Post · bonfire.cafe

I forget how I first followed @jeffperera.bsky.social but I think our first conversation online came up on today's date. December 6 - it's a weird moment we shared despite a gap in age, context, and distance when December 6, 1989 events affected us.

Thoughtful and timely, though not exactly cheering, post from Jeff, as always.

A text-heavy image featuring a flame at the top of a white candle.
Text reads:

We must work to eradicate
violence against women
and girls everyday.
December 6™ is a day across
Canada to consider how far
we've come, remember
those we have lost, and
commit to the work
we must take onto
help end gender-based
violence across the
land.

It must end where we work,
live, play, worship and study.
It can start with you and me.
HIGHERUNLEARNING.COM — A text-heavy image featuring a flame at the top of a white candle. Text reads: We must work to eradicate violence against women and girls everyday. December 6™ is a day across Canada to consider how far we've come, remember those we have lost, and commit to the work we must take onto help end gender-based violence across the land. It must end where we work, live, play, worship and study. It can start with you and me. HIGHERUNLEARNING.COM

Johanna, CanCon variety

@johannab@cosocial.ca replied · 7 days ago

This crossed my timeline just minutes past midnight, as I was reading an article on the Gen-AI enabled online abuse of women and girls. Only days after learning of a young welder in Minnesota brutally beaten to death at work, by a male coworker who "didn't like how she looked at him".

Thirty-six damn years ago we said "First mourn then work for change."

I am so. Damn. Tired. of the mourning part.