Intersectionality | Violence Against Women Learning Network
Synopsis: VAW Learning Network in Canada, analyses gender and anti-oppression to better explain the roots of violence against women....
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I can’t be myself here: At the Border, Transgender Women Navigate 2 worlds.
In the news article “I can’t be myself here: At the Border, Transgender Women Navigate 2 worlds” is a story of a transgender women named...
Faith and Feminism in Brazil
Synopsis: I am analyzing an article published in September of 2018 and it is titled “Heart and Soul: Faith and Feminism in Brazil;” it...
Recreating the Intersectionality Discussion
Many issues can be raised in the implications of the expansion of individuals, groups, corporations, and nation-states across...
Indigenous Newcomer Relations
Entry: This CBC News article speaks of the power of reconciliation and how focusing on and discussing commonalities can create a...
Migration in Mainstream Media
Synopsis: This 2019 New York Times article reveals the high number of reports of sexual abuse which have been alleged against officers...
Women Changing the World
This article talks about the rise of women within government positions. Where the out of the top five, four were developing nations. In...
We are not for sale
This article posted by CBC reports on the horrible case of human trafficking of a Pilipino women who was lead to Canada with the promise...
Undocumented Migrants and Indigenous Feminism
This article writes of solidarity and allyship with undocumented folks, migrant ‘dreamers’, and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
Abusing Women is Routine at the Border
This article, based off of a series of interviews done by Jane Juffer, PhD an associate professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and...
Eurovision: An Opportunity for Israeli Pinkwashing
Synopsis: Haneen Maikey and Hilary Aked (March 2019) have written an article for The Independent that explains that Eurovision – an...
Foreign Care Workers Program Reform
Synopsis: This CBC article discusses how the Migrants Rights Network, which is part of a larger coalition of self-organized and...
Patriarchal Citizenship Laws
Synopsis: This March 7 2019 news story from Al-Jazeera covers the patriarchal citizenship laws in Lebanon. Under the law dating back to...
Canada pledges to review border policy regarding Indigenous nations
Entry: CBC’s 2018 article Canada pledges to review border policy regarding Indigenous nations describes how the Canada/U.S. border has...
Anti-immigration and Islamaphobia - The Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism
On March 15th, 2019 at the Al Noor Mosque in Charleston, New Zealand 50 victims were killed by white supremacist gunmen. The shooting...
“Canada’s ‘Feminist’ Foreign Aid is a Fraud”
Synopsis: This article covers the press conference held in Montreal in 2018 in which Canadian foreign minister Chrystia Freeland and EU...
New Zealand Leader Fights Violence By Making Violence Inefficient
Entry: On March 15, 2019, two mosques were the targets of a terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand. Fifty people were killed in...
‘Never be the most feminist person you know’ – Laura Bates meets Cynthia Enloe
Synopsis: In this article, the feminist professor and author Cynthia Enloe is discussing her newest book, The Big Push—Exposing and...
This International Women’s Day, Let’s Commit to Allyship
Synopsis: Alyssa Wright’s article addresses issues surrounding equality for women of colour when it comes to salary disparities and...
Kashif Ali National Post
Synopsis: This news article by Brian Platt, posted in the National Post on June 18th, 2018, talks about the devastating story of Kashif...
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