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I’m thinking a lot of things in fact. Yes, I’m from the next generation of women who were too young to remember when the murders actually took place, but I suppose I belong to the current generation of women who identify themselves with feminist politics and have heard from the foremothers of this movement in Canada about the significance of remembering the day, and to never forget it. They say, “Women Won’t Forget” on December 6th. But as a young, sex working, multiracial, bisexual, two-spirited, Aboriginal woman, I think that sometimes, especially at these December 6th type events, women DO forget a few things.
Sometimes women forget that as Aboriginal women, we are five times more likely to die of violence than any other race of women in Canada, and that women have been going missing and have been murdered in our communities by the thousands, for hundreds of years.
Women forget that while we show up to vigils and talk up a nice speech about some “poor prostitute” who died on the streets, we simultaneously judge, shun, and degrade current sex workers and speak against decriminalization – something that might actually help to protect us.

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Ms. Nordegren’s attorney: Now to the issue of contrition. My client maintains that when Mr. Woods spilled out of his vehicle his first words to her were, “You’re still over-pronating your wrists on your follow-through.” In light of this cavalier attitude and in an effort to arrive at a new figure that may truly make this philanderer sorry for his actions, we seek an additional $15 million to serve as a sincere apology.
(Tiger is preoccupied with his Blackberry, looks up, nods.)
Ms. Nordegren’s attorney: And finally, my client is going to need $10 million in cash to shop herself out of this funk.
Tiger’s attorney: But there are so many great sales this year.
Ms. Nordegren’s attorney: Okay, $5 million to get her shop on.
(All parties nod in agreement. The mediator tallies.)
Mediator: Okay, so we’ve got 5, 10, 10, 5, 10, 15 and 5, plus the original 20, for a new total of $80 million.
(The parties rise, shake hands formally. For the first time, Elin speaks.)
Elin: But if I truly don’t want to be with him and only agree to stay with him for the money, doesn’t that make me a prostitute?

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Today the women’s movement in English Canada is a shadow of its former self and the women’s movement in Quebec is weaker too. I do not believe this has anything to do with the horror at Polytechnique but rather in part because of our success and the feeling of a younger generation that equality had been achieved and in part because of the impact of neo-liberalism and the individualism and consumerism that it promotes.
But while there is a societal consensus against male violence against women today, that violence goes on unabated particularly against marginalized women like those disappeared on the downtown east side in Vancouver or the hundreds of aboriginal women who are disappeared and murdered without much attention from police, or the virtual slavery of desperate women trafficked into prostitution on a global scale.

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The Dec. 6, 1989, tragedy spurred people across the world to call for action to counter violence against women, and led to an annual day to remember and honour the victims.
Local activities for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women will be centred at the University of Victoria. Today, a gathering will be held from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the fountain outside the McPherson Library and the Mearns Centre for Learning.
Also, at 11:30 a.m. at the legislature minister Ida Chong will mark the anniversary on behalf of Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Kash Heed.
The UVic event will include presentations by Anissa St. Pierre of UVic’s Women in Engineering and Computer Science, graduate student Rebecca Taylor, Billy Bingaman from the Victoria Women’s Sexual Assault Centre and Tracie Fawkes from PEERS (Prostitutes Empowerment Education and Resource Society).

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