by GUTS
- Commemorative art installation, Walking With Our Sisters, is on display at the University of Alberta this week. This collaborative art piece is comprised of over 1,600 moccasin vamps created and donated by hundreds in an effort to honour the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Read more about the collaborators’ hopes for a national inquiry into violence against Indigenous women in this article published by The Globe and Mail.
- How “Jezebel” smashes the Patriarchy, click by click
- The New Inquiry’s October issue will focus on the feminine occult. Check out what there is to look forward to: TNI Vol. 21: Witches
- “[T]he dilemma is not just about prostitution or mutually assumed contracts, but also about the nature of a range of exchanges—even marriage—that are broadly gendered, classed and raced.” Patricia J. Williams on The Complicated Politics of Self-Exploitation.
- A great piece from Mary J. Breen on corsets, containment, and growing up in a southern Ontario town: When We Wore Foundation Garments
- Maya Gonzalez revisits Leopolda Fortunati’s The Arcane of Reproduction in the current issue of Viewpoint Magazine: “The outcome of austerity measures and restructuring will be the capitalist attack on women – unless we resist it, and place the viewpoint of reproductive labor at the center of our struggles.”
- If your tolerance for this week’s open letter mania hasn’t been exhausted, Megan Murphy’s piece on ageism, sexism and Sinéad O’Connor’s open letter to Miley Cyrus is well worth a few minutes.
- How Breast Cancer Won the Battle for October (and how domestic violence lost)
- GOP Representative Tells CNN Anchor That Although She Is “Beautiful” She “Must Be Honest”
- And in case you missed Dissent’s Winter 2013 issue, Sarah Leonard’s introduction (as well as many of the articles included in the issue) provides a critical overview of New Feminism: “Women, it would seem, are economically dominant and empowered by everything from their vaginas to their beach houses. Good for them. But this celebration is one part toast to the wealthy exceptions, and one part nonsense.”