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It’s easy (too easy, actually) to get stuck in thoughts about how far feminism has to get til we’re all “free”…. I feel tired just thinking about it. In honour of the 16 Days of Action Against...

Top Nine Reasons Why It’s Fabulous to Work for a Feminist Organization By Alana Prochuk, Campus Anti-Violence Initiative Coordinator In celebration of my two-month anniversary as a staff-member here...

In part 3 of the documentary “Living Democracy from the Ground Up,” Thomas R. Berger, the commissioner of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, spent 2.5 years visiting with Indigenous communities...

By Pak Ka Liu For the 16 Days of Action on Gender Violence, I'm thinking about Gender and Education. Today is December 6th – National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.  Today...

By Irene Tsepnopoulos-Elhaimer For the 16 Days of Action on Gender Violence, I'm thinking about the insidious impact of business models on social services, particularly for women.    ...

By Dalya Israel During these 16 days of Activism, I'm thinking about the fact that other important days are being commemorated as well. Today is World AIDS Day, a day that perhaps many of us have...

By Lisa Wagner During these 16 days of Activism, I am thinking about our daughters. I have a strange relationship with children. I love them, but I have never really wanted any of my own. I have...

For the 16 Days of Action on Gender Violence we are thinking about how we can act when we see sexism in the media...here is an example... When we at WAVAW heard that a Calgary Stampeder had ‘joked’...