July 26, 2014
- On August 6th, the city of Toronto’s budget committee will be reviewing the proposal to fund 24-hour drop-in spaces for women. Find out what you can do to help make sure this request passes here
- The anti-abortion law Wendy Davis fought just over a year ago is taking it’s toll. Watch abortion clinics vanish in Texas.
- Similarly, the lack of sexual health services and abortion clinics in the Canadian maritimes continues to give rise to huge concerns. Find out how the serious lack of these services in rural Nova Scotia is affecting everyone.
- In response to the city’s recent eviction notices, the homeless community living in Vancouver’s Oppenheimer park have issued an eviction notice of their own. Members of local First Nations are also challenging the city’s right to evict people living in the park. Says Audrey Siegl, of the Musqueam nation: “Before this was the City of Vancouver, this was Musqueam land. It still is.”
- Maya Mikdashi on the gendering of Israel’s war on Gaza: “To insist on publicly mourning all of the Palestinian dead, men and women and children—at moments of military invasion and during the everyday space of occupation and colonization— is to insist on their right to have been alive in the first place”
- Also, Nada Elia’s piece frames settler colonialism as a feminist issue
- “Just a three dollar increase can make a living wage!” Kristen Bell politicizes Mary Poppins.
- Summer jams alert: today’s the last day to stream Jenny Lewis’s new album, The Voyager for free on NPR.
- “Sex Farm Woman: All of These Albertan Crops Are Metaphors For My Empty, Yearning Vagina,” and other classic Canadian narratives
- Nina Power’s brilliant piece on the history of feminism in the digital age: “Internet feminism has opened up modes of interpretive experience that were previously obscured or partial for many: I include myself in this grand pedagogical experiment. Long may it continue, and those who seek to stop it will not succeed: feminist information, you could say, wants to be free.”
- A great CBC podcast of grownups reading things they wrote as children.
- Hazlitt’s Haley Mlotek talks to Emily Gould about her new novel, Friendship, and the limitations placed on women writers today.
- And finally, some new fiction from Zadie Smith
