The bells ring out for sorrow and for shame ...

[marnanightingale]

Geneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967) mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.

Let their names be remembered; let his name be forgotten.

Comments

[shezan.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of this until this post, & then I googled it. Quite scary.

Dangers of being a feminist

[elegia.livejournal.com]

I second that; I'd never heard of this before either, and it seems unjust that I hadn't.

It terrifies me that just being a woman finally able to partake of opportunities previously deemed 'off-limits' is enough to get you killed.

However, I also know that I'm not going to stop being a loud, proud, bisexual feminist no matter what the threat. I can't change what I am & that is it, through and through. Strangely I've often been accused of looking/being lesbian too, so I guess I can't decrease my visibility even if I wanted to.

This made me feel shocked, and sad, and aware that my status as a woman is not yet, & may never be safe.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Very much a formative event for my generation (I was born in '69)

Every year I think for at least a moment of how much they might have DONE and BEEN by now... and the loss just seems greater as the years pass.