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Women’s Waves – Episode 24

In this episode, we hear from our lesbian feminist allies, Susan and Renate, about their personal and political journeys to create and maintain for more than three decades, the independent publishing house, Spinifex Press.

April 25, 2025

Women's Movement Feminist Media

Rise Up: The Story of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter

Julie Bindel hosting Lee Lakeman as she tells the story of Canada’s oldest rape crisis centre, the uprising of women, and the decades long battle to stay women-only.

March 8, 2025

Feminist Media Women's Movement

Women’s Waves – Episode 21

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.

November 6, 2024

Women’s Waves – Episode 20

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.

August 13, 2024

Women’s Waves – Episode 19

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.

July 3, 2024

Feminist Media Consciousness Raising Women of Colour

Women’s Waves – Episode 18

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”

May 28, 2024

Pornography Feminist Media Lesbianism

Women’s Waves – Episode 17

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".

April 30, 2024

Women’s Waves – Episode 16

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.

March 31, 2024

In Conversation with Julie Bindel

September 23, 2023

Feminist Media Lesbianism Women's Movement

Book Review – Radical Trust: Basic Income for Complicated Lives

By Laurel McBride

March 9, 2022

radical trust basic income evelyn forget hannah owczar

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