Yazan: Candace | 02 February 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Activism, Blogging, Blogher, Canadiana, Culture, Feminism, Happy, History, Life, northernvoice, School, Technology, Third Wave, Women's Studies
I turned in my application to the MA history program with an exciting proposal to collect oral histories from the last women to give birth on Pelee Island,Ontario, back in the 1950s. By then most women were relocating to either mainland Ontario (Leamington or Windsor) or to Ohio to give birth. I’m excited because there’s […]
Yazan: Candace | 06 December 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Canadiana, Feminism, History, School, Women's Studies
Today is December 6, 2006. It is 17 years after the day a gunman shot and killed 14 women at École Polytechnique in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Thirteen were students and one was an employee of the university. Today we remember these victims of gendered violence and reflect on women everywhere who are victims of gendered […]
Yazan: Candace | 13 October 2006 | Comments Off on 5 Things Feminism Has Done for Me
Categories: Activism, Canadiana, Feminism
Things are looking pale for women in Canada. See this excerpt from http://www.statusreport.ca/, the site dedicated to reporting the latest news about funding cuts to Status of Women Canada. Beverley Oda, Minister of Heritage and Status of Women, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, have taken drastic steps away from women’s equality. On September 25, 2006, […]
Yazan: Candace | 12 October 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Canadiana, Culture, Diversity, Life, Racism
Background: Canada funds two school systems: the public and the separate (Catholic) in both official languages, French and English. Incidentally, there are private Fundamentalist Christian schools, a Mennonite school, and an Islamic school in the local community that receive no government support. Parents whose children attend these schools are still required to pay taxes to […]
Yazan: Candace | 26 September 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Canadiana, Culture, Happy
Sue Richards of The Calendar Girl Blog, My Menopause Blog, and The Breast of Canada Calendar is an amazing woman. I met her at BlogHer 2006 in San Jose but I’ve known of her for years. I have (somewhere in my house) the very first Breast of Canada calendar and framed on my bedroom wall, […]
Yazan: Candace | 09 April 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Blogging, Blogher, Canadiana, Culture, Technology, Third Wave
Hooray for Kate! After BlogHer 2005 (which I could not attend) I got really keen for bringing it to Canada. I talked with the team at BlogHer and they put me in contact with Alexandra Samuel. Unfortunately my house was robbed right as the excitement was building and with no computer it was a challenge […]
Yazan: Candace | 08 February 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Canadiana, Culture, Feminism
It’s cold. And snowing. Sitting in Harper’s Canada, I’ve just been given something to hope for. INtegrity – INclusiveness – INnovation – INvolvement – who could ask for more? It started in May 2005 and the time has come to go national. A new political party is taking shape: The FemINist INitiative of Canada and […]
Yazan: Candace | 26 January 2006 | 5 Comments
Categories: Canadiana, Culture, Feminism, Third Wave, Women's Studies
This past weekend I was in Ottawa for a conference. Ottawa is part of Canada. Canada is cold. And snowy. Especially in the winter time. Like the third weekend in January. Even if the instructions say: “dress warmly and bring boots” there will be variation in how people interpret “boots”. My roommate for example had […]
Yazan: Candace | 14 January 2006 | Comments Off on “Feminism for Sale”
Categories: Activism, Canadiana, Culture, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Third Wave, Women's Studies
THIS magazine, “the leading alternative Canadian magazine of politics, pop culture, and the arts” still says that Heath and Potter’s article “Feminism for Sale” will be online soon. Harumph. I’m about ready to give up. I’ve been waiting since at least November for it to go public to put up this post. How can we […]
Yazan: Candace | 07 December 2005 | Comments Off on December 6 Memorial: Fourteen Not Forgotten
Categories: Academia, Activism, Bodies, Canadiana, Culture, Feminism, History, Sexism, Third Wave, Women's Studies
Yesterday was December 6. It was the sixteenth anniversary of the Montréal Massacre that took place at École Polytechnique in Montréal, Québec, Canada. On this day, 14 women were massacred by a man with a semi automatic because he believed they had taken what should have been his place as a student in the faculty […]