@melducharme.bsky.social
Feminist, Creative, Canadian, Northerner
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"Part of Trump's shtick is persuading people to give up because he's already won, already taken the system apart, and he has not.
"There is still some play in the joints, and every reason for us to persist."
-- @joycewhitevance.bsky.social on "our generation's fight for democracy"
"There is still some play in the joints, and every reason for us to persist."
-- @joycewhitevance.bsky.social on "our generation's fight for democracy"
Sunday Morning Wrap Up
This week, as I noted last night when I wrote to you, a lot was going on.
substack.com
August 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"Part of Trump's shtick is persuading people to give up because he's already won, already taken the system apart, and he has not.
"There is still some play in the joints, and every reason for us to persist."
-- @joycewhitevance.bsky.social on "our generation's fight for democracy"
"There is still some play in the joints, and every reason for us to persist."
-- @joycewhitevance.bsky.social on "our generation's fight for democracy"
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TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW ARE YOU HYDRATED?
July 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW ARE YOU HYDRATED?
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I manage a VAW shelter and had to fight to fund AC for rooms. Rooms where bars (to keep men out) prevented windows from opening. Where fire code made it mandatory that doors remained closed. Those rooms becoming like hot prisons for women who didn’t do anything wrong. Ah patriarchy. AC is freedom.
Air conditioning is an absolutely vital life-saving technology on a swiftly-warming planet, and people who claim it's somehow more shameful to cool a home than it is to heat one are idiots.
I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
Climate Change Demands More Air Conditioning
An often-disparaged technology is a lifesaver, not a luxury.
foreignpolicy.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I manage a VAW shelter and had to fight to fund AC for rooms. Rooms where bars (to keep men out) prevented windows from opening. Where fire code made it mandatory that doors remained closed. Those rooms becoming like hot prisons for women who didn’t do anything wrong. Ah patriarchy. AC is freedom.
“We didn’t wait for the freedom”. This is an incredible work of art.
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
June 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“We didn’t wait for the freedom”. This is an incredible work of art.
Almost every one of us aside from our Indigenous neighbours had a parent just trying to do right by the next generation and build things up. This video makes me cry. Go dad!
June 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Almost every one of us aside from our Indigenous neighbours had a parent just trying to do right by the next generation and build things up. This video makes me cry. Go dad!
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How are we as Canadians preparing for the refugees from the US?
June 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
How are we as Canadians preparing for the refugees from the US?
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Breaking: Men officially deemed too emotional for positions of power
June 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Breaking: Men officially deemed too emotional for positions of power
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The only thing worse than having your two evil MAGA dads fighting
is realizing that neither ever cared about keeping custody of you.
is realizing that neither ever cared about keeping custody of you.
June 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The only thing worse than having your two evil MAGA dads fighting
is realizing that neither ever cared about keeping custody of you.
is realizing that neither ever cared about keeping custody of you.
Best thing I’ve seen. “The seaweed is always greener…”
A #crab riding a jellyfish. That's all.
June 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Best thing I’ve seen. “The seaweed is always greener…”
Graffiti in high school bathrooms sure has changed. It’s still making me cry but not in the same way. It does appear that the kids are gonna be ok. #thekidsareok #bathroomaffirmations
April 30, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Graffiti in high school bathrooms sure has changed. It’s still making me cry but not in the same way. It does appear that the kids are gonna be ok. #thekidsareok #bathroomaffirmations
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Happy 92nd birthday to the one and only Carol Burnett!
April 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Happy 92nd birthday to the one and only Carol Burnett!
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Dear Canada, Pierre Poilievre is Coming for Your Reproductive Rights vajenda.substack.com/p/dear-canad...
Dear Canada, Pierre Poilievre is Coming for Your Reproductive Rights
A letter to my fellow Canadians
vajenda.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Dear Canada, Pierre Poilievre is Coming for Your Reproductive Rights vajenda.substack.com/p/dear-canad...
Oh my gosh. It’s hard to take the news these days. I’m glad we can still have a bit of a laugh and get fit! #Participaction youtu.be/NCfQTfQPdAM
Elbows Up Exercise with Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod | BodyBreak 🍁
YouTube video by BodyBreak Hal and Joanne
youtu.be
April 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Oh my gosh. It’s hard to take the news these days. I’m glad we can still have a bit of a laugh and get fit! #Participaction youtu.be/NCfQTfQPdAM
I stocked up on woke ideology today at this incredible national treasure of a museum and the radical idea that all people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. As your journey to the light in this museum you begin to see messages from young people hoping for a better world.
April 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I stocked up on woke ideology today at this incredible national treasure of a museum and the radical idea that all people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. As your journey to the light in this museum you begin to see messages from young people hoping for a better world.
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Young people SHOULD “have it easier” than you did. I’m sorry you got the strap up hill both ways and paid your debts with pounds of flesh, but the reason we work for progress is to make growing up and growing old gentler, easier, kinder, freer. Struggle isn’t necessary in a healthy society.
April 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Young people SHOULD “have it easier” than you did. I’m sorry you got the strap up hill both ways and paid your debts with pounds of flesh, but the reason we work for progress is to make growing up and growing old gentler, easier, kinder, freer. Struggle isn’t necessary in a healthy society.
Just two duckies saying “WTF spring. Hurry up already.”
April 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Just two duckies saying “WTF spring. Hurry up already.”
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“When Kennedy lies about autistic people, he puts autistic people at risk... But the attack on difference, the idea that people who are different are a tragedy and a burden and that they have nothing to contribute — that is fascism. And it is a danger to almost everyone.”
"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."
RFK Jr. is wrong about autism
His lies endanger neurodivergent people — and everyone else.
www.publicnotice.co
April 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“When Kennedy lies about autistic people, he puts autistic people at risk... But the attack on difference, the idea that people who are different are a tragedy and a burden and that they have nothing to contribute — that is fascism. And it is a danger to almost everyone.”
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"Fun" Fact: The German government (in the 30's) mandated that Jewish people have Jewish names, and forbade name changes that wouldn't "out" them.
www.transvitae.com/mississippi-...
www.transvitae.com/mississippi-...
Mississippi Supreme Court Rules Against Trans Teen’s Name
A Mississippi court denied a trans teen’s name change despite parental consent, citing anti-trans laws and igniting national concern over family rights.
www.transvitae.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"Fun" Fact: The German government (in the 30's) mandated that Jewish people have Jewish names, and forbade name changes that wouldn't "out" them.
www.transvitae.com/mississippi-...
www.transvitae.com/mississippi-...
I do like a sign that has a tune.
April 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I do like a sign that has a tune.