Feminist Current

Let’s just start by saying this: I really don’t care about ‘kink’ or about ‘kinky people’. It just doesn’t interest me. I don’t give a shit about your leather fetish. Really. But because I recently dared to suggest that RCMP officer Jim Brown’s sadomasochistic behaviour might, just might, be related to the fact that we [...]

The go-to perspective on prostitution from many progressives in Canada these days seems to be a fairly hard and fast vote for decriminalization or legalization. Even many of our beloved East Vancouver lefties  seem convinced that the most progressive position to take is one of ‘sex as work’, arguing that debates around prostitution should prioritize [...]

Just a quick update to elaborate on my post, written back in October, around the controversy surrounding Pamela Masik’s ‘The Forgotten’ in light of the recent cancellation of her exhibit by The Museum of Anthropology. Regardless of the fact that Masik most certainly is aware of who it is that has opposed the exhibition and [...]

I. just. can’t. even. I am a little behind on the news here, so please accept my apologies to those who have already been angry, and have perhaps moved on since then. Just recently this story was relayed to me by a prof, who was actually in attendance at a conference called “Absence, Silence, Action, [...]