• • All About Shameless

  Reminder: apply to Shameless

  March 16, 2010 • Nicole Cohen

  This is just a reminder that you have less than one week to put your name forward to join Team Shameless. Here’s a reminder of what we’re looking for:

  Shameless magazine, Canada’s independent, feminist voice for young women and trans youth, is expanding its editorial team. Are you devoted to grassroots publishing? Do you have a commitment to anti-oppression and inclusive feminist politics? Do you have some time to volunteer and a vision for Shameless? Then we need you.

  We are looking for smart, sassy, shameless people to fill the following roles:

  • A Managing Editor, who will oversee the magazine’s editorial production, assign and edit stories, work with writers and collaborate with editorial staff.
  • A Web Editor, who will develop projects and content for the website, coordinate our community blog, and develop a link between the print and online components of the magazine.
  • Associate Editors, to assign and edit stories and work with writers.

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• • All About Shameless

  Shameless is growing!

  March 2, 2010 • Nicole Cohen

  Shameless magazine, Canada’s independent, feminist voice for young women and trans youth, is expanding its editorial team. Are you devoted to grassroots publishing? Do you have a commitment to anti-oppression and inclusive feminist politics? Do you have some time to volunteer and a vision for Shameless? Then we need you.

  We are looking for smart, sassy, shameless people to fill the following roles:

  • A Managing Editor, who will oversee the magazine’s editorial production, assign and edit stories, work with writers and collaborate with editorial staff.
  • A Web Editor, who will develop projects and content for the website, coordinate our community blog, and develop a link between the print and online components of the magazine.
  • Associate Editors, to assign and edit stories and work with writers.

  We are looking for people who work well collaboratively, who have a good sense of Shameless’s editorial vision, who are committed to anti-racist feminist politics, who have some editorial or publishing skills, and who are excellent communicators and work well over email (Shameless has no office).

  Please check out our detailed job descriptions.

  Like all roles on this volunteer-run magazine, these positions are unpaid. (If you have ideas for how we can change that, then please get in touch!)

  We strongly encourage applications from women of colour and First Nations women and those with experience with anti-racist feminist politics and/or anti-racist feminist organizations. Preference will be given to residents of the Greater Toronto Area to facilitate face-to-face meetings with magazine staff.

  Please email a resume, a cover letter containing your ideas for the magazine/website, and three writing samples (published or unpublished) to volunteer@shamelessmag.com. The deadline for applications is Monday, March 22, 2010. We’ll contact you if we’d like to set up an interview.

• • News Flash

  Donations to Help Haiti

  January 15, 2010 • Nicole Cohen

  There’s a lot of information circulating from organizations accepting money for relief efforts in Port-au-Prince. Rather than going through giant communications corporations, why not donate directly to groups on the ground in Haiti?

  In my search for social-justice oriented organizations, I’ve come up with the women’s organization Madre and The Haiti Emergency Relief Fund. The Nation’s list of grassroots and progressive organizations is here.

  Where will you be donating?
  

• • Arts
  • Event Listings
  • Race and Racism

  Profile This! AQSAZINE Launch

  November 29, 2009 • Nicole Cohen

  AQSAzine, a grassroots zine for 16-35 year-old women and trans people who identify as Muslim, is launching its second issue at a free event hosted in partnership with The AGO Youth Council. The event is also a launch for Making Noise! Muslim women and trans people video project, and Jasmine Magazine, the first Palestinian Magazine in Toronto.
  
  Making Noise! is an exciting hands-on media arts training that addresses the invisibility and negative portrayals of young Muslim women and trans people in the media, supported by the Urban Alliance on Race Relations.

  The event will showcase videos, visual art, and readings by Azza Abbaro, Shadi Eskandani, Sidrah Ladin, Sara Mir, Samira Mohyeddin, Shara Mohammed, Golie Moulaie, and Sahar Rizi.

  Musical performances by Farheen Beg & Arun Chaudhuri and Tanya Jacobs.

  Dance performance by Raja Jalebi and Sheesha YaDil.

  Plus: silk screening and zine-making workshops.

  This event is part of the 16 Days to THRIVE! Challenging Violence Against Racialized Women and Our Communities.

  Friday Dec. 4th, 6-8 p.m.
  Art Gallery of Ontario
  Anne Tannenbaum Gallery School
  317 Dundas Street W., Toronto

  
  

• • Activist Report
  • On The Job
  • Race and Racism

  A new domestic order?

  September 28, 2009 • Nicole Cohen

  

  (The Nation)

  There are few jobs in North America where exploitation of gender, race, and class intersect so sharply as in domestic work, where immigrant women from around the world labour in the homes of wealthy families in what are often dismal conditions: low wages, no security, fear of violence and deportation, and overwork. The situation of live-in caregivers (as they’re officially called by the state, erasing the fact that these women work, hard) in Canada briefly made headlines when MP Ruby Dhalla was accused of mistreating Magdalene Gordo and Richelyn Tongso. There has been a lot of academic and activist attention to the struggles of domestic workers in Canada, with groups calling for the elimination of the government program that capitalizes on historically undervalued work and the desperate economic situations of women around the world.

  And so it is inspiring to read Lizzy Ratner’s article “The New Domestic Order,” a piece that describes the courage domestic workers in New York City have mustered to fight back against abuses and call for a Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights, which could be the first of its kind. Women are calling for “severance and overtime pay, advance notice of termination, one day off a week, holidays, healthcare and annual cost of living increases, among other fundamental rights.” Seems pretty basic, huh? Ratner’s article looks at the history of domestic workers’ struggles for rights in the US and outlines the global political economic conditions that compel so many women around the world to migrate to work in other women’s homes. The story is heartbreaking and exhilarating; well worth a read.

