Tag: Feminism

Industrial Montreal was a hotbed of cheap, easily exploited women’s labour. “You’ll never organize girls,” labour leaders were warned. But Rose Pesotta was determined to try “a woman’s approach” to unionizing.

Defending reproductive rights everywhere in the age of Trump.

Lessons from Vancouver’s Women’s March on Washington.

In the future, we may be able to point to the Women’s March on Washington in Saskatoon as the critical moment when all our scattered struggles came together as we realized how capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, imperialism, and heterosexism are interconnected.

Marx predicted that capitalists will always try to push down wages and undercut working conditions. He was right, and the working class can push back if it builds power broadly and intersectionally.

Racialized women are at the forefront of labour’s most promising campaign.

White supremacy continues to permeate feminist organizing in Canada.

What does it say when the easiest part of the life of a mother in a neoliberal city is starting a new job in the trades?

What’s it like to be the only woman worker on a construction site?

The actual work of social movement building is always disproportionately borne by women and queer people.

Considering No Wave feminisms.

Abortion is a safe, legal, and common medical procedure, but in the Maritimes and in northern and rural communities across Canada, there are major barriers to access.

Non-union construction work involves calculations no one should have to make.

Women continue to be under-represented in permaculture’s dominant forms of knowledge dissemination.

For all the men who believe that sexual harassment and violence aren’t their responsibility.

Fat, queer, and anti-capitalist.

Feminism with class.

A workers’ struggle that goes to the crux of the sexual division of labour.

The Conservative government’s rhetoric on missing and murdered Indigenous women and sex workers creates victims in order to silence women.

The treatment of pain and mental illness is highly gendered.