Posts Tagged ‘Women’
International Women’s Week panel portrays the complainant’s side of Ghomeshi trial
From March 7-12, International Women’s Week 2016 took place around the world. At Dalhousie, students, professors and community members saw this week as an opportunity to open the discussion up and talk about wider cultural issues – those that affect women and men every day. Former gender and women’s studies student Andrea England was one…
Read MoreAdd women, change politics
It’s International Women’s Day on Mar. 8, and as we should, we’ve turned it into a weeklong extraganza of women supporting women so that they might recognize their potential and seek whatever future they choose. Celebrating our mothers, wives, girlfriends, our CEOs, our cabinet ministers and our game-changers, International Women’s Day is a day to…
Read MoreFrom the Archives
Tuesday March 8th is International Women’s Day. While the tumultuous past year has exposed many of the ongoing challenges facing women on campus, would-be optimists might take heart in a campus history that has witnessed the slow but determined march of women’s progress, even in the face of daunting social and structural barriers. Women…
Read MoreNot your mother’s feminism
“Women should build each other up instead of putting each other down.” These are the words of Ottawa-area high school teacher, Natalie Simard, when asked what feminism means to her. Natalie replied to the email I sent to a few people whose opinions I wanted on this article. Then I took to the campus to…
Read MoreSilly David Gilmour
Apparently, not a week can go by without someone coming clean about their views on women. First it was Saint Mary’s University frosh leaders joking about consent in a group chant. A few days later, their brethren at the University of British Columbia went public on almost exactly the same views. Now, David Gilmour can’t…
Read MoreOne tweet too many
Athletes aren’t the only people who say stupid stuff on Twitter
Read MoreWomen’s volleyball one step closer to conference supremacy
Dal awaits title rematch vs. Saint Mary’s
Read MoreThe feminine fist raised
Walking into the Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre on a grey Sunday morning, Marina Young worried the turnout would be low. She was pleasantly surprised, when she arrived early, to see a handful of people already waiting for the Idle No More (INM) conference to begin. When she wasn’t running around greeting newcomers, Young…
Read MoreMay the feminine force be with us
Nerd culture has come a long way from its obscure past. It may even be a growing trend, but amidst this trend is an age-old gender conflict that I thought all realms of our society had started to push past. Apparently, I was wrong. The stereotype that geek girls are unattractive virgins is being replaced…
Read MoreTake back the night
Signs reading ‘Respect my rights to walk alone’ and ‘no more silence no more violence’ were held in Victoria Park on Sept. 28 for Take Back the Night. The annual march was organized by the Dalhousie Women’s Centre and raises awareness of sexual violence in the community. In 2011 one sexual assault was reported to…
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