twenty-five years ago today i was a seventeen year old kid in my first semester away at college. i didnt have a framework to make sense of a dude shooting fourteen women in a Montreal engineering school. i was...bewildered. horrified, but bewildered. twenty-five years and a lot of living later, i think maybe im finally getting it. i have language to talk about systemic bias and structural inequality, now. i get how incidents map against the bigger pictures that shape individual actions. i get that ive been lucky and unlucky, at different times in those twenty-five years, and sadly, that thats just all part of...normal, still. i still see stuff like Rolling Stones get under the bus, Jackie piece yesterday and weep, but i also see the response and the capacity TO respond in all these platforms that help us not look away. i see the response to Ghomeshi and i see kids being taught about consent and i see us maybe getting there, as a whole. maybe. its slow. ive been slow. but i think i get what December 6th symbolizes, now. i will keep trying to learn. i will teach my kids. twenty-five years. wow.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 15:28:09 +0000
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