Gillian Calder (she/her)
@gcalder.bsky.social
Law prof at UVic; parent to extraordinary Inuk artist; climber; lover of the penguin; scholar of critical pedagogies
Highly recommend Lynda's book to supplement particularly 1L learning. My review is published here: utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
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Victoria ranked coziest city in Canada! ☺️ And the only Canadian city in the global top 10. ("Cozy" is measured by density of cafes, bookstores, cinemas, theatres and museums and more). www.allcleartravel.co.uk/blog/worlds-... #yyj
Hands up to colleagues at UVic and UBC, taking on this troubling narrative. vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Opinion: Who counts as 'real people'? Premier Eby’s comment perpetuates legacy of erasure
Aboriginal title decisions, including the landmark Cowichan decision, are an affirmation of justice long delayed.
vancouversun.com
Welcoming Mary Anne Vallianatos (back) to UVicLaw! www.uvic.ca/law/news-and...
Q&A with UVic Law's newest faculty member: Mary Anne Vallianatos - Law - University of Victoria
Q&A with UVic Law's newest faculty member: Dr. Mary Anne Vallianatos
uvic.ca
An Israeli airstrike killed five Al Jazeera journalists, including one of the most prominent reporting from Gaza, the network said.
Israel Killed Five Al Jazeera Journalists in Airstrike, Network Says
Israel accused Anas Al-Sharif of heading a Hamas cell, allegations his network denied.
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GOLD #4 🇨🇦 SUMMER MCINTOSH CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD Summer McIntosh breaks her own 400m IM championship record to win her fourth individual gold medal, tying Katie Ledecky as the only two women to have won 4 gold at one worlds. Five medals overall. One of the greatest meets ever.
I decided to address an uncomfortable truth: the rise of women's sports creates an increase in racist and misogynistic abuse. www.cbc.ca/sports/shire...
OPINION | As women's sports grows, so do the threats to racialized athletes | CBC Sports
Online abuse poisoned the recent Women's Euros championship. The reality is that despite all the well-intentioned programs in the world, racialized and misogynist hatred can fester.
cbc.ca
Cecile Dionne, who with her siblings found fame as the first quintuplets known to have survived infancy and who, of the five, was the most outspoken about the suffocating effects of celebrity, died on Monday in Montreal. She was 91.
Cecile Dionne, Who Found Fame and Despair as a Quintuplet, Dies at 91
The Dionnes, the first quints known to have survived infancy, became a global sensation and prey for the greedy. And Cecile came to resent it all. Only one of the five now survives.
nyti.ms
There are less trans woman History Professors in the US than I have fingers on one hand, and one of them was just FIRED 🚨 Why? Anti-trans alumni/donors threatened to pull support form the university... substack.com/home/post/p-...
I was Hired as an Expert in Transgender History—Then Fired for it
My year at Washington & Lee University
substack.com
CANADIAN DOUBLE DOUBLE Summer McIntosh wins her second gold medal in as many nights. Another dominant win. Two for two. And how about this. After so many 4th place finishes Mary-Sophie Harvey wins her first individual world championship medal. What a moment for her.
A note from me on the significance of the recent move partially to decriminalise #abortion in England and Wales Against a backdrop of rising prosecutions for ‘later’ pregnancy endings, #decrim in Northern Ireland through human rights mechanisms, and uneven commitment to decriminalisation as a whole
Verfassungsblog@verfassungsblog.de · last yr.British MPs recently decriminalised abortion-seekers. But this success occurred in a Bill that threatens to criminalise poverty and restrict protest rights. RUTH FLETCHER explains on what a holistic legal approach to reproductive freedom ought to look like. verfassungsblog.de/decriminalis...
