Prostitution of Indigenous Women: Sex Inequality and the Colonization of Canada’s First Nations Women
Introduction The recent history of Canada is the history of the colonization of Aboriginal peoples. We use the terms Aboriginal, Indigenous, First Nations, and Native throughout this paper to refer […]
Obsession With Intent
An investigative report into one hundred cases of violence against women; in all cases the women tried to get help from the system. 
 It is a harrowing account of […]
So Why Do They Stay?
Slapping, hair-pulling, kicking, biting…battered women relate a litany of abuse experienced at the hand of our intimate partners. The results are bruises, broken bones, black eyes, internal injuries, sometimes and death. Always […]
Take Back the Night Vancouver 2004
Over one thousand defiant women took to the streets on Saturday evening September 25. Chanting and singing they blocked traffic at the intersection of Kingsway and Main street. Bouncers at […]
The Pictou Statement: A Feminist Statement for a Guaranteed Livable Income
For millennia women’s work, along with the free gifts of nature, has provided most of the true wealth of our communities. Women’s work has been central to individual and collective […]
Why Women Would Gain from a Guaranteed Livable Income
Download/print PDF This article was published in Canadian Women Studies, Vol 23, No 3-4 , 2004
Tell it to The Judge: Every Woman’s Primer on Testifying in Family Court
The Judge does not know you, has never read anything about you and has only the information about you that you give her in your testimony and only the evidence […]
Housework Under Capitalism: The Unpaid Labor of Mothers
Download/Read PDF Source: Off Our Backs, Vol. 34, No. 1/2 (January-February 2004), pp. 37-39
Resisting the Promotion of Prostitution in Canada: A View from the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter
Download the PDF *Published in Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, edited by Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant
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 […]