By Rachelle Stein-Wotten This week in rape news: Some fine men in Edmonton decided to fight back against all those terrible women who lie about being raped, and take back the innocence and purity of the one night stand. The group Men’s Rights Edmonton plastered posters around the University of Alberta campus in retaliation for […]
Ambrose disappears Sisters in Spirit
By Alison@Creekside Last week APTN News reported that not only does the Cons’ new missing persons initiative entirely bypass Sisters In Spirit, the very group which initiated research into the nearly 600 missing and murdered FN women and girls in the first place, but SIS can no longer use the SIS name or continue their […]
Telling me I’m more vulnerable makes me so
By Jodi A. Shaw Today, for the first time in my life, I was concerned for my safety based on my gender. Working in a northwest Calgary neighbourhood, I was informed by a resident that a “perv” had reached inside a woman’s bedroom window (in a house just down the street) and fondled her breasts […]
More Olympics double-standards
By Alison@Creekside On Valentines Day, 2,000 to 4,000 people marched through Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in the annual Women’s March for Missing and Murdered Women. A memorial march — not a protest — it is organized and led by women of the DTES to remember the hundreds of aboriginal women who have gone missing or been […]
In nobody’s yard except the pig farmer’s
So whose problem is the surreal level of violence against Aboriginal women in Canada? I am so monumentally pissed that I am ready to fire everybody, including the organizations run by Aboriginal women. It seems like nobody — absolutely nobody — is bringing their lunch pail to work on this problem. On Monday, October 4, […]
Fathers For Stupidity
Morons from a group advocating for fathers’ custody rights, Fathers For Justice, could not have picked a stupider place to lobby than the International Conference on Violence Against Women in Montreal. What could the two issues possibly have in common? How could one issue possibly impact another, unless the fathers in question meant to lobby […]
