Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula

It’s looking pretty wet out there, Toronto… 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 ☔️

Final gathering for Grief Walks is this Thursday Oct 30th www.adrianna-prosser.com/2025/07/23/g... *weather permitting

Show Up Toronto, October 28 2025 Hi friends and neighbours, It will not come as a surprise to you that this newsletter's official political stance is that Doug Ford is a nightmare human...

The 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!!
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How Jenny Zhang uses Buttondown Jenny uses Buttondown to inspire readers to show up and show out for their communities.

My friends do cool shit: buttondown.com/blog/jenny-z... and you should get on @showuptoronto.ca newsletter too! @phirephoenix.com 👑

When 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

OBSERVED 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%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%) Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%) Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people) Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%) 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. 🧵

Oh hey I’m studying this in Systems Theory in my social work degree and yup, media 💯 impacts politics 🙃

YouTube video by Clare Blackwood The Ford Government Has A Special Message For Ontario Renters

The Ford Government Has A Special Message For Ontario Renters

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Do you know how you “unlock” units? By going back to the 2018 rental cap ban and undoing the harms that Ford’s policies got us here in the first place.

The Ford government has announced plans to shred a bunch of tenant protections: news.ontario.ca/assets/files... (pdf, see p. 13-15)

New short article out now! -- Between life and death: what Halloween reveals about our fear of the afterlife -- www.open.edu/openlearn/he...

We braved it! Thank you so much to all that came out even with the threat of rain 🧡

Weather 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

This week (wether permitting) we are walking with special guest Esné, a clinical hypnotist

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Grief Walks week 3 insights and treasures: we explore Sound as a way to walk with grief open.substack.com/pub/ladydeat... #deathdoula

Such 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/...

Tomorrow: October 16th join me and @hardfeelingsto.bsky.social Kate and Taylor for a walk with grief 🤍

More details:
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Grief Walks - week two reflections on Movement as a way to metabolize grief:
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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

Reminder that we still don’t know what happened to the 1,000 immigrants who went missing from Alligator Alcatraz.

Their families and attorneys can’t locate them.

They’ve 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

My first Grief Walk was all about Storytelling: open.substack.com/pub/ladydeat...

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Thank you to those that walked with me at my first Grief Walks in Riverdale Park East in Toronto!
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Israel has continued to illegally intercept vessels from the Sumud Flotilla.

As Canada says it's “not 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:
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Looking forward to supporting my local Native Women’s Resource Centre in Toronto on Truth and Reconciliation Day Sept 30th
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Death Cafe Snub I asked my local library if they wanted me to host a Death Café and they ghosted me.

Death Cafe Snub
I asked my local library if they wanted me to host a Death Café and they ghosted me... Read it on my SubStack:
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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 book📕 Grief Ally www.adrianna-prosser.com/2025/07/23/g...

I’m hosting my final Turn of the Wheel workshop for Samhain on October 25 as part of The Plant Mystic’s Signs and Seers Mystic Arts Fair weekend 🎃💀 www.theplantmystic.com/mystic-arts-...