Posts by Cate Simpson
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Event: Pink Ink Zine Launch
Next week, The Gladstone Hotel and Granny Boots hosts the launch of this year’s Pink Ink zine. Pink Ink is a weekly creative writing drop-in facilitated by queer community artist and activist Karine Silverwoman, and a program of Supporting Our Youth. The launch event is hosted by Karine Silverwoman and Joseph Soobram, with performances from the talented queer and trans youth whose work is featured in this year’s zine. With post-show music from Yes Yes Y’all … READ MORE
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Mammoliti’s Curfew: Scapegoating Toronto’s youth
Shameless Wire, our new training program for young journalists, is in full swing. Over the next few months, we’ll be publishing a number of guest posts by Wire participants. This first series responds to Toronto city councillor and mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti’s platform, which calls for a city-wide teen curfew. by BerBer Xue Councilor Giorgio Mammoliti has been pushing for a teen curfew for half a decade now, and he’s not stopping because of his run for Toronto mayor. I, for … READ MORE
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Mammoliti’s Curfew: Misguided and Ineffective
Shameless Wire, our new training program for young journalists, is in full swing. Over the next few months, we’ll be publishing a number of guest posts by Wire participants. This first series responds to Toronto city councillor and mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti’s platform, which calls for a city-wide teen curfew. by Diana Faria City Councillor Georgio Mammoliti thinks that we need a curfew for Toronto’s teenagers. Mammoliti is wrong. He is also making way too many assumptions about teens, implying that … READ MORE
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Mammoliti’s curfew: A good idea in theory
Shameless Wire, our new training program for young journalists, is in full swing. Over the next few months, we’ll be publishing a number of guest posts by Wire participants. This first series responds to Toronto city councillor and mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti’s platform, which calls for a city-wide teen curfew. by Rachel Lee-Thomas Given the chance, some teenagers are practically nocturnal. We stay up late. Some of us stay out to odd hours of the night. Some drink alcohol, abuse drugs, … READ MORE
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An update on Shameless Wire
Over the last couple weeks, we’ve been reading applications for Shameless Wire with rising excitement. We don’t have any shortage of applicants, but a local organization has requested some more time to spread the word to their participants. That sounds like a great idea to us, so we’ve extended our deadline to December 31st. If you have already applied, thank you! You will hear back from us shortly after the new deadline. If you are interested … READ MORE
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Shameless Wire: Call for Participants
A month ago we posted about an exciting new project called Shameless Wire, and we are now ready to accept applications! Details are below, and the deadline for applications is December 31, 2009. SHAMELESS WIRE CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: A FREE HANDS-ON PROGRAM FOR WOMEN AND TRANS YOUTH INTERESTED IN JOURNALISM YOU ARE… …interested in learning how to how to report, write, and get published in magazines, newspapers, or online. …committed to using the media to improve your community and … READ MORE
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Shameless Wire Fundraising Party!
We’re having a fundraiser for Shameless Wire in Toronto on November 11th. Come out and support our new journalism training series for teen girls, or just come for a night of free entertainment from some awesome Toronto writers! Featuring Zoe Whittall, Dianah Smith, Karine Silverwoman and Stacey May Fowles, music from DJ Winnie, and some great door prizes! Granny Boots presents Shameless Wire Fundraiser The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto. November 11th. Doors at 7pm, show 7.30pm. … READ MORE
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Introducing Shameless Wire!
We are working on an exciting new project, and we need your help. Some of you may remember the Shameless teen editorial collective, a group of young women who advised the magazine in its first few years. The editorial collective has been dormant recently, but we hope to bring back youth involvement in a big way this January, in the form of Shameless Wire - a journalism training program for teen girls. What is Shameless Wire? We … READ MORE
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Shameless at Word on the Street!
Come and see Shameless at Word on the Street in Toronto tomorrow! We’ll be at the corner of Queen’s Park Crescent West and Hoskin Avenue from 11am-6pm, and we’ll have back issues of the magazine, as well as copies of She’s Shameless: Women Write about Growing Up, Rocking Out and Fighting Back. Here’s where to find us: … READ MORE
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Perspectives on the Yale murder
Even in Canada it’s been hard to miss the coverage over the last couple of weeks of the murder of Yale Grad student Annie Le. In Slate on Thursday, Jack Shafer posted a rant about the extent of the coverage, in which he complains about the media’s obsession with crimes that take place at Harvard and Yale. The opening sentence, “If you plan to be murdered and expect decent press coverage, please have the good sense … READ MORE
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Youth Week 2009!
