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Cop watch: Community activism to end police brutality

May 5, 2012
| The F Word discusses community resistance to police brutality, featuring footage from the International Day Against Police Brutality rally and interviews with Cop Watch organizers.

48:58 minutes (44.84 MB)
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The F Word: Familial Sexual Abuse

March 26, 2012
| Ariana Barer and Nicole Deagan, along with guest Leigh Malone, discuss the social climate around sexual abuse, silence and shame, the phenomenon of mother-blaming, and the role of feminism in healing.

36:43 minutes (50.42 MB)
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Abortion and reproductive rights -- still under attack

March 19, 2012
| Laura Wood speaks with Barbara Hestrin about recent political challenges to women's reproductive rights and Nicole Deagan talks with an abortion counsellor about working in an abortion clinic.

36:46 minutes (67.34 MB)
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Women making movies: The 7th annual Women in Film and Television festival

March 9, 2012
| The 7th annual Women in Film and Television festival highlights the achievements of women's filmmaking. Festival director Roslyn Muir speaks with the F Word.

16:46 minutes (15.35 MB)
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Examining A Dangerous Method

February 13, 2012
| What are the impacts of making a film about a woman's repressed need for masochism and her man-doctor's cure of sexualized violence? WAVAW women examine Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method.

50:51 minutes (58.19 MB)
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Women’s sexuality and female ejaculation

January 23, 2012
| Nicole Deagan and guests discuss social and psychological barriers to women’s sexual exploration – and focus specifically on female ejaculation.

44:03 minutes (50.42 MB)
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Women and aging

December 19, 2011
| Nicole and Ariana explore women’s experiences of aging with Dr Vivian Diller and Irene Tsepnopulous-Elhaimer, in particular as relating to objectification and mainstream concepts of physical beauty.

39:01 minutes (53.59 MB)
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The closure of women's centres and the 'Walmartization' of services

December 5, 2011
| How are funding restructuring and funding cuts impacting communities when they result in the closure of specialized women's services?

28:40 minutes (32.82 MB)
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Ten years later: How 9/11 changed the lives of Muslim women

September 21, 2011
| Farrah Khan of AQSAzine speaks with Ellie Gordon-Moershel about the policing of Muslim women's clothes to the plurality of Islam. Featuring spoken word from Fayza Bundalli.

27:50 minutes (25.48 MB)
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The Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry

September 16, 2011
| The F Word takes a closer look at the Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry, featuring an interview with Native Women's Association of Canada president Jeannette Corbiere Lavell.

44:32 minutes (40.78 MB)
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