The clarion call to be the kind of women that the gunman sought to destroy, as Andrea Dworkin once urged, is loud on Dec.
It’s a chilling reminder of the inequality that persists and how we must not take the progress made on women’s rights for granted. We ask ourselves why - how - someone could harbour such loathing toward perfect strangers, simply because they were women. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It was the first mass shooting to shock this city and for a long time it was the country’s deadliest killing spree. But Montreal will always be marked by this massacre. The commemorations have ebbed and flowed over the decades between quiet vigils and large ceremonies. Their herstories have been collected in a book to share their individual brilliance, keep their vitality from fading as time marches on and remind people that they were much more than victims of a notorious crime. We award scholarships to promising young women who follow in their footsteps.Īnd we celebrate who they were as human beings. We honour what they could have, would have, should have accomplished if their lives hadn’t been cruelly cut short by misogyny. We put their names on parks, monuments and public buildings. We pay tribute to what each of these 14 women achieved before their murders as trailblazers training in a male-dominated profession. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf / Montreal Gazette 6, 2016 on the 27th anniversary of the massacre.
Article content A plaque commemorating the 14 women killed at École Polytechnique is seen on Dec.
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