Today is the first day of Youth Week 2009, a festival of youth community engagement and creativity run by Youth Action Network in Toronto. This year’s theme is Art & Activism, and it kicks off tonight with Three Dollars an Hour - a night of radical music, poetry, burlesque and performances by the Asian Arts Freedom School and Zameen Shadbad, hosted by the Asian Arts Freedom School and Mayworks. Also tonight is the opening of Grounded … READ MORE
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Koodon’t
I don’t know if these ads have been showing up in other cities in Canada, but Koodo Mobile’s ad campaigns are really starting to irk me. First of all, they ran that line of ads with fat-hating taglines like “Lose that chubby contract,” “Fat-free mobility is here” and “Say bye-bye to bill blubber,” along with pictures of people in exercise gear just in case we didn’t get the message. Their latest ads show people with huge mouths … READ MORE
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This is what oppression SOUNDS like call-out
Today’s second literary announcement is for “This Is What Oppression SOUNDS Like” zine: “an underground zine for and by racialized and indigenous women to anonymously discuss the intersecting realities of race and gender in their lives.” It will be published in January, May and September. The zine is looking for submissions from racialized and indigenous girls, young women and women. The first submission deadline is April 15, 2009. Digital submissions can be sent to hawa_mire@yahoo.ca. Physical … READ MORE
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Pink Ink Zine and Zine Launch Call-Out
I have two announcements this week for writers in the audience. For clarity, I’ll split them into two posts. The first is that Toronto queer youth writing group Pink Ink is putting together a zine, and they’re looking for submissions from queer/trans/questioning Toronto-based writers aged 29 and under. They’re also looking for people to perform at their zine launch at The Gladstone in April. If you’ve never read in public before, this is a great place to … READ MORE
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Quick link: Anorexia
There’s a really interesting article about anorexia in the Guardian today. I don’t think I’ve come across anything examining anorexia in any detail since I was in high school, when it was described to us in very different terms than this article explains it, as mainly about people (mostly girls) who just want to be thin. Writer Laurie Penny makes it clear it’s not as simple as that: “Anorexia has long been trivialised as a by-product of … READ MORE
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International Women’s Day 2009
International Women’s Day is this Saturday, March 7th! There’s a whole heap of events going on all over the world over the next few days, but if you’re in Toronto, and you only go to one, it should probably be the International Women’s Day rally, march and fair this Saturday: International Women’s Day Rally & March Rally 11am, march 1pm. OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor Street W. Fair 1:30pm at Ryerson University, 55 Gould Street. www.iwdtoronto.org. And if you want … READ MORE
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Black people in America held back by hip-hop and short shorts
A few months ago I got a free digital subscription to Macleans. I don’t know why I keep reading it though, since my day is almost always worse for the experience. Today’s salient piece of racist nonsense, which unfortunately isn’t online yet but if it does surface on the website I’ll update this post with a link, is Andrew Potter’s column, “Sometimes a primate is just a primate, Reverend” in which he defends the New York … READ MORE
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Layering up for…the beach?
So, it’s not really beach season yet but if you were planning on picking up a new bikini for a winter getaway anytime soon, maybe you should go with one of these numbers instead. Or maybe not. WholesomeWear is “a modest line of clothing for ‘wherever’”. They’re launching with their swimwear (which looks suspiciously like the hideous grey tunics girls wore at my primary school until they scrapped the dated looking things in the early 90s), because … READ MORE
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Behind the masc
Continuing with this week’s theme of Shameless people doing awesome things, I’m incredibly excited for the launch of Tuval Dinner’s new blog, masc! masc is an alternative magazine for guys that aims to be a positive space for men to explore how masculinity affects their lives, examine stereotypes and talk about gender, sexuality and health. The first few posts are up already. It’s maybe a little odd to promote a magazine for men on the website of … READ MORE
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Yes Means Yes: Q&A With Jill Filipovic
This weekend I talked to Jill Filipovic, one of the contributors to Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Power & A World Without Rape, about her essay “Offensive Feminism: the conservative gender norms that perpetuate rape culture, and how feminists can fight back.” The interview was part of the Yes Means Yes virtual tour, which - to name a few - has stopped at Feministing, The F-Word, Our Bodies Our Blog, Bitch Ph.D. (see the … READ MORE
