Sharing Practice: Hate Kills: A justice-doing response to ‘suicide’
Sharing Practice: Hate Kills: A justice-doing response to ‘suicide’
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April 13, 2026
9am - 12pm PDT Vancouver
12pm - 3pm EDT Toronto
5pm - 8pm BST London
$110 Canadian per Participant includes Ticket Tailor & PayPal fees
The intention behind Sharing Practice sessions is to create spaces to share our practice in dialogues within community that holds a collective ethic of justice-doing in community work, counselling and therapy. Each session focuses on specific practice explored in an article, and will have provocations to foster emergent, meaningful dialogues and assist us to explore our practices and witness others in connected struggles.
The language of suicide is unjust, abusive and inaccurate language. People don’t kill themselves in isolation: Hate kills. From a perspective of justice-doing the language of suicide is psychological language that blames people for their own suffering and deaths, when we have collectively failed to join them to the human community with an ethic of belonging. ‘Suicide’, in all contexts of people’s struggles, obscures the person’s many acts of resistance to stay on the planet.
We will also take a critical look at diverse perspectives of MAID Medical Assistance in Dying/VAD- Voluntary Assisted Dying and consider our cultural, spiritual, practical responses. We will dialogue about your practice connections to these ideas of what gets called ‘suicide’, inviting us to engage an ethic of tenderness.
Resources:
Reynolds, V. (2016). Hate Kills: A social justice response to “suicide”. In White, J., Marsh, J., Kral, M., & Morris, J. (Eds.) Critical Suicidology: Towards creative alternatives. Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press.
Scholarships available : reynolds.vikki@gmail.com
Vikki Reynolds (PhD RCC) is an activist/ therapist who works to bridge the worlds of social justice activism with community work and therapy. Vikki is a white settler on the territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam nations. Vikki's people are Irish and English folks, and she is a heterosexual woman with cisgender privilege. Her experience includes supervision and therapy with people-with-lived/living-experience and other workers responding to the opioid catastrophe, refugees and survivors of torture - including Indigenous people who have survived residential schools and other state violence, sexualized violence counsellors, mental health and substance misuse counsellors, housing and shelter workers, activists and working alongside gender and sexually diverse communities. Vikki is an Adjunct Professor and has written and presented internationally. Articles & speaks free at: www.vikkireynolds.ca
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