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 […]
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 […]
Vancouver Rape Relief’s Submission to the Vancouver Tribunal on Women’s Rights
Question:Â We all know that individual men attack individual women, can you tell us why you are indicting the state? Really, what does the government or the police have to do […]
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 […]
A Call Back to our Original Practice of Feminism in our Transition Houses
There has been a great push toward methods of professionalism in our work in the transition houses and it will take every effort on all our parts to fight back […]
Working with Refugee Women
My family and I immigrated to Canada over twenty-five years ago, searching together for a better life. Though we came with hopes for new and better opportunities, our successes came […]