Tag: Recommended Reading
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Mid-Week Round Up: October 22
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Mid-Week Round Up: October 8
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Mid-Week Round Up: October 1
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Mid-Week Round Up: September 24
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Review: One Kind Word: Women Share Their Abortion Stories
deb singh reviews this edited feminist volume. Contributors discuss the stigma of accessing an abortion no matter what the year, the province or the circumstance. Women were scared to talk about their abortions for fear of judgment by family, friends, the medical system, and society at large. READ MORE
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Mid-Week Round Up: August 27
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Review: Elisha Lim’s 100 Crushes
deb singh talks about Elisha Lim’s 100 Crushes, a compilation of five years of comics that show how identity is a fluid, complex, beautiful process. “Lim,” singh writes, “takes real people from our communities and helps us tell our stories, giving us a context in which to start.” READ MORE
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MID-WEEK ROUND UP: JUNE 18
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Mid-Week Round Up: June 11
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Mid-Week Round Up: June 4
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Mid-Week Round-Up: May 28
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Making our headlines: Mid-week round up
Welcome to the first edition of our news, arts and culture mid-week round up. Check out what’s been making our headlines this week. READ MORE
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Book Review: Elizabeth Hawksworth’s Lake Effect
Anne Thériault reviews Elizabeth’s Hawksworth’s Lake Effect, calling it “a revelation, pure and simple. It’s just a whole lot of goodness packed into a sweet series of vignettes whose brevity make them easy to read during a daily commute or just as you’re drifting off to sleep.” Read more to find out about this alternative history that explores feminism, sexuality, immigration and relationships within the context of “Toronto the Good.” READ MORE
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Retired Supreme Court justice wrong to endorse Quebec values charter
This past weekend Amna Qureshi, a recent law school graduate, had her open letter to Supreme Court Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dube published in the Toronto Star. In the letter, Qureshi teases out many of the problems, contradictions, and discriminations within the Parti Quebecois’ proposed Charter of Values. Thanks to our friends over at Outubrst! for putting us in touch with Qureshi. The following is an open letter from recent law school graduate Amna Qureshi to retired Supreme … READ MORE
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Recommended Reading: Solidarity is For Miley Cyrus: The Racial Implications of her VMA Performance
There has been a lot of writing on Miley Cyrus’s performance at the Video Music Awards this past weekend, from all angles. This one is important. From Ninjacate writing at Groupthink at Jezebel: As a black woman, I feel like I owe a debt of gratitude to Mikki Kendall, of Solidarity Is For White Women fame for managing to so perfectly encapsulate years of subjugation of black women by white women. With those five words, she was … READ MORE
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Recommended Reading: Why I can’t celebrate the arrests in the Rehtaeh Parsons case
Ardath Whynacht writes at Halifax Media Co-op’s blog about the recent arrests in the Rehteah Parsons case: Let me begin by saying that I am a youth worker and have been for more than a decade. Let me also begin by saying that I spent 5 years volunteering for the Victim Services Unit of the Halifax Regional Police to provide support for women affected by intimate partner violence. I now work with women in prison and … READ MORE
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Book Review: Eleanor and Park
I first heard about Rainbow Rowell’s book Eleanor and Park on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast in August 2012, and it finally appeared at my local library in March 2013. The book is labeled as young adult fiction, so I expected to finish it fairly quickly. Over the next week, I read it three times, each time hoping that I would uncover something new, just to make the story last longer. Eleanor and Park takes … READ MORE
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Recommended Reading: A bra that fits me - A Critique of Chrysalis Lingerie’s May 1st Launch
Teagan Widmer writes at Interrupt Mag about some major issues with Chrysalis Lingerie’s launch. I was super excited about Chrysalis Lingerie’s new line of lingerie that debuted in their online store this week. The company boasts garments created by trans women and for trans women. Their launch has been delayed multiple, but now it was finally coming to a mailbox near you. So when I saw a post on my Tumblr dashboard saying that their … READ MORE
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Ms. Fit Magazine: “Real World Feminist Fitness”
Over the last 15 months I have been on a journey of fitness. I was walking down the street on a cold January morning and realized that I needed to make a change. Since that morning, I have joined a gym, taken classes and began practicing yoga. I’ve devoured the fitness magazines at my local public library and looked up various stretches to release my tight hip flexors and techniques to strengthen my rotator cuffs. … READ MORE
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Recommended Reading: Police (In)Justice: Responding Together to Change the Story
From the Native Youth Sexual Health Network: We validate the many stories we’ve heard from families about a lack of police responsiveness and/or dehumanizing treatment directed at the missing woman themself, their family or friends. Families have expressed frustration and anguish of being ignored when they presented evidence countering police theories. For instance, pointing out that their loved ones disappeared without taking their wallet, clothes, or cell phone, told no one of their plans, left without … READ MORE