“We need to listen to the stories of women and non-binary and marginalized people when we think about what we want our cities to look and feel like. We need to devote resources toward finding effective solutions. In response to the pervasiveness of up-skirt photos, Japan required phone makers to keep the shutter sound on when users take photos. Buses and trains in Germany, Mexico, Brazil, India, Japan and Egypt have women-only sections.”

Venue: The Toronto Star.

In February of 2016, I wrote about 29 incidents of sexual violation from my own life. I shared them at rabble.ca, one for each day of the month. The #MeToo movement wouldn’t hit for another two years; Women Who Tell helped to give a framework to the large-scale discussions of sexual assault we see in Canada today.

Venue: rabble.ca

“I had so little of value in my bag, it was tucked into the back of the stroller, and I didn't think someone would attack me just for my stuff with the babies there. I thought he was going to rape me. I suddenly understood that it would be very easy for him to do that.”

Venue: rabble.ca

“Silk stored folded over years will crack along its creases. Some of the stories in this project had been packed so neatly, so tightly, that to open them was to expose their fault lines as they became tatters in my hands. These were the stories that only I remembered and, because I had never told them, had never seen the light of day.”

Venue: rabble.ca

“Two years later, our world has changed. New political leaders, new court cases, new understandings of sexual assault. We have had many hashtags, but #MeToo broke the floodgates. In gymnastics, in politics, in the service industry, in film, in theatre, in tattoo artistry, in media, in agriculture, in tech, in Canlit. Women everywhere are lighting a match.” Image by Kristie de Garis.

Venue: rabble.ca

Canada's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

"The idea that Indigenous women are not 'rooted' and exist outside of dominant social mores has long been present in the Canadian colonial context.'

Venue: Feministisk Perspektiv (published in Swedish)

“‘Peel' addresses Tang’s experience of an abusive relationship. And it begins and ends with water, a metaphor for cleansing but also a brilliant expansion of Tang’s range of motion.”

Venue: Theatrius