A MUN geography professor is choosing to focus on acts of support in her midst after several pride flags on her office door were vandalized.
Carissa Brown says she had two pride flag stickers ripped off her door in recent months. She put another flag, which was coloured by her son, on the door but before long that too was defaced with someone writing the word ‘no’ on it in permanent marker.
Brown says each of those instances is “absolutely unacceptable,” noting that they go against her personal values and the values of the university as a whole. After the last defacement, Brown put up a sign that explains her views on the situation.
That sign is “beautifully untouched,” though there has been what Brown deems “vandalism of love” around it.
She says 24 hearts, of varying rainbow colours, have been put on her door around the sign in the last few weeks.
Brown says the “overwhelming” message on the door now is one of inclusion, support and love. “It’s kind of pulling the best out of the majority of people after the worst came out of a minority of one or two people.”