stephanie allen

2026 COPE mayoral candidate |Founder, Adinkra Strategies | Building a city that cares for everyone

[stephanie allen @builtjustice]

What does Vancouver need? Leaders who care about everyone who lives here & won’t prioritize private equity over people. I’m honoured to be the ‘26 @COPEVancouver mayoral candidate & promise to fight for affordable living, transparent government, & fund public services. Lets go!

[Robert Renger @rrrobbberttt]

The City’s area prezoning to RM8-A in 2018 wiped out the potential for these 2 recent apartment rezonings at W29th/Ash and 717-743 W28th to include BMR units, according to staff’s undisclosed proformas.

[Madelaine Hanson @MadelaineLucyH]

The problem gentlemen is you think "rapist" means scary man in a hoodie lurking in an alleyway at 3am. Of course you'd block that guy.

But it's the boyfriend you really loved who was angry that you hadn't wanted sex for two days and pinned you for the bed and then felt really bad about it.

It's the really sweet guy backstage who you loved working with for the whole production who knew you only wanted to be friends and then got you drunk at the after party and raped you in a dressing room.

It's the husband who whined and pleaded for sex long after you've said no for hours and refused to take no for an answer until you gave in every night for four years until you realised what it was.

It's the childhood friend who knows your parents and is your brother's best mate who suddenly attacked you when you were 17 and then told you he'd be thrown out of Oxford if you said anything.

It's the kind colleague who offered to drive you home from that conference when there was a train strike and then forced his hands into your pants in a lay-by and then threatened to leave you there at 3am if you didn't stop being a cockteasing bitch.

We're not dumb. We see the constant attempts to make anything short of stranger with a knife made up, regret, our fault really, a matter of the woman not being clear.

We know why you keep trying to make this 'not rape'. Because if coercion, marital rape, pressure, manipulation and exploitation count, then the comforting fantasy that rape is only ever a stranger with a knife falls apart.

[stephanie allen @builtjustice]

Unfortunately, a group that is too often a target for exploitation by bosses who think they can get away with it.

They have a petition here. Please sign to support their call for better working conditions:
https://t.co/fkVTdOvcmE

[stephanie allen @builtjustice]

Had a great time today at the SEIU Local 2 picnic, meeting the wonderful people who work cleaning our SkyTrains.

All power to the people.

But also, we boogie.

🧵

(Video of dancing with folks in the park)

[stephanie allen @builtjustice]

cleaning supplies, severe understaffing, unjust layoffs, being asked to clean in unsafe conditions, and workplace bullying and harassment from Dexterra management.

Many of them are racialized immigrant women who send money home to support their families.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

“Why don’t you just go to the police?”

“Why don’t you report it?”

“If you were really raped you would press charges”

Meanwhile this Toronto cop sexually assaulted a child.

Const. Parsa Hazeri faces half a dozen charges.

This is why we don’t go to the police.

[goma @soigomaa]

Her husband told a court she was too strong to be a wife. The judge agreed and stripped Wangari Maathai of everything, her family, her job, her home.
She looked around and noticed women walking miles every single day just to collect firewood. So she handed them seeds instead. The government responded with arrests, beatings, and a padlocked office door.
30,000 women trained. 51 million trees planted across Kenya. Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. They handed her destruction. She turned it into an entire forest.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

New York City just had its safest first 5 months of a year in recorded history.

Murders plunged 21%, and major crime overall is down 11%.

[Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽 @mssinenomine]

This part acknowledges that we know that people's moods and cognitive function are affected by heat but argues that those only matter when you are at work.

Because no one "works" at home? Because child care, cooking, cleaning aren't work? Bc mood only matters if adding profit?

[Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽 @mssinenomine]

This article relies on eugenics-adjacent argument - or put another way 'eugenics logic.'

It's also class war.

What the BC heat dome deaths and other studies reveal is that the greatest single determinant of who lives vs who dies is not age but income.

[stephanie allen @builtjustice]

@deardrewdixon @JubileeDJ Nature is healing 🥰

[🏳️‍⚧️ romeo @ronunclockable]

Critiquing war, prisons, and gendered violence as producers of disability is not saviorism. Refusing to talk about how institutions create disability sounds a lot closer to depoliticizing disability than liberating disabled people and

[stephanie allen @builtjustice]

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Justice for Vancouver TransLink Workers. Sign here: https://t.co/0bWn8Lj6cQ

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

AI integration is already being halted at 'base level' companies, yet here comes Canada's prime minister talking about integrating these treacherous unsustainable systems into our gov't operations.

The rollback on the operations will be a sight to behold.

[stephanie allen @builtjustice]

👇🏽

[sam @uglyblender]

The recent attempts to smear and defame Sean Orr show how scared the right is of vocal, empathetic, and principled socialists being elected to office with such overwhelming popularity. They know that all they have is the ability to stoke division and lie. Real care terrifies them

[linda sepp @LindaSepp]

fyi...
Meanwhile, as all costs of living keep rising, disabled Canadians who CAN'T work (no fault of their own) are legislated into DEEP poverty, far below the poverty line, without enough to meet even basic needs, and are offered MAiD instead of dignified supports to live.

[stephanie allen @builtjustice]

@59years_of_gray Better yet, lets end Western exploitation of the global South’s people & resources so that people arent forced to migrate to survive? They get to self determine in their own lands & avoid relentless hostility from ppl here hypnotized into allegiance w billionaires. Win win!

[stephanie allen @builtjustice]

Anything *but* taxing the rich, huh

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Opinion: As Canada faces crippling debt, it must do the unpopular thing and cut elderly benefits https://t.co/AZNLE57JlU

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Those in power always cut benefits to the most vulnerable.

The elderly, children living in poverty, the disabled.

It’s unpopular because it’s wrong.

They could put a wealth tax in place instead, but they would rather be “unpopular” with the poor people than anger the elite.

[stephanie allen @builtjustice]

In addition

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

It's wild to me that people can work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 60 years and still argue this is the best system humanity can come up with, while defending people who make their entire net worth in 30 seconds and insisting they shouldn't be taxed more.

[stephanie allen @builtjustice]

Furthermore