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Fighting Patriarchy is Hard Enough
When Beyoncé’s album first dropped, the internet blew up with articles, blogs, and discussion critiquing whether or not Beyoncé is a feminist. Naturally, as feminists, we joined in and began to...
Memo to the BC Human Rights Tribunal: Sexual Banter Does Not Equal Consent to be Harassed
By Alana Prochuk These days, judicial victim-blaming isn’t just for the criminal courts – the BC Human Rights Tribunal is getting in on the act, too. Apparently, the Tribunal thinks that women who...
Birthing and Labour Support
Guest post by Nicole Pichette Giving birth is something that a woman will remember for the rest of her life. Some women have positive birthing experiences: they feel supported and feel that their...
Women are still learning fear on campus
On December 6, we commemorated the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. On this day in 1989 a gunman entered Montreal’s École Polytechnique. He purposely separated the...
Is Justice Blind?
New Research Paper Explores Why Only 4.6% of Sexual Assault Cases Result in Conviction In commemoration of December 6th, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women,...
Are You Kidding Me?
You know that the patriarchy is starting to slip when it needs pseudo-science to back it up. As reported in The Globe and Mail, recent studies from University of Texas and University of...
How Rob Ford’s actions make Toronto less safe
Written by Caity Goerke It seems like all we can talk about these days is Rob Ford. And yet, even with so much coverage, there is so little being said. At WAVAW, we are very aware of the variety of...
Our Response to the Vancouver Sun Article
Our response to the “What’s behind UBC student hijinks? Bad behaviour: immaturity or something more” article by Daphne Bramham published in the Vancouver Sun on October 24th 2013. We have submitted...
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