10 Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution
Summary The following arguments apply to all state-sponsored forms of prostitution, including but not limited to full-scale legalization of brothels and pimping, decriminalization of the sex industry, regulating prostitution by […]
Reject Red Light Districts as a Solution to Violence Against Women
Presentation at the Raging Women’s Conference in Vancouver, BC I have spent hours in the courtroom with Robert William Pickton. I was there for his first day in court. I’ve watched […]
Incest: A Feminist Core Issue that Needs Re-politicizing
The story I want to tell is of the way the issue of incest, which was born of the women’s movement in the U.S., which is a political issue, an […]
Not a Fantasy: Racial Hatred and Misogyny in Pornography
We live in a world of socially constructed categories. Each person is marked according to her or his sex, ethnicity, class, appearance, sexual preference, and so on. This is not […]
Feminist Rape Crisis Centre to Intervene in Woman’s Civil Suit Against RCMP and Government
(VANCOUVER) On November 20 and 21, the BC Supreme Court of Appeal will consider a case where a man went on a murderous rampage killing his ex-common law wife’s best […]
Vancouver Rape Relief’s Factum: Intervener in Bonnie Mooney’s Lawsuit
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GHB and Women: We Have Some Things to Tell You
We started meeting because men attacked two of us and we separately called Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter. After discussing the details of the attacks on us and the […]
Privatized Justice No Justice for Women
Originally published in Herizons Magazine, Summer 2002 The case of the more than 50 women missing from Vancouver’s downtown Eastside has garnered international attention and embarrassment for the city. Three mayors […]
Fighting Back Against Rape: Kerrisdale Action
More than 100 women took to the streets of Kerrisdale yesterday in defiance of a man prowling their neighbourhood. Vancouver police report three assaults on women near the West Boulevard […]
Christmas Eve in the Transition House
It is Christmas noon in Vancouver, rainy but warm and I have just come back from a sweet waffle and coffee with my next door neighbour a long ago co-worker. […]