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June 24, 2010
After a year and a half of sharing my views with you all (hopefully ideas that show feminism isn’t just a punchline), this is my last column.
An open letter to the girls of Sex and the City
June 10, 2010
Dear Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte...
Summer's four-letter word: Bikini
May 27, 2010
It’s bikini season. Two words certain to strike fear into the heart of pretty much any woman.
Lessons learned from tongue-in-cheek feminism
April 29, 2010
People often say feminists lack any sense of humour and all they do is complain within their ivory towers. That isn’t true and I offer up Boobquake and Ben Roethlisberger as examples.
Out of the mouths of gay teens banned from proms
March 18, 2010
By now you have probably heard about the Mississippi school that cancelled a prom rather than let Constance McMillen, a lesbian student, bring her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.
Whither our golden girls when Games are over?
March 04, 2010
Both our hockey teams struck Olympic gold in Vancouver. The next day, hockey fever raged on for the NHL.
Re-fashioning feminism for the next wave
February 18, 2010
This past weekend, I led a workshop on online journalism as part of Shameless Magazine’s Wire, a series that teaches high school girls the fundamentals of journalism. I learned what exactly it is teens do on the Internet (lots of Facebook, it turns out) and met some probable future feminists.
Current 'plus-size' trend won't change fashion
January 21, 2010
Fashion is a contentious and strange cultural beast to wrestle with — its idealizing of the female shape is the source of much dieting, disordered eating and insecurity, but it’s an economic powerhouse that is dominated by women as well.
Women robbed of identity under Berlusconi's media empire
January 07, 2010
One of the joys of living in an immigrant household is the access to diasporic television.
Feminist heroes and villains for 2009
December 24, 2009
If you needed any proof that feminism is necessary, all you need to do is look to this year’s newsmakers.
Acknowledging the nuance in gender studies
November 26, 2009
As many women do in university, I took a few women’s studies classes. I remember in one mostly female class of 40, the teacher asked who was feminist; my hand was among a sparse few that went up. But in class discussions, my classmates’ thoughts on gender roles or reproductive rights made clear that’s exactly what they were.
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