Posts by Stacey May Fowles
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The B-side is Back!
The B Side: Exploring Bisexuality is a 10 week group for people who are exploring their attraction to more than one gender or struggling with what their bisexuality means to them and their lives. Mondays, 6:30-9:00pm September 29 - December 8, 2008 Sherbourne Health Centre 333 Sherbourne Street Topics: **exploring attraction ** bisexual myths & stereotypes ** relationships ** labels & identity issues ** coming out to friends, family & others ** bisexuality & our other identities ** finding support … READ MORE
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Anna Leventhal is Amazing
Our very own fantastic Anna Leventhal has just released a brand new anthology with Invisible Publishing, titled The Art of Trespassing, and we here at Shameless recommend everyone use this handy link to get themselves a copy. We’re certainly not alone in our endorsement: “An anthology of new writers that sparkles with imagination, energy, and flashes of poetry. And perhaps most importantly, it’s an awfully fun read.” -Jonathan Goldstein, Author of Lenny Bruce is Dead Here’s some more … READ MORE
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12-Year-Old Suspended For Pink Hair
Don’t school administrations ever learn? 12-year-old Amelia Robbins has been suspended after dying her hair pink as a tribute to her late father who died of cancer. Broadsheet sums it up: Administrators argue that the dye job is a “distraction” to other students, but with the full support of her mom, Amelia’s choosing to fight the suspension rather than adopt a more conventional hair color. “I don’t feel like I should have to, because i’m expressing myself … READ MORE
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Stats Can reports that fewer teen girls are having sex
According to the CBC, Stats Can is reporting a drop in the number of teens who say they’ve had sexual intercourse at least once. The decline occurred due to young women. For them, the proportion who reported having had intercourse decreased from 51 per cent in 1996 to 43 per cent in 2005. Among young men, the proportion stayed unchanged at 43 per cent. There’s also some information in the report about increased condom use. Sex education seems … READ MORE
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Nightwood’s Write from the Hip and Busting Out This Weekend
(Apologies for being a bad blogger as of late. I’ve been a bit busy with some life stuff, but I’ll be back in regular rotation shortly. For now here’s a shameless plug.) On Saturday August 23 at 8 p.m., with the invaluable help of Nightwood Theatre and the emerging actors program, there will be a staged reading of Fear of Fighting, a short, fifteen minute play based on my upcoming illustrated novel. (Put out by … READ MORE
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The Married Feminist, Coming Soon
As some of you may know, a week from now I’ll be a married woman. Since my partner and I decided on Valentine’s day earlier this year that we wanted to be wed, I’ve navigated the strange world of the “wedding industrial complex” and tried to figure out, on my own terms, what it means to me to be a married feminist. That meant dissecting the tradition bit by bit and disposing of things that … READ MORE
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The First Movement: How We Forgot Here
My pal Marika Schwandt, who I met through Nightwood Theatre’s Write From The Hip program, let me know about a production she’s involved in that sounds fantastic. Bonus? Our fabulous Shameless art director Sheila Sampath did some design work for them. Check it out: The First Movement: How We Forgot Here Aug 14-16, 8 pm and Aug 17, 3 pm @ Walnut Studio Loft 83 Walnut St. (south of King, west of Bathurst) We regret that this venue is not … READ MORE
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Paris Hilton’s Energy Policy, “Loves It.”
