Tag: Feminism

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.

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.

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.

Rape chants performed at frosh week activities are not isolated incidents but part of rape culture at work.

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.

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.”

Across the Americas, Indigenous women are working to restore values of harmony, co-operation, balance, and respect within their communities.

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.

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.

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.”

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.