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Sex worker feminism
Anti-sex work feminists endanger the lives of sex workers and prop up the far right. To fight fascism, the left must adopt a sex worker feminist politic.
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Graphic novels for leftist readers
Leftist reads are often dense and difficult to understand. Thankfully, there are many graphics novels that cover the same issues in a more accessible format.
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Fighting fascism in feminism
Five trans feminists on the rise of fascist feminism and how to fight back.
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Birth control and reproductive justice
Hormonal birth control has long been a feminist symbol of choice, but without other options, is it truly a choice?
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Women Winning Office: The limits of electoral strategy
In her new book “Women Winning Office,” Peggy Nash argues that it’s critical for women to hold positions of power. But as Misha Falk writes, representation doesn’t equate to a more just society.
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Anatomy of an anti-trafficking policy campaign
In Newmarket, Asian massage workers have been engaged in a battle with the town council, which is intent on shutting down their businesses by claiming that the workers are both disreputable criminals and sex trafficking victims.
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The birds shall return: Imagining Palestinian feminist futurities
Envisioning a liberated Palestine means imagining liberated Palestinian women. What is a Palestinian feminist future, and how do we get there?
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The right to return to work
At the beginning of the pandemic, the Pacific Gateway and Hilton Metrotown hotels laid off their workers – then refused to hire them back. Hotel workers are fighting for their jobs, and for the future of the hotel industry after the pandemic.
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Building feminist, anti-racist unions
More strategies for challenging patriarchal white supremacy in labour
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Feminist imagination
Mainstream feminism’s wildest dreams involve women being represented at the top of their fields. It’s a depressingly bland and narrow dream. This issue of Briarpatch thinks bigger, asking: how can we ensure all women are safe, healthy, cared for, and free?
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Demanding reproductive justice for trans women
If we could reimagine our world in order to put trans women’s well-being at its centre, maybe we could make the system more equitable and safe for all parents and children.
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“Do not ever get used to it”
Union members and staff say that sexism, anti-Black racism, and other oppressive attitudes are deeply entrenched in many unions. Drawing on a history of women, trans, and racialized workers fighting for their place in the labour movement, trade unionists share ideas to transform unions today.
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COVID and sexism in a women’s prison
Women have struggled to get what little we have in prison – but the COVID pandemic has stripped even that away.
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Baby book: Documenting undocumented motherhood
A note from Briarpatch’s editor, clarifying four factual inaccuracies that existed in the baby book, and how they came to be published.
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In Canada’s federal women’s prisons, reproductive rights are under threat
In a new report, people inside women’s prisons explain how incarceration has impacted their reproductive health – from limiting health care access, to verbal and physical abuse, to destroying family connections.
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Finally, New Brunswick is being sued for unlawful restrictions on abortion access
New Brunswick’s refusal to fund clinic-based abortions is discriminatory, partisan, and simply harmful to health. A new lawsuit by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association is a last-ditch effort to lift the restriction and save a Fredericton abortion clinic.
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What is Gender-Based Environmental Violence?
When humans degrade the land, Indigenous women, girls, and trans and Two-Spirit people are the most severely affected. This isn’t an accident; it’s an integral part of settler-colonialism.
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Feminism that’s ready for a fight
In her new book, Nora Loreto tracks the rise and fall of Canada’s organized feminist movement, and observes how formal organizations were replaced with a mix of online personalities, bloggers, and service organizations. How do we once again build a feminist movement that can pose a serious challenge to neoliberal austerity and misogyny?
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Working while Black
Amid COVID-19 and a global uprising against police brutality, the already intense demands and pressures that Black women face at work have become crushing. Hawa Mire convened a roundtable on Black women’s labour during these times