Long live the Men’s Centre

Forget Hallmark and Big Flora — Mother’s Day is (and always has been) for radicals: Mother’s Day began in America in 1870 when Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother’s Day Proclamation. Written in response to the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, her proclamation called on women to use their position as mothers to [...]

Back in the days of our encampment, I remember reading and hearing discussion about Occupy’s “asshole problem.”read more

Across North America, Mother’s Day is widely celebrated. Families pay tribute to women’s contributions to the family with a nice meal, flowers, jewelry, clothing, even electronics. The National Retailers’ Federation estimates that over $16 billion was …

Is going nude revolutionary within the context of feminism? Can women’s naked bodies present a challenge to patriarchal ideas and historic male control over female bodies and women’s sexuality? Is nude protest a radical way to draw attentio…

In mid-April, Toronto was host to the 7th Annual Good for Her Feminist Porn Awards. The four-day event included a screening and discussion of Buck Angel’s documentary, Sexing the Transman; a film night featuring the work of four feminist directors; the…

Well done.   Via Memwhore.

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 Jennifer Allan and Ann Livingston. read more

This post is not intended to be a blind celebration of the police. Let’s not pretend as though the police are not largely representative of white male power and authority. But that does not mean I am anti-criminalization or anti-state. As femi…

A great many things have and will continue to be written in the wake of a confrontation between the mayor and Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale—about the mayor and his temper, the Star and its coverage of him, and the perpetually tense relationship between the two. But armchair psychologizing and media theory aside, there is [...]

A Con backbencher wants to pass a motion to debate the beginning of life. But Harpo swears, again, this isn’t about reopening the abortion debate. But at least soon nobody will stop the trade in human ova and surrogacy!

The pro-choice movement scored a significant victory last week in the Parliamentary debate over anti-choice Motion 312. It could prove to be a watershed moment, one that could end the abortion debate in Canada forever — or at least until Christian fun…

In an orgy of axe swinging and program bludgeoning last week, the federal government set their sights on taking a clean shot at the health and well-being of Canadian women. With all of the vitriol and paternalistic reining in recently, one can’t help but wonder if the government has lumped people with two X chromosomes [...]

  I’m really starting to get sick and tired of some women whining about a guy looking and commenting about females because they’re pretty or their breasts are nice.  It’s not objectifying of them to do that.  It’s natural fo…

Al Jazeera’s Artscape presents a wonderful short documentary on Abeer Soliman, an Egyptian storyteller and performance artist whose work changed after the uprising. – Syndicated from http://artthreat.net

I am proud to call myself a feminist. I take it as a first principle needing no further derivation that all people deserve equality of freedom and opportunity, and that it is both morally right and morally obligatory to fight for this in society. Femi…

I am proud to call myself a feminist. I take it as a first principle needing no further derivation that all people deserve equality of freedom and opportunity, and that it is both morally right and morally obligatory to fight for this in society. Fe…

Hay ladies! Turning 30? Time to crawl into a hole and die.
That is, of course, unless you have a man, a sexy bra and tons of cash. That’s right! Ever helpful, Glamour and Huffington Post have teamed up to squish women down, down, down just a little fur…

I have become very weary of being perpetually assaulted, all day long, and being utterly helpless to defend myself from the onslaught. If it isn’t advertisers shoving things I don’t want down my throat, it’s the bank ramming their hands in my pockets. The media fills my eyes and ears with sights and sounds that [...]

Preamble
Tonight I wear red in support of my feminist sisters,
the Radical Handmaids, who gathered today on Parliament Hill
in opposition to Motion 312 which re-opens the abortion debate
tomorrow afternoon in the House of Commons.
And I share this poem…