On this day in 1989, a young man murdered 14 women at a college in Montreal; the sole reason being that they were women. He so strongly believed in male superiority that he blamed those women - all women - for taking what he believed to be his "rightful place".
Today vigils are being held across Canada and around the world in remembrance and in action to speak out against all violence that women experience in our communities. This violence has reached epidemic proportions, where 2/3 women will experience sexual assault in their lifetime, and 99% will know harassment or violence of some kind at the hands of men.
Women of colour, indigenous women, migrant women, women with disabilities, queer women, and, important to TERB, sex workers face a particular kind if socially-sanctioned violence.
I hope that everyone takes a moment to remeber the women we have lost, consider their own misogyny, question the pervasive misogyny in our society (the wage gap, sexual harrassment, sexist portrayals of women), and most importantly speaks out against these injustices in any way possible.
For a video on the issue, see CBC archives: http://archives.cbc.ca/society/crime_justice/topics/398/
Today vigils are being held across Canada and around the world in remembrance and in action to speak out against all violence that women experience in our communities. This violence has reached epidemic proportions, where 2/3 women will experience sexual assault in their lifetime, and 99% will know harassment or violence of some kind at the hands of men.
Women of colour, indigenous women, migrant women, women with disabilities, queer women, and, important to TERB, sex workers face a particular kind if socially-sanctioned violence.
I hope that everyone takes a moment to remeber the women we have lost, consider their own misogyny, question the pervasive misogyny in our society (the wage gap, sexual harrassment, sexist portrayals of women), and most importantly speaks out against these injustices in any way possible.
For a video on the issue, see CBC archives: http://archives.cbc.ca/society/crime_justice/topics/398/