Writing
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What the debate around Indigenous genocide says about Canada (Maclean’s Magazine)
What the debate around Indigenous genocide says about Canada – Macleans.ca. Opinion: The MMIWG report finding questions the very foundations of Canadian sovereignty in a way that Canadians have been […]
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Biden allegations reveal #MeToo as weak political strategy
Former Vice President Joe Biden takes a photograph with members of the audience after a talk in Washington in March. Some women have accused him of sexually inappropriate behaviour. (AP […]
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Why the Kavanaugh hearings were a show trial gone bad
Activists demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court to protest the confirmation vote of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Heidi Matthews, York University, Canada The controversial and […]
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If misogyny was a factor, is Toronto rampage a terrorist act against women?
A group of women pay their respects at a memorial wall dedicated to the victims of the Toronto van attack. Wednesday, April 25, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young Heidi Matthews, […]
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As we remember VE Day, remember too the German women who were raped
Canadian soldiers display a Nazi flag removed from a building in Xanten, Germany as the Second World War was coming to an end in 1945. Recent research has revealed thousands […]
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How do we understand sexual pleasure in this age of ‘consent’?
Societies tell us a lot about themselves by how they struggle over sex. Different places and generations have distinct sexual battlegrounds. From anti-miscegenation laws to criminal prohibitions of same-sex intimacy […]
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OPINION: Look at the way #MeToo stories are told
Canadian politics is not above the #MeToo fray. On the heels of Trudeau’s #MeToo speech in Davos, the allegations against Patrick Brown appear particularly shocking. We should, however, be deeply […]