Archive for the 'feminism' Category
As communities rise from the margins, they undergo a process of introspection, microscopic self-examination and self-definition. It’s a process of healing, throwing off the ill-fitting definitions that had been imposed previously by a majority that didn’t experience and most often didn’t understand what it was building a box around. It’s a process of finding pride [...]
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On July 6th, I noted the story of Lu’s: A Pharmacy for Women, operated by the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective (VWHC) , and noted how the Vancouver pharmacy’s policy to serve only “women who were born as women and live as women” excluded anyone transsexual or of transsexual history. At that point, I’d recommended opening [...]
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Before being deposed by the current minority Conservative government, the federal Liberals began work on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, to be built in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As the building is underway and the Advisory Committee is being developed to oversee what is to be included, an organization called REAL Women of Canada has [...]
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The Prerequisites to “Woman”
A women-only pharmacy — according to reports, possibly the first of its kind in North America — is opening in Vancouver on Tuesday. This pharmacy is designed to offer a comfortable, open environment, woman-specific information and non-judgmental counseling. They are also planning to add a “resource centre behind Lu’s to get more health information from [...]
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