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Incite and Colour of Violence
incite_and_colour_of_violence.mp3Pragya Esh interviews Rachel Caidor, organizer with Incite: Women & Trans* People of Color Against Violence and Color of Violence 4, Incite's 4th conference to...
View ArticleCampaign to end tampon tax takes aim at economic discrimination
Buying tampons, pads, menstruation cups or panty liners is not optional. These products are an essential part of a normal public life for people with periods. Menstruators have to buy these products...
View ArticlePassage of Alberta Bill 10 is not likely to be the end of the story for...
The surprising turnaround by the Prentice Government on gay-straight alliances in publicly funded schools is certainly a victory for common sense and the common decency of most Albertans.But the...
View ArticleThe shitty things we do to each other in activist communities
When I moved to Toronto two years ago, I immediately fell into a friendship group of femmes and other queers, largely thanks to the welcoming persona of one of the group. I was invited to parties and...
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Indiana's anti-LGBTQ law legalizes intolerance
Thursday, April 2, 2015The date was August 7, 1930. The place: Marion, Indiana. Three young African-American men were lynched. The horror of the crime was captured by a local photographer. The image of...
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How the Day of Pink sold out trans youth: Having Laureen Harper as a...
Chip in to keep stories like these coming. When Laureen Harper showed up as a spokesperson for anti-bullying Day of Pink, Ariel Troster couldn't help but call out hypocrisy. On International Day of...
View ArticleLaureen Harper as the Day of Pink ambassador is a big problem. Here's why.
Well, then. I guess a few people liked the post I put up in haste the other night, while simultaneously entertaining my almost three-year-old and responding to a flurry of Tweets. Or they disagreed...
View ArticleIndiana put the lie to 'religious freedom.' But Canadian Evangelicals hope...
Everyone's familiar with the old adage, "be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it."Which is why the Evangelical leaders who held a press conference on Parliament Hill calling for...
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Saskatchewan becomes the first province in Canada to fly the transgender flag
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 Symbolic and real acceptance is growing for trans people -- but a need for human rights protections and other challenges are just as visible in 2015. Saskatchewan became the...
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Canada's trans* rights bill now endorses washroom bans
Like this article? Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Canada's trans* human rights bill C-279 was amended by a Senate committee, in a way that makes it legal to ban trans* people from washrooms...
View ArticleDisagree with Meghan Murphy? Call her out, don't call for her head.
Meghan Murphy may host a slick, much-followed blog, she may get Twitter traction, she may get published in mainstream media but, bottom line, she writes purely from the blinkered perspective of a...
View ArticleStatement on review of Meghan Murphy petitions
Editor’s note: This article is one part of rabble.ca’s coverage of calls to remove Meghan Murphy’s writing from the site, and a subsequent call for rabble.ca to continue to publish her. If you’re...
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Adrienne Rich Remembered
rpnwings04-15adrienne-richremembered-29_23-192kbps.mp3Three years ago, feminism lost one of its revered poets and sages. Defying early canonization, Rich's legacy is both poetry and politics. This...
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Uniform discrimination: City of Toronto lifeguards demand equality in work gear
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 Petition says a City of Toronto policy provides a two-piece uniform adequate for male lifeguards only: women and trans people are getting short shrift. If you've ever had to bear...
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U.S. high school censors valedictorian's message of LGBTQ tolerance
Thursday, June 4, 2015Evan Young was the valedictorian of this year's graduating class at Twin Peaks Charter Academy High School, in Longmont, Colo. On May 16, at his graduation ceremony, Evan planned...
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Amber Dawn connects luxury and logic between body and soul
June 4, 2015The first time I read Amber Dawn's Where the Words End and My Body Begins, I was standing over my kitchen counter peeling and eating tangerines. It wasn't my plan to dive in right away but...
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Pat Bond's 'Murder in the W.A.C.'
rpn-wings07-15murderinthewac-29_31-192kbps.mp3Pat Bond (February 27, 1925 - December 24, 1990) was an American actress who starred on stage and on television, as well as in motion pictures, but was...
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Reconciling queerness and faith at the Human RITES Conference
trr_rpn_jun22-26_2015_human_rites.mp3On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Kim Holmes-Younger and Pam Rocker about the Human RITES Conference, a recent event in Calgary which...
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LGBTIQ public servants demand apology for the Canadian war on queers
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 An apology is required. A new book by Gary Kinsman sheds light on a dark chapter in Canada's history, as those persecuted begin to demand redress for decades of surveillance...
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Pride in action: New website works to #ENDhatelaws
Thursday, June 25, 2015 With Pride going strong, check out what's new and a new way to document hate laws worldwide. I hope to start this article off right, it's my first time writing an article on an...
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