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Women unite to Take Back the Night in Vancouver

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…

Aftermath: How to tell a good rape story

At age 52, Andrea Dworkin was drugged and raped in Paris. She published a partial account in New Statesman in 2000, but it wasn’t until after her death (of natural causes) that…

Dead Rentboys tell no tales

Phillip Michael Peck was a gay boy and my best friend in high school. We met over Whoopie Goldberg in the back of the science room. We hadn’t ever spoken before and…

The wall of silence on sexual exploitation

Controversy swirls around Amnesty International’s celebration of their new policy on prostitution, which calls for the decriminalization of pimps and johns. Pimps, johns, and sexists around the world are celebrating, which is…

Are Women Human?

Feminism is having a moment. It’s a year since Beyoncé performed her song Flawless in front of the word “FEMINIST” inscribed on a colossal screen; domestic violence survivor and campaigner Rosie Batty…

Let’s talk about male hormones

Ladies, have I got a protip for you! Do not Google any topic that includes the words female, leadership, and hormones. Don’t do it because you will see pages and pages of…

After Amnesty, what’s next? A call to global action

I was in Europe doing research for Female Sexual Slavery in 1977 when I met with the Executive Director of Amnesty International in London. I had thought, naively, that in following their…

Of monsters and men

The house I grew up in has two bedrooms on one side of the house, a long hall, and then a master bedroom. I remember the living room as a sterile space…

Male violence is the worst problem in the world

I guess I’m a man-hater, writing a title like that, using my keypad to fire a shot across the bow of an entire gender. #NotAllMen are violent, and some women are, and…