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 me that something I’d dreamed of, something I’d wo…
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 like that, and I get a sense for it before reading,…
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 because racism.
Because capitalism. Because colon…
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, awareness, activism and just listening, that whi…
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 article itself was made of Win and Awesome. I never t…
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: Cisgender, which means I identify with the gender…
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 good when we have more than 2 parties running for el…
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 comfort myself I repeat an old teaching: The world o…
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 been a pleasure and an honour to hear their stories…
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 for a visit and Donald Trump is president elect of t…
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