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Mid-Week Round Up: December 31
Illustration: Erin McPhee
Happy New Year’s Eve everyone! This week’s post features mostly features year-end round ups from alternative media sources from Bitch Media to Mary Sue:
Bitch Media’s “Great New Music from 2014” and “20 Most-Read Articles of the Year”
Two Rows Times’ 2014 year in review
Mary Sue’s “The 17 Most Badass Women in Movies, 2014” and “Pull it Together: 2014′s 10 Entirely Subjective Best Moments in Comics”
Salon’s “The year’s best audiobooks”
Roxane Gay’s “2014 Was The Year Of ‘Enough Is Enough’”
Rank and File’s “Canadian Labour Movement in Review”
New Year’s Eve is a time when many people draft their resolutions for the New Year. The folks over at Truthout ask: “Looking for a New Years resolution? If you haven’t already, there’s never been a better time to resolve not to call the cops.” Read more about alternatives to policing here.
Laverne Blake and Anne Theriault were guests on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning this week talking about Violence Against Women. Check out the podcast here.
Raina Lipsitz of Al Jazeera asks us to imagine if there’s not patriarchy.