The F Word

Exploring prostitution and abolition: Activism, events and debates

March 12, 2011
| Meghan Murphy explores issues and debates around prostitution, specifically looking at the abolition argument -- the idea that we identify trafficking and prostitution as violence against women.

54:58 minutes (50.32 MB)
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David Korten: Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth

March 10, 2011
| David Korten, author, economist and former Harvard professor, advocates for a new economic system that is life-centred and community-based on October 29, 2010 at the Bronson Centre in Ottawa.

69:04 minutes (63.28 MB)
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'Prostitution and Women's Equality: Imagining More for Women' -- Part 1

March 24, 2011
| Part one in a three-part series on prostitution and women's equality, this podcast features a talk by consultant, lawyer and radical feminist Gunilla Ekberg.

68:38 minutes (62.84 MB)
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Episode 31 - Wrenna Robertson on 'I'll Show You Mine': A photography book celebrating vulva diversity

April 9, 2011
| Meghan Murphy speaks with Wrenna Robertson about her book "I'll Show You Mine" -- a photography book celebrating vulva diversity.

32:12 minutes (29.48 MB)
The F Word

Where have all the radicals gone? When feminism gets moderate

April 15, 2011
| In this special episode of The F Word, Meghan Murphy explores the possibility that feminism is in need of a re-radicalization.

97:58 minutes (89.69 MB)
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Noam Chomsky on the State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival

April 21, 2011
| Noam Chomsky speaks about the State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival at a talk recorded at U of T on April 7, 2011.

66:14 minutes (60.69 MB)
The F Word

'Who Took the Bomp: Le Tigre on Tour' -- An interview with director Kerthy Fix

May 5, 2011
| Meghan Murphy interviews Kerthy Fix, director of 'Who Took the Bomp: Le Tigre on Tour,' a film which follows band members, Johanna Fateman, JD Samson and Kathleen Hanna on their final tour in 2004.

40:50 minutes (37.38 MB)
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Barbara Marshall -- 'Sexualizing the Third Age: Medicalization and the Reconstruction of Sexual Life Courses'

May 13, 2011
| Barbara Marshall speaks at The Medicalization of Sex conference in Vancouver about the medicalization of late-life sexuality and the ways in which sex and gender are constructed around aging bodies.

33:23 minutes (30.62 MB)
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On taking down fences and the criminalization of dissent: An interview with Jaggi Singh

May 28, 2011
| On April 28, activist Jaggi Singh pleaded guilty to urging people to take down the G20 summit fence in Toronto last June. This interview was recorded by Carmelle Wolfson following his guilty plea.

19:53 minutes (18.24 MB)
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Women's Worlds 2011 Profile: Nicole Schwab

June 12, 2011
| Nicole Schwab, co-founder of The Gender Equality Project, will be speaking at Women's Worlds 2011, which is being held this year in Ottawa-Gatineau from July 3-7th.

12:25 minutes (11.37 MB)
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Women's Worlds 2011 Profile: Samhita Mukhopadhyay

June 24, 2011
| Samita Mukhopadhyay, executive editor of Feministing.com, will be speaking at Women's Worlds 2011, which is being held this year in Ottawa-Gatineau from July 3-7.

27:01 minutes (24.78 MB)
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First Nations education: Can we afford to miss out?

July 30, 2011
| Chief Shawn Atleo, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, speaks at the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences about First Nations youth and access to quality education.

56:08 minutes (51.44 MB)