Over 100 teenage boys at Collège Nouvelles Frontières in Canada wore skirts to school to protest sexism and homophobia. Students joined similar protests in Quebec to highlight the arbitrary requirements imposed on girls – but not boys – and the inherent anti-queer rationalisation behind it.
When Zachary Paulin told classmates he intended to wear a skirt, he urged them to do so as well. He told CBC that he thought about 30 students would join him. Instead, over 100 classmates came to school showing their legs.
“I knew that it was going to be a big movement, but not that big of a movement,” he said. “I was pleasantly surprised.”