Monday, December 06, 2021

Polytechnique at 32

In the end, it's just light
London, ON
November 2021
This photo originally shared on Instagram


32 years ago tonight, a man walked into an engineering school in Montreal, separated the women from the men, and shot 14 women dead.

The massacre should have been a watershed moment, a point where society finally got the message about violence against women, and committed to doing something about it.

It’s a harsh phrase to write: should have been. Because here we are, 32 years later, and we haven’t quite figured out how to build a world where women don’t live in fear.

We give speeches, hold rallies, fundraise, build monuments, and light buildings - like London’s City Hall - in purple. But my daughter and wife are still afraid to walk the dog alone at night. And women still die at the hands of men. Because they’re women.

We can do so much better. I wonder why we don’t.

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Polytechnique at 31, December 2020

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