Canada: third best country to be a woman
I'm not sure why but this one caught me by surprise. I guess it shouldn't since every boss I've had in Canada has been female. The part about the paucity…
Feminism
From the “You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby” files
Read it and weep: A bus driver told Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to get on a separate bus from other Government leaders after mistaking her for one of their…
Building a Movement With Love and with Rage
From May 20-23, 2011, over 350 young feminists converged in Winnipeg for the 2nd RebELLEs Pan Canadian Young Feminist Gathering, Notre Révolution Féministe, Our Revolution is Now. There was laughter,…
Rogers Cup Tennis Champions Sexism
“Come for ladies, stay for the legends”? Leave it to Rogers Sportsnet/cellphone/baseball/stadia to set feminism back another decade with their recent Rogers Cup. Are bikinis next? The Rogers Cup tennis…
SlutWalk is so June 2011
While some heralded SlutWalk as the future of feminism, the lack of hype around Calgary’s second attempt at SlutWalk reveals that it was little more than a trend that has…
SlutWalk is so June 2011
While some heralded SlutWalk as the future of feminism, the lack of hype around Calgary’s second attempt at SlutWalk reveals that it was little more than a trend that has…
REAL Women, Promise Keepers and the Promotion of Violence
I Burned my Bra For This? REAL Women of Canada and the Men Behind ThemIt is a massive masculine shadow, in a hall or crowded room, lifting something indistinct up…
Pubic Humiliation: The Case of the Ugly Vagina
Earlier in the month, when I clicked an inbox link to a webpage for a fundraising campaign, I did not expect to get lost in the political quagmire of women’s…
DIY, Homesteading, Radical Housewifery/Homemaking
Though I haven't read the book yet, the lifestyle described in Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming domesticity from a consumer culture by Shannon Hayes is kind of seductive. I've flirted with these…
DIY, Homesteading, Radical Housewifery/Homemaking
Though I haven't read the book yet, the lifestyle described in Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming domesticity from a consumer culture by Shannon Hayes is kind of seductive. I've flirted with these…
DIY, Homesteading, Radical Housewifery/Homemaking
Though I haven’t read the book yet, the lifestyle described in Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming domesticity from a consumer culture by Shannon Hayes is kind of seductive. I’ve flirted with these…
DIY, Homesteading, Radical Housewifery/Homemaking
Though I haven’t read the book yet, the lifestyle described in Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming domesticity from a consumer culture by Shannon Hayes is kind of seductive. I’ve flirted with these…
Sporting a Uterus
Following the Women’s World Cup this year has been an enlightening experience for me. So far, some have been heart-stopping (Brazil-USA), and some have been crap (Canada-France), just like any…
Women are no better than men when it comes to politics
I have read at least two Huffington Post articles, on the newspaper's Canadian website, about the need for more women to get involved in Canadian politics. One was more focused…
thou shalt be thin: obesity hysteria and the eating disorder epidemic
This ad for Yoplait Light reduced-calorie yogurt, which I saw on TV last Sunday night, was supposedly pulled from circulation. The National Eating Disorder Association petitioned General Mills because the…
if the world sucks, why hasn’t anyone told me? i respond to joe denial
"If that's really happening, why don't I see it in the news?"I bet many of you may have encountered a question like this one. You're speaking to a co-worker or…
"abortion saved my life" and other tales of human rights
What does abortion access look like to women who don't have any? What does it mean to be unable to obtain an abortion when you need one? The anti-choice movement…
The Social Determinants of Health
(Note: This post contains a portion of the talk that I gave last month at the 16th International Conference of the Association of Psychology and Psychiatry for Adults and Children…
A Snapshot of the Vulnerable Underclass of Foreign Workers in Canada
There are lots of ways to look at Canada’s checkered history with immigration. Europeans welcome, French to a lesser degree after they lost a war or something, Chinese railroad workers,…
PETA Sucks
A friend took this photo of a PETA advertisement he saw recently: PETA thinks the only way to get people to care about the exploitation of animals is through the…