The Rainbow Centre was getting constant threats. When reached by phone byMacleans, Rambukkana immediately hung up. When she accepted an offer to do her masters at Wilfrid Laurier University, it was in part because the program on cultural analysis and social theory sounded unique, but also because shed get the chance to live in Ontario. Care2 Stands Against: bigots, racists, bullies, science deniers, misogynists, gun lobbyists, xenophobes, the willfully ignorant, animal abusers, frackers, and other mean people. Previously, Adria was a Research Assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University and also held positions at Family & Children's Services of Guelph and Wellington County, YWCA Kitchener Waterloo, University of Guelph, L'Arche Canada. All she had was the attention of a first-year class of undergrads, gathered for a 50-minute tutorial on grammar. Production of the Digital Greenhouse has several components, including the actual plant development, creation of the Arduino and Raspberry Pi code, decor of the structure, and manufacturing of all the accessories including the custom wooden "planter boxes" the flowers live in. Lindsay does not want to be associated with them in any way. Adria Joel, MSW, RSW Group and Workshop Coordinator at Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region Kitchener, Ontario, Canada 113 followers 110 connections Join to connect Sexual Assault. I should have seen how meeting with a panel of three people would be an intimidating situation and not invite a productive discussion, he said. Others say they have to consider that there are plenty of speakers already and a schedule to stick to. Ker sodie ve kot oitno ne namerava obsoditi . As a result, Shepherd was called in by her supervisor Nathan Rambukkana, Professor Herbert Pimlott and Adria Joel, the universitys manager of gendered violence prevention. Therefore, they argue, should the court find Peterson suffered damages or injuries, those would be attributable to Shepherd and her publication and dissemination of the recording.. At Dalhousie University over the summer, Masuma Khan, a member of the student council executive, helped pass a motion that the union not engage in any Canada 150 celebration calling it an act of colonialism. The men chat amongst themselves. She is teaching assistant for a class called Canadian Communication in Context. A few weeks ago, as part of a lecture on gendered language, Shepherd showed a 5 minute clip of a debate between Nicholas Matte, a professor of Transgender Studies, and University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson. She is adamant that she had not taken Petersons side in the debate, but merely presented both arguments. WATERLOO, Ontario, January 2, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) The two Canadian university professors who bullied a teaching assistant to tears because she showed students a clip of a debate with Jordan Peterson have now mentioned her in a third party lawsuit. Join Facebook to connect with Adria Joel and others you may know. And the reality is that when people like Peterson speak, it has consequences in the real worldconsequences I have to live through every day.. In the recorded audio, Rumbukkana objected to Shepherds decision to air Petersons problematic opinions. But when the Rebel posts its interview from the rally with Shepherd, four days after the factnone of her answers skewedShepherd begins to hear the criticism, even disappointment. Meanwhile, a crowd starts to grow a short walk away by Veterans Green Park, across the street from Lauriers main campus entrance in Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University, Fire Nathan Rambukkana and Adria Joel, Copyright 2023 Care2.com, inc. and its licensors. And I dont think of this as one team against the other.. On our crest, it saysVeritas Omnia Vincit, which means truth conquers all. But how can truth win a battle if one side cant competeif one side gets censored?. People are not coming in.. I would have gone through my whole life thinking I offended someone and really hurt someone, and I violated policies, and it would not have been true, Shepherd said. Adria Joel is a Manager, Gendered Violence Prevention & Support at Wilfrid Laurier University based in Waterloo, Ontario. The voices are of Shepherd, her supervising professor Nathan Rambukkana, another professor, Herbert Pimlott, as well as Adria Joel, manager of Gendered Violence Prevention and Support at the. As the Shepherd story gained traction in the media, Peterson read as columnists said that my views were abhorrent, he says, including two inMacleansthat were most egregious., Those contentious views regarding the use of gender pronouns are explained in a YouTube video Peterson posted in 2016 about the Ontario Human Rights Commissions definition of gender identityas each persons internal and individual experience of gender. The reality is Dr. Petersons speech is targeted at trans people, says the Laurier PhD student. The first clip, which runs less than two minutes, starts at the 4:45 mark when Jordan Peterson, a psychology professor at the University of Toronto, is asked what he finds so offensive about Bill C-16, the proposed legislation (later passed in Parliament) that added gender expression and identity to grounds for discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act. To speak to an individual as they., Peterson counters: Right. With minutes until its time to leave the restaurant for the rally, Shepherd rehearses her opening line: I never thought we would get to a point in society where showing a clip fromThe Agenda with Steve Paikinin a classroom would end up as an international news story and scandal.. We Care2. As counter-protesters leave as a group, Shepherd waits patiently as fansmostly young menqueue up for a chance to exchange a few words with her, and maybe take a selfie. Neither knew one student from the class would soon contact the Rainbow Centre, the campus LGBTQ support community, to complain about the discussion. A university has to encourage free expression. I like my brain being challenged, she says. A student advocate for freedom of speech on campus shows wears a button at Wilfrid Laurier University on November 24, 2017. The group of several dozenwent to their back-up plan: a silent protest to visually represent the silencing of trans voices. Film je