Fourteen on December 6
14, As More Than Just a Number by Anna Humphrey For Geneviève Bergeron, 21 Because you bled one week of every month. Because you wanted to…
Shifting currents
I said goodbye to my mother on December 19. Every minute with her after that was “hello again.” Hello again and thank you for this gift…
Things you can’t tell just by looking at her
I saw a movie once called Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her: five short stories about women’s interior struggles with loneliness, grief, dissatisfaction.…
Women marching across my memory
I’ve mentioned before that my dad had seven sisters. On International Women’s Day, they march across my memory: Maddie, Kay, Martha, Helen, Millie, Lou, and Madge.…
Disappointment, power, and (r)evolution
Our neighbours mentioned Miss Representation, so we watched it the other night. Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s 2011 documentary thoroughly depressed me. It wasn’t just the sinking, sick…
Remember the names that matter
I’ve heard a lot of bullshit in my life, but nothing quite tops the statement by the late Pierre Bourgault that the Montreal Massacre was…
Why I’m not in favour of a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
The Liberal Party of Canada is circulating a petition: Stand with Justin: Call for an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. I haven’t signed…