Did you know the # of women & girls killed by male accused in 2024 is 26% higher than in pre-pandemic year, 2019. Why have the numbers remained so high? For more, see our 2024 infographic below and #CallItFemicide

I remember the case of Donna Oglive when I was volunteering with the Intimate Femicide in Ontario project in the late 1990s. So sad, but happy to see she was not forgotten. #CallItFemicide

Important words from #CFOJA expert panel member, Prof Emerita Elizabeth Sheehy. We also ask, when does MAID become #femicide? How will we even know? See excerpt from one of our recent reports below. #CallItFemicide

It's a little sad how the media puts intimate partner homicide in single quotes. Didn't hear the term before? I guess it will take a while to get to #femicide given they seem to be afraid to use a gender-neutral term. thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/al… #CallItFemicide

gabby petito is proof that society doesn’t believe women until they’re dead.

"and what's your field of expertise?" me:

Yeah they gotta do it themselves now since trump fired like 90% of the national park service

Appreciation post for Elizabeth Comack & Gillian Balfour’s brilliant book - The Power to Criminalize. I’m not sure how I’ve gone this long in my criminology/social justice/IPV research without it, but I’m so glad to have it now!

On #IWD2025, help us create education & awareness about #femicide & its #sex/#gender related motives & indicators (#SGRMIs). Help us increase knowledge about why we need to #CallItFemicide globally to prevent #femicide. If you do 1 thing on #IWD2025, read, learn & repost!

Today, on #IWD2025, I celebrate all the wonderful women I have known & have worked/will work with in the past, present & future This is just a sampling of the many women without whom I would have accomplished nothing: violenceresearch.ca/about-the-cent… femicideincanada.ca/aboutus/resear…

We can celebrate. We can appreciate. We can honour. We can uplift. And we will. But we cannot forget the rising rates of #femicide across the world, including here in Canada. And we cannot separate this from the rise in authoritarianism and the vilifying of feminist values. 1/👇

It took me 28 years to go from carceral feminist to abolitionist. Sarah Lustbader (@saaarah.bsky.social) tells that story here: newyorker.com/news/persons-o….

Grim news today and a punch in the gut for all women & gender diverse folks in Canada. Prime Minister Mark Carney's new Cabinet does not include a Minister for Women & Gender Equality, a ministry that's worked to address GBV & sustained many life-saving orgs across Canada 1/👇

Highly recommend Luke's Place’s Feminist Law Reform for Gender-Based Violence Organizations training. In light of the current socio-political climate, this training has been a much-needed reminder of what is possible.

Launched in 1968, the Block Parent® Program became Canada’s largest volunteer-led child safety initiative. Guardians of the Community by Kim Varma and Kanwal Khokhar investigates its legacy and impact over five decades. Read more: bit.ly/4iM6y0S #ChildSafety

A french man hired 90+ men to rape his unconscious wife over the course of 9 years and not a single one of them called the cops or helped her. Women & girls are getting killed every 10 minutes. 70k men sharing tips on drugging and raping their mothers, sisters and wifes.

Enjoying (virtually!) attending my very first CAIS-ACSI conference and watching some brilliant Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS) colleagues and faculty present. I’m also incredibly impressed with CAIS-ACSI for making virtual conference attendance free and accessible.

you don’t scare me i submit my work for peer review

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!