Rites of gender as a roving performance
Many of this week’s Genderfest events offer opportunities to reflect on and discuss the meaning of gender, and Stylin’ I! is no exception. Self-billed as…
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Celebrating the complexities of queer culture
A carefully written and finely told story, at its very best, has the ability to draw readers out of isolation and into a sense of shared…
Kevin O’Really?
Michael Lee “…Really?” I’m sure many of you shared with Amanda Lang that same exasperated reaction upon hearing Kevin O’Leary’s perplexing comments on the Lang…
Introduction to the Ethical Consumption feature
The term “ethical consumer” grew into Western culture in the late 1980s – it was the title of a British magazine. The idea of support…
Shopping for change
Watching coverage of the Rana Plaza factory collapse outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, in April 2013 was a startling wake-up call for many. As the death toll…
The captive animal entertainment industry
The captive animal industry is almost exclusively oriented towards human entertainment, even while words like “education,” “research,” and “conservation” are commonly used. The fusion of…
Ethical consumption is futile
Two common articulations of ethical consumption in our milieu are meat-free living and reliance on fair-trade, organic products. The person who decides to take up…
Veganarchism
The debate between the merits of so-called lifestyle activism versus those of revolutionary action is a hot-button issue on the left. There are those content…
Free software and ethical consumption
In September 1983, the GNU Project was born. GNU was to be a new kind of operating system: the first one with an explicit ethical…
Sustainability and business – not such strange bedfellows after all
Sustainability has entered the modern lexicon in a significant way. Business people and those who teach business are increasingly employing the term, once used almost…