daughters, mothers, grandmothers and other sexual outlaws
A photo project co-curated by Inter Pares and three international social justice organizations to document sexual and reproductive health and…
Sexualized Violence Support Resource Listing
Disclaimer: This webpage contains sensitive and potentially triggering information regarding support after sexualized violence and the prevention of sexualized violence….
Call for Expressions of Interest from board members
Island Sexual Health Society (ISHS) is seeking passionate and skilled individuals to join our Board of Directors. We are particularly…
Photodynamic Gardening Workshop
I’ve been invited to present a Photodynamic Gardening Workshop in June in the Hudson Valley, New York, at Bard College…
“They could have killed the man”: Police cars as weapons
In 2017, after a VicPD officer saw a cyclist without a helmet, they “drove recklessly” after them. The officer cut…
2023 Impact Profile
As both a community health care centre and a non-profit, we typically illustrate our organizational impact once a year through…
My kid loves statistics and 15 minute cities
We have started this simple diary where my 7 yo tracks each of her trips and categorizes them as car…
Media: CBC interview on Pro-SOGI counter-protest in Victoria
With much of my work as a gender diversity consultant, the lines between the personal and the professional realm become…
Island Health plans new, “healthier” hostile design
Outside Island Health’s doors at 1250 Quadra Street, rocks are cemented in place. A “Private Property” sign, which threatens arrest…
#lostfoundsound
Edition of eight, each with a series of eight hand-made hybrid prints that consist of solar plate etchings, pronto lithography…
FOI data shows extent of VicPD “use of force”
The B.C. government collects “use of force” data from police departments and publishes some of that data online. That data,…
Mapping Victoria’s fake public space
This post is about spaces and agreements that may exclude people from privately-owned ‘public’ property. All of the land in question…
VicPD’s street checks are racist, because of course they are
Update: A December 2019 follow-up post with a decade of street check data from all of B.C.’s municipal police departments…
Hostile bench seeks loving and supportive wrench
One of the first posts I wrote for this site was about the city’s hostile benches, where “arm rests” are…
136 people are peeing in Victoria right now
Building on some Internet math, Statistics Canada data, and an average pee time of 21 seconds and 6.5 pees per…
Bike rack benches and fancy granite
Two years ago this month I wrote about some new un-sleepable benches that were coming to Victoria at Douglas and…
A potpourri of displacement
In 2016, an officer with VicPD’s Community Services Division responded to “concerns with trespassing, open drug/alcohol use and drug paraphernalia/needles/feces…
Forts on Fort
Nobody loves defensive architecture quite like Fort Street. Outside of business hours, locked gates block alcove after alcove. One gate…
School district removes Spring Ridge Commons furniture
Spring Ridge Commons was created in 1999 as a “community urban food forest.” On February 4, 2019, the principal of…
Shorter walls are in for 2019, but defensive architecture is still defensive architecture
On October 24, 2019, Victoria City Council will consider a report about whether one of the Pandora Avenue fences will…
Keeping police out of Victoria and Esquimalt schools
Update: June 2021 presentation to SD61’s school liaison officer committee. In 2018, when Esquimalt rejected the Victoria Police Department’s request…
B.C. police departments disproportionately street check Indigenous and Black people
Over a decade of data obtained from B.C.’s municipal police departments through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests show the departments…
Defensive architecture on tour (Part 1)
Like bad takes about bike lanes, defensive architecture is a blight spread across Greater Victoria’s 13 municipalities. After spending $1.50…