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The case for abolitionist sex education
If we’re serious about addressing sexual harm and providing consent-based sex education, we need to teach students about alternatives to the police and equip them with tools to deal with harm when it happens in their communities.
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Independent media’s bad labour problem
From union-busting to systemic racism, when bad labour practices have embedded themselves in the very publications trying to write into existence a more just world, what is to be done?
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Fighting for the right to fuck
For more than a century, eugenicists have tried to eliminate disabled people through sexual sterilization. Today, disabled people’s sex lives are still surveilled, suppressed, and punished in institutions.
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Talking consent
An interview with Chantelle Spicer and Tashia Kootenayoo on rooting our movements in consent.
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Saskatchewan survivors and the non-profit industrial complex
After revelations of rampant sexual violence and abuse in Regina’s non-profits, where can survivors turn for justice?
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“We have buried too many”: A Q&A with Tristen Durocher
Durocher, a 24-year-old Métis fiddler, has walked from Air Ronge to begin a hunger strike on the lawn of the Saskatchewan Legislature, demanding resources for suicide prevention.
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What do we do when humanitarians are the disaster?
AidToo is exposing abuses of power at aid organizations. Two stories from Canadian NGOs show what it takes to blow the whistle, and how the industry responds to accusations.
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Breaking the cycle of harm
To avoid police and prisons, more leftists are turning to accountability processes to repair harm. But fractious accountability processes are tearing communities apart. How might returning to transformative justice’s Black feminist roots help break the cycle?
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Feminism against resource extraction
By remaining silent during the invasion of Wet’suwet’en land, settler feminists in Canada have risked both complicity in this violence and irrelevance in a women’s movement that is global in scope.
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Sask Dispatch
“A culture of perpetration”: what’s behind sexual violence in Saskatchewan
Sexual Assault Services of Saskatchewan released an in-depth report on sexual violence in the province. The report has been three years in the making, and it provides insights into the nature and the cause of sexual violence in Saskatchewan.
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“At least hookers get wages”
If sex were factored out of the equation, sugaring would look a lot like the precarious gig economy jobs of Uber drivers or bike couriers. And – like in other web-based jobs – sugar babies in Montreal are struggling to develop collective strength with their fellow workers.
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Online-only
We will take this party back
To those who oppose us, young NDP organizers calling for Erin Weir’s resignation, I say: How dare you discourage young people from demanding a better party?
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Dear Erin Weir, what are you doing?
Doubling down in the face of harassment allegations isn’t helping anyone.
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Sexual Violence at Canadian Universities: Activism, Institutional Responses, and Strategies for Change
Published before the antiviolence movement’s watershed moment of #MeToo, this collection provides a powerful analysis of so-called “game-changing” moments.
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If Black Women Were Free: Part 2
Accounting for the history of transformative justice and determining how it can best be put into practice in non-Black spaces.
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If Black Women Were Free: Part 1
What is transformative justice, and how can it be used in organizing spaces to respond to sexual violence?
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Dear sister
Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence from the forthcoming AK Press anthology