https://canadianlabour.ca/its-time-to-commit-to-ending-gender-based-violence-and-say-never-again/
Social Secrets portrays educated, articulate and driven women living in an age of Me Too and Times Up movements. As individuals, they long ago rejected the concept of marriage and family, forgoing caring for a man incapable of managing his own life.
Most have a deep-rooted dislike of men; protagonist Jessica, her dislike stems from her mother sharing the atrocity of the 1989 massacre of fourteen women at Montreal’s École Polytechnique and the fact that men left the women to die. Some women in law enforcement who choose to date, do so with skepticism, having been jaded by the many evil men they have incarcerated.
Women who work twice as hard as men to be rewarded half as little will see themselves championed in Social Secrets. Women who are struggling through domestic abuse or sexual assault survival will gain perspective, courage, and motivation through the actions of the female characters.
Katie Neustaeter, Kamloops City Councillor
Today we wear white ribbons in recognition of National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
This day came to be after the murder of 14 women, with 13 more injured, in the women-targeted shooting at École Polytechnique de Montréal, 33 years ago.
Violence against women is grossly disproportionate to our counterparts, and this is particularly true for marginalized and racialized women.
Every 6 days a woman in Canada is killed by her intimate partner, and Indigenous women are 16xs more likely to be murdered or go missing than non-Indigenous women.
Gender-based violence is systemic to our society, but we can change this by rebuilding systems through a lens of equality, bringing light to dark places through days of recognition, funding local programs and agencies that provide safety and advocacy for women, and inviting women-serving groups to contribute their expertise to the spaces we create and the policies we write.
This work can be furthered in our homes, workplaces, conversations, and at the City Council table.
Thank you to those who work to end gender-based violence in our community.
I’m with you.
Our thanks to The Star for the above image.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/2022/12/06/events-planned-to-honour-victims-of-cole-polytechnique-shooting-on-33rd-anniversary.html?utm_campaign=David%20Akin%27s%20%F0%9F%87%A8%F0%9F%87%A6%20Roundup&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter