Angela Marie MacDougall is a long-time anti-violence worker, the Director of Vancouver’s Battered Women’s Support Services, and a Remarkable Women award winner in 2014. Jess: How did you get involved in the…
18-year-old Andrew Picard is “spared jail” despite having shared over 2000 images of child abuse — of children as young as two years old. It’s time to take another page from Sweden’s…
A review of “Girlfriend Experience” prostitution site Sugar Babies shows that a staggering number of SFU and UBC students pursue this arrangement in order to pay for the otherwise impossibly high prices of…
Tavia Grant explains the story between the Globe and Mail’s “Trafficked” series, begging the question: Who is putting on the pressure for the Globe and Mail to say the investigation was a…
“King of Masculinity” Roosh V. gets a visit from the cops at his home in his mother’s basement. He claims to fear for his safety after an attempt to organize an international…
From one rapist to another: R. Kelly thinks the rape allegations against Cosby are “just strange”: “When I look on TV and I see the 70-, 80-, 90-year-old ladies talking about what…
Sweden’s prime minister, Stefan Löfven, responds to a string of 38 reported sexual assaults and rapes at a teen music festival in Stockholm: “Whatever the motive we have to work more with attitudes…
Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women brief Indigenous Affairs Minister, Carolyn Bennett, and Status of Women Minister, Patty Hajdu, on women going missing after being sold into prostitution on Lake Superior ships:…
Since it’s the season of New Year’s resolutions, I thought I’d share a few coping strategies I used in 2015 to stay nearly sane as a woman who’s genuinely interested in women’s…
Sign this petition against extraditing a victim of domestic abuse back to the states where she faces roughly 40 years of imprisonment for protecting the life of herself and her child. Here’s…
Oscar Pistorius found guilty of the murder of Reeva Steenkamp as South African court accepts appeal to overturn manslaughter conviction. Currently under house arrest after spending only one year of his original…
Diane Matte is a feminist community organizer, a front-line anti-violence worker, and a member of Concertation des Luttes Contre l’Exploitation Sexuelle (CLES) in Montréal. Jess: Can you start by telling us how…
A judge has sentenced former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle to 15 years and eight months in prison for paying for sex with girls as young as 16 and receiving child pornography produced…
“Sex is very often a challenge” says Justice Robin Camp during a sexual assault trial. He will now be undergoing gender sensitivity training. Heather Brunskell-Evans of The Conversation holds that, contrary to…
Fay Blaney is a community organizer, advocate for Indigenous women and employee at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC). She runs the Warriors Organizing Women group at the DEWC, a social justice…