by GUTS
- An inspiring talk from Angela Davis on the links between feminism and prison abolition, as well as the need for scholars and activists to hold the objects of their inquiry more loosely.
- Suzanne Lacy’s performance piece “Between the Door and the Street” took place in Brooklyn this month where hundreds of participants and thousands of viewers gathered to discuss the meaning and future of feminism. Some compelling responses to this event include Salamishah Tillet’s piece about eavesdropping and eventually becoming part of this project, and Audrea Lim’s piece on feminist community building, performance-art, and the blind spots of Lacy’s work.
- “In the face of the increased surveillance of injured workers, shrinking legal aid funding and a more adversarial WSIB, the People’s Commission will shed light on the struggle of injured workers and lead compensation policymakers in a more progressive direction” Ella Bedard on the state of worker’s compensation systems in Ontario and the struggle to bring about change for injured workers.
- Halloween is over. But if you didn’t get your fill of costume puns, these are pretty great: trick, treat, or overthrow.
- “We all get the message of what a man is meant to be but, unlike feminism’s unbraiding of the ideal feminine, hypermasculinity sits like an elephant on steroids, stinking up the living room. It’s complex to examine what being a man means because most of us, whether we realize it or not, are committed to a monolithic answer.” Thomas Page McBee’s articulate and moving piece on gender and masculinity.
- A number of tech professionals struggle with searching the internet. Learn how to find those women who know something about technology!
- “In both the gym and the church, the transition to ‘inclusion’ (of women, but also of bodies outside the ‘norm’) has become gendered in an unprecedented manner. Though the gym once excluded women, it has moved towards inclusion with incredible enthusiasm. In welcoming women, the gym – and the broader fitness community – have aggressively participated in the social construction of women.” Janice Rees on women in the gym, theological optimism, and the liturgical deformation of inclusion.
- Although we are still asking for submissions, you should also check out Toronto-based journal Feral Feminisms’ new CFP as well as RFR/DRF’s upcoming issue on Women in Revolutionary Times: Organizing Against Late Capitalism
- In case you haven’t seen it, Endnotes has released their 3rd issue. This piece on the logic of gender is well worth reading.
- “I have no reason to resign.” Toronto mayor Rob Ford has made it clear that smoking crack is a private matter that shouldn’t compromise his mayoral duties. Similarly, he has asserted his right to kick reporters off his private property. The most disheartening point, of course, is his alleged rise in popularity.
- And finally, Claire Messud talking about and reading from her new book, The Woman Upstairs, will make you want to read her work all afternoon.