Individual Activism
Activisme individuel
Activisme individuel
INDIVIDUAL ACTIVIST CONTRIBUTIONS
Publications in non-literary journals/magazines/online forums
World Childless Week: September 11-18 (2022). A Bunch of Good Things Here — World Childless Week https://worldchildlessweek.net/sun-18-2022/a-bunch-of-good-things-here
World Childless Week: September (2023). Queer and Childless — World Childless Week https://worldchildlessweek.net/mon-2023/2023/8/20/queer-and-childless
My Body and Me: Some Story. Tutum Magazine. Body Issue (11). Fall 2023. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iCIm4GvQWlv3GLtESIVaGcIJ69fxpsKj/edit
World Childless Week: September (2024). Of the Marginal (or three responses to childlessness) — World Childless Week https://worldchildlessweek.net/sun-2024/of-the-marginal?fbclid=IwY2xjawFdXp9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXhno7Y0OluW1GwFK1wxdNDctp3umcZVvhzvrSS-88pZEczd33HLA9AU8Q_aem_NXN0125ruCUFlTXliFfrog
World Childless Week: September (2025). The Queer Edge of Elderhood: Reflections on Childlessness and Futurism as a 6o something Queer Woman - World Childless Week The Queer edge of elderhood: Reflections on childlessness and futurism as a 60-something Queer woman — World Childless Week
Meriel Whale Councelling (2025, September 30). Queer Childless Stories. We are all in this together: We are all in this together - Sandra (Sandy) Sjollema — Meriel Whale Counselling
World Childless Week: (forthcoming, 2026). Homeless Love.
World Childless Week: (forthcoming, 2026). Down in the mud: Caregiving as a Childless Adult.
Readings (Fundraisers and activist events)
Westmount High School’s Poetry in Residence Program
Centre for Literacy of Quebec, Prose and Poetry Reading (Dawson College)
Poetry and Prose for the environment (Concordia University)
Anarchist Poetry and Music (La Sala Rosa)
Webinar/podcast participation and/or hosting
-Moving Forwards/Plunging Ahead, World Childless Week (2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRnO67JO3Hc&t=2239s (webinar host and panelist)
-The Overlooked and the Unspoken: A Queer experience of childlessness, World Childless Week (2025) The overlooked and the unspoken: A Queer Experience of Childlessness - YouTube (webinar co-host and panelist)
-Sandy, 62 - "I Always Felt Real Women Were Over There, and I Was Over Here", We are Childfree podcast (2026). Sandy, 62 - "I Always Felt Real Women Were Over There, and I Was Over Here." (podcast invited guest)
-All in the Family: Childless women, Caregiving/Caring and Family of Origin Dynamics, World Childless Week (forthcoming, 2026) (webinar host and panelist).
Ongoing volunteering
Media Responder. Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East. The Media Accountability Project. Sign Up - The Media Accountability Project (cjpmemap.ca)
Moderator. LGBTQIA+ group, online Childless Collective. https://childlesscollective.com
Founder/Moderator. Anti-Zionists Jews by Choice (converts), online Facebook group. anti-zionist jews by choice (converts) - search results | Facebook