Julie S. Lalonde

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Julie S. Lalonde
Born
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Alma materCarleton University
Notable workResilience is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde (2020)

Julie S. Lalonde (born June 18) [1] is a Franco-Ontarian women's rights advocate, author, and educator. [2] She has created multiple feminist organizations and education campaigns, and has offered many training sessions surrounding sexual violence, harassment, and bystander intervention[ citation needed ]. Her first book, Resilience is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde, was published in February 2020. [3]

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Early life and education

Julie Lalonde was born in Sudbury, Ontario, and later moved to Ottawa, where she currently resides. [4] She attended Carleton University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts (honours) in Canadian Studies and Women's Studies in 2007, and a Master of Arts in Canadian Studies in 2013. [5] Her thesis focused on elderly women experiencing isolation and poverty in Ottawa. [2] As a student, Lalonde spent six years advocating for the creation of an on-campus sexual assault centre for Carleton University, which eventually opened in 2013. [5]

Career

In 2011, Lalonde helped establish and manage the Ontario provincial campaign, Draw the Line, which promotes public education about sexual violence, harassment, consent, and bystander intervention. [6]

Around the same time, Lalonde founded the Ottawa chapter, the first in Canada, of Hollaback!, an international non-profit organization fighting to end street harassment. [2] [7] Since 2013, Lalonde, as the director of Hollaback! Ottawa, has been advocating for OC Transpo to implement initiatives to reduce harassment on public transit. [8] In 2015, the “Let OC Transpo Know” campaign was implemented, encouraging transit passengers to report when they feel unsafe or experience harassment. [8] As of 2019, Lalonde has continued to have conversations with OC Transpo, pushing for further bystander intervention training and education campaigns. [9]

In 2017, Lalonde, in collaboration with Montreal-based artist Ambivalently Yours, created Outside of the Shadows, a bilingual art and educational project about criminal harassment in Canada, based on her own experience of being stalked. [10] The project includes a short film posted on YouTube and a series of posters providing advice for both survivors and witnesses of stalking. [10]

On September 29, 2016, Lalonde gave the keynote speech at her hometown's Take Back the Night march in Sudbury. [11]

On March 11, 2020, Library and Archives Canada hosted the book launch for Lalonde's debut release, Resilience is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde. [12] Named one of CBC Books’ best Canadian nonfiction of 2020, Lalonde's memoir details her decade-long experience of being stalked by a former boyfriend. [13]

Anti-harassment training

In October 2014, Lalonde was contracted to give a series of presentations about consent and sexual violence to the Royal Military College of Canada, where she said she received “incredible hostility” [14] from the cadets. She received a formal letter of apology from the commandant five months after making a complaint. [14] In February 2018, Lalonde offered training sessions about sexual harassment prevention at the NDP convention. [15] She led similar anti-harassment sessions at a Liberal Party convention with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in attendance. [15] In 2019, Lalonde ran bilingual closed-door training sessions about harassment prevention and bystander intervention in the workplace organized by the Prime Minister's Office and the Liberal Research Bureau. [15]

Awards and recognition

Lalonde has received several awards and recognition for both her activism and her writing.

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  1. ↑ @JulieSLalonde (13 June 2020). "Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes! It turned into a beautiful day and I'm so grateful I got to hug my fr…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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