On Tuesday’s episode of teleSUR’s Days of Revolt, host, Chris Hedges, speaks with author and activist, Rachel Moran, about her book, Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution, and the myths perpetuated about…
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Today is my bday and, as I am very wise beyond my years and whatnot (also v generous), I am offering you a gift. There are endless lists telling women of various…
Sigh. Vice’s “women’s section,” “Broadly” has shown itself to be kind of exactly what I was worried about. While there is certainly some good coverage of actual news events on the site,…
Last week we published an open letter to Canada’s self-professed progressive party, the NDP, asking they be accountable to women in Canada as well as to feminists and leftists who’ve supported the…
The news that Playboy will no longer be publishing images of “fully nude women” within the pages of its print magazine is not as “radical” as it might sound. This was a…
I’m about to admit something that, in a patriarchy, is tantamount to a cardinal sin: I’m letting myself go. Letting myself go. I choose that phrase intentionally — a phrase designed to…
Open Letter to the Federal New Democratic Party Dear NDP Candidates: We are writing to you as feminists, progressives, and longtime supporters of the NDP. We are deeply disappointed to learn that…
I wrote about the first Slutwalk back in 2011. I was the first to do so, and was attacked viciously for it. Like all third wave trends, one is to blindly follow…
I remember the cool, calm evenings in Vietnam like I never left — many times, I wish I hadn’t. Long dusty roads, the landscape broken up occasionally by a scattering of bright…
When I was being raped by my father in the ’70s, I searched for a reason not to commit suicide. I found one in second wave feminism. The heroes of the second…
Last week CTV’s W5 aired a two-part series on internet porn. Part one focused on the way in which ever-younger children were becoming consumed with violent pornography, causing them to become “addicted”…
On Thursday, September 24th, 2015, the day of the much-anticipated papal visit, feminist activist group, Stop Patriarchy, lead by Sunsara Taylor, took to the streets of Manhattan to indict Pope Francis and…
On Friday, September 25th, 1200 people gathered at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church in Vancouver, to hear three preeminent thinkers discuss socialism, oppression, and rebellion. The event, a roaring success — packed to…
Dear Todd Nickerson, Over at Salon a few days ago, you wrote an article provocatively entitled “I’m a pedophile, but not a monster.” Presumably, a lot of people are now asking questions…
On the evening of Friday, September 18th 2015, over 400 women gathered to protest male violence against women. Women from various B.C. women’s organizations, such as Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS), UBC…