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…
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New Justice Minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould, charged with the task of re-writing Canada’s prostitution laws. Here’s to rallying for improved legislation — not full decriminalization. (Okay, can we celebrate a little bit —…
Hillary Clinton is contending for the position of first female president of the United States. However, Alicia Yu argues that Bernie Sanders may have a more progressive stance toward women’s issues in…
Lee Lakeman is a feminist activist, speaker, and was a front line anti-violence worker for over 30 years. She continues to consult and do anti-violence work in her retirement. In May of…
What you call racial and cultural appropriation, Rihanna calls “hero.” Rachel Dolezal attracts an unexpected fan. Wasn’t able to attend the Chris Hedges event in Vancouver last month? Check out Lee Lakeman’s…
Jess: You’ve been active in the feminist movement since the ‘70s. A lot has happened since then including the so-called “sex wars” of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, the ongoing rise…
Prosecutors spare Caitlyn Jenner of criminal charges in relation to fatal car crash. Man who describes pedophilia as a mere “sexual orientation” whines about attacks from the “right-wing hate machine.” “To have…
Ellen DeGeneres takes Caitlyn Jenner to task for lack of support on gay marriage. Sexualized photos of Russian child model, Kristina Pimenova, trigger public outrage toward the fashion industry. Young mother in…
St. Paul’s rape case resurrects the debate on whether the language in American sexual assault law should change. The New York Times reports that “A majority of states still erect a far…
Today’s Feminist Theory Friday (the last in the series) is perhaps more a matter of history than it is of theory. It is a history we need to center when exploring how…
Oscar Pistorius was expected to be released from prison on Friday in order to serve the remainder of his sentence on house arrest, but the Justice Minister said releasing him after he…
It’s Feminist Theory Friday, people, and I’ve decided we should take a brief interlude from critiquing so-called “third wave” feminist politics to explore the idea that “disability, like gender, is a social…
Amnesty had been experiencing pressure both inside and outside of the organization to put the human rights of women on the Amnesty agenda for years. Senior policymakers have simply ignored them. Glosswitch…
Rachel Moran: “Pimping out human beings and buying sexual access to the bodies of human beings are themselves breaches of human rights law.” Plastic surgeons describe the influx of young women looking…
“My feminism is better than yours (and you can’t sit with us).” This is the general sentiment I’m seeing expressed when Millennials online — often, ironically, white people — use the word…