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From Riot Grrrl to Radical: Reflections from a Working-Class Feminist

I have considered myself a feminist for more than half my life, since I was thirteen. It’s only my definition of feminism – and my related perceptions of capitalism, men, and violence – that has continued to change.

By Gina Whitfield
August 1, 2006
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Front LineWomen's Movement
Lest We Forget Sherry Heron and Anna Adams

It is well known that men pose a higher level of danger to women in the first eighteen months after choosing to end the relationship. On average, women requesting police help have experienced multiple attacks by their husband. Calling the police is often a last resort. In my ten years as an anti-violence worker, numerous women told me that police instructed them to report again “when things get really bad.” Generally, in those cases, as in Sherry’s case, things were already bad enough to warrant an arrest and charges.

By Suzanne Jay
August 15, 2005
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Wife BatteryFront Line
Obsession With Intent

An investigative report into one hundred cases of violence against women; in all cases the women tried to get help from the system. 
 It is a harrowing account of individual women's stories, their understanding of the danger they faced, their attempts to get help, the incompetence and/or indifference they met, and, in those cases where someone was willing to prosecute, their vulnerability under/within the law.

By Lee Lakeman
2005
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Front LineCriminal Justice System
So Why Do They Stay?

Abuse works because many of us continue to pretend it does not happen to “good” women. So anyone who is abused must be “bad”! We blame the victim for her own abuse by calling her codependent. We expect her to prevent the abuse instead of why the abuser chose to abuse. In short, we collude with the abuser. Abusers succeed because they are not abusive all the time. In fact, sometimes they are fun and charming. They are almost always charming around other people.

By Linda A. Osmundson, Community Action Stops Abuse (CASA)
2005
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Wife BatteryFront Line
Resisting the Promotion of Prostitution in Canada: A View from the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter

Published in Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, edited by Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant

2004
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Front LineProstitution
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A Day in the Life of a Feminist Rape Crisis Worker

I hop in my car and head from the college to Rape Relief, as I have heaps of work to do. I’m stuck in traffic, as per usual, so I have a good chance to think about the film I saw the night before. I borrowed the National Film Board film Not a Love Story from the college library, as it critically examines the pornography industry. My mum and I watched it together and to say the least, we were both disturbed.

By Erin Sandberg
2003
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Reject Red Light Districts as a Solution to Violence Against Women

On paper, women may have achieved formal have equality. Feminists won laws on violence, affirmative action, and charter protection for equality. A government approved red light district will reverse that legal ground. Anti-Sexual harassment policies are impossible to apply when the woman’s job is to be nude and available to any man in the establishment.

By Suzanne Jay
March 1, 2003
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ProstitutionFront Line
GHB and Women: We Have Some Things to Tell You

Women are going to go out and party. Some of us are going to use GHB willingly. But what we came to understand by telling each other about GHB is that too often the circumstances are quickly out of our control, even when we are with friends

By Vancouver Rape Relief Collective
October 2002
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Front LineRape
Privatized Justice No Justice for Women

The media and police have put the family members of the missing women in the untenable situation of being expected to be critical of the police, yet they are made entirely dependent on the same police for information about the investigation and the fate of `their woman.’ Police-controlled victim services workers have reportedly warned family members about jeopardizing the investigation by speaking with media and non-police agencies (read feminist).

By Suzanne Jay
2002
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Criminal Justice SystemFront Line
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Christmas Eve in the Transition House

We have become skillful at making sure the mothers and children and the poorest of the volunteers and workers have access to gift giving for their beloved.

By Lee Lakeman
December 25, 2000
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Transition HouseFront Line
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