Here’s hoping.

My reaction to everything that’s been happening this week, in a nutshell (image credit @amrit.s.brar on Instagram - http://instagram.com/amrit.s.brar)

I noticed that during our last election, a lot of people who had traditionally leaned more towards the NDP decided to vote strategically, for the Liberals, because the notion of Harper maintaining power was worse than the alternative. And you better believe I hounded everyone I know to get off their asses and vote.

Canada suffers from a lot of the same problems with racism, homophobia, misogyny, ableism, islamaphobia, and anti-immigration sentiment that the States does. Our political leanings are divided much in the same way they are in the states (liberals in the cities, conservatives in the more suburban and rural areas).…

I did not understand the appeal of Nutella until I made my sister & get hubby a Nutella cheesecake to thank thrm for letting me live with them for 8+ months, rent free, while my own housing situation got sorted out.

The thought of interest rates spikes are plaguing me. I desperately want to change careers and I feel like Trump is going to bring on an American recession, which is going to lead to another recession in Canada and I risk losing my house and not finding work if I quit the job I’ve wanted to quit for years.

If me being honest about my experience, particularly my experience of not being believed by people I though were my friends when I told them about the assault, leads to just one person choosing to believe a woman the next time she comes forward with assault accusations rather than dismissing her as media hungry or…

basically, the Conservative party needs a leader. I can’t recall if Harper resigned or was booted after he lost to Trudeau (I’ve never follower Canadian politics, outside of our mercifully short election season, that closely). The leader gets elected by Conservative party members. I am not a conversation party…

I was -this close- to cheering and then I thought, but wait: It’s for sure just going to get much worse.

Thank you. I come from a position of privilege because I am white and middle-class, but I know what it means to feel victimized. I feel like if I can open one person’s eyes, even just a little bit, it’s worth it.

There’s an upcoming party leadership election in Canada that has scared me to the point where I am FINALLY going to tell my family about the assault that happened to me while I was in university. I’m hoping they will understand why I kept it to myself for so long, and why I’ve decided to try to get an op-Ed column…

2016, year of our perpetual garbage-fire, rages on.

Right? Sometimes the olds that run colleges get stuff really, really right.

Thank you. Creating a “third” bathroom just reinforces the idea that trans people are somehow “other”. They should be free to use whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable in/that they identify with.

I have been encouraging my American friends to use this time to get organized and figure out means by which they can help protect the freedoms they hold so dear, not just for themselves, but for others who may not have the same position of privilege they do. People claiming they’re going to leave the States to come to…

Yeeeeah, I seriously side eyed that.

I adore my IUD and have been shouting from the rooftops about it since I got it.

How is this even fucking possible?

I was JUST telling my cousin about how I am fearful of the election results and this is just about the only thing that’s maintained my sanity but it was a shame the list wasn’t up to date, and THEN, AND THEN, you dropped this and basically made my life.

We don’t want Alaska; America ruined it and we don’t need that kind of hassle.