Julie S. Lalonde
@julieslalonde.bsky.social
6x award-winning feminist buzzkill.
Franco-ontarienne du nord de l'Ontario.
🏳️🌈 Femme.
I teach community care for a living and wrote a book about why resilience is futile, babyyyy ✌🏻
Actually fun™️
📍Ottawa, Canada
YellowManteau.com
Franco-ontarienne du nord de l'Ontario.
🏳️🌈 Femme.
I teach community care for a living and wrote a book about why resilience is futile, babyyyy ✌🏻
Actually fun™️
📍Ottawa, Canada
YellowManteau.com
Pinned
Lots of new folks here! 👋
I've spent 20+ years working as a violence prevention educator.
- Find my free bystander intervention webinars here : linktr.ee/JulieSLalonde
- Hire me for trainings : yellowmanteau.com
- My memoir "Resilience is Futile" is available globally wherever books are sold✌️
I've spent 20+ years working as a violence prevention educator.
- Find my free bystander intervention webinars here : linktr.ee/JulieSLalonde
- Hire me for trainings : yellowmanteau.com
- My memoir "Resilience is Futile" is available globally wherever books are sold✌️
"But to call the crime femicide — a sex- or gender-specific term — is in fact a radical rethink in a climate of neutrality that too often masks the disproportionate burden women and girls bear for some forms of male violence."
Why Canada needs to recognize the crime of femicide — on Dec. 6 and beyond
More than 1,100 Canadian women and girls have been killed by men since 2018. So why is the federal government dragging its heels in adding femicide to the Criminal Code?
theconversation.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"But to call the crime femicide — a sex- or gender-specific term — is in fact a radical rethink in a climate of neutrality that too often masks the disproportionate burden women and girls bear for some forms of male violence."
I'm so moved by tootruecrime.com (Created by @cfoja.bsky.social)
At least 580 confirmed femicides in Canada since 2020 & this project highlights them all.
An episode each.
It's a staggering number of episodes because we have a staggering number of women and girls who've been stolen from us.
At least 580 confirmed femicides in Canada since 2020 & this project highlights them all.
An episode each.
It's a staggering number of episodes because we have a staggering number of women and girls who've been stolen from us.
Too True Crime
The Too True Crime podcast documents over 580 women killed by femicide in Canada since 2020. Explore an episode for every life lost to gender-related violence.
www.tootruecrime.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I'm so moved by tootruecrime.com (Created by @cfoja.bsky.social)
At least 580 confirmed femicides in Canada since 2020 & this project highlights them all.
An episode each.
It's a staggering number of episodes because we have a staggering number of women and girls who've been stolen from us.
At least 580 confirmed femicides in Canada since 2020 & this project highlights them all.
An episode each.
It's a staggering number of episodes because we have a staggering number of women and girls who've been stolen from us.
Tomorrow!
Saturday, December 6th is Canada's National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence against Women. It commemorates the '89 Montreal Massacre where 14 women were targeted & killed for daring to study engineering.
Attend your local vigil & come learn community care with me
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Attend your local vigil & come learn community care with me
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Tomorrow!
We say "Rape Culture" because we live in a culture that enables, condones and rewards abusers while dehumanizing victims.
Sexual-assault allegations against doctor spur review of cross-province licensing system
Sanjeev Sirpal had his licence revoked in Quebec but was able to practise in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We say "Rape Culture" because we live in a culture that enables, condones and rewards abusers while dehumanizing victims.
I agree! I also find it utterly frustrating when fans (& foe!) of AI talk about how "it's evolving so quickly" as though someone pressed a button once & it's been doing its own thing ever since.
AI is not sentient or even intelligent. Human beings are pushing the technology to do more, more, more.
AI is not sentient or even intelligent. Human beings are pushing the technology to do more, more, more.
I don't understand why AI is considered "different". AI-generated content should be held accountable to all existing laws. The AI companies should be held accountable, too.
December 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I agree! I also find it utterly frustrating when fans (& foe!) of AI talk about how "it's evolving so quickly" as though someone pressed a button once & it's been doing its own thing ever since.
AI is not sentient or even intelligent. Human beings are pushing the technology to do more, more, more.
AI is not sentient or even intelligent. Human beings are pushing the technology to do more, more, more.
Since the creation of non-consensual pornographic deep fake images is not yet a crime in Canada, this is the first case I've seen where any charges are being laid.
In this case, it's because the images are classified as child sexual abuse and exploitation material because they are girls.
In this case, it's because the images are classified as child sexual abuse and exploitation material because they are girls.
Calgary teen charged after allegedly creating AI-generated sexual content
A Calgary teenager has been charged for offences related to creating child sex abuse and exploitation material by using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Since the creation of non-consensual pornographic deep fake images is not yet a crime in Canada, this is the first case I've seen where any charges are being laid.
In this case, it's because the images are classified as child sexual abuse and exploitation material because they are girls.
