‘Just live your life,’ women’s rights advocate tells survivors of violence

'Focusing on resilience ignores the systemic problem that forces people to fight so hard in the first place,' says Julie Lalonde.
Women's rights advocate Julie Lalonde details how she was stalked by her abusive ex-boyfriend Xavier for 11 years.
After being stalked for more than a decade by her former partner, Ottawa-based women’s rights advocate Julie Lalonde says the idea of resilience “has always rubbed me the wrong way.” In

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