December 12, 2011
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 ...
December 1, 2011
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 ...
Tags: aboriginal women,
access to healthcare,
AIDS,
Canada,
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network,
first nations,
HIV,
HIV in the aboriginal community,
IDU,
illicit drug use,
infection rates,
injecting drug users,
native women,
prostitution,
rape,
rural women,
sex work,
urban migration,
WAD,
World AIDS Day
November 23, 2011
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 ...
Tags: anti-men,
crime,
domestic abuses,
history of violence,
male victims of rape,
masculinity,
men as predators,
misandry,
perpetrator,
Pickton Inquiry,
rape,
rape statistics,
scapegoats,
sex,
sex abuse,
sex crimes,
sexual harassment,
sexual violence,
Steven Pinker,
victim,
violence,
violence against women
November 22, 2011
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 ...
Tags: all sex is rape,
Andrea Dworkin,
book review,
feminism,
feminist,
Ice and Fire,
objectificaiton of women,
rape,
second wave,
sex,
sex as punishment,
sex-negative,
sexual assault,
Tuesday book club
November 17, 2011
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 ...
November 14, 2011
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 ...
Tags: Anis Hidayah,
foreign domestic workers,
housekeeper,
Human Rights Watch,
Indonesia,
maid,
Middle East,
Migrant Care,
modern slavery,
nannies,
rape,
sexual abuse,
violence
November 11, 2011
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 ...
Tags: 11/11,
11/11/11,
battles,
conflict,
crime against humanity,
Flanders Fields,
lest we forget,
Nov 11,
November 11,
peace,
peace movements,
poppies,
rape,
rape camps,
remember,
Remembrance Day,
the fallen,
unknown soldier,
Veterans day,
victims,
war,
weapon of war,
women,
women war and peace
November 8, 2011
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. ...
Tags: book review,
Booker Prize,
cabaret,
fairy tales,
infanticide,
Ludmilla Stephanovna Petrushevskaya,
politics,
poverty,
rape,
short stories,
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby,
Tuesday book club
November 3, 2011
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, ...
October 28, 2011
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 ...
Tags: blame the victim,
domestic abuse,
domestic violence,
dowry death,
India,
kidnapping,
rape,
rape reporting,
rape statistics,
rural women,
victim blaming,
violence against women