March 29, 2015
- On Wednesday April 1 thousands of migrant workers will be at risk of deportation thanks to newly implemented immigration policy. The 4 and 4 policy targets low-waged migrant workers in the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP). Join protests taking place across the country to protest Canada’s revolving door immigration policy.
- Ok stop. Before you read on, play one of these mixes and feel so good. From the vinyl collection of Dope Folk Records via Bitch Magazine: Women’s only Hip Hop from the Golden Era to the Mid 90’s.
- Once again, Dalhousie takes center stage for campus misogyny.
- 19 Comic Characters who embody women’s lib (Spoiler: Wonder Woman is not one of them!)
- “There is so much wrong with the present system that we can’t just tinker round the edges, we need to start again; our end point cannot be equality in an unequal world.” Finn MacKay on why Feminism is about change and not just a changing of the guard.
- Anita Sarkeesian of gamergate on how to be a feminist.
- Cranky Fran Lebowitz on women’s fashion and the unimaginative youth.
- Traditional marriage is not the answer: more evidence that the solution to poverty is more economic than cultural.
- Say what you will about Beyonce’s feminism, but there’s no denying that “Flawless” has become a feminist declaration.
- Excerpts from Rafia Zakaria’s intimate history of Pakistan. Starts with a beautiful, mournful account of Benazir Bhutto’s death.
- If you’re in Toronto, it would be great to go to this! The Historic Feminist Victories of the 1980’s on Reproductive Rights and Pay Equity: Looking Back and Forward.
- Tens of thousands of pregnant women in Canada go without provincial healthcare. CBC on the women who fall through healthcare’s cracks.
- Conservatives are always ragging on the cushy public sector jobs but Erin Anderssen argues that public sector wages are higher because the gender wage gap is much smaller.
- Heidi Levine wins award for International Women’s Media Foundation aware for “courage in photojournalism award” for her work in Gaza. Here photos give a harrowing account of life in occupied territory.
- “I was born a baby not a boy” theorizes sex, gender, and trans liberation.
