Tags – Feminism
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Good ideas are not enough
Book review
Crass sees “collective liberation” – a term borrowed from an essay by bell hooks – as a “vision of what we want and a strategic framework to help us get there.”
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Voices of resistance
Women on the front lines of a continental struggle
Across the Americas, Indigenous women are working to restore values of harmony, co-operation, balance, and respect within their communities.
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Stories mapping place and power
Book review
How to Get Along With Women is a finely written collection exploring the ways our identities, our most intimate relationships, and our experiences can be shaped by the world we inhabit, a world mapped by dynamics of power.
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Amulet
For sister survivors
when time is army marshalled / against you starved and alone / I write in celebration your survival / each molecule of courage you collect / sunrise and sundown.
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Reduced, refused, reignited
The Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
In 2006, the Conservative government cut the funding of Status of Women Canada (SWC) by 38 per cent, to the tune of $5 million, in a move to enhance “fiscal responsibility.”
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Women take on the trades
Newfoundland leads the way in transforming gendered workplaces
Newfoundland is trying to encourage women to enter the professional trades. It can be a daunting challenge for a field in which women account for only 6.4 per cent of the workforce.
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Walking papers
Honourable mention, creative writing contest (fiction)
Kelly is tragically reliable. When she is laid off from her government job, she finds another, more lucrative, way to pay the bills.
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Homeplace as revolutionary front
Taking “care” back into our hands
Homeplace is where we are grown and raised into social beings, where we receive our earliest definitions of humanity, where we first learn to recognize love, violence, justice and pain. Yet it has persisted in our imagination as a private sphere of emotional and material dependence, rather than as a front in revolutionary struggle.
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From the ground up
Meet the women at the forefront of their communities’ transition from forestry to farming
On the West Coast, agriculture has always taken a back seat to logging, which has generated a lot of money for folks in these company towns. Now, as the export-the-trees-and-import-everything-else economy seems to be running out of steam, there’s renewed interest in small-scale farming as both a way to make a living and as a community resource. And in contrast to the decades of focus on the male-dominated forest industry, this movement is in many cases being led by women.
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Letter from the editor
An invitation to share accountability
The first step toward emancipation must be recognition of the shared struggle between all those considered less valuable by our state and social structures. Liberation can only happen collectively and across all communities simultaneously. Freedom at the expense of others’ freedom is not freedom at all, but a different and twisted kind of enslavement.
