I saw a great TedTalk this morning and it set me off. The following is a stream of consciousness rant:
Of the few things I regret in my life, not finishing teacher’s college is the big one. I let one miserable old man at one school tell …
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Spirals, Starhawk and September
I’ve finished my September book already; City of Refuge by Starhawk. I devoured it over the Labour Day weekend as it simultaneously clawed it’s way inside me. It became a part of me and now I don’t know what to do with myself. Sometimes books are l…
Iron
There are children in cages.
Yes, you read that right. Children. In cages.
This is not a history lesson or an Oscar winning drama. Tom Hanks is not coming to save the day. 
There are children in cages, in tents in 100 degree Texas heat be…
Men, MeToo and Movement
When male friends of mine have told me in the past that they too have experienced sexual violence, I believed them. It was easy to do as I don’t think women have a monopoly on being assaulted and traumatized. I know, from almost 20 years of education…
Times Up, Bros. Me Too
You’d have to be living under a rock to have not heard of Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, the Me Too or Times Up movements. The women of Me Too made the front page of Time Magazine as People of the Year in one of my favourite covers ever, and the art…
Pride Month is HERE
Pride week questionnaire, stolen from a friend.
Sexuality: I'm bi; I am attracted to people from both (main?) genders. This doesn't change because I'm married to a man, it just makes things more fun.
Pronouns: She/her.
Gender identity:…
Electoral Reform: Graphs and Percentages
Late last week our Prime Minister broke one of his biggest election promises; that the Liberals would not be moving forward with electoral reform. I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed. The first past the post system we currently have isn't any go…
A Woman's Place is in the Resistance
How much things can change in just a week! Since Trump's inauguration on Friday, America has been going downhill far more rapidly than I ever thought possible. How is it that one man can undo so much of what was achieved in the last 8 years?
To co…
Blood Red Thread
In the past few months I've had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with an entirely new group of women because of my transfer at work. It began with moving from the Soo to Sudbury and transferring from downtown to the north end cemented it. It has b…
Buckle Up
Hi everyone! It's JeninCanada and I wrote something I felt I just had to say out loud. It's been quite a week, hasn't it? Leonard Cohen died, I'm being transferred (by my request) to a new branch, my mom and sister in law were in town this weekend fo…
In Defense of Racists?
Last week and part of this week was vacation; my first ever all by myself drive to and from Sudbury to the Sault to visit with family and friends. It was spectacular in that it was perfectly ordinary; coffee with one friend, lunch with another, hitti…
Google Alert! Shields At Maximum
Back at the beginning of July I set up a series of Google alerts to do a bit of an experiment; if I was actually looking for it, how much bad news could I get in a month? I set the search criteria as follows on July 9th, with the results:
- Appro…
Standing with Pride
Sunday never seems to be a good news day lately; too many shitty things happening overnight at clubs. I went to work today and kept an eye on the news feeds about the Orlando, Florida gay nightclub massacre and was overwhelmed with how supportive s…
We're all People Under the Same Sky
Generally if I'm going to be political it's for body or feminist reasons, things that hit close to home for me. Since this summer, however, when I started reading about how many refugees are in the world, especially from Syria, home has become a bit …
Remembrance Day
Today is Remembrance Day. It's cold and foggy outside. My media streams are full of images in black and white and red; soldiers in tanks, crosses and poppies, medals, uniforms and flags. Services are in an hour, culminating in a minute of silence for…
Another Murder-Suicide
I was unsurprised earlier this week to read a headline at the Huffington Post Canada site that a man in Saskatchewan had murdered his girlfriend LaTasha Gosling and three of four of their kids. Completely and utterly unsurprised. Violence against wom…
In Defense of Feminism
Have I ever mentioned I don't like change? I hate it, and when I say hate I'm not being hyperbolic. I hate it. It is hard for me to change my mind even in the face of good data, but I *will* do so eventually. For example, the other night I was compla…
Raise the Wage
Let's get a few things out of the way; I'm 29, mom of two, university educated, (I have a BA and an additional certificate) and am working for barely above minimum wage roughly 40 hours a week at two part-time jobs. I've worked part time most of my l…
I Overpay My Babysitter
While my mom is out of town in Mexico avoiding all the snow, slush and now ice, I needed to find another sitter for Kat during the day and Gabe after school. With my sister-in-law out of comission due to pregnancy I gave a distant cousin a ring (the…
Round Like Mom
It's been six years now since I got into fat acceptance and health at every size. Hard to believe but it's the truth. When I got into this my son was only a year and a half; now he's a giant seven year old and, while sometimes he still thinks out lo…
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