Weighing in on this whole ID- lanyard wearing initiative at Western. As many BIPOC folks have pointed out, it will be they who will be be most targeted & surveilled.This initiative does nothing to make people safer health wise or violence wise & a lot to make ppl less safe 🧵 Was this done with any consultation or understanding of the evidence of initiatives like this? I've often lamented the invisible but real wall that exists between campus and the rest of the #LdnOnt community. This only serves to reinforce it.A message of who belongs & who doesn't

The horrific levels of gender-based violence in #LdnOnt this past weekend that includes over 30 students drugged at Western and sexual violence, plus a young woman murdered in northwest London, is a stark reminder of how prevalent GBV is. Like many, this is personal for me. I've been working on issues of gender equity my entire life, I just sent my own daughter off to university residence - prepared as possible but with onus not being on her to protect herself but on all of us, institutions and government