@queerfilmfest welcome in the queer community than we are elsewhere in society, even in organizations that like to give the impression of commitment to social justice. It's just about giving that impression, there is no real commitment.
For a few years, I was on the programming committee for @queerfilmfest. I faced accessibility barriers at the festival and had to leave festival events two years in a row. I never saw any action to address these accessibility barriers. Communications about this were frustrating -
@queerfilmfest to REMOVE accessibility barriers once aware of these barriers.
Some time after this, I was removed from the programming committee without even being informed that this was happening.
I guess it's a good reminder that chronically ill/disabled folks can't count on being any more
A quick look at commute flows in Metro Vancouver in 2021. Vancouver, Richmond, and Burnaby are the big commute destinations, Surrey, Coquitlam, and Maple Ridge see the largest outflows. 50k more commuters leave Surrey than come into Surrey each day.
A reminder that these giant houses are occupied by the highest income households, yet pay low DCLs, no CACs, cost the city the most in services, and have no affordability requirement or public hearing, they just… get built
@CanadaPaintings Some other Cobalt paintings from that era:
Yvonne McKague Housser, Silver Mine, Cobalt, 1930
Bess Larkin Housser Harris, Day's End (c. 1928)
Both currently on display as part of Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Movement at the Vancouver Art Gallery
@KenSimCity This is a *failure* for accessibility and as a disabled person I really fucking hate that we're being used as a justification for bad policy that is harmful to us. It's shameful.