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图/多伦多大学Johnny Guatto摄 针对网上对女权主义师生的威胁 多伦多大学举行集会抗议谴责针对女性的暴力
图/多伦多大学Johnny Guatto摄 多伦多大学校长 Meric Gertler、 副校长和教务长Cheryl Regehr（在校长左边）、负责人力资源和平等事务的副校长Angela Hildyard（在校长的右边） 等人都佩戴“多伦多大学女权主义者”胸章
图/多伦多大学Johnny Guatto摄 多伦多大学校长 Meric Gertler“多伦多大学女权主义者”胸章
图/多伦多大学Johnny Guatto摄 一位教授在其办公室前张贴的纸条，对威胁言论所针对的人表示支持
有人在网上发出针对多伦多大学社会性别学和社会学师生的威胁言论，多伦多大学师生昨天举行集会谴责针对女性的暴力。
校园里开始出现“多伦多大学女权主义”的胸章，包括校长在内的学校高层和师生佩戴该胸章，支持威胁言论所针对的人。
多大社会学系研究生发表了一封集体公开信，对威胁言论的对象表示支持。他们在公开信中说：“对（威胁言论的）针对对象，我们表达和他们的团结，并给予争取女性社会和政治公义的持续奋斗坚定的支持。”
怀雅迅大学教务长和负责教学事务的副校长Mohamed Lachemi在声明中说，怀雅迅师生强烈谴责威胁言论，”这类威胁言论打击大学核心价值，非常令人不安。“
约克大学性别、女权主义和女性研究课程研究生协会昨天也发表声明，表示和多伦多大学师生团结在一起。
Open letter of solidarity with women and feminists at the University of Toronto
We, as graduate students, teachers, and researchers in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, write this letter to express our steadfast solidarity with the women and feminists who have been the target of recent, repeated anonymous threats of violence and murder. As the university administration and Toronto Police continue to investigate these threats, we view them as a sobering reminder that being a woman means fighting toexist and ta!e up space in this world, and that this fight is a revolutionary act. We understand that the act of supporting and advocating for feminist principles is sufficient to be met with threats of violence and death. "hallenging patriarchy, masculine privilege, sexism, misogyny, racism, transphobia, and homophobia continues to be sufficiently controversial as to invite the silencing threat of violence.
As sociologists, we understand the social context that incites threats li!e these. We understand the cultural and structural conditions that prime our society for acts of extreme violence against women and against those who support the political struggle for gender equality. We are deeply concerned about the social conditions that continue to disadvantage women collectively, particularly queer and trans-identified women, women with disabilities, women with a precarious citizenship status, indigenous women, and women of colour. We remember the anti-feminist massacre of fourteen women and the injury of fourteen other men and women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. We think about the elevated ris!s of sexual violence against women every day on our university campuses. We consider the emerging culture of online misogyny that encourages anonymous threats of harassment, rape, and death. /inally, we understand that threats li!e these operate to intimidate and silence women and feminists who study and advocate for equality, equity, and most fundamentally, against oppression of all kinds.
To those targeted, we express our solidarity and our unwavering support for the continuedstruggle for social and political *ustice for women. We renew our commitment to the egalitarian treatment of people regardless of gender. Dismantling hierarchical, dehumanizing, and violent structures of power invites resistance, but our collective efforts will not be stopped.
In solidarity,
Concerned Graduate Students at the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto |
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