Wow thank you so much for work that you do!! My partner and I would love to participate in a COSA but we are both students and aren’t in a stable enough situation to help someone else form a stable lifestyle. How did you end up volunteering? I also understand if you don’t want to dox yourself (Ontario can be smaller…

So true. Regulation of marijuana is so tied to the pulp and paper industry.

Yes this is something that is a really big problem. Almost all children who are molested were attacked and victimized by someone they knew. A study in an article I linked up thread says that only 23% of these attacks happen by strangers.

I also don’t have kids and I imagine if I had them it would be harder to separate my feelings. I find a large part of my “left” or “progressive” attitudes are centered around prison abolition and it has always been an interesting and difficult crossroads between the prison abolition movement and rape culture…

That sounds great! Community building and positive goal setting is a really powerful motivator. Wishing your cousin all the luck and strength in the world.

It’s actually not what you would think. People who participate in the program are mostly people who have failed at other types of rehabilitation but doctors and other people who decide this stuff think they have a chance. From the article “Wilson says that offenders targeted for COSA are usually those who have long…

In Ontario there are programs to help rehabilitated sex offenders reintegrate. It has been very successful and makes a lot of sense when you read about it.

I think laws about the release of arrested people’s names really need to reevaluated. Even if people aren’t convicted their names are published. It’s wrong (especially in the case of your friend who’s safety was put at risk) and it goes against the fact that prisons are meant to rehabilitate, not punish (which is so…

This is what makes no sense me. Like how can rape be (on paper, it rarely actually is) a sentence that’s like ten years, murder a sentence that’s 25 years but selling heroine is 40 years. How can the American legal system see that and go “yup that looks right"

Have you checked out cakes da killa? Love him

I see your comments all the time i can’t believe you’re in the greys!

I saw a suggestion online that nuns should escort women in burkinis just to dare cops to try and fuck with them. A fully covered squad of badass ladies walking down the beach just looking for trouble.

A mer-kini: a pubic wig so bushy and dense additional swimming bottoms are not needed

Yeah a friend was explaining to me that there’s a reason France has been a major target. They have had terrifyingly abysmal relations with immigrants from Islamic countries for the past decade and that breeds an environment for extremists to see reason in Isis’ “the west is out to destroy Islam” message.

“This is about white/western men asserting dominance over Muslim women’s bodies to take that power away from Muslim men (whether it’s real or perceived).”

never #selflove

Oh that’s awesome I had no idea!

Yeah someone was saying up thread that these brietbart assholes will love being called out by “shillary” and it fits right into their narrative.

When I saw the preview in my notifications I thought it was very funny and repeated it to my boyfriend. So no. Clearly up there in Jinni’s finest moments.

This threw me back. I remember my grandpa yelling this when we played! So yea it was totally the same game. Except I thought he said ollie ollie oxen free. Which makes less sense and is probably my warped childhood memory.