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The F Word

Occupy Valentine's Day!

February 14, 2012

| Feeling a little less than loving about Valentine's Day? The F Word talks to Samita Mukhopadhyay about the romantic industrial complex and looks at challenging dominant narratives around coupledom.

51:30 minutes (47.16 MB)

Occupy Valentine's Day

By Meghan Murphy

| February 8, 2012

Most of my love stories end with me feeling like I put a whole lot of energy into trying to build something out of nothing. Lust turns to love so easily and before you know it you're invested in a relationship that seems more important than you. You end up trying to save a relationship for the sake of the relationship rather than trying to save yourself.

Before you all start accusing me of being bitter or hard or cold or damaged or whatever else women with personalities and life experience are, I'm not anti-romance and I'm not anti-love. I get sucked into all that lovey crap like the best of us. That said, I like to keep a healthy level of cynicism (hey, let's just go right ahead and call that realism) on hand.

Zach Wahls speaks about his family as Iowa House of Representatives attempt to ban gay civil unions

Zach Wahls, a 19-year-old University of Iowa student, spoke about the strength of his family during a public forum on House Joint Resolution 6 in the Iowa House of Representatives. Wahls has two mothers, and came to oppose House Joint Resolution 6 which would end civil unions in Iowa.

The fight to to keep marriage equality in Iowa continues, help us support Iowans like Zach.

http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/12424

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People's Health Radio

In sickness and in health: Women's health in married relationships

February 17, 2011

| A conversation about how to build egalitarian and healthy relationships between men and women as we work to break down patriarchy.

59:34 minutes (54.54 MB)

National Union of Public and General Employees

B.C. common-law couples to get marriage rights

July 20, 2010 |

Existing property division laws don't generally apply to common-law separations. Couples choosing not to get married to avoid marriage property division laws may need to reassess their arrangements.

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Columnists

Reluctant virginity, religion in the bedroom and opening up

Dear Sasha,

I'm a 43-year-old, socially shy, inept, never-dated, no-girlfriend-ever, never-had-sex, living-at-home-with-Mom guy. Should I kill myself?

Not a solution, I know, but an ending, definitely. Tired of being a virgin, tired of my inability to "get into the game," tired of psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors, therapists, tired of generic advice and suggestions, tired of trying to feel good about myself, tired of being a joke.

The Reluctant Virgin

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Anthology

The ties that bind

One Big Happy Family

by Rebecca Walker, ed.

(Riverhead,

2009;

$28.50)

Growing up in a decidedly conventional family, when I came across One Big Happy Family, a collection of essays on family and love, my interest was immediately peaked.