Category: Feminism
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Stamps Honour Three Quebec Feminists and Social Justice Activists
Canada Post honours three Quebec feminists and social justice activists: Léa Roback (1903-2000), Madeleine Parent (1918-2012), and Simonne Monet-Chartrand (1919-1993). These three Quebec women were lifelong advocates for social justice. … Watch video »
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How Barbara Ehrenreich Exposed the ‘Positive Thinking’ Industry
We can thank the late economic justice warrior for her groundbreaking contribution in showing that “positive thinking” is part of a whitewashing of economic inequality. Keep reading »
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The Fight to Defend Abortion Rights
In many countries around the world, winning or defending the right to abortion access has been a key feature of women’s movements in recent years. From the historic repeal of … Keep reading »
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Anti-Abortionists Played the Long Game, And They Are Winning
The US is sliding toward a grim future where abortion is criminalized with little support for families. This “new normal” is disproportionately impacting low-income people of color. Keep reading »
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International Women’s Day: What is Canadian Feminism?
In honour of IWD (March 8), an excerpt from Joan Sangster’s book, Demanding Equality, and Alexandra Kollontai’s ‘International Women’s Day’. Keep reading »
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The Abortion Crisis and the Legacy of Activism
Beginning September 1, 2021, the state of Texas enacted the most aggressive challenge to Roe v. Wade (1973) since the decision was handed down by a Court packed with justices … Keep reading »
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World March of Women: Grassroots Feminist Vision into Action
The World March of Women (WMW) is a feminist, internationalist, anticapitalist, and anticolonial movement organized from local coordinations in 51 countries and territories. The movement’s coordination has previously been located … Keep reading »
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Privatization, Blended Finance and Canada’s Development Policies: A Pan-African Feminist Critique
On Tuesday, November 9, 2021, we spoke with Crystal Simeoni, the Director of the Nawi – Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective (Nawi Collective), a community of individuals and organizations working on influencing, … Keep reading »
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The Dangers of Working-Class Women’s Football: 100 Years After the English FA Ban
For many sports fans in Canada, the most memorable moment of this past summer’s Olympic Games in Japan was the triumph of the Canadian women’s soccer team, a heart-stopping penalty-shootout … Keep reading »
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Thirteen Theses of Marxism-Feminism
In the face of the deep crises of capitalism, with all the safety valves unscrewed so that each crisis is merely an intensification of the previous one; with crises increasingly … Keep reading »
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Feminist Protests in Palestine
Palestine looks back on a long history of women organizing dating back to as early as 1917, as well as a vibrant history of women’s social and political participation in … Keep reading »
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Anti-Privatization Movements in the Global South: P3s and Women's Human Rights
On March 29, 2021, we caught up with Corina Rodriguez Enriquez and Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, researchers with Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) “a network of feminist … Keep reading »