Tag: Feminist is not a dirty word
I Remember Traveling with Children…
June 27, 2015
I ran into a couple in the Frankfurt airport traveling with two small sisters. The girls were dressed in matching outfits. I laughed, and told them that I used to do the same and am now accused of “completely mortifying” my youngest. She is probably right – AND – so was I. She could disappear…
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25 years later…
December 6, 2014
25 years ago today, 14 female engineering students were killed at Ecole Polytechnique. I was studying for my PhD at the time, teaching the same course those women were taking. This anniversary is always vivid for me. On the one year anniversary, three of us were interviewed in a long piece CBC did about women…