• • Activist Report
  • Media Savvy

  Net Netrality Town Halls (and dance party!)

  June 4, 2009 • Nicole Cohen

  

  Net neutrality – the idea that the internet should be universally accessible to everyone without internet service providers deciding on levels and speeds of access – is shaping up to be an important media activist battle, especially for those of us who rely on the internet to produce alternative, independent media such as this very blog you’re reading.

  SaveOurNet.ca, the grassroots group working to keep the internet free from corporate interference, is holding a series of town hall meetings in Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver to bring folks together to discuss the issue of net neutrality and the future of the internet. The meetings will be streamed live at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, June 8, at theREALnews.com, rabble.ca, TheTyee, Beyond Robson, and SaveOurNet.ca.

  If you’d like to attend in person, see the details for each meeting, below (plus, there’s a dance party in Vancouver!)

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• • Activist Report
  • Media Savvy

  Who Makes The News?

  May 9, 2009 • Nicole Cohen

  

  Media monitors in Sweden. (whomakesthenews.org)

  In November, feminist media activists around the world will be participating in the fourth Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), the world’s largest research and advocacy project on gender in the news media. For one day, volunteers from grassroots community organizations, university researchers and media workers will track news media around the world to determine how women and gender issues are represented, document stereotyping in news media, and find out how women participate as newsmakers (as authorities and experts, for example).

  Findings from the GMMP will be used by gender and communication activists to advocate for gender-responsive media policies, capacity-building in news organizations and gender-aware media literacy. The results of the GMMP will be published in time for key global processes scheduled for 2010, including the Beijing +15 review and the Millennium Development Goals Review Summit.

  If you’d like to get involved by becoming a volunteer media monitor, get in touch with the national coordinator for your region.

  For more information, visit the GMMP website.
  

• • Activist Report
  • Event Listings
  • Media Savvy

  Take Back Our Radio

  March 10, 2009 • Nicole Cohen

  To celebrate International Women’s Day, the programmers who were “fired” from CKLN — including hosts from CKLN’s only feminist programs, as well as trans, queer, and activist programmers — are holding a five-hour broadcast tomorrow from a pub around the corner from the radio station that locked them out. The broadcast will feature voices otherwise silenced in the mainstream, as well as focus on community grassroots media across this country, its significance and importance. Visit the Take Back Our Radio Station blog for more information on the locked-out volunteers and tomorrow’s broadcast.

  Details:
  Take Back Our Radio! International Women’s Day
  5 hr. National Radio Broadcast Action
  March 11th, 2009
  5 to 10 pm (Eastern)
  Listen Live! www.RMR.fm

  You can also head to the Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St., at Victoria) to listen and watch live. The broadcast will be archived at www.radio4all.net.

  Catch this broadcast in these Canadian cities: CKUT in Montreal (90.3 FM), CHRY in Toronto (105.5 FM), CFRU in Guelph (93.3 FM, www.cfru.ca), CJUM in Winnipeg (101.5 FM), Co-op Radio in Vancouver (102.7 FM, Starchoice 845 Satellite, Telus Channel 178), CJSF in Burnaby (90.1 FM), the Black Mask show on CKUW in Winnipeg (95.9 FM), and many others.

• • Event Listings
  • Media Savvy

  Reminder: Beauty (Mis)represented? is tomorrow

  March 4, 2009 • Nicole Cohen

  I hope some of you can make it to this. The panel features folks with a diverse range of views on the practice of photo-retouching and advertising, including folks who work in/with the advertising industry.

  Announcing the first event in the Media Action Presents series:

  Beauty (Mis)Represented:
  What’s the matter with airbrushing advertisements?

  Is photo-manipulation in advertising benign and irrelevant, or damaging and indefensible? Join Media Action Média (formerly known as MediaWatch) in its first public discussion as we debate the issue from all sides.

  Featuring:
  Shari Graydon (author, activist and Media Action Média member)
  Stacey May Fowles (publisher of Shameless Magazine and author of Be Good)
  Tonika Morgan (community activist and member of the Medina Collective)
  Ivan Pols (Associate Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather)

  * Thursday, March 5 * 7:30-9 p.m. * Room 5-280 * Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (252 Bloor St W) * Free *

  In Partnership with The Centre for Women’s Studies in Education and Shameless Magazine

• • All About Shameless
  • Body Politics
  • Event Listings
  • Media Savvy

  Beauty (Mis)Represented

  February 20, 2009 • Nicole Cohen

  Announcing the first event in the Media Action Presents series:

  Beauty (Mis)Represented:
  What’s the matter with airbrushing advertisements?

  Is photo-manipulation in advertising benign and irrelevant, or damaging and indefensible? Join Media Action Média (formerly known as MediaWatch) in its first public discussion as we debate the issue from all sides.

  Featuring:
  Shari Graydon (author, activist and Media Action Média member)
  Stacey May Fowles (publisher of Shameless Magazine and author of Be Good)
  Tonika Morgan (community activist and member of the Medina Collective)
  Ivan Pols (Associate Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather)

  * Thursday, March 5 * 7:30-9 p.m. * Room 5-280 * Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (252 Bloor St W) * Free *

  In Partnership with The Centre for Women’s Studies in Education and Shameless Magazine

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