Lorri Rudland

Lorri Rudland was born in Haida Gwaii, off the coast of BC, of white ancestry – her mother was Scottish and her father was Canadian-born of German parents, who immigrated to Canada around 1904. Her parents moved from Haida Gwaii when she was two years old, and she grew up mainly in Surrey, BC. Around the mid-1960’s, she attended the University of BC in Vancouver. At the age of 29, she came out as a lesbian and has been a lifelong feminist, supporter of LGBTQ2S+ rights, human rights and organized labour. During her working life, she became a cook in a hunting camp, trained and worked as a medical lab technologist, and then moved into other occupations such as advocacy, clerical worker, and administrator. She has been a member of Quirk-e since 2021 and loves the supportive writing experience. Her interests are writing, reading, movies, pitch and putt golfing, and cooking.

In her early ears, following graduation from UBC, she worked at the Vancouver Status of Women as an ombudswoman, during 1976-1977 and the early ‘80’s. For VSW she was instrumental in sending a complaint to the Judicial Council in 1976 about a Vancouver judge who used demeaning sexist language during a court case. In partnership with VSW, she and Megan Ellis from Women Against Violence Against Women brought a complaint to the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission in 1983 against Doug Collins, a CKVU reporter, who had advocated that women from Media Watch be sent to the front lines so they could be raped in wartime. Both cases were won.