Itโs looking pretty wet out there, Torontoโฆ My final grief walks might need to move online! Stay tuned I will check in closer to the walk time with weather updates and a link if necessary โ๏ธ
30.10.2025 15:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@adriannap.bsky.social
๐จ๐ฆ Canadian Storyteller. Death Doula. Theatre Nerd. Hex the patriarchy. Make art. https://linktr.ee/LadyDeathDoula
Itโs looking pretty wet out there, Torontoโฆ My final grief walks might need to move online! Stay tuned I will check in closer to the walk time with weather updates and a link if necessary โ๏ธ
30.10.2025 15:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Final gathering for Grief Walks is this Thursday Oct 30th www.adrianna-prosser.com/2025/07/23/g... *weather permitting
28.10.2025 21:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The newsletter is later than normal because there was a LOT to yell about this week!! Fuck Bill 60!! And just because the government relented slightly does not mean we're backing down an inch!! Doug Ford is a garbage clown, with apologies to clowns!! 
buttondown.com/showup/archi...
My friends do cool shit: buttondown.com/blog/jenny-z... and you should get on @showuptoronto.ca newsletter too! @phirephoenix.com ๐
28.10.2025 19:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0When Doug Ford spends $75 million dollars of tax payer money on a commercial in praise of Ronald Regan, all while trying to enable landlords to throw us out of our homes to protect their investment, he is telling us who he is:
Someone who will sell us all up shit creek so his friends can profit.
Today I led a small group through Samhain rituals and practices and we made our own memento mori - a small coffin with sigils and intention to work into our Turn of the Wheel
26.10.2025 03:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis) Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%) Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis) New mothers extend their maternity leaves Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%) Crime goes down (15%โ42%) especially illegal hunting (95%) Domestic violence decreases (30%โ51%) Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people) Home ownership rates increase (17%โ26%) Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%) Savings go up, debts go down Source: scottsantens
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. ๐งต
Oh hey Iโm studying this in Systems Theory in my social work degree and yup, media ๐ฏ impacts politics ๐
24.10.2025 22:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Ford Government Has A Special Message For Ontario Renters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78K...
Do you know how you โunlockโ units? By going back to the 2018 rental cap ban and undoing the harms that Fordโs policies got us here in the first place.
24.10.2025 22:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Ford government has announced plans to shred a bunch of tenant protections: news.ontario.ca/assets/files... (pdf, see p. 13-15)
23.10.2025 17:53 โ ๐ 158 ๐ 148 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 49New short article out now! -- Between life and death: what Halloween reveals about our fear of the afterlife -- www.open.edu/openlearn/he...
24.10.2025 10:53 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We braved it! Thank you so much to all that came out even with the threat of rain ๐งก
23.10.2025 23:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Weather might cancel our Grief Walks tonight: rain called for 5pm-7pm right when we are at the park! Let's check in at 5 pm to see if it's just a light mist or a downpour cancellation situation
23.10.2025 16:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This week (wether permitting) we are walking with special guest Esnรฉ, a clinical hypnotist 
www.adrianna-prosser.com/2025/07/23/g...
Grief Walks week 3 insights and treasures: we explore Sound as a way to walk with grief open.substack.com/pub/ladydeat... #deathdoula
21.10.2025 01:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Such an amazing Grief Walk tonight! I asked a big ask and the group moved with it. If you want to hear the songs the grief walkers picked head to my playlist music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...
17.10.2025 02:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Tomorrow: October 16th join me and @hardfeelingsto.bsky.social Kate and Taylor for a walk with grief ๐ค
More details:
www.adrianna-prosser.com/2025/07/23/g...
Grief Walks - week two reflections on Movement as a way to metabolize grief: 
open.substack.com/pub/ladydeat...
#deathdoula
For those of you just coming in after the news on the Irish artist funds: UBI is a concept that empowers EVERYONE to exist in a way that doesn't require being born lucky or constantly have the threat of death looming over them. It works by giving the populace a set of funds, meant for things such as
07.10.2025 19:32 โ ๐ 36 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Reminder that we still donโt know what happened to the 1,000 immigrants who went missing from Alligator Alcatraz. 
Their families and attorneys canโt locate them. 
Theyโve been disappeared. 
People are still being sent to that horrible place without any due process.
This week I will have special guest James who will be able to talk about the Japanese healing practice of Reiki and how it can complement your grief journey. See you Thursday www.adrianna-prosser.com/2025/07/23/g... #deathdoula
07.10.2025 22:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My first Grief Walk was all about Storytelling: open.substack.com/pub/ladydeat...
#deathdoula
Thank you to those that walked with me at my first Grief Walks in Riverdale Park East in Toronto!
See you next week www.adrianna-prosser.com/2025/07/23/g...
Israel has continued to illegally intercept vessels from the Sumud Flotilla.
As Canada says it's โnot able to guarantee the safety of Canadian travelers, or to provide them with security and protection abroad," the people are defending the flotilla.
Protests are sparking around the world:
Grief Walks is about Storytelling - First week of Grief Walks I shared some personal stories of grief, and the story of why I chose the Don River to walk beside
Read it all on my SubStack:
open.substack.com/pub/ladydeat...
#deathdoula
Looking forward to supporting my local Native Womenโs Resource Centre in Toronto on Truth and Reconciliation Day Sept 30th 
nwrct.ca
#everychildmatters
Death Cafe Snub
I asked my local library if they wanted me to host a Death Cafรฉ and they ghosted me... Read it on my SubStack:
open.substack.com/pub/ladydeat...
So lucky to know Aly Bird and have her book as a Griefy Giveaway at my Grief Walks happening every Thursday in October. The first ten people to say hello to me on Oct 2nd will get a free copy of her book๐ Grief Ally www.adrianna-prosser.com/2025/07/23/g...
25.09.2025 00:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Iโm hosting my final Turn of the Wheel workshop for Samhain on October 25 as part of The Plant Mysticโs Signs and Seers Mystic Arts Fair weekend ๐๐ www.theplantmystic.com/mystic-arts-...
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