Good news: The WOMEN DELIVER conference is now on in Vancouver. It is an amazing gathering of men and women from around the world who seek gender equality. I am moved to tears from all of the stories of women’s continued oppression AND I am reminded that until we deal with the DEEPEST ROOTS we […]
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bell hooks, a famous writer and feminist once described American society as an “imperialist, white, supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy.” It feels about right watching the USA elections.
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I am looking for this book by Anne Summers. Apparently it is amazing. I will review it when I get my hands on it.
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Thanks to Daphne Bramham for a great article on Tayyibah Taylor the editor of Atlanta-based Azizah magazine – the so-called voice of Muslim women. Ms Taylor who was born in the Caribbean, raised in Toronto and married an American is one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world. As for gender equality she says (and
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If you read nothing else this year, read these words by bell hooks on forgiveness and Trayvon Martin. Here is an excerpt: “The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety…. The person who is really the threat here is the home owner who has been
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Vancouver Sun journalist Shelley Fralic wrote a great article on Friday May 31: We Really Haven’t Come a Long way Baby.” She got kick-back from an earlier article showing how few women were at the top. She responds: “How dare I write that women aren’t making progress in modern society? How regressive of me to declare
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Pornography….photo blogCredit: Steve Rhodes on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).
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The Shafia family was found guilty this week of murdering their three daughters and x-wife, by drowning all four in a car. Judge, Robert Maranger said this in his final statement: “The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that four completely innocent victims offended your twisted notion of honour that is founded upon the domination and
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One doctor is fighting the killling of girls in embryo. According to the Canadian Medical Assocation Journal Dr Kale is urging doctors to not tell parents the gender of their fetuses until 30 weeks into pregnancy. Research shows that many Canadians (like many from China and India ) do not want girls and abort them more opften than boys.
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In a recent article Judith Timson (Globe & Mail) suggests that the murder of young women in the name of honour (otherwise called “washing shame with blood”) is a deeply embedded cultural problem. As she states, it is rooted in the belief that women are equal to men and, indeed, the property of men. The
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