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To hell with state suppression, embrace lesbian leather
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As a kid, I had a fraught relationship with Victoria’s Secret window displays, an experience shared by many current and former queer women. Obviously, the displays were meant to be looked at and the...
Love is great, but not if you exclude single people for...
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I pour love into all of my relationships. But as I’ve written before, I don’t think love is divorced from society’s ills. After years — plural — of being single, I’ve learned firsthand the...
Notting Hill can spread love straight from the heart
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Love has never been a complicated idea for me.
I grew up watching my parents fall in love every day. I watched them sing old Bollywood songs together on long drives — they did pretty...
A life spent together is better
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Life is difficult, it is for most people, but I have always struggled to stay positive and I am seldom content. Yet, when I sit next to Tyler, my long-term boyfriend, I find peace...
In service of struggle, break the academic hush on Israel and...
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I (DeFehr) have fond childhood memories of an elementary school teacher quieting her classroom saying, “a hush fell over the room.” All her students would respond, “hushhh” and a seemingly magical silence would fall.
A...
Feminism and genocide: a reflection on ‘Hear our Voices’
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Discussions about feminism in the context of Israel and Palestine are tied up with concepts like nationalism.
Hosted by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in an event organized by the Jewish Child and...
Eckhardt’s name is a humiliating stain
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Somehow, seemingly without anyone realizing, the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq (WAG-Qaumajuq), the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg honoured a Nazi sympathizer and fascist, Ferdinand Eckhardt, by etching his name into their buildings....







