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Faces of Courage: Stories of Change
by Josey Ross I have done anti-violence work for three years now, first doing education and outreach for college-aged people of all genders, then working in a transition house for women and children...
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On What it Means to be a Woman in this Culture
by Josey Ross In my teenage years it was a common bonding experience to get together with girlfriends to compare the ways we had been harassed and even assaulted by strange men. We would laugh at tales...
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Gender Focus Reads: Women Make Noise: Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern
by Josey Ross Writing about Women Make Noise: Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern, edited by Julia Downes, is tricky. On the one hand, it’s a very good feminist history—inspiring, frustrating and...
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Spotlight on Jennifer Breakspear – Options for Sexual Health
Jennifer Breakspear by Josey Ross As a university student I joined the board of Options for Sexual Health—formerly Planned Parenthood of BC. I wanted to be giving my time and energy to a sex-positive...
View ArticleSteubenville: Not a Bug in the System
by Josey Ross For a lot of people, the Steubenville rape case appears to be the first time they’ve really thought about rape, rapists, and rape survivors. This is challenging a lot of people’s Law and...
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The Cost of Body Shame
Painting “Woman in Front of the Mirror” by János Vaszary (public domain) Often when we talk about body shame we talk about it in the context of food, eating, body image, and eating disorders. And these...
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Thoughts on the “Obesity Epidemic”
We’ve all heard about the “obesity epidemic.” We’ve all seen the footage on 20/20 or the nightly news of large, headless bodies intercut with Big Gulps full of soda and fists full of potato chips. And...
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On Trigger Warnings in Academia
[Content Note: Sexualized violence.] Working on a college campus, at a sexual assault support centre, I am acutely aware of the ongoing conversations around trigger warnings in academia. Though the...
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A Trip to the Halloween Costume Shop
Halloween is probably my favourite holiday—it involves costumes (yay!), candy (double yay!) and mostly avoids the colonialism/assumed Christianity/capitalism trap that so many other holidays fall into....
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Review: Alchemy Theatre’s Agnes of God
Paula Spurr, Annie Arbuckle and Tiffany Markwart in Alchemy Theatre’s Agnes of God, running in Vancouver through November 29 This weekend I got to see John Pielmeier’s Agnes of God at Vancouver’s PAL...
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