Lorelei Root ♿️🏳️🌈 (she/her)
@squarest-root.bsky.social
Queer, disabled Guelphite and Accessibility Specialist.
Previous (resigned in protest of ableism) City of Guelph Accessibility Advisory Committee chair, Canadian Centre for Disability Studies board member, Guelph Independent Living board member, & more
Previous (resigned in protest of ableism) City of Guelph Accessibility Advisory Committee chair, Canadian Centre for Disability Studies board member, Guelph Independent Living board member, & more
I hope @camguthrie.bsky.social and others who push to criminalize homelessness in Guelph look outside during storms like this and imagine what it would be like to live in a tent.
Those are the people you’re forcing into dangerous areas away from support services and life saving resources.
Those are the people you’re forcing into dangerous areas away from support services and life saving resources.
July 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I hope @camguthrie.bsky.social and others who push to criminalize homelessness in Guelph look outside during storms like this and imagine what it would be like to live in a tent.
Those are the people you’re forcing into dangerous areas away from support services and life saving resources.
Those are the people you’re forcing into dangerous areas away from support services and life saving resources.
Hey folks! Does anyone have leads on somewhere that designs leg prosthetics in Guelph or nearby? We have a community member who is an amputee and *urgently* needs a new prosthetic limb, and I am not sure exactly where to start to help getting her one.
Thanks!
Thanks!
July 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Hey folks! Does anyone have leads on somewhere that designs leg prosthetics in Guelph or nearby? We have a community member who is an amputee and *urgently* needs a new prosthetic limb, and I am not sure exactly where to start to help getting her one.
Thanks!
Thanks!
I’m going to need Elon and Trump to either shut up and kiss already, or stop taking up all this unearned attention during pride month. 🌈
June 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I’m going to need Elon and Trump to either shut up and kiss already, or stop taking up all this unearned attention during pride month. 🌈
They had to reopen applications for Guelph’s Accessibility Advisory Committee.
Only one of the previous members reapplied, the rest of us quit, and the city obviously didn’t get enough new applicants.
It’s almost like if you ignore and lie to disabled people enough, we stop wanting to engage. 🤷🏼♀️
Only one of the previous members reapplied, the rest of us quit, and the city obviously didn’t get enough new applicants.
It’s almost like if you ignore and lie to disabled people enough, we stop wanting to engage. 🤷🏼♀️
May 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
They had to reopen applications for Guelph’s Accessibility Advisory Committee.
Only one of the previous members reapplied, the rest of us quit, and the city obviously didn’t get enough new applicants.
It’s almost like if you ignore and lie to disabled people enough, we stop wanting to engage. 🤷🏼♀️
Only one of the previous members reapplied, the rest of us quit, and the city obviously didn’t get enough new applicants.
It’s almost like if you ignore and lie to disabled people enough, we stop wanting to engage. 🤷🏼♀️
So I’m really bad at asking for help, but I’m in a bit of a pickle and could use some help right now. My fridge died, and it took my medication along to the underworld with it. I need some help raising the money to replace it. 🫶🏻 gofund.me/cfda9397
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May 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
So I’m really bad at asking for help, but I’m in a bit of a pickle and could use some help right now. My fridge died, and it took my medication along to the underworld with it. I need some help raising the money to replace it. 🫶🏻 gofund.me/cfda9397
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Last night I went downtown to honour the lives we’ve lost to drug poisonings and the people who’ve been abandoned by yesterday’s closure of the Consumption and Treatment Services site. Sincerest Thanks to the staff who kept this site running, preventing countless drug poisoning deaths & overdoses. ❤️🩹
April 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Last night I went downtown to honour the lives we’ve lost to drug poisonings and the people who’ve been abandoned by yesterday’s closure of the Consumption and Treatment Services site. Sincerest Thanks to the staff who kept this site running, preventing countless drug poisoning deaths & overdoses. ❤️🩹
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Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
March 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
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As Trump Administration Cuts Funding, Researchers Turn to European Universities
Source: The New York Times
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As Trump Administration Cuts Funding, Researchers Turn to European Universities
European universities have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the administration’s cost-cutting efforts, or are anxious over perceived threats to academic freedom.
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March 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As Trump Administration Cuts Funding, Researchers Turn to European Universities
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Sure baking sourdough bread sounds cool, but have you ever simply stared at hateful, lumpy, white politicians on the tv and tried to make their sad little internal organs explode using willpower and witchcraft?
Both are perfectly acceptable hobbies.
Both are perfectly acceptable hobbies.
March 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Sure baking sourdough bread sounds cool, but have you ever simply stared at hateful, lumpy, white politicians on the tv and tried to make their sad little internal organs explode using willpower and witchcraft?
Both are perfectly acceptable hobbies.
Both are perfectly acceptable hobbies.
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Coming up at 3 pm, it's this month's Accessibility Advisory Committee meeting. This is what's coming up on the agenda: guelphpolitico.ca/2025/02/12/m...
