REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN OF DECEMBER 6TH: ABORIGINAL, OF COLOUR, QUEER, TRANS, DISABLED, SEX WORKER IN CANADA

p For 22 years December 6th (National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada) has been the day where span data-scayt_word="heteronormative" data-scaytid="1"heteronormative/span White women in Canada remember their own. What about Aboriginal women, Women of span data-scayt_word="Colour" data-scaytid="2"Colour/span, Trans and Queer Women, Disabled women and span data-scayt_word="Sexworkers" data-scaytid="3"Sexworkers/span. See what some of these women have to say about span data-scayt_word="Decemeber" data-scaytid="4"Decemeber/span 6th , span data-scayt_word="SLUTWALK" data-scaytid="5"SLUTWALK/span, Occupy, and how they remember the forgotten women of December 6th./p p December 6th is the day where 14 white women were killed in a Montreal university classroom. White feminists decided to hold a vigil for them. 22 years later many women from different groups wonder why it took 14 white women for Canada to care about Stopping violence against women when 800+ Aboriginal Women have been murdered or are missing and Trans women and Sex Workers and Women of span data-scayt_word="Colour" data-scaytid="6"Colour/span experience or are not here because of violence without a peep from society and government./p p emJorge Antonio/em emspan data-scayt_word="Vallejos" data-scaytid="7"Vallejos/span is a mixed race, Toronto based, poet, essayist and journalist. He is the creator of blackcoffeepoet.com. His writing has appeared in span data-scayt_word="COLORLINES" data-scaytid="8"COLORLINES/span, span data-scayt_word="XTRA" data-scaytid="9"XTRA/span!, THIS Magazine, span data-scayt_word="Anishinabek" data-scaytid="10"Anishinabek/span News, Toronto Star, The Kenyon Review, and Descant. Jorge can be reached at blackcoffeepoet@gmail.com./em/p