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Women’s Waves – Episode 23

In this episode we hear from Cenen Bagon from the Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregivers Rights (CDWCR) about the herstory of her group, the campaigns to improve employment conditions, and immigration status of foreign care workers in Canada, and her own life as an activist.

March 19, 2025

Women of Colour Women's Movement

International Women’s Day: Feminists Speak Out

March 8, 2025

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Women's Movement Women Only Space

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

The collective of Vancouver Rape Relief mourns the passing of Lee Lakeman

The collective of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter has faced waves of harsh backlash through the years. Lee’s bold leadership and commitment to the collective, its feminist principles and practices, including women-only organizing, have been crucial to our survival and thriving.

December 20, 2024

Women's Movement

Women’s Waves – Episode 22

In this episode we talk with Kyungjin Oh from the Korea Women's Associations United (KWAU) about women's oppression and feminist resistance in South Korea.

December 15, 2024

Women's Movement Solidarity

Transitioning to Escape Patriarchy: A conversation with Beaver

September 14, 2024

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Lesbianism Women Only Space Women's Movement

Factum of the Women’s Equality Coalition: Supreme Court of Canada – Mikhail Kloubakov, et al.

The Coalition particularly rejects the cruel logic that the overrepresentation of the most marginalized women, including Indigenous women, in the prostitution industry, is akin to an employment equity program, rather than a reflection of profound sexism and sexualized colonialism.

By The Women's Equality Coalition

July 8, 2024

Prostitution Women's Movement

Position paper on the definition of “woman” in international human rights treaties by the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls

By Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls

April 4, 2024

Women Only Space Women's Movement

In Conversation with Julie Bindel

September 23, 2023

Feminist Media Lesbianism Women's Movement

Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled that Canada’s prostitution laws are constitutional

September 18, 2023

Prostitution Women's Movement

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