She/her. Settler on Wolastoqiyik territory // Fredericton, NB. Chronic illness cutie. Queer. Theatrical singer. Non-profit lawyer by day. Opinions my own.
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Indigenous title claims to this land have never been about tearing our communities apart - be discerning with anyone who wishes to frame the conversation around this land claim that way. They are either uninformed and need reassurance, or are misleading to play on your fear.
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I got a few questions about masks you can sing in, for choirs and churches. I think the 3M 9105 and 9105S(small) are a great option due to the duckbill, and super breathablity.
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Hello, friends. By now, many of you would have heard about GNB pulling our funding 9 days prior to our teacher's conference on May 5th. As a result, a few of the teachers who are part of Pride in Education, are $7000.00 out of pocket. We're starting our campaign today to try to recover this deficit. Please consider donating, if you can. Please share.
Here's our link:
gofund.me/e24ea201
Fundraiser by Christina Barrington : Pride In Education - Expense Recovery gofund.me/752ac0de
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I wear a mask a lot because I don’t want to get sick and it breaks my brain to be constantly treated like that’s somehow pathological 😐
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One of the biggest reasons boundaries fail is because people focus on controlling the person’s behavior rather than focusing on what they will do if the behavior continues.
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📢Grande nouvelle! Aujourd'hui, nous avons lancé notre programme d'aiguillage aux avocats en matière de harcèlement sexuel en milieu de travail du Lieux Plus Sûrs NB ! En savoir plus ici:
saferplacesnb.ca/fr/service-…
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📢Big News! Today we launched our Safer Place NB Workplace Sexual Harassment Lawyer Referral Program! Learn more here:
saferplacesnb.ca/en/lawyer-r…
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Fredericton Homeless Shelters are wondering where the $8 million over three years the government announced in October is going. That’s after a new warming centre went unused as temperatures plummeted to record lows in the province’s capital.
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/question…
9months with no ability to consent to a) continuing the pregnancy or b) many of the ancillary medical procedures that *will* become necessary in many cases.
I try not to jump into pile-ons but this is so many shades of yikes.
The "White=purity" extremely racist overtones; the baffling "women & purity" association from a supposed feminist org; the replies uncritically & falsely saying white's "always" meant purity bc wedding dresses
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Like the wedding dress one is such a non-defense bc not only is the white=purity for wedding dresses ALSO open to critique, the white dress is a relatively new phenomenon in the west popularized in 1840 by queen Victoria. Before that red was the most popular wedding dress color.
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Big story here from colleague @kdonk:
A change in the way N.B. counts people in jail makes the correctional system seem more crowded... and overcrowding was a key reason given for the need for a new provincial jail.
cbc.ca/news/canada/new-bruns…
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Pro tip when writing image descriptions for folks: You're not writing a professional newspaper caption of a stock photo.
Just let blind and low vision users know what they might wanna see! For example:
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Absolute banger of an advice column: autostraddle.com/you-fat-sha…
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In positive health news, New Brunswickers can now view their blood work results online at #MyHealthNB . We should be screaming this news from the treetops #gamechanger myhealth.gnb.ca/s/?language=…
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A thread 🧵 about midwifery care in NB! I just had my last appointment yesterday.
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Sometimes I scroll by awesome theater reels and just want to cry. It’s not fair that the price of performing is putting yourself and VOICE at risk. Why can’t we have the audience mask & masked rehearsals leading up to a tested performance? Why? Why can’t we just do what’s right?