Lorelei Root ♿️🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Forgive my bluntness, but I spent the day at encampments trying to help good people survive in impossible locations. I’m wet and tired and angry.

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.

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!

🖕🏻🧊

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. 🌈

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YouTube video by CTV News Key members resign from Guelph’s Accessibility Advisory Committee

When I say only one previous member reapplied it’s based on convos I’ve had with other previous AAC members, I’ve been told the rest of us quit in protest. More on that here: youtu.be/2vHCNuJjo2I?...

Screenshot from the city of Guelph boards and committees website showing 11 vacancies on the Accessibility Advisory Committee, with a term that is supposed to start on May 27, 2025. The advisory committee only has 11 members.

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. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Donate to My fridge died and took my medication along with it, organized by Lorelei Root Hi everyone, I’m facing an urgent medical and financial crisis an… Lorelei Root needs your support for My fridge died and took my medication along with it

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

A circular diagram titled “The Inaccessibility Cycle” shows a cycle of systemic exclusion faced by disabled people. At the top, the cycle starts with “Inaccessibility”, leading to “Disabled people unable to participate”, then to “Disabled people not visible in public”. Next, it states “Disabled people seen as outlier/rarity”, followed by “‘So there’s little/no need to consider them’”, which loops back to “Inaccessibility.” In the background, there is a faint wheelchair symbol.

YouTube video by CTV News Key members resign from Guelph’s Accessibility Advisory Committee

youtu.be/2vHCNuJjo2I?...

A small collection of candles, flowers, and naloxone kits placed along the edge of a sidewalk next to a building under two cardboard signs. One sign reads “THE CTS SAVED LIVES” the other reads “SAFE SITES SAVE LIVES”

A small collection of candles, flowers, and naloxone kits placed along the edge of a sidewalk next to a building under two cardboard signs. One sign reads “THE CTS SAVED LIVES” the other reads “SAFE SITES SAVE LIVES”. A permanent sign on the side of the building reads “Guelph Community Health Centre”

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. ❤️‍🩹

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

That yellow jacket goes incredibly well with your hair

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.

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.

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…

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...

A mirror selfie of Lorelei in a lavender crop top with side bangs. The bathroom counter in front of her has a pink hairbrush, a blue pair of scissors, a makeup bag, and a hair straightener

A selfie of Lorelei in a lavender crop top. Her head is turned slightly to the side to show off her side bangs

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. 💕

Wooden covered bridge in a snowy scene. Text is summarized in body of post but taken word for word on the provided city website.

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!

Cold weather alert! The front lobby of Guelph’s City Hall will be open past normal hours on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings this week (Jan 20-22, 2025) from 4:30pm to 8:30am. For more resources in Guelph, visit www.gwpoverty.ca/community-cold-weather-response

Cold weather alert! The front lobby of Guelph’s City Hall will be open past normal hours on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings this week (Jan 20-22, 2025) from 4:30pm to 8:30am. For more resources in Guelph, visit www.gwpoverty.ca/community-cold-weather-response

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.

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

I haven’t even looked at it yet but I’ve heard lots of people are heading over there

I followed you from tiktok. I need to get this one!

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

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. 🫶🏻

Oooh what keurig is that?

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.