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Melania Trump, America’s first sex worker First Lady

In late November I was in the Portland State University’s Women’s Resource Center listening to a teacher explain that sex work is feminist work. Where an evidenced explanation for the Nordic Model’s…

The impact of porn culture on girls is too big to ignore

If we were to plot events that have significantly altered the female experience, one of them would have to be the arrival of porn culture and the role of technology in this…

I have never been sexually assaulted

I have never been sexually assaulted. When I was five-years-old I went to an in-home daycare, run by a woman who had a son and some daughters (a combination of my age…

On #TrumpTapes, power, and liberal hypocrisy

The much-deserved backlash against Trump’s remarks from the recently published 2005 recordings is a particularly interesting one, as it has received wide condemnation from within his own party. Republicans have essentially made…

I competed in a beauty pageant for feminism

Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado has been crowned the queen of election media since Hillary Clinton mentioned Donald Trump’s mistreatment of her during last week’s US presidential debate. With beauty contest imagery…

This is how they broke our grandmothers

Once, there were witches. No. There were never witches. Not in the way men said, anyway. Once, there were many Indigenous polytheist and animist faith traditions in what is now Western Europe.…

Open letter in solidarity with London Abused Women’s Centre

TO: Megan Walker, ED London Abused Women’s Centre, The Board of Directors London Abused Women’s Centre, Staff and Clients London Abused Women Centre Women in Canada and around the world look to…

A letter to men: Porn is not just women’s problem

I have been fortunate enough to have a lot of good men in my life: friends, family, lovers, classmates, pro-feminist allies. But no matter how “good” you are and no matter what…