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Girl With Camera! 22:33 PM: More BTS shots! by matartu for Action Against Hunger USA Ok! Goodnight & feeling grateful to wake up to more photos showcasing a global phenomenon against the inhumanity in the diaspora. 🏷️

A Fantastic Biker: 20:44 PM by matartu for 24hourproject. So, I shot this yesterday, but…artists and fellow weirdos always have my back. We turn pain into music, and bearing witness to suffering into opportunities for art shows and snacks. Hey 🙏 buddy for our shared colourful existences and smiles are always free!

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Impartiality Is Impossible. #16:00 PM by matartu for 24hourproject. 🐻 Temoin, last year’s bear supporting Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) makes his first appearance beside his bevy of indie micro-influencer 😉 🙃 friends here: 🐘 DJ Tembo, 🐰 DJ Songura & Polkaroo the 🐰! Temoin is a character I created when I started volunteering at the Canadian Red Cross over 3 years ago. I recently quit after feeling like impartiality is actually impossible in certain situations. Like violence against me, violence against women before/during/after an emergency management response. As reporters or simply “girls in crisis or disaster management,” freedom of speech far outweighs maintaining the status quo. 🐻🍵 especially when it comes to s**t like femicide, domestic violence, violence against ALL people. I was told to not reach out to any of my managers and told by colleagues that I was wrong for begging the police to not injure me under the MHA for anxiety/endometriosis. Meanwhile, they are still trained to Look, Link and Listen. 🤷‍♀️ It’s individuals (and sometimes the individuals who possess the critical thinking skills to NOT be silent) that cause a system to change, one bunny hop at a time. Again, these opinions are solely my own as an independent journalist AND I no longer am comfortable being complicit with the silence around violence. It’s called Duty to Care & even as a girl with camera, I will never ever excuse abuse. These stuffed animals are all part of my ambulatory care space, where we at Matartu Media have quietly fed and treated two undocumented humans from 🇲🇦 & 🇨🇩/fed a few more “femmes sans abris.” We are surrounded by apathy and poor accountability by clinicians, police and harm reduction workers….in the shadow of 3 downtown Toronto hospitals, 1 women’s hospital with no ambulance bay, 1 mental health hospital with no ambulance bay and police (Div 14) that take 2 days to respond to sexual violence/harassment. Can we please educate student clinicians to DO MUCH BETTER? Systemic silence begets apathy begets heartbreak for both families and communities. Abuse leads to hunger. 🍎
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Be Careful of Pigeons: 16:11 PM by matartu for 24hourproject. Vest by Tatu Rafiki

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Two Bags Full: matartu for 24hourproject in for Action Against Hunger USA

Fluorescent Pen & Ink: 15:46 PM by matartu for 24hourproject.

24 Hours Against Hunger in support of Action Against Hunger USA Whenever I photograph “les residents sans abris” *Toronto residents without shelter, I try to share that I ended up glamping (glamorously camping) in a tent too, and we should ask for consent to photograph. There is a community of mostly men here at City of Toronto City Hall. While FIFA revellers celebrated, they didn’t sleep well but one gentleman joined in too. He watched a game on his smartphone. Minoj (left), draws beautiful pen and ink illustrations and seemed grateful for my Liquitex paint marker. I used it to finish my mural in support of Proper Support for humanitarians. If we are gonna get real honest, what’s the difference between humanitarianaid for a “sans abris” & a humanitarian? Food is love and nature dictates that we should nourish our own, right? Eh?? If you frequent City Hall, my new fellow artist friend can be found drawing things like ❤️ from Star Wars!
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13.51: ❤️💒💍A Lil Baby! Jesse Marcelo Sarkis by matartu for 24hourproject.

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Now You See Him, Soon You Won’t?: 13:38 PM by marartu for 24hourproject.

24 Hours Against Hunger in support of Action Against Hunger USA, a global organization fighting hunger and malnutrition. Sans Abris is the French term for without shelter. As a former , I think right now all I can do is get people bits of food and document their journeys. There are many telltale signs near near Toronto City Hall of the silent and deadly epidemic of apathy towards my fellow unhoused human. I say fellow because I was one of them with my graduate certificate and homelessness, like humanitarian work, forever stays in my/our hearts!

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on a Mission! 13:00PM by 24hourproject

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