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July 29, 2020Snowbird of Paradise

Sounds Like Despotism To Me

America, I love you but some of your police actions are not helping you. Today I read about police officers in plain clothes grabbing people off the streets, putting them into unmarked vans, and driving away. How is that any different from a kidnapping? And, more to the point, how is the average citizen supposed […]

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October 11, 2017October 11, 2017Snowbird of Paradise

Getting Off My High Horse for Coming Out Day

It’s Coming Out Day and I’m wondering about both the act of coming out and the use of the phrase “coming out”. A very dear transgender friend today said “Being an ally is not something you come out as, it’s just something you do,” and that’s what got me thinking. My first reaction to this, […]

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Black Lives Matter Protest crowd Toronto
July 7, 2016November 11, 2016Snowbird of Paradise

Duelling Causes

In Toronto, Canada this week we had an interesting kerfuffle. Two social/political action groups found themselves in a very public lovers’ spat. The LGBTQ community had invited the Black Lives Matter group to lead the Toronto Pride parade. It was intended as a gesture to recognize black LGBTQ people and their disproportionate experience of discrimination […]

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