Melissa Fong offers a fantastic analysis of some online activism being done by @SUEY_PARK, @BLACKGIRLDANGER @THEWAYOFTHEID and @CHEUYA around issues of male privilege and its intersection with racism. Ms. Fong’s post comes in the aftermath of @Suey_Park’s opposition to a racist joke made by a Twitter account affiliated with television personality Stephen
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Dead Wild Roses: Patriarchal Role Clarification
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Continue readingIlluminated By Street Lamps: Locating Canada’s State Multiculturalism As A Racist Doctrine
By Joe Fantauzzi@jjfantauzziCanada is a multicultural nation. More than four decades of policy, legislation and celebration have engraved this country’s pluralism into its national character. The ethnic diversity of this country is presented globally as a fundamental strength of the Canadian nation. But massive structural inequalities which have not been
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Women Shrink – Andrea Dworkin; Bell Hooks – On Feminism
A couple of feminist quote of the day just for my AVFM friends who might be lurking around in the shadows waiting to explain how oppressed being (usually) white and male is. “Men often react to women’s words – speaking and writing – as if they were acts of violence;
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How many of you out there have either heard these words or said them to others? I’m willing to bet most males out there has heard it at some point and many women have told the males in their lives these words. It’s part of the social narrative, these constructs
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Not Rape Epidemic – Latoya Peterson
Sometimes you just can’t pass up an opportunity to signal boost an important message. Trigger warnings for Rape, Sexual Abuse, Rape Culture Original Essay: The Not Rape Epidemic December 21, 2008 Latoya Peterson 1 Comment *Trigger Warning* Latoya’s Note: So, as promised, here’s the original version of the essay that
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Don’t Tolerate Ignorance About the Minimum Wage
Now, stop tolerating ignorance! And smile, TGIF. Hello. It’s Friday. For many people it’s TGIF. But for many people who aren’t even teenagers, the work week isn’t ending today. We often THINK minimum wage is for the new entries to the job market. Maybe it was one day. Maybe just
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Future of Feminism Is Now
The children: being the future. There seems to be a bit of an epidemic of young women and men rejecting the necessity of exploring or embracing feminism. Maybe it’s like similarly misguided ideas like how we don’t need unions anymore. But when you encounter young people who get it, really
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: What Do Women Want?
It can be a goofy question because it sets up an expectation that half the world, 3.5 billion people, can answer it the same way if it’s asked in exasperation because a woman was maybe annoyed at a man for insisting on paying for dinner, or didn’t want to go
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: International Women’s Day – Still Far to Go
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Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Lupita Nyong’o On Validation, For International Women’s Day
A sublime meditation on validation. Bravo! …in which a young woman shares her adolescent anxieties and blossoms into a role model for us all. Happy International Women’s Day! Enjoy the whole clip here: July 15, 2013 Fearing Kate MacEachern: The Latest Canadian Military Blunder (40) November 22, 2010 A
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Brave Christian Soldier Stands in the Gap for Jesus
A note scribbled on a napkin and left behind by a passenger on a Westjet flight. It reads: To Capt./Westjet the cockpit of an airliner is no place for a woman. A woman. A woman being a mother is the most honour, not as ‘captain.’ Were short mothers not pilot’s
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Women Who Inspire Us
Pam Palmater, getting it done! “Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead For three decades of activism I have been inspired by a great number of wise, engaged women. Carleen Pickard, for instance.
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Women: The Majority, Not a Media Niche
I couldn’t really fault you if you felt that only about 22% of humanity were women. If we based it all on how frequently they are represented in politics and the media, we wouldn’t know they made up a 51-ish% majority. This is why Cate Blanchett and Geena Davis have
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Pandemic of Rape Culture
Speaking out against rape culture can create some serious backlash, which reflects our culture of rape. At UBC the dean of the business school muses about firing all the students who took part in the chant that celebrates rape, which was also sung at Saint Mary’s in Halifax. And the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR PSA – We need Feminism because…
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Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Why Corporations Don’t Want Women In Charge
It’s interesting to see how far we may have come with gender equity. And not. Men, formerly the head of the household, are now more likely to share authority with women at home. But what about the most powerful organizations in society: corporations? What’s the role of women in leadership?
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: University Advice: Never forget than boys and girls can never just be friends.
Ever wonder what it’s like being female and living through what women are expected to deal with? A small peek into some of the happenings in the grand adventure of being human and female all at the same time. “When I was seventeen and preparing to leave for university, my
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why We Need Feminism
“If a woman has (the right to an abortion), why shouldn’t a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman? At least the rapist’s pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t (in most cases) result in anyone’s death.” – Lawrence Lockman, Republican and elected official in
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