MEETING PREVIEW: Accessibility Advisory Committee for February 18, 2025
For the firs time in 2025, the Accessibility Advisory Committee will gather and discuss the goal of creating a barrier-free Guelph with another busy agenda. This month, the AAC will be focusing muc…
guelphpolitico.ca
February 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Coming up at 3 pm, it's this month's Accessibility Advisory Committee meeting. This is what's coming up on the agenda: guelphpolitico.ca/2025/02/12/m...
What stage of grief is it when you give yourself side bangs with a kitchen knife at 4am on the day of your friend’s funeral and then clean them up with scissors in a hotel bathroom a couple of days later? Asking for a friend.
February 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
What stage of grief is it when you give yourself side bangs with a kitchen knife at 4am on the day of your friend’s funeral and then clean them up with scissors in a hotel bathroom a couple of days later? Asking for a friend.
Remind your grief that it is love. 💕
Kate’s spirit is with us in every warm meal served, every kind word shared, and every moment of laughter that slips through the sorrow. We love you, Kate. Thank you for showing us what it means to show up with heart. 🫶🏻
February 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Remind your grief that it is love. 💕
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Clear the Way for Accessibility! ❄️
Report snow build-up at accessible parking, crosswalk buttons, sidewalk ramps, or bus stops:
📞 519-837-5648
📧 operations@guelph.ca
🌐 guelph.ca/snow
For emergencies, call 911. Let’s keep Guelph accessible for everyone!
Report snow build-up at accessible parking, crosswalk buttons, sidewalk ramps, or bus stops:
📞 519-837-5648
📧 operations@guelph.ca
🌐 guelph.ca/snow
For emergencies, call 911. Let’s keep Guelph accessible for everyone!
January 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Clear the Way for Accessibility! ❄️
Report snow build-up at accessible parking, crosswalk buttons, sidewalk ramps, or bus stops:
📞 519-837-5648
📧 operations@guelph.ca
🌐 guelph.ca/snow
For emergencies, call 911. Let’s keep Guelph accessible for everyone!
Report snow build-up at accessible parking, crosswalk buttons, sidewalk ramps, or bus stops:
📞 519-837-5648
📧 operations@guelph.ca
🌐 guelph.ca/snow
For emergencies, call 911. Let’s keep Guelph accessible for everyone!
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Hey if you're struggling to work create or anything, it isn't you.
The weight of grief, fear and stress is sky high.
Be kind to yourself. The world won't be.
The weight of grief, fear and stress is sky high.
Be kind to yourself. The world won't be.
January 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey if you're struggling to work create or anything, it isn't you.
The weight of grief, fear and stress is sky high.
Be kind to yourself. The world won't be.
The weight of grief, fear and stress is sky high.
Be kind to yourself. The world won't be.
I think there’s a misconception that Your Downtown Guelph Friends only feeds unhoused folks, but our meal service is for anyone who wants to eat.
If you’re someone who could use a free meal on Sundays, please come see Your Downtown Guelph Friends outside the GCHC on Wyndham street from 2-3:30
If you’re someone who could use a free meal on Sundays, please come see Your Downtown Guelph Friends outside the GCHC on Wyndham street from 2-3:30
January 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I think there’s a misconception that Your Downtown Guelph Friends only feeds unhoused folks, but our meal service is for anyone who wants to eat.
If you’re someone who could use a free meal on Sundays, please come see Your Downtown Guelph Friends outside the GCHC on Wyndham street from 2-3:30
If you’re someone who could use a free meal on Sundays, please come see Your Downtown Guelph Friends outside the GCHC on Wyndham street from 2-3:30
Here’s an article about Your Downtown Guelph Friends and what you can expect from us moving forward. We’re still doing meal service on Sundays, getting food on plates and boots on feet, helping get winter gear and necessities to the people that need them, & we have some upcoming naloxone training. 🫶🏻
Spotlight on: Guelph youth-led meal program and support for vulnerable community members
Your Downtown Guelph Friends will continue their free meal service outside of the Guelph Community Health Centre on Sundays
www.guelphmercury.com
January 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Here’s an article about Your Downtown Guelph Friends and what you can expect from us moving forward. We’re still doing meal service on Sundays, getting food on plates and boots on feet, helping get winter gear and necessities to the people that need them, & we have some upcoming naloxone training. 🫶🏻
If this year has taught me anything so far it’s that you’re never too old to show up at your parents’ house late at night and sit in their kitchen crying while your mom makes you a grilled cheese sandwich.
January 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
If this year has taught me anything so far it’s that you’re never too old to show up at your parents’ house late at night and sit in their kitchen crying while your mom makes you a grilled cheese sandwich.
Heavy, but beautiful tribute to Kate written by @adamadonaldson.bsky.social
www.guelphtoday.com/columns/mark...
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In a world all of jerks and tyrants, be a Kate Nixon
This week's Market Squared remembers a capital 'F' Friend
www.guelphtoday.com
January 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Heavy, but beautiful tribute to Kate written by @adamadonaldson.bsky.social
www.guelphtoday.com/columns/mark...
www.guelphtoday.com/columns/mark...