Lnu (Mi'kmaq) Land and Water Defender. Grassroots Aunties and Grandmothers. Informed opinions. Silence is too high a price to pay, for your approval. No lists
Antigonish Nova Scotia
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Barbara Low retweeted
Briefing documents newly obtained by The Maple show that a Canadian military official travelled to Israel for a “strategic dialogue” at the height of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and weeks after Israel killed a Canadian army veteran.
The meeting reflected the fact that “Israel remains a priority defence engagement country for Canada due to its reliability and mutual commitment to regional security in the Middle East,” according to the documents.
readthemaple.com/canadian-de…
Barbara Low retweeted
I bet there’s no other writer whose work he’s performed that he’s been so disrespectful of. The free pass this ideology gives men to be so cruel to women is astounding.
'Harry Potter' Star Paapa Essiedu Says 'I Don’t Want to Talk About' J.K. Rowling 'At All' but 'Trans People Have the Right to Be Treated With Respect and Dignity' variety.com/2026/film/news/p…
Barbara Low retweeted
Remembrance Day was founded to abolish war. We must refuse to let the day be used to glorify war or celebrate its acceleration but instead mark it by remembering ALL victims of war and taking action to end it.
See thread below for some actions you can take to oppose war.
Barbara Low retweeted
Why do people think Mark Carney cares about their well-being when 20% of the Federal budget is dedicated to the manufacture of implements of State-sponsored mass slaughter
Barbara Low retweeted
There is a specific political experience that is uniquely American.
It is the experience of watching your government do something unconscionable: surveilling its own citizens, poisoning a city's water supply, letting people die for lack of insulin, sending soldiers to die in a war built on fabricated intelligence.
And responding by voting for one of the two parties that have jointly administered every one of those outcomes.
Not because the voter is stupid.
Because the voter has been given a cognitive framework in which those two parties represent the outer limits of the possible.
In which anything outside those limits is naïve, is dangerous, is a vote for the other side, is a luxury of people who don't understand how the real world works.
The real world being: this.
What you have right now.
The poisoned water. The unaffordable insulin. The surveillance. The war.
This is presented as the floor below which things would get worse if you stopped choosing between the two parties that produced it.
And the remarkable thing, the thing that should stop you in your tracks, is that it works.
People who are suffering under the system defend the system because they have been convinced that the alternative to the system is something even worse.
They cannot tell you what that worse thing looks like.
But they are very afraid of it.
The fear was put there deliberately.
The fear is the mechanism.
Barbara Low retweeted
This piece is for men. Every time I write about how men systemically abuse women, my DMs explode with “Not All Men” complaints.
But a new study goes one step further, and demonstrates that empirically, statistically, and factually, it literally is all men. And the data is horrifying. qasimrashid.com/p/russell-br…
Barbara Low retweeted
My daughter is one of the undercounted, still being encouraged to believe medicalization and bodily harm are "appropriate treatment." So many damaged. So much malpractice. There are no words to express the horror and sadness a mother feels at the willful harm of her child. 💔
To answer your question Rosie - we got 'here' because this is a Patriarchy.
I look back at what happened to me and still struggle to comprehend it.
I defended women’s rights. I supported JK Rowling. I raised concerns about the medical treatment of children questioning their gender and the influence of commercial interests.
Then came serious allegations, investigations and BBC coverage that I felt presented a deeply unfair picture of me. I even sought advice about an injunction.
The first investigation cleared me, yet I apologised. A second investigation followed, with lawyers involved.
After resigning, I lost the company I had founded and built over seventeen years, a company bearing my own name. I also lost access to my company email, phone and family photographs. The professional and personal consequences were devastating.
I stand by my defence of women’s rights and my concern for children.
When I think about my experience alongside those of Denise Fahmy, Kate Clanchy, Rachel Rooney and other artists, I see a culture in which expressing a belief can put an entire career at risk.
Against the backdrop of allegations concerning prominent men in entertainment, I keep thinking about how the arts respond to questions of harm and responsibility.
Where was that care when women were losing work for defending our rights and raising concerns about children?
How the fuck did we get here?
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Barbara Low retweeted
No female human being has to accept anyone else's beliefs about what women are as a condition of asserting or defending her human rights.
Her human rights are inherent as a female human being. They are not conditional upon her beliefs, identity, conduct, or willingness to affirm anyone else's beliefs about themselves.
She owes no ideological allegiance, declaration of agreement, or personal validation in exchange for the rights that are already hers.
Barbara Low retweeted
Finally the kind of international recognition Carney deserves
Newsweek reports that Mark Carney ranks worse than billionaires and right wing authoritarians across the globe when it comes to fuelling the climate emergency—worse than Trump, Musk and Bezos.
Not only is the federal government now run by conservatives, they’re among the worst climate offenders in the world.
Barbara Low retweeted
It's really weird that the people usually so obsessed with hounding one beloved children's author for the tiniest imagined moral infraction are largely silent about another beloved children's author facing prosecution for sexual assault and paedophilia...
Barbara Low retweeted
American politicians hate China because China reminds them of what corrupt and bought-off losers they are and of how a competent country should be run.
Barbara Low retweeted
95.1% of men in an anonymous survey admitted to having used coercion, manipulation, and pressure to get a woman to have sex with them, even though they knew for a fact that she didn’t want to. “Not all men” my arse.
43% of men surveyed admitted to having used another woman to make their target feel more secure, and to convince her to give in. 58% admitted to continuing to touch and kiss, even after being told no. 48.7% admitted to asking over and over until she gave in. 78% admitted to saying whatever they thought their target wanted to hear.
There are 36 coercive techniques listed, all the way up through direct force and use of a weapon, and at least some men said “I’ve done that” to all of them.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Barbara Low retweeted
Lesbians defend women’s sex based protections, with #projectionbomb #sexbasedrights #NoPrideInRedefiningWoman
