In this episode we talk with our member Laurel about this year's conviction of a Winnipeg man who murdered four indigenous women and recall some of the outrageous failures in the case of Pickton, a British Columbia man who confessed to murdering 49 women from the downtown eastside of Vancouver. We will also hear from Carolyn Jerome who was part of the “Militant Mothers” and their 1971 fight against the Canadian National Railway.
In this episode we talk with Hema, the advocacy coordinator at CAP International, about the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the French law that criminalizes buying sexual services, and with our member Laurel, about Canadian police sexual misconduct.
In this episode we talk with our member, Sonam, on some of the ways patriarchy manifests itself in South Asian communities, and with UK based Lesbian second-wave feminist Lynn Alderson about consciousness raising, women's groups as a radical act and women only spaces as crucial for women's resistance.
In this episode we discuss federal and provincial measures to combat some aspects of pornography, hear from UK based Lesbian feminist-activist Liane about the Cardiff’s Lesbian visibility march and listen to Tracy Chapman’s Song “Talkin bout a revolution”
In this episode we touch on the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women position paper on the definition of “women”, discuss how men prey on women’s economic vulnerability and the federal bills for Guaranteed Livable Basic Income, review the documentary Hidden Letters and listen to Nehanda’s song "I am a Woman".
In this episode we discuss femicide cases in Canada and in Brazil, review the Women’s Equality Coalition submission on prostitution to the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls and listen to Jax’s pop song Victoria’s secret.
Interview with Izabella Forzani from the Brazilian group Recuse A Clicar, which stands for "Refuse to Click" in English. The group does public education around the impact of pornography on women and is calling for men and women to stop watching pornography.
Working on the frontlines has informed us on how women are impacted by pornography. Our collective member Sophia Hladik shares Vancouver Rape Relief's demands with regards to MindGeek, and revenge porn, before her interview with Meghan Donevan from the Sweden based organization Talita, who supports women exiting the porn industry.
April 26th - Lesbian Visibility Day!
Listen to our interviews with Liane Timmermann from Get The L Out UK and Natalie Wlock from the Vancouver Lesbian Collective.
