Destine Lord (she/her) 🍉✊🏾

Anti-Oppression and Inclusion Consultant - inclusion without belonging is violence

[Destine Lord (she/her) 🍉✊🏾 @DemandDifferent]

I wish her well.

[Times Colonist @timescolonist]

UVic hires its first female, Black president https://t.co/7OY6HegFoa

[Destine Lord (she/her) 🍉✊🏾 @DemandDifferent]

😢😢
https://t.co/uizIsgY1iC

[Destine Lord (she/her) 🍉✊🏾 @DemandDifferent]

Always the same!! 🤦🏾‍♀️

Consider that the burden of peace and respect is NOT the responsibility of the victim/oppressed.

[mitra @mitrajoy_]

“violence isn’t the answer” only gets said when oppressed people start fighting back, not when the oppression is happening

[Destine Lord (she/her) 🍉✊🏾 @DemandDifferent]

If you’re going to post about Pride this month, please don’t let the haters go unchecked in the comments. Driving up your engagement without actual engagement is performative.✌🏾

(ditto for any posts related to awareness or heritage months).

[Destine Lord (she/her) 🍉✊🏾 @DemandDifferent]

Fellas, THIS 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

[Jeff Hamilton @jeffkhamilton]

🧵: I debated posting this thread, but after a lot of reflection, I feel compelled to share. On Saturday afternoon, I was in the children's section of a local bookstore. Luckily, I was there. I noticed an older man talking to a young female employee at the front desk. 1/10

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

Black and Indigenious teens are going missing and kidnapped across Ontario and this country, yet there's no consistent major media coverage, or politicians speaking about them in Parliament.

15-year-old Jay'siiah was missing from home for an entire year, to be found deceased.

[Celeste George @cie1947]

Residential school survivors testify in front of international tribunal
'You don't get over it,' says survivor Roberta Hill
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada has said the Government
https://t.co/oFkgGG2ifz

[Destine Lord (she/her) 🍉✊🏾 @DemandDifferent]

STOP the Vancouver AI Data Centre from being built. - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/8F520Lav8Y

[Destine Lord (she/her) 🍉✊🏾 @DemandDifferent]

Cancel culture does not exist.

[☆ky! misses miro☆ @cowboykyla]

carter hart and brett howden are one win away from playing in the stanley cup finals. so don’t ever say “allegations ruin men’s lives” because even when men actually sexually assault people the consequences are a slap on the wrist, if that.

[Back On This App and It’s Still Hell @wickdchiq]

The same is happening in Canada. Vancouver tourism is noting that there is a 20 percent drop in bookings from last year, which is strange to have a drop just like that. It's because Vancouver hotels increased their prices by 113 percent

[★ @Luv_Xcuses]

Strong women are harder to manipulate, and that tends to frustrate insecure or narcissistic personalities.

[Khelsilem @Khelsilem]

I need to talk about Sen̓áḵw.

This word has been in the news for years, and I still hear it mispronounced constantly—by journalists, politicians, and well-meaning people who just haven't been shown how.
It's a word from the Squamish Language.

Let me walk you through it. 🧵

[Destine Lord (she/her) 🍉✊🏾 @DemandDifferent]

Being forced from a job you love isn’t a great feeling but I think @TinaYazdani might be better off! Great work from her and her @Thetrilliumca colleagues.
https://t.co/nwfeAMu8iB

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin forcefully pinned George Floyd to the ground and held his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes until he died.
https://t.co/Dj8BQOyQND

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Grocery stores asking struggling customers to “donate to fight hunger” at the checkout while they throw out perfectly good food behind closed doors is one of the biggest hypocrisies in our society.

If food is still safe to eat and within days of expiring, it should be going to food banks, shelters, and people in need, not dumpsters.

We don’t have a food shortage, we have a system that would rather waste food than feed people.

[Variety @Variety]

Rob Base, 'It Takes Two' Rapper, Dies at 59 https://t.co/rdu3KpJrUg

[Destine Lord (she/her) 🍉✊🏾 @DemandDifferent]

I absolutely love this 🔥🔥🔥

[Lady Lawya @Parkerlawyer]

In 1998, I was fired from my corporate job while 9 months pregnant because and I quote, “my priorities would be elsewhere after the baby is born.”

The lawyer I hired told me I didn’t have a case because discrimination like “that” was almost impossible to prove.

So I got pissed.

Took the LSAT. Went to law school. Passed the bar. Had 3 more kids.

Twelve years later, another woman from that same company was fired for the same reason. She sued them for a million dollars, and won, partly because I had kept every piece of evidence from what happened to me years prior demonstrating a systemic pattern of discrimination against women.

That company no longer exists. My law practice is thriving. And that baby they said would derail my priorities? She’s a brilliant attorney now working at my firm.

Turns out my priorities were indeed, elsewhere.

[Back On This App and It’s Still Hell @wickdchiq]

When they tell you there’s not enough money for public services they’re lying to you

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

Theo faced bullying for his long hair so I invited him to my office and told him he could be Premier.

It was an honour to meet him and his family and give them challenge coins.

He’s a smart, resilient kid. We are proud of him and all of our kids in Manitoba. 🦬

[Destine Lord (she/her) 🍉✊🏾 @DemandDifferent]

@mcclusk Their coverage is maddening. I hate it so much. 🤦🏾‍♀️