I'm saddened to hear things haven't gotten better, but I am heartened to see there's actual conversations happening about it now. I'm grateful I had really positive experiences overall as an athlete and learned incredible lifeskills from it. But the culture of silence and complicity needs to change

a couple years ago i devised a special procedure that could revolutionize social media forever. i call it Make Your Own Post, or MYOP. here’s how it’s done: when you see a post, and you’re inspired to reply something only minimally related, you — say it with me now! — M! Y! O! P!

Men will tell you gender isn't a construct and then call ships "she"

Coked out producer calling Pixar : "You're never gonna believe this!"

“clown event still possible” put that in your pocket, I can already tell you that this is the key phrase of 2026

The court should strike down the Notwithstanding clause!! It was included in the Charter under conservative pressure and its only purpose is to CANCEL your Charter rights for political reasons. When provinces use it, they are violating the Charter even while they're required to uphold it.

Remember when Carney said 'We do not have a feminist foreign policy' and partisans lost their damn mind on me and my colleagues for pointing out how bad that is? The man has made it his mission to do business with anyone who is willing, regardless of whether he has to sell us out to do so.

Has no one read/seen any scifi? #preventable

I have Alpha-Gal syndrome from a tick bite on a camping trip for my 18th birthday. When people say 'OMG! You're allergic to animal protein now?! That's the worst!' I always tell them that I count my blessings because I'd rather this than Lyme disease. Ticks are gnarly and this is incredible news!

Training is open to anyone, anywhere but I wanna say to men: What we see in our sector is that men either don't care OR tend to be overly confident in their ability to intervene effectively. I get so much feedback from men re: this workshop who say they've completely re-thought their approach now.

Even the stereotypical old white men in my life are talking to me about Cuba and their profound heartbreak over what's going on there. "They're starving them to death, Julie! And for what?!" Even got one of them to Qs why our gov't has been relatively quiet when Cuba is historically our pal.

Country that plans to host the world cup in 2 months: We are replacing all airport staff with our most violent high school dropouts

There is *a lot* of discourse about Lindy West's new memoir and the fact that Lindy's husband is sending hate mail to journalists covering the book is bananas. But I think this is the definitive piece on the book and the broader story.

I don't care to weigh in on this stuff as a general rule (I'm Canadian) but I'll say this: No spoilers but this week's episode of "The Pitt" had an ICE storyline that sent my heart racing and I was just a viewer, safely at home in Ottawa. The thought of ICE at airports like this? Holy fuck

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

I would say a loud and hearty yes.

Here’s the thing: People with a deep sensory and cultural memory of oppression and survival know when the vibes are off. If you don’t believe us at our ‘hey uh this doesn’t feel great’ you’re setting us up on an express bus to…the things that are happening right now.

💯 The pandemic made it worse. But it's also that social media has created this weird snitch culture. I teach bystander intervention. I'm all for people calling stuff out! But calling out harm & violence, not people wanting to get a little messy on a Saturday night. Surveillance culture killed fun.

The Tory playbook couldn’t be more clear: close supervised consumption sites, criminalize (inevitable) public drug use, build more jails. It sickens me to see us go backwards on evidence-based public health policy. So many people are going to suffer. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I wrote about this. The TLDR is: the Left has a decades-long abuse problem and without pushing for and achieving a true intersectional movement, this type of shit is going to continue. Let's figure this shit out, for Pete's sake

This is odd: “Sign up to watch it first.” Is Rogan helping the Conservative Party of Canada fundraise?

I can't believe this still needs to be said in 2026, but if a woman says "Abuse is bad. This abusive man is bad because abuse is bad" and you accuse said woman of misandry, you are telling on yourself.

When you think you're a liberator of your people and you're also sexually abusing women and girls from among those people you're demonstrating that you have trouble recognizing them as people. (And that is way too common.)

