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The Struggle for Access to Abortion Today
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.
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Reflecting on injury and stolen wages at work
Non-union construction work involves calculations no one should have to make.
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Permaculture or Spermaculture?
Women continue to be under-represented in permaculture’s dominant forms of knowledge dissemination.
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That Guy Who Isn’t You
For all the men who believe that sexual harassment and violence aren’t their responsibility.
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Justice for Midwives
A workers’ struggle that goes to the crux of the sexual division of labour.
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Stolen Sisters, Sex Workers, and Conservative Saviours
The Conservative government’s rhetoric on missing and murdered Indigenous women and sex workers creates victims in order to silence women.
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Decolonizing the emergency
Amid the crisis of violence against Indigenous women in Canada,13 Blackfoot women in southern Alberta participate in a unique project to decolonize women’s emergency shelters.
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Language is a map
It’s been three decades since Canadian legislators replaced the word “rape” with “sexual assault.” Against a backdrop of persistent sexual violence, changes in language reveal how much work is yet to be done.
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This is what rape culture looks like
Rape chants performed at frosh week activities are not isolated incidents but part of rape culture at work.
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Beyond bullying
The term “bullying” obscures the dynamics of gendered violence in cases like Rehtaeh Parsons’ and Amanda Todd’s. The vague language of anti-bullying campaigns and legislation do little to address systemic misogyny and rape culture.
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Good ideas are not enough
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
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
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
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
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 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.