Tags – Sexuality
-
An accidental scarring
Book review
Whitetail Shooting Gallery follows cousins and neighbours Jennifer and Jason as they grow up in the stark landscape of the Bear Hills near Saskatoon.
-
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.
-
From abortion rights to reproductive justice
Beyond decriminalization
It’s been nearly 25 years since the Supreme Court decriminalized abortion in Canada, but the dust has yet to settle on Parliament Hill.
-
Hearing Two-Spirits
Two-Spirit voices are integral to cultivating community resistance and decolonization
A combination of both the masculine and feminine, the Two-Spirited are a distinct gender with roles and responsibilities unique to their dual nature.
-
Ban the blood services ban
Activists challenge the prohibition against gay donors
The first and only time he gave blood, Nick Shaw felt like a hero. The Canadian Blood Services (CBS) advertised a clinic at his high school with posters, announcements over the PA system, and in-class talks by teachers and nurses. Blood donation was touted as a moral imperative.
-
Toward sexual self-determination
Book review
What You Really Really Want is a powerful tool for radically transforming how we understand and navigate the complexities of our own sexuality.
-
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.
-
‘One of the girls’
The sexual politics of roller derby
As the sport gains popularity and leagues attract increasingly diverse members, the question of how to include trans women has sparked important conversations and at times led to divisions.
-
Videos won’t make things better; try policies
Conservatives’ It Gets Better video rings hollow and hypocritical in the absence of queer-positive policy
The federal government should get serious about supporting the queer community through progressive policies, strategies and funding to allow queer communities to develop the programs that our youth so desperately need.
-
Lives less livable
Judith Butler on expanding queer solidarity beyond sexuality
Butler’s theory of gender-as-performance remains her best-known contribution to academia, but for the last decade her attention has gradually shifted from gender to the politics of war. Now she’s struggling with questions like, whose deaths matter, and why are some deaths grievable but others not?
