Tasha Diamant

Biography

As a writer, artist, teacher, and activist for more than 35 years, Tasha Diamant contributed to various publications including Maclean’s, where she worked as a journalist from 1988 through the mid-1990s, and Australia’s Who Weekly. In 1989, during her time at Maclean’s, she pressed for the mass murder of fourteen women at École Polytechnique to be placed on the front cover, refusing to accept it as an isolated act. The moment forced a lasting confrontation with violence against women and her own understanding of feminism, ultimately reshaping how she understood power, silence, and responsibili…