Men’s magazines are harmless, right? Zines like Nuts and Loaded are all in good fun. Men don’t really take in what is written in them. Rapists, on the other hand, are condemnable. They think differently than normal men. This is a pretty common dichotomy, but it may be very far off from the truth, according to ...
Today is World AIDS Day, but what does today mean for those of us living in Canada? HIV seems to be a thing of the past…at least for those of us living comfortable, middle-class lives. In the 1980s, testing HIV-positive was a devastating diagnosis. Today, with the help of advanced medication, you probably won’t even ...
If you do a quick Google search of the word “rape,” you get dozens of headlines about the victims of sex crimes around the world. Most of us have no trouble saying that a great deal of these victims are women. In the Pickton inquiry alone there’s an ever-increasing list of women who are coming ...
With the abortion debate many of us take for granted raging on Prince Edward Island, I decided to go back in time a bit, when reproductive rights were a newly won battle and the female sexual experience was a subject not everyone spoke about. The stream of consciousness narrative in Andrea Dworkin’s Ice and Fire ...
Have you ever wondered what happens to police photographs of rape or assault victims? They might end up in a tree. It seems unlikely, but a graffiti artist in British Columbia, Dion Nordick, found surveillance equipment in a tree overlooking his home. When he removed the memory cards, as well as photographs of himself, he ...
Anis Hidayah is an Indonesian lawyer fighting for the rights of Asian immigrant workers who are often treated as slaves and forced to endure physical and sexual abuse around the world. She first got involved in this when she was a young law student and learned about a woman being raped by her employer in ...
On this Remembrance Day, we take a moment to consider the fallen. We think about the young soldiers that will never return home, but also the children that will grow up missing a parent’s love, the wives that live in constant fear and the husbands who are ashamed that they cry themselves to sleep every ...
My first encounter with Ludmilla Stephanovna Petrushevskaya was on a cold January night, in a shadowy Moscow bar full of antique upholstery and cigarette smoke. She arrived nearly two hours late and took the stage in a purple dress and huge matching hat. At 70+, Petrushevskaya, dissident writer, had reinvented herself as a cabaret performer. ...
Julian Assange lost his extradition appeal in London, and will be on his way to Sweden within ten days. There the Wikileaks founder will be questioned over alleged sex crimes. Assange became a household name in 2010 after the publication of US Embassy Cables leaked by his organization. Almost simultaneously, he was accused of rape, ...
Rape statistics in Delhi are the highest amongst Indian cities. The same is true for kidnapping, dowry death and domestic abuse. It’s difficult to say if this means more women are raped and assaulted in Delhi, or if more women report sex crimes to the police. The statistics are based on 2010 figures and are ...
We know that a lot of women love cats. And we know that a lot of single women supposedly...
The other night, I was watching one of the many, many cooking-based shows currently broadcast, wall-to-wall and round-the-clock,...
Don’t believe the commercials! Lubricant isn’t right for everyone, especially the “warming” and “tingling” ones which have extra chemicals...
I had all sorts of things to prepare before a job interview this week. I’m sure you can relate....
For better or for worse, the popular franchise The Bachelor will come to Canada in the fall of 2012....
Dear Madame X, I started using a menstrual cup and I noticed that my blood is really, really...
This Wednesday is Burns Night, a celebration of Robert Burns’ work which will be observed in detail (from Toast...
How fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in love am I; And I will love thee still,...
