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Thursday, June 10, 2021
. By Heather McLaughlin This piece, entitled, bad day, is based on the work on Vivek Shraya’s 2018 book, I’m Afraid of Men. The book details Shraya’s experience as a transwoman of colour as she navigates a Eurocentric world of surveillance, internalized and externalized forms of misogyny, culminating in her fear of men and... More
. Inforgraphic by Lalla Maiga By Lalla Maiga The knowledge we have on birthing women and their childbirth experience emphasizes predominantly white, middle-class, and female adults. Most existing studies on pregnant women rarely focus on the implications of different social class locations on... More
By Sheridan Worth The Women’s March is a reoccurring event that encourages activism all over North America to march for women's rights. Within the last couple of years, the march had a new approach that encouraged women to wear pink hats that represented a “pussy cat” when marching. This idea came to life... More
By Dorota Babiakova My deep reverence of women is illustrated throughout my work as a visual artist. I have explored various themes of womanhood and femininity independent of the male gaze, which has often narrated societal perceptions of women. My intention as an artist is to highlight the raw beauty and power... More
By Grace Girotte The photomontage, titled “G(O)ogol”, addresses the interlocking of race, gender and class while revealing structural inequalities reproduced by the search engine of Google. It aims to draw attention to “algorithmic oppression” and systemic racism encoded in software and inherent in technology’s predictive... More
Sunday, October 4, 2020
By Molly Dawe While most folks seem eager to sing praise about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I think we need to temper our uncritical love and admiration with a few historical truths about our feminist icon. Have we already forgotten that she called Colin Kaepernick’s protest “dumb and disrespectful” or that she voted in favor... More
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