On August 25, Tory councillor Zoe Kirk-Robinson filed a complaint with police after Labour opponent Guy Harkin, 69, called Kirk-Robinson “he” at a Bolton Council meeting. Harkin, Bolton’s former mayor, says he…
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Last week, Megan Short, 33, posted a request to Facebook, asking for help moving on August 6. Only weeks earlier, she had commented under an article posted by a friend, saying she…
It’s been one year since the final Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. Forty years strong, Michfest was a pillar of lesbian culture, a bastion of women-only space, but more than that — it…
Yesterday the Government of Canada announced the commissioners to head the public inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women. “For over a decade, the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls…
Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) is suing the U.S. federal government in order to challenge the recent dissolution of Title IX protections for women and girls in education. (Title IX of the Education…
Yesterday, it was reported that Larry Takahashi, who has been dubbed the “Balaclava Rapist“ by the mainstream media, has been released on day parole in the Vancouver area. In 1984, the 63-year-old…
Last week marked the opening of the Downtown Eastside women-only market, running every Saturday on Columbia street. The Summer Fair is run by the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC), and was created…
Michigan State University has closed its longstanding women-only study lounge, which, since 1925, sought to provide women with “a safe refuge and… haven for reflection, study, and solitude.” The change comes on…
After 35 years, the University of Victoria Student Society (UVSS) Women’s Centre is moving to adopt a new name and a new mission, but not everyone is on side. The small office…
On Tuesday, a draft document outlining the terms of reference for the upcoming national inquiry into Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women was leaked by several news outlets. The document, circulated by…
On Thursday, German parliament (Bundestag) unanimously passed new rape legislation, based on the tenet of “no means no.” This is a huge step for Germany, as their current rape law is not…
Every year, Cannes Lions celebrates the world’s greatest capitalists… Ahem, I mean ads. So while perhaps our hopes they might avoid actively promoting porn culture are misplaced, a wish might be that…
On June 21, the University of British Columbia’s Vice President of External Relations announced that novelist Steven Galloway is no longer employed as a professor in the Creative Writing Department. After an…
In 2012, Gina-Lisa Lohfink, a German model and celebrity, reported to the police that she’d been drugged and raped by two men. She was unable to recall the events of the night,…
At 5:30 on Tuesday evening, just over 100 people gathered on the front steps of Vancouver City Hall to demand Mayor Gregor Robertson follow through on his commitments to women and girls.…