Today is the 37th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the historic ruling that legalised abortion in America. NARAL Pro-Choice is asking people to blog about what “Trust Women” means to them in honour of the abortion doctor, Dr. Tiller, who was killed last May and who often wore a badge with this phrase on it.
The Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada – specifically Vancouver and its environs – has had far too many women go missing. Many, though not all, have been street-workers. Prostitution, compounded by addiction, is clearly a high-risk occupation, one that remains without benefit of worker’s protection plans. Too often when they’ve gone missing, police have ...
A man was killed after being beaten up by a friend, allegedly because he gained sexual arousal from physical violence and asked to be beaten. Sadomasochism can be fun but people must understand the risks involved with hard-core kink and this event goes to show it is not always fun and games. Amjad Malik, prosecuting, told ...
Marilyn Manson has released a new video in which he repeatedly beats a bloody woman in her underwear. Then rapes and kills her. This woman bears a striking resemblance to his ex, Evan Rachel Wood.
In spite of the fear of another shooting with such a large crowd of Pouillon’s pro-life colleagues, over 300 friends and neighbours, not to mention those drawn by the unusual facts of this case, were at the memorial service for the anti-abortion protester killed on September 11. Makeshift shrines and vigils were held throughout the ...
Harlan James Drake has been charged with two counts of first degree premeditated murder. On Friday it is alleged that he shot an anti-abortion activist and another man, in Owosso, Michigan. He is accused of killing Jim Pouillon, 63, outside a local high school at 7:20 Friday morning, and of killing Michael Fuoss, 61, at ...
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
