Words mean things
In the Manitoban office, scrawled with red EXPO marker upon a gigantic white board, looms a very important clause: “Words mean things.” From this, I…
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To hell with state suppression, embrace lesbian leather
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…
Love is great, but not if you exclude single people for it
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 —…
Notting Hill can spread love straight from the heart
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…
A life spent together is better
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…
Contraceptive realities are pregnant with inequalities
It was a random Tuesday in primary six when the head teacher, Mrs. Joy, had split the entire school in half. Girls headed to the…
In service of struggle, break the academic hush on Israel and Palestine
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…
Feminism and genocide: a reflection on ‘Hear our Voices’
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…
Re: Zionism, Hindutva and the fascist brotherhood
Dear Editor, I’m so sorry that Lakshmisree Shaji is so uninformed about Zionism. Zionism is built upon the yearning by Jews to live and…
Eckhardt’s name is a humiliating stain
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,…