Please find a way to take some sort of action. Doing your part to increase awareness that this is a horrid reality for women in many parts of the world is a start. This is why we MUST use our voice. Thank you @amnesty for teaching me to use mine.
Heartbreaking!
According to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the situation is so desperate for #AfghanWomen that they are committing suicide at a rate of one or two a day.
Please donโt forget about our beloved sisters in Afghanistan.
Several Kingโs MFA mentors and graduates have been nominated for this year's National Magazine Award! Good luck to mentors Omar Mouallem, and Karen Pinchin, and graduates Niko Bell (CO 2023), Lesley Buxton (CO 2016), Lana Hall (CO 2023), and future graduate Monica Kidd (CO 2025)!
When a teenage boy killed a massage parlour worker, becoming likely the first in the world to be convicted as a terrorist for his incel beliefs, I had to find out what it meant: for him, for the criminal code, for the massage parlour community. Read my feature in Maclean's ๐
@tomgreenlive You and @MonicaLewinsky riding the baggage carousel at the Ottawa airport. I never laughed so much in my life. You gave her a positive spotlight at a time when many didnโt, which is awesome. And look at her now and what she has created with her lifeโฆwhat an INCREDIBLE woman!
@TheFordFANatic Went to a game there two years ago. The host was awesome (so fun!) and met the loveliest couple from Mississauga who struck up a conversation when they saw my Sittler jersey! Great game, and LOTS of laughs with fellow @MapleLeafs fans :) Thanks again - canโt wait to come back!
When communities invest in #GenderEquality and women's empowerment, they also build a foundation for peace. ๐
More gender-equal societies are more peaceful societies.
The Taliban may lock all the classrooms and university gates in the country โ but they can never lock up women's minds. They cannot stop girls from seeking knowledge. They cannot kill the quest to learn. https://t.co/N6qR0yzMgO
A little girl in Afghanistan asking the Taliban โ โIs being a girl in Afghanistan a crime? Do you have mothers? Do you have sisters? Do you have daughters? Please donโt turn off the light of knowledge & education on us girls.โ ๐