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Nobel Women’s Initiative on Women, Oil and Climate Change
Image & quote from Breaking Ground talks by Jarrah Hodge A couple of weeks ago I had the amazing honour, along with other members of the City of Vancouver’s Women’s Advisory Committee, to get to...
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Recommitting to the Vision of a World Without AIDS
by Jarrah Hodge Today, December 1, is World AIDS Day. Over two decades since the first World AIDS Day was recognized, much has been achieved. But unfortunately the prevention and treatment tools that...
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Missing Women’s Report Release Pokes at Unhealed Wounds
Cover of yesterday’s report. Click to download the full, 1458-page document by Jarrah Hodge Yesterday’s release of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry report was an emotional event that did little...
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Gender Focus Panel: SCOC Ruling on Wearing Niqabs in Court
This past week the Supreme Court of Canada issued a ruling on whether Muslim women have a right to wear a niqab in court. Via the CBC: A Muslim woman who is the complainant in a sexual assault trial...
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Did Quentin Tarantino’s Feminism Take a Step Backwards in Django Unchained?
From A Bride with a Hanzo Sword to a Damsel in Distress: Did Quentin Tarantino’s Feminism Take a Step Backwards in Django Unchained? by Tracy Bealer One of the pleasures of being a Quentin Tarantino...
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FFFF: Get With the Times: Drop the “I-Word”
Earlier this week the Associated Press made a crucial decision to eliminate the inaccurate and dehumanizing phrase “illegal immigrant” from their 2013 style guide. But even though the New York Times is...
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FFFF: Rachel Rostad Deconstructs Harry Potter
I love this rant by slam poet Rachel Rostad, who takes J.K. Rowling to task for her treatment of characters of colour in the Harry Potter series. Check out more of Rachel, and some of the dialogue...
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My Reality: Racism in Academia, Then and Now
Emily and her Great-Uncle Roy by Emily Yakashiro. Emily is a 23 year old third-generation, mixed-race Canadian strongly committed to feminism and anti-oppression. She has a background in anti-violence...
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Reflecting on Cultural Appropriation
Selena Gomez wearing a bindi at the MTV Movie Awards by Akta Sehgal. Akta Sehgal is currently at the University of Toronto, working on her undergrad focusing on a double major in Women and Gender...
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FFFF: “What Kind of Asian Are You” and Response
This video was released for YouTube Comedy Week, starring Stella Choe and Scott Beehner responding to the kind of questions Asians get from white people about their race. Now, unfortunately (but...
View Article“Our children are dying. That, my friends, is the truth.”
Sociological Images re-posted Stacey Muhammad’s 2009 short documentary “I AM SEAN BELL, black boys speak” in solidarity with the African-American community after the recent acquittal of George...
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Alberta’s Oil Sands are a Project of Colonial Violence
by Arij Riahi. Arij Riahi is a legally-trained writer based in Montreal. You can reach Arij on @arijactually. In early July I traveled to Fort McMurray, Alberta. The booming oil town– sometimes...
View ArticleGuante on Being “PC” (It’s Really About Not Being a Jackass)
This video by slam poet Guante nails it as he speaks to those who might think being “un-PC” is being edgy. News-flash: using sexist, racist, ableist or homophobic language is really just being a lazy,...
View ArticleBeing an Ally Starts with Speaking Up
by Kirsten Barkved. Kirsten graduated with her BA in Creative Writing and Gender and Women Studies. She lives, breathes and writes in Kelowna, and holds daily staring contests with four cats and one...
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FFFF: Ask a Slave
Azie Mira Dungey used to work as a “living history character” at the popular historic site, George Washington’s Mount Vernon. She’s created the “Ask a Slave” webseries to hilariously call out some of...
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FFFF: Franchesca Ramsey’s Halloween Costume Fails
It’s almost that time of year again – Halloween! Don’t mark it by wearing a racist Halloween costume. Franchesca Ramsey suggests some costumes to avoid (and see her list of supplementary posts here)....
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FFFF: Citizen Dwayne Interviews Redskins Fans About Their Team’s Name
There’s been some buzz that the Washington Redskins might be looking at changing their, frankly, racist name. Citizen Dwayne Kenndy from Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell headed down to a popular...
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Hunger Games: Catching Fire Meets Hunger for Female Representation
by Jessica Critcher I managed to get tickets to a Hunger Games / Hunger Games: Catching Fire opening night double feature this week. As the theater began to fill up, I thought about the fact that I was...
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FFFF: Megyn Kelly Dreaming of a White Santa
The Kinsey Sicks respond in song to Megyn Kelly, who insisted on Fox that “Santa just is white”, with their song: “I’m Dreaming of a White Santa”. Lyrics: [Megyn Kelly Voice-Over] Yet another person...
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Reading Asian Women Writers: Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Cafe
by Emily Yakashiro. For Emily’s previous review, of Hiromi Goto’s A Chorus of Mushrooms, click here. Next, Emily is planning to read and review The Bird by Oh Jung-Hee. Reading Disappearing Moon Cafe...
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