Question: How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: That’s not funny. The “humour” here is that feminists are allegedly killjoys who can’t take a joke. If that…
At a suburban office in Canberra, Susan* looks solemnly toward the carpet and blinks back the tears. Her marriage counselor watches on from a few feet away. Susan first explains, and then…
“It’s ironic” seems to be the go-to defence for misogyny these days. As a female activist for grassroots organization Collective Shout, I hear it all the time. After the global backlash to…
When I was nine years old, I found nothing more amusing than watching people react in horror to my soft and innocent little leg hairs. Teenage girls who I looked up to…
I just can’t take it. Gay marriage becomes the law of the land in the U.S., we all rejoice, and now we have Montana jackass, Nathan Collier, storming the Yellowstone County Courthouse…
The lengths to which sex industry apologists will go to in order to push the idea that buying sex is synonymous with sexual liberation and empowerment never ceases to amaze me. While…
When they find out, people ask me incredulously if I regret not attending my father’s funeral. I had no relationship with my father for all of my adult life. I lived a…
This article was originally published at CharleneSayo.com and is republished with permission. In the days leading up to the fight of the century, pint-size fighter and Filipino national Manny Pacquiao was hailed…
This past weekend, checkered flags decorated downtown Montreal as it hosted the Canadian Grand Prix, a Formula One race that generates around $90 million ($75 from tourists alone) for the city which…
Warning: While necessary to the content of the piece, this post contains some disturbing and very graphic images. The extremist anti-abortion group, the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, (CCBR) has been distributing leaflets and…
In recent weeks, media coverage shed light on a “new” booming market, based on the extraction of female resources: the selling of human breast milk. Also referred to as “white plasma” and…
A sticker has been appearing on lampposts and mailboxes in my west-end Toronto neighbourhood of Etobicoke (and, presumably, in other neighbourhoods as well). It reads, “Almost 80 per cent of all suicides…
On May 1st, a number of Canadian pro-sex work groups released an open letter to rabble.ca. The letter demanded that rabble, “end [its] association with [Meghan Murphy] as editor and columnist” on…
Note: This post as well as the links and resources contained in this post may contain graphic descriptions of violence against women. “What about aftercare?” The mere fact of aftercare should clue…
Note: This post as well as the links and resources contained in this post may contain graphic descriptions of violence against women. “BDSM is not really abuse.” BDSM proponents promote the illusion…