Je Me Souviens

I was 13 years old when I became a feminist. 

I was 13 years old when a man walked into a Polytechnique in Montreal armed with a gun.

I was 13 years old when a man walked into a Polytechnique and murdered 14 women for being women.

I was 13 years old when a man walked into a Polytechnique and injured 10 more women and 4 men.

I was 13 years old when I realised the full extent of male violence against women.

I am not going to name him. He does not deserve our remembrance. 

The 14 women who died that day deserve our memory.

• Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student
• Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
• Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
• Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
• Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student
• Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student
• Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department
• Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student
• Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
• Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student
• Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student
• Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
• Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student
• Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student

Je me Souviens.