In this case, it's because the images are classified as child sexual abuse and exploitation material because they are girls.
FYI Canadian media : Recently, the Criminal Code removed the term “child pornography” and replaced it with “child sexual abuse and exploitation material (CSAEM)”.
Words matter and language like "child porn" conflates abuse and exploitation with consensual sexual activity.
Use the right words!
Words matter and language like "child porn" conflates abuse and exploitation with consensual sexual activity.
Use the right words!
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
FYI Canadian media : Recently, the Criminal Code removed the term “child pornography” and replaced it with “child sexual abuse and exploitation material (CSAEM)”.
Words matter and language like "child porn" conflates abuse and exploitation with consensual sexual activity.
Use the right words!
Words matter and language like "child porn" conflates abuse and exploitation with consensual sexual activity.
Use the right words!
Reposted by Julie S. Lalonde
Saturday, December 6th is Canada's National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence against Women. It commemorates the '89 Montreal Massacre where 14 women were targeted & killed for daring to study engineering.
Attend your local vigil & come learn community care with me
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Attend your local vigil & come learn community care with me
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Saturday, December 6th is Canada's National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence against Women. It commemorates the '89 Montreal Massacre where 14 women were targeted & killed for daring to study engineering.
Attend your local vigil & come learn community care with me
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Attend your local vigil & come learn community care with me
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Reposted by Julie S. Lalonde
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
Reposted by Julie S. Lalonde
I also just love this genre of post. "My friend, who absolutely sucks shit, is struggling to find a partner."
December 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I also just love this genre of post. "My friend, who absolutely sucks shit, is struggling to find a partner."
Reposted by Julie S. Lalonde
This feels like the central toxicity of these dude-gurus: They're feeding men an ideology that immediately casts it as "virtue signaling" whenever anyone states a moral value of any kind. An explicitly nihilistic worldview and a recipe for lifelong misery.
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This feels like the central toxicity of these dude-gurus: They're feeding men an ideology that immediately casts it as "virtue signaling" whenever anyone states a moral value of any kind. An explicitly nihilistic worldview and a recipe for lifelong misery.
Reposted by Julie S. Lalonde
When I say Spotify is Surveillance, I don’t just mean it’s creepy that they are tracking what music you listen to and using that data to serve ads.
I mean your Spotify data is deeply intimate and can be used to glean information about you like your daily habits, your moods, and more.
I mean your Spotify data is deeply intimate and can be used to glean information about you like your daily habits, your moods, and more.
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
When I say Spotify is Surveillance, I don’t just mean it’s creepy that they are tracking what music you listen to and using that data to serve ads.
I mean your Spotify data is deeply intimate and can be used to glean information about you like your daily habits, your moods, and more.
I mean your Spotify data is deeply intimate and can be used to glean information about you like your daily habits, your moods, and more.
As a violence prevention educator, when parents ask me "What can I do to protect my kids from sexual abuse?", my advice is teach them the correct names for their body parts.
If a child is being abused and tells a teacher "My bird hurts", they're not gonna be able to clock that they don't mean a pet
If a child is being abused and tells a teacher "My bird hurts", they're not gonna be able to clock that they don't mean a pet
Hi. I transcribe child forensic interviews
You know who doesn’t want kids to know the correct names for body parts? The predators that put those kids in a position to need child forensic interviews.
Those kids NEVER know the right words for their body parts and it is always a hinderance.
You know who doesn’t want kids to know the correct names for body parts? The predators that put those kids in a position to need child forensic interviews.
Those kids NEVER know the right words for their body parts and it is always a hinderance.
It’s okay to name butts. It's okay to laugh about them. It is developmentally appropriate and healthy for toddlers (let alone fifth graders) to name body parts. We all have bums. What is the fear here? 5/
December 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
As a violence prevention educator, when parents ask me "What can I do to protect my kids from sexual abuse?", my advice is teach them the correct names for their body parts.
If a child is being abused and tells a teacher "My bird hurts", they're not gonna be able to clock that they don't mean a pet
If a child is being abused and tells a teacher "My bird hurts", they're not gonna be able to clock that they don't mean a pet
"You can't split the bill - she won't fuck you!" stuff is so hilarious because ever heard of the Dutch?!
Also, these men who weaponize sex workers in this way are so infuriating because they are fundamentally contributing to the dehumanization of sex workers and never do shit for sex worker rights.
Also, these men who weaponize sex workers in this way are so infuriating because they are fundamentally contributing to the dehumanization of sex workers and never do shit for sex worker rights.
And he clearly believes that buying sex is the only way any man ever obtains it ("you have to pick up the tab or women won't have sex with you, no one will have sex with you if you split the bill" -- HONESTLY?)
December 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"You can't split the bill - she won't fuck you!" stuff is so hilarious because ever heard of the Dutch?!
Also, these men who weaponize sex workers in this way are so infuriating because they are fundamentally contributing to the dehumanization of sex workers and never do shit for sex worker rights.
