Do you know somebody with a story about surviving a collision with injuries? Do you have a story of your own? I encourage you to share it on this hashtag, I think we're woefully quiet about them. I'm curious how common it is, even if you don't post the story.
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Over the winter holiday my friend was in a collision. T-boned while making a left by a driver running the red. I looked after his pets while was on his honeymoon, drove the same car he was hit in. His wife told me he wasn't in danger, but the recovery would be long.
I saw him this Spring, he is irrepressible. He told me with, the demeanor of a proud father at graduation, about how he might amputate his arm if the pain in his forearm didn't subside within a year.
The organist at my church growing up was very skilled, and a beautiful person. She had vibrant energy that filled the room as much as the music.
She survived a head-on collision on HWY 20 to cottage country, in a 90s car. We were told she survived, and then we didn't see her for months.
When I saw her again, she was in a wheelchair for quadriplegia. She will never play again. She needs a personal care worker. She stands out in a room, still. Differently.
We memorialize the dead, indulge the grieving community as long as the victim is guaranteed to be silent. If they survive, though? The community is left to carry them, and they're pushed to the margins. It's disgusting. It's repeated up and down society.
All of these systems are voluntary, collectively. It's because of the acquiescence that victims won't be listened to, because then we have to do the work of withdrawing our consent
Victims are offered the bare minimum level of support to keep them out of sight, told to be grateful to receive anything. Often this is offered by those impacted directly or indirectly by such violence themselves, by organizations that are chronically underfunded.
You can get a payout for damage in civil suits, rarely what's actually needed for recovery, but enacting meaningful consequences is nearly impossible. Victims are discouraged from even trying
Not intending to compare the size or impact of the harms, I think there are parallels between the systemic relationship between traffic violence and collision injuries and rape culture to survivors of sexual assault, and to survivors of police violence.
Victims of the system are acknowledged in statistics, and anyone will say how terrible the violence is, in abstract. The personal stories are quickly swept out of public discourse, restrained to smaller communities
I'm gonna start posting on #NonLifeThreateningInjury about how bad it can be when people /survive/ traffic violence.
I'd rather not CW this post, so please excuse the vagary. We do to the victims of traffic violence the same things we do to victims of other violence of marginalization. Acknowledging their suffering would require acknowledging the harms of the system, and the beneficiaries of the system will not risk demands to change the system that might come from that.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-vehicle-crashes-mall-group-fitness-studio-9.7232919
A short list of places not safe from traffic violence and the malpractice of traffic "engineers":
* Mel Lastman Square
* standing on the sidewalk
* walking in the designated crosswalk at the indicated time
* asleep in your bedroom
* working at a convenience store
* traveling together with your Girl Guides troop
* at a daycare being a child
* enjoying a group exercise class behind a solid wall
Just from specific, local examples, off the dome
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The No Thanks! app can help you avoid products that are on the BDS list, for Palestine and for Sudan. It's been a big help for me
Ya’ll have proven to me today that I need to share more of my handicrafts lol.
In addition to knitting, also do embroidery, cross-stitch, and crochet. But any craft is fun to me.
Here are some of the latest things I’ve made!
Teams, your job is to display Teams chats. They're your chats! How are you so awful at it?
Silly question really
This one took me three whole months to knit, so ya'll get to hear about it now :awesome:
When I say my roomy is better at capturing the kitties, this is what I mean. Are you kidding me?? Marshall Natalie Benjamin you put those away before you hurt somebody 😻✨
Roomy for the ig folk
https://www.instagram.com/magical.gorl
Willow appreciation post because there's so much doom in the feed. Say hi, Willow 👋
Alt text writing on this was heavy, please boost generously. Also... Consider sending it to CBC so they can put it somewhere on their site for screen readers? I release all alt text on the previous post as CC0 Public Domain. I'm sorry but I don't have capacity to follow up that one myself today.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/world-cup-toronto-commuting-9.7228070
First FIFA game in Toronto is this Friday, CBC has good info about closures. Put the days in your calendar even if you aren't following, so you aren't surprised by the nonsense.
CBC won't say it but I will: the transit routes to FIFA aren't closed to traffic, and so transit will be useless. If you decide to walk or bike, be extra cautious 'cause you never know if that car is a rental with a driver who's never been in the city before.
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Marty is so cute I think it constitutes a hostile working environment
This month I'm celebrating #WorldBikeMonth and #PrideMonth together by walking around, bike lock in hand, while visualizing a brick 🏳️🌈✨
Canada Post has a stamp series called Places of Pride that celebrates 4 historic institutions in Canada's queer history since confederation.
🏳️🌈 Little Sisters, Vancouver
🏳️🌈 Metamorphosis, Saskatoon
🏳️🌈 The 519, Toronto
🏳️🌈 The Turret, Halifax
#Canada #PrideMonth #Stamps #Toronto #Vancouver #Saskatoon #Halifax