I’d be delighted to talk with you about this. Please email me at the address on my website so we can connect directly.

I was pleased to meet you briefly at the launch for your powerful book “And Sometimes They Kill You” at the University of Ottawa earlier this month. I mentioned at the time that I was a coordinator with Feminist Fridays.

Feminist Fridays was established in 2016 by writer and activist Shari Graydon. We meet monthly, on Friday afternoons. We are in Ottawa, and traditionally met in members’ homes, but since March 2020 we also began meeting on Zoom. Our meetings average between 15 to 25 women.

Our speakers have included Jennifer Ditchburn, President of Policy Options; Constance Backhouse, Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa; Allison Fisher, Executive Director of the Wabano Centre; Senators Kim Pate, Marilou McPhedran and Julie Miville-Dechêne; women human rights defenders Rehana Hashmi and Fahima Hashim; and professor, author and NDA (non-disclosure agreement) activist Julie MacFarlane.

We would like to invite you to join us any Friday in the new year. We normally meet from 4 to 6 pm Ottawa time, but could go from 5 to 7 pm if it would work better for you. We could either meet on Zoom if you are in Kingston or in person if work brings you to Ottawa.

The usual format is to speak for 15-20 minutes (more if you like), and then move to Q&A and discussion.

We recognize that the holiday season is in full swing so it may be too early to fix a date, but it would be lovely if you could give us a signal of interest.

Thora Broughton and Diana Rivington

Co-ordinators, Feminist Fridays