nastal po odmevnem romanu avtorja mnogih knjinih uspenic Johna Grishama. But you guys seem to think that Im pro-Jordan Peterson, or something., Near the end of the recording, when Shepherd again insists that she remained neutral in presenting the clip, one of the administrators responded: Thats kind of the problem., Shepherd repeated to Global News that she had presented the debate between Peterson and Nicholas Matte neutrally. One need only look at the Facebook page for the Rainbow Centre and see the uptick in hate messages in recent weeks to realize threats to their safety exist. Toby Finlay, right, and Milas Hewson, transgender students and spokespeople for the Rainbow Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University. Thats not necessarily true, Lindsay, says the assistant professor. They also want more safety measures installed at diversity and equity office buildings, such as a panic button and reinforced glass, andamong other asksthe school to hire a trans person of colour full-time as a counsellor within the diversity and equity office to offer mental health support for students. Shes very principled, he says. The second clip, almost three minutes long, starts more than 49 minutes into the segment when Paikin speaks with Nicholas Matte, a historian who teaches in the Sexual Diversity Studies program at the University of Toronto. Birthplace: Cisne, Wayne County, Illinois, United States. Shepherd replied that she thinks its because she showed a debate clip that had Jordan Peterson in it. Shepherd talks to every media outlet that asks her. And theres all this crap on TV. Shepherd remembers he opened by acknowledging the situation and while he couldnt go into specifics because of confidentiality reasons, he told the students if they needed emotional or mental support, they should feel welcome to go to the campus wellness centre. Peterson's complaint has to do with the specific things said by Rambukkana . So bringing something like that up in class, not critically., It was critical, Shepherd interrupts. He was making it so that we could not actually talk about what was going on., "When asked via email if he would like to comment on the record about his appearance in class that day, Urquhart declined. Shepherd insisted she remained neutral during her tutorial, to which Rumbakkana replied: thats kind of the problem.. Its not like they can skew what I said. I, des de fa jornades, no mostra cap argument per pensar que la situaci millorar. "I can't believe Lindsay won't let this go and continues to attack people on a daily basis," another person writes in an e-mail of support to Adria Joel, the manager of gendered violence. In June 2018, Peterson filed suit against Wilfrid Laurier University, Rambukkana, Pimlott and Joel. She's been praised as a "free-speech hero" who stood up to "PC authoritarian sociopaths." She's also been called an "alt-right heroine" who created a toxic, perhaps even violent, classroom climate.. El Nstic est en un moment durssim. During an undergraduate tutorial, she played a video of a debate between two university professors, Jordan Peterson and Nicholas Matte, that aired on Ontarios public broadcast channel. There is this misconception that free speech is a conservative issue, but thats not the case, says Alexander Eyre, president of the University of Waterloo Conservatives. But for me thats the spirit of the university is challenging ideas you already have, she replies. Your white tears arent sacred, this land is. The university at one point said a Senate Discipline Committee would consider the matter due to unwelcome or persistent conduct that the student knows, or ought to reasonably know, would cause another person to feel demeaned, intimidated or harassed. Days later, the school withdrew the complaint against Khan. Don't have an account? In response to Shepherds explanation that she was presenting students with ideas that they would eventually encounter in public life and that Peterson was a real person, one of the professors replied: He is a real person, but he is a real person who has engaged in targeted behavior or targetting of trans(sexual) students by doxxing them, giving out their personal information so that they will be attacked, harassed, so that death threats will find them. Im stressed out because this to me is so wrong, so wrong., Shepherd asks who shes targeted in all this. The video was showed and she asked the class for some of their thoughts. Laurier university employees Nathan Rambukkana and Adria Joel used their positions of power and authority to attempt to intimidate teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd out of presenting both sides of the contemporary debate on mandated use of gender-neutral pronouns to students. The professors maintain, however, that their remarks about Peterson would never have become public had they not been recorded and given to the media by teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd. Some suggest shell inevitably open a Patreon account, where followers will give her donations to keep speaking up for free speech, but shes dismissed any such suggestion. As such, the counter-protesters hold placards around their shirts that read Trans People Deserve Justice. Many of them keep their faces covered under a scarf. They carry signs that read I stand with Lindsay or Everyone you meet knows something you dont. One sign says I (heart) free speech and trans people. Another, with a picture of Jordan Peterson, reads: This man is your friend. And what are those words? We werent sure what was going to happen.. In fact, she says she disagrees with Petersons position. Lindsay Shepherd is a graduate student and a teaching assistant at the university in Ontario, Canada. Some of the freedoms we have, have to be limited to ensure the protection of all of our membersespecially the most marginalized groups in our societies.. I dont think theres any evidence for it. He goes on to claim its binary because there are two biological forms of sex, and for someone to say that gender is independent from ones biological sex is a proposition, not a fact., Peterson has steadfastly refused to use non-gendered pronouns, be it they, ze or hir. I dont recognize another persons right to determine what pronouns I use to address them, he adds in his YouTube clip. All rights reserved. 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