"When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being & of reality, you increase your capacity to love & care about other people & your capacity to not be afraid," Practicing Peace in Times of War, #PemaChödrön. #InternationalDayOfPeace #UnitedNations

An understanding seemed to bloom between them. It felt like a coin dropping into one of the automated dioramas... a mechanized scene was now about to play: miniature women on circular paths would begin to move toward and around each other, as if in a dance. Chapter 22 #LastNight #MalindaLo #BookSky

To swoon is not only to pass from consciousness physically; it may also represent a willingness, even an eagerness, to experience unknown parts of life - obscure regions that might lead toward a re-visioning. SECTION THREE, The Bright Eyes of Eleanora #Upstream #MaryOliver #PulitzerPrize #BookSky

Eva's laughter went quiet. She let herself be held a moment. She stroked Isabel's arms. She said, quiet, "Who are you?" She said, "Have you always been like this? Have you just been waiting to happen?" Chapter 10 #TheSafekeep #YaelVanDerWouden #WomensPrize #BookSky

In the wake of the Taliban’s return to power, telling the truth has become one of the country’s most dangerous professions, with Afghan journalists living under constant threat of arrest and torture. Writer Soraya Amiri explores: thewalrus.ca/reporting-afghan...

“My goal is not just about me,” Nilab said. “It’s about all Afghanistan, especially women and girls. This project helps and supports me, and teaches us how we can help each other and how to represent Afghanistan.” Source @aljazeera.com. #WomensFootball #FIFA #Afghanistan

"Like many people excluded and devalued in society, disabled people have been speaking truths that most people do not want to hear. ... Life is not binary ... We can and should embrace vulnerability and interdependence and not see them as weaknesses." @sfdirewolf.bsky.social #DisabilityPrideMonth

"Referencing...the Disability Justice Collective, @keely-catwells.bsky.social described disability justice as 'a social justice movement which focuses on examining disability and ableism as they relate to other forms of oppression and identities such as race, class and gender'” #DisabilityPrideMonth

"We become acclimatized to this idea that empathy in leadership must denote weakness," former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern tells me, as her new memoir releases. "I really want to challenge these traditional notions of what makes for good leadership."

July is #DisabilityPrideMonth.

Toronto Pride 2025 in photos: Messages of joy, resistance and hope. This weekend, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Toronto with something to say. Here are some of the messages we saw.

"There was legal pluralism back before contact & even post-contact. ... that requires bold & courageous conversations & understandings of each other’s cultures, each other’s values, each other’s goals, at the same time as 'What is the outcome that we’re trying to achieve?'" Kory Wilson & @thetyee.ca

"I unfolded my blanket. It turned into a box. I opened the lid of the box. The box turned into a tent" from my fiction story 'Pink' @cristinamurano.bsky.social. Published in Tulsa Review, an online literary journal featuring bold, unique voices & artists, by Tulsa Community College in Oklahoma.

"These records that I made all on my own are an acquired taste. ... There are sacrifices to being outspoken and political. I’ve been pushed down and reduced because of my feminism, etc. But anything worthwhile involves sacrifice," @anidifranco.bsky.social.

"That Americans seem to be rediscovering the art, science and potency of noncooperation – combined with a robust protest capacity and legal action – shows that resistance ... is savvy, diversifying and probably just getting started," @chenoweth.bsky.social, @djpressman.bsky.social, and Soha Hammam.

"Elections are choices and elections have consequences. Every election is a chance to decide what a country will do and how it will be — with real, lasting and potentially significant effects," @aaronwherry.bsky.social. Vital reminder regarding the current stakes of Canada's 45th general election.

For Gwangju News, I wrote about governance, feminism, and representation in the Republic of Korea, and interviewed the Women's Party co-president about current issues and future goals. | Korea’s Women’s Party: Towards a Model for Female Empowerment and Leadership | www.womensparty.kr