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Feminist frosh week: Holding leadership accountable for rape culture
By
Emily Blake
| September 2, 2016

As the first day of school looms, students are preparing by buying school supplies, moving into dorms, and figuring out where their classes are. But one issue students shouldn't have to prepare for is rape culture on campuses.

Unfortunately, sexual assault and rape culture is a big concern for students with increasing awareness of the problem across Canada and the fact that post-secondary institutions have done a poor job of addressing it. WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre says grade 12 girls have expressed concern over sexual violence being "inevitable" at colleges and universities.

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WINGS
WINGS

Who talks, who listens?

August 9, 2016
| A feminist linguist investigates men and women's conversations.
Length: 29:08 minutes (40.02 MB)
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Feminism has been taken over by capitalism, and it ain't pretty

We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

by Andi Zeisler
(PublicAffairs,
2016;
$26.99)

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The world of feminism nowadays is... saturated.

Women are leaning in, #girlbosses are getting that money, period-friendly underwear is readily available, #GirlsCan empower themselves with bombshell lipstick and oh so much more.

But, is this feminism?

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Ursula Franklin a pioneer feminist, pacifist, scientist and social justice fighter
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| July 25, 2016

"Feminism isn't an employment agency for women; it's an alternative way of ordering the social space, in which women are the prototype rather than men. It is based on collaboration rather than competition. As a youngster, I still remember my feeling of joy that one could look at the earth differently. That's feminism; everything is differently oriented. Seeing the same world with different eyes." -- Ursula Franklin

This quote from Ursula Franklin introduces the chapter on the 1970s in my oral history of the women's movement. It most perfectly expressed the idealism of early second wave feminism and Ursula Franklin herself, who lived her life according to these principles until her death at the age of 94 on Friday.

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| Tameera Mohamed talks about the radical, intersectional, body positivity of Our Resilient Bodies.
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Beyond cabinet parity: Gender equity requires less talk, more legislation

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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne unveiled a midterm cabinet shuffle last month that boosted the percentage of women in her executive council to 40 per cent, the highest in Ontario's history.

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False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton

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| If Hillary Clinton is elected, she will be the first woman president in U.S. history. Major women's organizations have endorsed her. A new book raises questions about Clinton's commitment to feminism.
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Smashing the patriarchy in Newfoundland

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| Jessica Barry and Nicole Collins talk about the work that Smash Patriarchy: An Action Team is doing in St. John's.
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