NDP's Leah Gazan calls MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ critics 'bigots' (www.cbc.ca)

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I originally thought it was an excessive amount of letters to describe those of us under the rainbow but no, it makes more sense in the context of the article I do not really agree with combining the two but to each their own I guess.

MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ stands for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual+. It's derived in part from the more commonly used initialisms MMIWG (missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls) and 2SLGBTQ+.

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[-] malle_yeno@pawb.social 15 points 18 hours ago

Gazan calls the pushback a distraction from the continued violence facing Indigenous women and girls, two-spirit and gender diverse people, along with federal funding cuts to programming aimed at prevention.

And I think the fact that we're focusing on an acronym and not the funding cuts that are at the center of the discussion proves that she's correct.