After reading a piece, published back in 1989 by Sonia Johnson called “Rearing Nice Sons Can’t Change the World“, I started thinking about mothers, sons, male privilege and what’s sometimes referred to…
Tag: prostitution
Ugh. The Guardian and Jezebel both published manipulative stories within the past 24 hours about how the French minister for women supposedly ‘let down’ Muslim voters by focusing on ending prostitution. Because,…
Photos of a member of the RCMP, Cpl. Jim Brown, engaged in BDSM scenes were discovered online recently. The scenes were violent, degrading, according to many news reports, “reminiscent of [serial killer…
According to coverage in the Georgia Straight of Slutwalk Vancouver, this year’s event had a definitively different focus than last year’s. That is, the overt promotion of the legalization of prostitution. Normalizing…
This article was written for and originally published on June 15, 2012 in Issue #106 of Megaphone Magazine: Vancouver’s Street Paper Sex trade law has occupied the forefront of feminist debate ever…
It’s true. I’ve known more than one abusive man in my day. Some I knew intimately and some were only acquaintances. You know, just friends of friends. Some men still think it’s…
Gloria Steinem recently gave a talk in New Delhi about prostitution and trafficking. Again defying that old trope, forever pushed by advocates for the full decriminalization and/or legalization of prostitution, that pretends…
The Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University is “a college of Concordia University dedicated to studying feminisms and questions of social justice.” It is, essentially, the Women’s Studies Department at Concordia…
This is a guest post by Laura Johnston, re-printed with permission of the author and originally published at The F Word. Laura is a law student who worked for Janine Benedet, counsel for…
At long last, a decision has been made in the Bedford v. Canada case. This morning, the Ontario Court of Appeal declared the Criminal Code provision restricting “common bawdy houses” unconstitutional. This…
You want to talk victim-blaming? Ok. Let’s talk victim blaming. The Toronto Sun published an article on March 11th entitled: “Helping Hookers Stay Safe” which looked at a project called the safer…
Earlier this month, rabble.ca published a response from a sex worker named Sarah M. to, not only the abolitionist argument as a whole, but to me in particular. Having written several blog…
This article was originally written for and published in Sister Outsiders, issue #4: What you won’t hear inside the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry. Decriminalization is touted, by many, as the…
Jacqueline Guillion is a collective member at Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter. This article was originally written for and published in Sister Outsiders, issue #4: What you won’t hear inside the…
Michael Laxer is a Canadian bookstore owner, a political activist and one of two spokespersons for the Socialist Party of Ontario. This post was originally published on Michael Laxer’s blog and was…