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HMOD Episode 2 – THE GOOD OLD DAYS
In Part I of this episode Heidi talks to Brooklyn Law professor Alice Ristroph about intellectual history, mass incarceration, sexual assault, and Kamala Harris. In Part II, Osgoode super student […]
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HMOD Episode 1 – DOUBLE THOT
On this episode Heidi talks to Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. In the interview, Professor Tushnet talks about the role of critical legal […]
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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 […]