Why “Law and Order” Cannot End Violence Against Women; and Why the Development of Women’s (Social, Economic and Political and Civil) Rights Might
This article was excerpted from an address made by Lee Lakeman to those celebrating 25 years of transition house work at Women’s Emergency Shelter, June 22, 1999. In this affluent […]
Women’s Resistance: From Victimization to Criminalization
Despair and Resistance: A report from the conference in Ottawa As a rape crisis worker and collective member of the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, I participated in the […]
Remembering Bonnie Ruth Agnew 1947 – 1998
Eulogy by Lee Lakeman: Section One…There will be pie in the sky when you die I wish I believed in an afterlife. I wish Bonnie did and I wish I […]
Resistance by Connie Fife
resistance is a woman whose land is all on fire perseverance and determination are her daughters she is a palestinian mother who hands her children a legacy of war together […]
Take Back The Night Vancouver 1997 – Speech by Tamara Gorin
Vancouver Art Gallery We are here tonight because of the continuing and sometimes relentless violent attacks on women by men. Mostly it is men we know, love and trust thatare […]
Mass Murder in Montreal: The Sexual Politics of Killing Women
Download PDF The article was published in Life and Death: Unapologetic writing on the continuing war against women, 1997 The article is based on a speech Andrea Dworkin made at […]
Reframing the Montréal Massacre
Why Women’s Spaces are Critical to Feminist Autonomy
The issue of male presence, in physical and ideological terms, within what should be women-only spaces is not just a matter of ideological contestation and concern within the Women’s Movement […]
The Montreal Massacre – A Speech by Andrea Dworkin
The speech was given at the one-year anniversary to the Montreal Massacre held at the University of Montréal, Montréal. December 7, 1990
Why the Independent Women’s Movement
In the fall of 1982 I was invited to participate in a panel of three women: Jackie Larkin, Drena McCormick and myself. “In Struggle” was the host group. In Struggle […]