Obama’s “Yes We Can” mantra made many question, yes we can do what exactly? That was its brilliance. He became whatever to whoever. Trudeau’s commitment to a national inquiry on murdered and missing indigenous women has become the same emptiness, … [Read more]
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Dead Wild Roses: Is Corporate Meritocracy Fair?
The fascinating bit here is how easy it is for us to fool ourselves into thinking we’re doing “x”, when in reality we are doing “y”. In this study, all that was required to mirror the bias in our society against women was for a company to have a policy
Continue readingWe Pivot: Modern Labour Activism?
Modern Labour Activism Modern Labour Activism is a collection of 35 labour renewal essays I wrote for Our Times magazine from March 2010 to June 2017. Is Canada’s labour movement in an existential crisis? Is it properly adapting to the … [Read more]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Folks, it F*cking Sucked – Sexism in Society
A nice example of the different way society treats women and men. And yes dudes, of course you don’t see it. http://vuvaliniterf.tumblr.com/post/163882741302/aki-anyway-when-someone-says-these-days-sexism Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Norms, Sexism, Society
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Want to Change Society – Learn About the Default Effect – Musa Al-Gharbi
Another hurdle for those who wish to change society. “Social scientists spend a lot of time and effort criticizing, deconstructing and otherwise problematizing various systems, institutions, ideologies and policies. However, it is much less common for researchers to develop alternative social arrangements that could be plausibly implemented in the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The REAL Victims of Inequality
The sports term for idiocy like this is ‘own goal’. Well done dudes. Filed under: Culture Tagged: Feminism, Society, Whiny Dudes
Continue readingWe Pivot: 2 Signs of a New Era!
Yesterday I noticed two things: The BC NDP and BC Greens are willing to create a new paradigm of politics in BC. Hopefully this can mean a legislature where people don’t behave like 6-year-olds with the rude and sexist … [Read more]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dudes – Just Stop Dud’in
A few poignant thoughts to keep in mind. We can also file this under “how women and men experience society differently”. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Cat Calling, Dudes be dude’in., Society
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Measure of a Woman.
It would be nice to believe that we are past the era of patriarchal stereotypes. Unfortunately, this is not that case. PSA’s like these three pictures exist because even in the most advanced Western societies many people believe that the length of skirt a woman happens to be wearing determines
Continue readingWe Pivot: Feminism and Intersectionality, LIVE!
Feminism, intersectionality, activism in a world spinning out of rationality? Need to some grounding, inspiration and joy? Want to see the woman who invented the word “intersectionality”? Here’s what should be on your plate tomorrow night at 730pm PST! Tony … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: IWD + 7 Days: Saudi Arabia Edition
Maybe this is a first step at dismantling one of the harshest patriarchies on the planet? Or maybe that as we pivot to a society of gender equality, we can suggest to Saudi Arabia that if they oppose genders mixing, … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: The Day After IWD, Maybe?
My fourth grade teacher friend found this under one of her students' desks. <3 <3 <3 pic.twitter.com/7NSxIa6ujn — Elly (@SMLXist) March 6, 2017 On International Women’s Day, the prime minister’s wife decided to honour the men who are feminists … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: T$$$p and His Cabinet Are TRYING to Trigger Us All
Like a 3-year-old trying to bug siblings and parents to receive ANY kind of attention, T$$$p and his cabinet are on a distraction campaign to trigger people to flip out so that we’re distracted from their agenda of deconstructing America … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Let’s Change BC’s Racist Street Names
The World Economic Forum is not the most progressive organization in world history. They’ve been part of pushing a neoliberal privatization agenda on many poor countries for decades. But they’re going through what appears to be at least a salon … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Mobilize Now Against Local and Global Fascism
Don’t be stunned or rest in a superficial analysis of our new world with this president, Trump. There’s a chance you’ve just been missing out on how Canadian and American societies have been changing. Perhaps you’ve been living in an … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Listen to Refugees; Don’t Ban Them
Canadians are awesome, tolerant, opening and welcoming. Sure. To a degree, but even to the point of self delusion. We often feel morally superior to the Americans, particularly now as they slide from proto-fascism to soft fascism to jackboot fascism. … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: My Speech to the HUMA Commons Committee on Poverty Reduction
I was honoured to receive an invitation to speak to HUMA later this morning, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities. They are studying poverty reduction strategies, … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Psst, Wanna Stop Protecting the Environment?
On December 31, 2018, the US government will stop protecting the environment. If the Kill-the-EPA bill passes, the US government will certainly slow down protecting it until they blow out the EPA candle in 22.5 months. How is Congress doing … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Of Impeachment, Conflicts of Interest and T***p
T***p said he’s ceased to operate business while in the White House. Beyond being a liar and someone who makes things up, even if he were being honest about this, it’s pretty gosh darn impossible. Don’t click on this link; … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: How Many Dead Kids in Care Is too Many?
How many thousands of dead, injured and abused kids in the care of the BC government are OK for BC Liberal Party voters? None? Try thousands over 16 years. And how many more thousands of dead, injured and abused kids … [Read more]
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