Ordinary Women Rise: the Radical Women of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter is a call to action and a blueprint for change that equips readers across sectors with the historical context, political analysis, and lived realities necessary to strengthen their work in support of women’s safety, equality, and liberation.
In this episode, we hear from our lesbian feminist allies, Susan and
Renate, about their personal and political journeys to create and
maintain for more than three decades, the independent publishing
house, Spinifex Press.
Julie Bindel hosting Lee Lakeman as she tells the story of Canada’s oldest rape crisis centre, the uprising of women, and the decades long battle to stay women-only.
In this episode we talk with our member Laurel about this year's conviction of a Winnipeg man who murdered four indigenous women and recall some of the outrageous failures in the case of Pickton, a British Columbia man who confessed to murdering 49 women from the downtown eastside of Vancouver. We will also hear from Carolyn Jerome who was part of the “Militant Mothers” and their 1971 fight against the Canadian National Railway.
In this episode we talk with Hema, the advocacy coordinator at CAP International, about the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the French law that criminalizes buying sexual services, and with our member Laurel, about Canadian police sexual misconduct.
In this episode we talk with our member, Sonam, on some of the ways patriarchy manifests itself in South Asian communities, and with UK based Lesbian second-wave feminist Lynn Alderson about consciousness raising, women's groups as a radical act and women only spaces as crucial for women's resistance.
In this episode we discuss federal and provincial measures to combat some aspects of pornography, hear from UK based Lesbian feminist-activist Liane about the Cardiff’s Lesbian visibility march and listen to Tracy Chapman’s Song “Talkin bout a revolution”
In this episode we touch on the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women position paper on the definition of “women”, discuss how men prey on women’s economic vulnerability and the federal bills for Guaranteed Livable Basic Income, review the documentary Hidden Letters and listen to Nehanda’s song "I am a Woman".
In this episode we discuss femicide cases in Canada and in Brazil, review the Women’s Equality Coalition submission on prostitution to the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls and listen to Jax’s pop song Victoria’s secret.