Also, these men who weaponize sex workers in this way are so infuriating because they are fundamentally contributing to the dehumanization of sex workers and never do shit for sex worker rights.
Reposted by Julie S. Lalonde
Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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I'm online less these days because I no longer have it in me to get bullied by adults who were born after Kurt Cobain died.
December 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm online less these days because I no longer have it in me to get bullied by adults who were born after Kurt Cobain died.
Black Friday! Cyber Monday! Giving Tuesday!
My inbox screams out "NO MORE! MAKE IT STOP!"
My inbox screams out "NO MORE! MAKE IT STOP!"
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Black Friday! Cyber Monday! Giving Tuesday!
My inbox screams out "NO MORE! MAKE IT STOP!"
My inbox screams out "NO MORE! MAKE IT STOP!"
I know I post about this book like, 5x a year but it's almost 20 yrs old & still so relevant.
When women, people of colour, trans people, etc. talk about being harmed, the Right calls us whiners playing the victim.
Meanwhile, *they* are the "true" victims of wokeness/DEI/Cancel culture, etc.
When women, people of colour, trans people, etc. talk about being harmed, the Right calls us whiners playing the victim.
Meanwhile, *they* are the "true" victims of wokeness/DEI/Cancel culture, etc.
December 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I know I post about this book like, 5x a year but it's almost 20 yrs old & still so relevant.
When women, people of colour, trans people, etc. talk about being harmed, the Right calls us whiners playing the victim.
Meanwhile, *they* are the "true" victims of wokeness/DEI/Cancel culture, etc.
When women, people of colour, trans people, etc. talk about being harmed, the Right calls us whiners playing the victim.
Meanwhile, *they* are the "true" victims of wokeness/DEI/Cancel culture, etc.
Reposted by Julie S. Lalonde
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
Reposted by Julie S. Lalonde
"the essay sucks ass" is no doubt true, couldn't be bothered to read it, but consider that the essay may have been written to receive an F in order to instigate a campaign against the trans TA. in any case it's not a great dunk because this isn't about the essay, it's about purging trans ppl
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"the essay sucks ass" is no doubt true, couldn't be bothered to read it, but consider that the essay may have been written to receive an F in order to instigate a campaign against the trans TA. in any case it's not a great dunk because this isn't about the essay, it's about purging trans ppl
Reposted by Julie S. Lalonde
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
Saturday, December 6th is Canada's National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence against Women. It commemorates the '89 Montreal Massacre where 14 women were targeted & killed for daring to study engineering.
Attend your local vigil & come learn community care with me
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Attend your local vigil & come learn community care with me
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Saturday, December 6th is Canada's National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence against Women. It commemorates the '89 Montreal Massacre where 14 women were targeted & killed for daring to study engineering.
Attend your local vigil & come learn community care with me
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Attend your local vigil & come learn community care with me
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Reposted by Julie S. Lalonde
The Alberta UCP passed virtually all of resolutions at its weekend convention. One called for an end to “public funding for third-trimester abortions, except in cases where the physical health of the mother is at serious risk.”
It passed.
Here's ARCC's fact check: tinyurl.com/yzbed8xh
It passed.
Here's ARCC's fact check: tinyurl.com/yzbed8xh
UCP members pass resolutions on auto insurance, abortion, clean coal
The resolution votes do not obligate the province to act on them, though some past party resolutions have become government policy.
edmontonjournal.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The Alberta UCP passed virtually all of resolutions at its weekend convention. One called for an end to “public funding for third-trimester abortions, except in cases where the physical health of the mother is at serious risk.”
It passed.
Here's ARCC's fact check: tinyurl.com/yzbed8xh
It passed.
Here's ARCC's fact check: tinyurl.com/yzbed8xh
"To disavow the label [feminist] while pursuing the substance creates a strategic inconsistency — one that weakens Canada’s credibility with partners who are doubling down on feminist approaches, including the EU, Germany, and most Nordic states."
Does Canada have a feminist foreign policy? Actually, we do. And we are proof it works - Equality Fund Fonds Égalité
Jess TomlinCEO of the Equality Fund Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney, since leading a new government formed earlier this year, has been focusing on investment, financial growth and diversifying tra...
equalityfund.ca
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"To disavow the label [feminist] while pursuing the substance creates a strategic inconsistency — one that weakens Canada’s credibility with partners who are doubling down on feminist approaches, including the EU, Germany, and most Nordic states."
For the #16Days, I've facilitated a dozen or so presentations this week alone. Lots of amazing conversations, but far too much "What about men?!" detractor nonsense.
I'm exhausted and STOKED that it's Friday!
I'm exhausted and STOKED that it's Friday!
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
For the #16Days, I've facilitated a dozen or so presentations this week alone. Lots of amazing conversations, but far too much "What about men?!" detractor nonsense.
I'm exhausted and STOKED that it's Friday!
I'm exhausted and STOKED that it's Friday!