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Please support feminist frequency

I listened to a disturbing interview on CBC radio yesterday about Feminist Frequency. A well known blogger posted a video about her decision to investigate sexism and dicrimination in the gaming industry. This is not really big news but the mass viral attack on her is! Many have criticized the huge-breasted-stupid-women stereotypes that fill the games that boys, girls, men and

Would you want your local police officer sexually degrading a woman?

I am shocked that someone (likely a lawyer) told the RCMP regulators that it “was fine” for one of its police officers to participate in sado-masochistic activities – not during work hours of course. This officer actually posted online videos of him tying up and slashing naked women. Later he said it was no issue because there was no victim. No

Bible, Biology and Bigotry great article

I love Ms Magazine. http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/06/08/the-bible-biology-and-bigotry/

Artists get studios in unused park houses

I was so pleased to see that some of the vacant houses in Vancouver parks were going to be used by artists. The deal is that the artists do 350 hours of community engagement in exchange for an inexpensive lease. What a great idea. I worked with Sharon Kallis, an environmental artist on her

Human rights lawyer jailed in Tehran

I can’t stand hearing news like this. The very people who fight for rights are the victims of rights violations. Abdolfattah Soltani, a Iranian human rights lawyer was just sentenced to 13 years in prison by a Tehran revolutionary court. He co-founded a human rights group with a Nobel laureate and was charged with spreading

Martha Payne a nine-year old girls rocks

I love stories like Martha Payne’s. She is a nine year old Scottish girl who’s websitewent viral. Its called NeverSeconds and she posted pictures of her school lunches and ranked them on a scale of 0-10. She used her site to raise money for a local food charity. It was not until the local school council pulled

Social isolation is related to loss of feminine

Until we feel pain, we hardly notice it. Yet social isolation (e.g. loneliness) is a direct consequence of a society that mostly values money, individual status and working 24/7. Although we readily admit that these are our modern gods we fail to see the link between these goals and our unhappiness. The reaserch clearly says that the happiest people are thsoe who

Yeah for Team Pink women who cycle

Dr Cathryn Zeglinski is not only a whistler doctor but was on the national cycling team and is a mountain bike racer and mother. She wears a pink jersey to show support for women in cycling – a sport dominated by men. As she says, in a sport where only the top 10 count, it

Women get less severance pay

Professor Ken Thornicroft at the Universty of Victoria has discovered that when women are wrongfully fired from their jobs and sue for wrongful dismissal they receive less severance pay in court than men in similar circumstances. About 1.7 months less on average. He also conducted research on his students and found that in 600 sets of staged workplace dismissal negotiations, female students received

Nun is criticized by pope for sexual ethics book

Wow. A professor emeritus at Yale University who is also a Catholic nun has been told by the Pope that her award-winning 2006 book, “Just Love – A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics” is not appropriate. Her book mentions both masturbation and homosexuality. The Vatican wrote a stinging report telling her that her writing manifest a “defective