Vicky Smallman

@offhandremarks.bsky.social

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Feminist. Trade Unionist. Mom of teens. Learning and unlearning constantly and working to make things better. She/her. Posts are my own

Fireworks over a city street
Puffins on a grassy cliff
Legs propped up on a concrete wall over looking a fast-moving river. In the middle of the river is a large concrete and metal structure with lamps at the top. The sky is cloudy and trees line both sides of the river.
A group of people -6 women and one man - smile at the camera. They are all wearing conference badges
Two bespectacled people look awkwardly into the sun for a selfie. He is bearded and wearing a grey baseball cap and a purple tshirt that says “Alpha Male”. She has short blonde hair and is wearing a jean jacket
Obligatory arena selfie, featuring middle aged bespectacled couple wearing red, white and yellow Ottawa charge scarves
A Somali man wearing glasses and a black jacket and white shirt speaks at a lectern.
Old school white brick building in the exchange district in Winnipeg - the Royal Albert Arms hotel
Grey brown mushroom coming out of a bed of dried leaves. It looks like a misshapen brain.
An Indigenous woman wearing long red earrings speaks at a lectern
A grand space in a former train station - a crowd is sitting at tables on the right hand side and rows of chairs on the left. At the front is a lectern with a number of women seated beside.
Bespectacled couple in a hockey arena, wearing Ottawa Charge gear
A classic tavern dolled up to look like a retro. Bowling alley, complete with fake snow around the window sills . In front is a guy in an orange high viz vest and other black clad film crew. A large screen, presumably part of Lighting equipment, is to the left
A plastic storage bin and many coloured raffle tickets on a black stage floor
A stage with a red curtain at the rear, and a sign suspended that says Canadian Improv Games. On the stage are a bunch of differently sized wooden boxes. Stage floor is lit with funky white lighting.
A group of women stand in front of a mural
Sign at PWHL game: came early for the bags but had to study Bio. Rest of sign is notes about the mitochondria
Middle aged couple in hockey arena, sporting Ottawa charge hoodies and a charge branded Barbie fanny pack
Home decor statuette - bottom half is banana with duck feet, top half is duck with mullet.
Two kazoos are held aloft in front of a hockey rink
A bespectacled couple takes a selfie in a hockey arena. He’s sporting a beard, gray hat and Ottawa Charge gear. You can’t see but she is wearing Canadian tuxedo and a Charge hoodie
Convention hall. On the screen is tony mcquail’s slogan “From the Ground Up”
A convention hall, with tables set up facing a stage and three screens. On the stage is a crowd of people with signs supporting Avi Lewis for leader
A woman with dark shoulder length hair wearing a black turtleneck and an orange skirt stands at a lectern
A petite Indigenous Woman speaks at a lectern. Seated next to her at a table are a white woman with glasses and a pink blazer and a Black woman with a blue and white top and navy blazer.
A group gathers around a microphone at a convention. A woman with long hair and a pink scarf is speaking.
A tall woman with long red hair, wearing blue, stands at a Pro Microphone on a convention floor. She is surrounded by supporters
Indigenous men, seated around a large drum, drumming and singing. One of the men is Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, wearing a blue suit and tie
A plate full of sliced grilled hangar steak, accompanied by a green salad, fries and a beer
Two seals raise their noses to the sun in Central Park zoo.
A window in an office building in NYC. Propped up against the windows are signs with pro-2SLGBTQI+ rights slogans: existence is resistance. Stop the worldwide attack against trans people. Solidarity without borders
Screen in a UN meeting room with a young Mexican woman speaking at a microphone
3 million plus workers power Canada’s care economy, roughly 19 percent of all Canadian jobs.
Ad for a Canadian Labour Congress event: Union women rise up for gender justice. Wednesday March 11 8:30-10am CCUN 8th floor, or join online https://bit.ly/RISEUPCLC
Leaders from dozens of public and private sector unions stand behind a podium. Behind them are windows showing a view of Parliament Hill and the Chateau Laurier
White bespectacled smiling couple at a hockey game. She’s wearing yellow lightning bolt earrings. He’s wearing a red Ottawa Charge tuque. A box containing a bobblehead version of Charge captain Brianne Jenner peeks in from the side
A middle aged bespectacled woman with blonde hair raises a glass of beer
Two happy smiling bespectacled hockey fans dressed in red Ottawa Charge hoodies
1980s microwave popcorn maker. A yellow plastic base with a handle, a clear plastic cone; and a clear plastic lid. Made some damn fine popcorn back in the day
7-11 store in Winnipeg, taken from a car
Two hockey fans at a game. Middle aged woman wearing glasses and a tuque beside a red headed teenager
Selfie of blonde bespectacled woman; behind her are two men throwing axes at targets
Promo image for Primeval: New Word, featuring four determined looking people and a dinosaur
Selfie with multiple people and the message Unions Rise up against gender based violence
Meeting room with audience seated, facing a stage with one woman at a podium and a screen behind that says “Workers Together”
Crowd at a hockey game. Someone is holding a sign that says Lansdowne 2.NO
Two happy people in a hockey arena
A hand holds a can of beer called “Warrior Woman”, and beside it is a programme for a play called “the elephant girls”
Half of Vicky’s face with a red and white plastic earring that reads “ union women get shit done”
A small cottage, with trees and the beginnings of a pink sunset behind. On the ground in front and on the surface of the deck is a dusting of icy snow
PowerPoint slide on 5 ways that gender mobilizes extremism. Containment, punishment, exploitation, erasure, enabling - each has a hashtag.
A meeting room on Parliament Hill. A stage is set up at the front with four people seated on it and three screens above. People around are seated at tables.
Jeff Lieper, a clean shaven fellow with glasses wearing a white shirt and khaki trousers, speaks into a microphone beside a speaker
Two people seated on a riser, surrounded by a seated crowd. In the foreground is a media riser with camera workers and lighting S behind the speakers and crowd are windows, orange lighting and screens that say “Workers together”
Two sights in front of an intricately-patterned decorative wall. On one side is a sign with the logo of Action Canadian for Sexual Health and Rights. The other is a French cover of the report on “the real fertility crisis” which shows two hands not quite reaching each other
Leah Gazan, wearing jeans and a white shirt, stands in the circle gathered for the MMIWG Sisters in Spirit Vigil. She holds a microphone.