A little greeting from the Editors-in-Chief! (Click on the photo)
Happy holidays from McClung’s!
December 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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Help save the Toronto Women’s Bookstore
December 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Inside the Toronto Women's Bookstore (photo courtesy of flickr user 1310LGBTQ)
By: Ronak Ghorbani
For the past 36 years the Toronto Women’s Bookstore (73 Harbord St.) has been a staple in the city’s women’s movement. I first heard about the store in my Canadian feminism class a few years ago and I remember walking into TWB for the first time and feeling overwhelmed by the amount of amazing work female writers have done.
Besides selling books, the bookstore makes a point of supporting zinsters and various independent publishers. They also run various courses/workshops ranging from economics to autobiographical writing. It is also one of the main locations McClung’s distributes to. The TWB is more than a bookstore, in many ways it’s a community centre.
Now, the TWB is danger of closing and we need to support the store to prevent this from happening. Toronto is already riddled with big-box bookstores and from working at one this past summer, I can tell you their women’s studies section is tiny (nearly nonexistent). Pages (another bookstore which used to be located on Queen Street) closed its doors in August, let’s not lose another independent bookstore – it’s up to us to support our local businesses. We have to help save something that is near and dear to our hearts, the Toronto Women’s Bookstore. You can donate in-store or online via PayPal.
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The ‘W’ Network : The ‘W’ stands for ‘Worn-out’ Not ‘Women’
December 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
By Hilary Caton
This picture is courtesy of the W network
When a bored channel surfer lands on the W network it is no surprise to see The Wedding Planner playing for the third week in a row, followed by both Bridget Jones films. It’s also no surprise what the channel surfer does next— continues surfing.
“I’ll turn it on for two seconds and change the channel because the movies are usually lame,” said Noura Ali a third year Canadian Studies student at York University.
Clearly, this has got to stop. The W network has played all the romantic comedies they could get their hands on and frankly the public needs more diversity. Their target audience, women, don’t always want to see films that show Diane Lane pick up the last pieces of her self-esteem after a divorce in Under the Tuscan Sun, or watch Drew Barrymore date a boyfriend with a dual personality as soon as baseball season starts in Fever Pitch.
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‘Women Bodies’ throws a hit at Italian TV
December 15, 2009 · 4 Comments
A short documentary is showing the world how Italian women are negatively depicted on television.
Il Corpo delle donne or Women Bodies, is a collection of thoughts, images and videos about Italian women depicted on television. How fake breasts and silicon lips, according to director Lorella Zanardo, has become silly and similar to a modern day circus for viewers.
“Why aren’t all Italian women in the streets protesting against the way they are represented?” Zanardo asks her audience.
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Calender celebrating Muslim women in Edmonton
December 14, 2009 · 3 Comments
Photo provided by Edmonton Journal
Shazia Javed snaps away at 13 diverse Muslim women in Edmonton.
From a boxer to a single mother pizza-business owner, Javed’s photographs aim to break stereotypes against Muslim women and to celebrate their diversity. Her project titled Celebrating Muslim Women of Edmonton, will be a full 2010 calender sold this Friday.
The photographer, writer and filmmaker who poses in the calender herself, has a goal to embrace positive contributions of Muslim women.
“Mostly, when you read about Muslim women in the news, it’s about some controversy — honour killings or whatever,” Javed says to the Edmonton Journal.
“I wanted to do something positive … and replace those stereotypical images with real ones,” she says.
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Tagged: 2010, Arti Patel, boxer, calender, Edmonton, filmmaker, IFSSA, Islamic Family and Social Services Association, Muslim, Noreen Bashir, photographs, Shazia Javed, stereotypes, women, writer
Why is climate change a feminist issue?
December 13, 2009 · 1 Comment
By: Takara Small
Being a girl can be tough.
Courtesy of askehbl.wordpress.com
Women are often the hardest hit and the first to suffer when things take a turn for the worst.
They’re often the last to eat, usually the first to be pulled out of school and overall most likely to die early from health complications. And, global warming is bound to make their situation much worse for a new generation that must grapple with global warming induced disasters that experts say leave them at an unfair disadvantage compared to men.
Right now in Copenhagen, politicians around the world are negotiating a new climate pact during the United Nations Climate Change Conference that many hope will culminate in legislation that will effectively limit the millions of green house gases that are emitted into our atmosphere on a yearly basis.
An important issue that has become the ultimate cause of the decade and rallying call for our generation.
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Did you want your “booty popped” with that?
December 10, 2009 · 2 Comments
By: Arti Patel
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Is it just me, or is this one of the most riduclious things you’ve ever seen?
It’s the Booty Pop or padded underwear to finally give you the curves you’ve always wanted.
What is troublesome is not the idea that some women may want extra padding on their behinds like they might with their bras, but the degrading value against a woman’s body this product portrays.
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