@trishkellyc
Recovering Vancouverite living in Squamish with Hatch, Gowan, and Mitsou. Queer femme, proud Michif and Ukrainian-Canadian. For fun: trail runner, movie watcher, paddle boarder. For work: Accessibility and social enterprise enthusiast.
The Manitoba legislature has passed Bill 43, adding gender expression to the provincial human rights code.
In this doom and gloom climate, it's important to mark victories like this, to remember that despite the rise of the far right, we can still organize and win for 🏳️🌈 people.
How can this have passed the sniff test by anyone in government?
The plaque, name tag and corsage given to me as a nominee
Smiling photo of Alona Puehse, Katrina Welsh, and me. The neon art in the background says “the world is yours”
Selfie outside the YWCA hotel
Sign outside the hotel says “tell your friends we’re a nonprofit hotel”.
Last evening I attended the YWCA Metro Vancouver Women of Distinction nominee announcement event.
And then stayed at the YWCA hotel.
Thank you to my nominators. I hope we can continue to do good work together @robbiebean.bsky.social
It’s like the Trump administration had a big brainstorm session on the fastest way to end western civilization, and they decided that scapegoating EDI and ignoring the climate crisis would just take way longer than causing World War 3.
New Conservative Party Canada ad has Pierre Poilievre in a tshirt, walking through a sunny field.
Here’s a campaign tip: Want to humanize PP for Canadians? Stop threatening the human rights of trans people and women. A tshirt won’t soften his image enough to obscure his values.
Do you have an eye for zines? Take part in the Squamish Public Library and Squamish Arts community event this April.
I’m 48 years old and I still have a 50% success rate at opening a milk carton correctly.
Today’s Oaxaca, Mexico wall art. The world understands.
Long live the zine! I’m
Co-hosting a zine making workshop at the Squamish Library in March. events.squamishlibrary.ca/event/12898166
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Thank you!
Smiling tri-coloured Aussie sheppard covered in snow
Tri-coloured Gowan dancing in snow
Red Merle mini Aussie delighting in Squamish snow
Tough day. But not for my dogs! Snow day in Squamish!
I’m also thinking about my Ukrainian ancestors. Their experiences of resistance are mostly lost to time, but I know they made it out. Five generations later, our family still knows where they come from, still practices language and culture. Still insists on a silent J defying phonetics are erasure.
Today I’m thinking about my Métis ancestors and how they fought and survived hate and war. Some of them were organizers and their names appear in history books. Others quietly survived. I’m here because of all these choices. And all these responses are available to me.
Excellent!
Why I’m here:
Did you hear that Facebook and Instagram have made drastic changes to their policies that protect us from hate speech and disinformation?
I’ll be closing both my accounts in the coming weeks.
You can find me on LinkedIn or here.
More info: glaad.org/releases/met...