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

With Cesar Chavez being outed as a serial abuser of women and girls, we can add to the list that men can imagine a world where there are rights for all workers, but not human rights for women.

well that went way deeper than I was expecting

NEW: Today, Premier Doug Ford acknowledged his transparency clampdown is to protect his personal phone records, before accusing journalists of fishing for health records. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1173457...

I hear from people all the time that they want an evening session because they can't participate while at work or because they want their kids to attend. Here's your chance! 7pm EST on April 16th. Give me 1 hour of your time and I'll teach you 5 practical ways to de-escalate and intervene safely!

Spring is in the air which for many of us, means a return to being on high alert for street harassment. Help create safer community spaces by getting training in effective bystander intervention! It's FREE and focused on practical skills of de-escalation. Don't miss out! zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This is what we mean by anti-intellectualism. This is what we mean by toxic masculinity. All of this nonsense is how you get fascism, folks. When society deems the brightest & most innovative amongst us to be white men who say empathy & self-reflection is for losers? We're cooked.

I teach self-defense to women and girls and I disagree with this wholeheartedly. Anyone who knows anything about the context in which sexual violence happens AND who knows anything about how finicky and hazardous pepper spray deployment is, knows this is a ridiculous and dangerous proposal.

Canada has seen 30 femicides already this year.

I'm deeply invested in conversations about community care & healing. I'm a survivor whose abuser died without being held accountable. I've been "cancelled" & worked with 1000s of survivors of violence with wildly different ideas of accountability. TLDR: We are terrible at repairing harm & it shows.

Adam Baldwin was literally *the* guy who named GamerGate and made it go viral. It was just some loser 4chan/incel YouTuber shit before then. They spammed him to get his attention because they knew he’s also a psycho loser and they wanted to make it go viral, and he did it. And it worked.

A recent Globe and Mail editorial argues that since international law has failed vis-a-vis Iran, it is justifiable to toss it out the window and go to war. Not how I see it...

Like Moira Rose, my favourite season is awards season. Kind of an open field this year for the Oscars, which is fun. But for the record, I think "Sinners" deserves to win in every category and "One Battle" is a movie we'll look back on and question, much like we've done with "Crash."

The hostility that people show towards a paywalled news story is... unreasonable. And the entitlement that it's the responsibility of the person posting said link to justify the paywall or worse, help you get around it, is wiiiiiild.

I am begging my fellow Canadians to take a break for a second from obsessing about American corruption to focus on our home grown versions. Ford is a corrupt crony goon who has done countless shady backroom deals. He wants to remove one of our most powerful tools to hold him accountable. Fuck that!

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

6 years ago today, Covid-19 was officially declared a global pandemic. ... it's also the day my book launched. Truly, the worst date in modern history to try and promote anything! But for real, so proud that it was still a bestseller, won 2 awards and has since been translated into French.

What @julieslalonde.bsky.social said. Also survivors of IPV suffer head injuries at a horrendous rate and very few people care. Witness the closure of a program studying brain trauma in IPV survivors www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I have a million thoughts but I'll say this : Men's suffering is *always* treated as more important than the suffering of women. Sexual assault survivors actually have the highest rates of PTSD in the world, but that never gives us pity or leeway. Men on the other hand? Kid gloves.

We live in the wildest timeline.

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

As a longtime advocate for victims of stalking, I receive an inordinate amount of emails from people in psychosis. They are convinced they're being gang stalked and often cite an AI chatbot conversation as proof. This stuff is becoming more common and resources like this are super important.

If you don't read French, the takeaway here is that a judge used AI in writing their decision which is a problem on many, many levels one of which being that they cited non-existent case law. Jesus Christ Seigneur.

Boy oh boy, am I ever excited that we're gutting the social safety net so we can give all our resources to the military.

I have a lot of ~feelings~ about the Minister of Women and Gender Equality putting so many resources into Men's Health but I am seeing some pockets of greatness that feels encouraging. Naming toxic masculinity as a problem, for one!

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

Happy International Women's Day! 💕 I love being a woman and would choose to be a woman in every lifetime. I do the work I do because I love women not because I hate men.