Herstory on the Streets of Ottawa
I'm back in Ottawa (second time in a week) for meetings and I decided to go for a walk after being cooped up in the plane for 4 and a half hours. Ottawa is under a ton of construction as our nation's capital gets ready for the big 150 next year which means you can't get close to much for the time being. I sailed on by the War Memorial and as I approached the familiar side of the street to get to the underpass to go to Rideau Centre, there was a public exhibition mounted in front of the old train station where we did our final presentation at the GGCLC in 2012. The first thing I see is a giant poster that says " A Greater Sisterhood: The Women's Rights Struggles in Canada ." Then I look around and see the faces of so many women mounted over about a half block - and not just white women. Indigenous women, francophone women, black women, Asian women depicted from all eras in diverse areas of expertise. Some I knew, some I didn't and now I have a whole bunc