day, how can we avoid symbolic performances of reconciliation and equip ourselves to work toward transformative change? Check out these resources and more on our website: yellowheadinstitute.org. Linked in bio.
- Reposted by Patty ThilleI wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
- "This redesign isn’t a final product, but a new frame to give city council many options to improve service across the city, should they choose to turn up the dial." Systems reflect Winnipeg city Council choices & priorities. Level of service problems (incl frequency issues) are easily fixed.
- Thanks to @mmarginet.bsky.social for clarifying some of the misunderstandings of our new transit system and making it clear that "It doesn’t matter what a city says it wants to be, a city’s vision is shown in what it chooses to budget for." t.ly/ixbKX
- #Winnipeg city council needs to stop treating transit as if it is charity. Transit is one of the major responsibilities of any city.
- For example, that our transit master plan is set to roll out over 25 years rather than 5, 8, or 10 years is a choice. It's a good plan, but Winnipeg is already decades behind in building the transit system a city our size needs, and taking 25 years to catch up to *what we need now* is a problem.
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- Reposted by Patty ThilleMy ❤️ breaks for this family. Waiting for the bus the other evening on Osborne, I was trying to read at the stop and it was disconcerting how fast vehicles were flying by just a few feet away. You really feel vulnerable having to stand in the crash zone. #wpgpoli #winnipeg #mbpoli
- I'm so happy both of these people are running for federal NDP leader. I know Avi's father's impact (and about some of Avi's own) and have really enjoyed Heather MacPherson's voice in Parliament. I love the idea of a meaningful race for leadership #ndp
- Reposted by Patty ThilleFolks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.
- #Winnipeg feel seen by this
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- Reposted by Patty ThilleClarity. Coates spoke at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last month. It’s too bad it wasn’t taped. He spoke w/such clarity. He said people say things are complicated when they’re trying to rationalize their own/the behavior of others. He said, it’s not complex at all, it’s actually simple
- Reposted by Patty ThilleTa-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
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- Reposted by Patty ThilleI really tried to be a champion of the new system, I was having so many conversations with people about why this is a good thing. You can't do more with the same budget. But the only thing Winnipeg spends money on are cops and roads.
- Read more about this delightful project here: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
- I am absolutely thrilled to share that next week, the book Inviting Movements in Physiotherapy: An anthology of critical scholarship will be available to all. I have had the great honor of being the lead editor in this collection, which is 2 years in the making: open.substack.com/pub/critical...
- For those unfamiliar with #CriticalPhysiotherapy, it's an emerging subfield in our field that seeks to unsettle and re-imagine what physiotherapy could be, with the help of the arts, humanities, and some social sciences.
- We are in very dangerous territory here, Canada. If the last six months have taught us nothing, it's that there is big danger in deeper attachment to the US #cdnpoli
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- And some of those workers died from their workplace spread of COVID-19. Labor protections matter & are worth fighting for #LabourDay
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- Reposted by Patty ThilleHappy Labor Day! Time to put some #sociology to work (a thread): ⭐ "Black Women and the Anti-Work Movement," by @sharlaberry.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... ⭐ "To the Moon: Hype and Start-Up Work," by Patrick Sheehan journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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- Reposted by Patty ThilleTressie McMillan Cottom brilliantly connects the #GenAI Pivot in #HigherEd to Daniel Greene's #AccessDoctrine. Why are universities all in on AI? Money and Legitimacy. AI fills a perceived skills gap while currying economic and political favor without addressing underlying systemic inequalities.
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- Reposted by Patty ThilleIf you'd like to offer comments on the misleading & error-ridden US federal report, "Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate," the link to do so is below. Comments are due by Sept 2. Pls see next post for links to resources that debunk the claims in this report.
- This is an absolutely wild read & an important #redflag waving about #AI #ChatGPT Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
- Reposted by Patty Thille"Neither[Congress or SCOTUS] will save us. Other readers might fall back on shoulder-shrugging, disbelief, denialism or even fear. Many will assume that, however horrific things get, they won’t affect “me.” A perusal of the Project 2025 tracker might change some of those minds. It certainly should."
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- This is repugnant, from #ObbyKhan and the #Manitoba #ProgressiveConservatives Their ideology prefers that people who use drugs die, unless they are immediately ready (and able to immediately access supports, if needed) to cease all use. Cruel stuff.