Some of you might know that McCain camp somehow made a “celebrity” connection between Obama, Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears in one of the most ridiculous attack ads I’ve ever seen. I have all sorts of problems with the ad, that I won’t go into now, but let me summarize the overall idea behind it: Obama is pretty, girly, pampered, arrogant, and not ready to lead, much like the common perception of (female) starlets like … READ MORE
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TakeCareDownThere.com
Go check out Planned Parenthood’s latest website, takecaredownthere.com, which tackles the “Ins and Outs of the Ins and Outs” and is filled with “nontraditional” PSAs targeting sexually active teens and young adults. The Christian right hates it, but I love it, especially the “Down There Song.” … READ MORE
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Defending Challenged Books
I love stories where people successfully defend the freedom to read. Via Quillblog comes this amazing response to a patron’s request to remove a children’s picture book about a gay wedding, Uncle Bobby’s Wedding by Sarah S. Brannen, from the Colorado library. Here’s an excerpt: You feel that a book about gay marriage is inappropriate for young children. But another book in our collection, “Daddy’s Roommate,” was requested by a mother whose husband left her, and … READ MORE
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Skinny Models Can’t Sell Cookies, But Can Sell Just About Everything Else
Adage reports that “Researchers Find Thin Models Make Viewers Like Brands More, but Themselves Less:” A study by business professors at Villanova University and the College of New Jersey, inspired by Dove’s “Campaign for Real Beauty,” shows that ads featuring thin models made women feel worse about themselves but better about the brands featured… “They have higher evaluation of the brands. With the more regular-size models, they don’t feel bad. Their body image doesn’t change. But in … READ MORE
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The Hot Female Playwright
Via Torontoist we’re alerted to a viral video that SummerWorks (Toronto’s indie theatre and arts festival) has created to promote this year’s events. Torontoist writer Johnnie Walker breaks it down: In the video, playwrights Hannah Moscovitch, Tara Beagan, Claudia Dey, Rose Laborde, and Linda Griffiths discuss the travails of being “hot playwrights.” The video, which culminates in a pillow fight, has already sparked a comments war on the fest’s blog about its feminist implications. You can … READ MORE
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Malvern’s Young Creatives Open House!
For the past few weeks I’ve been working with Diaspora Dialogues and a group of great young creative writers over at the Malvern Public Library in Scarborough. These fantastic young people have been doing six weeks of graphic novel, fiction and poetry writing that will all come together in an open house at the library on Thursday, August 7 at 5:30 pm. Congratulations to these talented young writers! The press release is below. Malvern’s Young Creatives Young … READ MORE
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A Time for Asking and Telling
In the US, the House Armed Services personnel subcommittee hearing on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” unfolded into a ridiculous circus of homophobic sentiment, revealing the incredibly unabashed anti-gay doctrine that can come from high up in military administration. The hearing has also revealed that most troops could care less about the sexual orientation and preferences of their fellow soldiers, as long as they are competent and prepared. Given that the military has taken to lowering … READ MORE
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There’s Still Time To Subscribe for $10!
Subscribe to Shameless Magazine online during our limited-time-only $10 sale and be automatically entered to win a Shameless author prize pack, absolutely free! Our $10 sale won’t last much longer so get in on the action right now and enjoy three fantastic issues of Canada’s favourite feminist magazine for teens! Already a subscriber? Please consider making a small donation to help support the work we do. Even something as small as $2, $5 or $10 will go … READ MORE
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Hooray for Hillside!
Yesterday I was at The Hillside Music Festival, “a celebration of music and community” that happens annually at Guelph Lake conservation area on an “island” connected to the mainland by a narrow causeway. Hillside is a not-for-profit corporation, administered by a board of directors, a small year-round staff, and more than 1,000 volunteers, and it is unlike other music festivals because it doesn’t focus on corporate advertising in order to sustain itself. And speaking … READ MORE
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Disney’s First Black Princess
When I was younger I was completely in love with Disney films. My favourites, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, I played over and over on a loop. When The Lion King came out in theatres, I actually went to see it three times (and please don’t mention that I was fifteen when it came out, okay?) A few years later I had more of an eye to critique what I thought was … READ MORE
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Happy Mad Pride!
Mad Pride Week started yesterday and there are some fabulous events happening all over the country (and the world) to celebrate. The annual celebration seeks to reclaim the terms “mad,” “psycho,” “crazy,” etc. from the media, and through a series of campaigns and events re-educate the general public on issues like the causes of mental “illness”, the real victims of the mental health system, and the global suicide pandemic. Toronto Psychiatric Survivors started holding a yearly … READ MORE
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Almost as Good as the Count
Happy Monday folks! (Hat tip to Torontoist) … READ MORE
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Elaborate Euphemisms? Really?
Dear Andrew Coyne and Maclean’s Magazine, Just in case you didn’t get the memo, “a woman’s right to choose” is not, as you refer to it, an “elaborate euphemism.” Choice actually means that you can think abortion is wrong, you just don’t get to decide that for anyone else. It is the fundamental belief that all women have the right to choose what they do with their own bodies, including but not limited to pregnancy and … READ MORE
