LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG: ANNUAL WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH: Coming up this February 14 (next Tuesday Valentine’s Day) Winnipeg’s annual March for Murdered and Missing Women. Here’s the invite.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Annual Women’s Memorial March…
A valuable collection of insight into the exhibition of feminist artwork is now available to the public. FeministDialectic.ca is a new website that features ten curators, artists and museum professionals…
WTF? A bunch of racist sexist homophobic nutbarsGOP nazis spreading shit like this is somehow okay in the land of the free, home of the brave? Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA)…
100 Best Sex Tips of the Year. Bigger, Better Pleasure. Shrink Your Inner Thighs! The Smile That Gets You What You Want. The Sexy Confidence Men Can’t Resist. The above…
The above video demonstrates how, waaaaaay back in 2009, most movies didn’t pass the Bechdel Test for women in movies, a simple three-part process to determine whether women are afforded…
Slithering through the right-wing blogosphere – from Vox Populi via Instapundit to Canada’s proud wingnut Canadian Cincinnatus – is this revealing but puzzling comment about feminism, using the tragedy of…
Slithering through the right-wing blogosphere – from Vox Populi via Instapundit to Canada’s proud wingnut Canadian Cincinnatus – is this revealing but puzzling comment about feminism, using the tragedy of…
A while ago I wrote about the puzzling decision on the part of the Legal Services Society of BC to publish a handbook on sexual abuse against men that defined…
This week, the movie “The Iron Lady” opens, a big-budget biopic starring Meryl Streep as former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. No technical or directorial skills, nor the inevitable genius…
Tragedy of the Market: From Crisis to Commons January 6-8, 2012 Vancouver/Burnaby All panelist biographies are here. Below are some lessons learned and observations from the sessions. Friday: The opening…
Tragedy of the Market: From Crisis to Commons January 6-8, 2012 Vancouver/Burnaby All panelist biographies are here: Below are some lessons learned and observations from the sessions. Friday: The opening…
This weekend I attended Tragedy of the Market: From Crisis to Commons community gathering in Vancouver and Burnaby, sponsored by these groups and people. The basic premise is not so…
This video of Malalai Joya and Noam Chomsky speaking in Boston is from March of this year, but sadly, is every bit as relevant today. Chomsky’s analysis of the situation…
Or, Is Lysistrata A Sex Offender? I attended today, along with Alex, a discussion panel to remember the Montreal Massacre where Marc Lepine murdered fourteen women at the École Polytechnique…
My wife, who is a pro-choice photographer and activist, sent me a tumblr post the other day about the inability of people using the Siri, personal assistant on the iPhone…
London, Ontario, that’s who! Team president and general manager David Martin says the name “The London Rippers”, this logo, and cute marketing phrases like “Lurking in Labatt Park…” have nothing…
the regina mom feels wealthy these days. She was fortunate enough to be a recipient of an Emerging Artists Award from the Canada Council for the Arts last spring. There’s…
I am white, middle class, educated and, by all accounts, an extremely fortunate woman. I live in Canada where my parents’ (sometimes life-threatening) health issues are covered by a provincial…
A bunch of old white jerks are using God’s name to harrass women outside health clinics. Even here in my own city. It sickens me. Dear Christians who Don’t Get…
Hey there, ladies. Women? Gals? Broads? Just… not girls, okay? We all stopped being girls a long time ago. Calling ourselves girls once we were old enough to menstruate was…
