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All posts published in April 2008
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From the Toronto Star:
Danica Patrick was always sure a woman could win a race. And now the questions about her will surely stop.Patrick made it to the place she wanted to be for so long – Victory Lane. She became the first female winner in IndyCar history Sunday, capturing the Indy Japan 300 in her 50th career start.
There’s some science fiction workshop events upcoming at the Toronto Public Library that have some really fantastic female artists and writers involved. Definitely worth checking out if you have an interest in sci fi and fantasy! Click here for more details.
Tuesday, April 29, 7 p.m.
HOWTO write and publish genre fiction
A panel discussion with local authors Jim Munroe, Emily Pohl-Weary, Kristyn Dunnion and Paul Hong
Location: Eatonville Library, 430 Burnhamthorpe Rd.
Thursday, May 8, 5 p.m.
Learn about making a graphic novel with Emily Pohl-Weary and Willow Dawson, creators of Violet Miranda: Girl Pirate
Location: Centennial Library, 578 Finch Ave. W.
Monday, May 26, 7 p.m.
Noted feminists, poets and SF authors Candas Jane Dorsey, Paula Johanson, Sandra Kasturi and Phyllis Gotlieb read from and discuss their poetry. Q&A and book-signing to follow.
Location: Oakwood Village Library, 341 Oakwood Ave.
It’s 12:15pm on Tuesday and the text message from my friend DJ in Marty, South Dakota reads “The state has sent 47 troopers and 2 snipers here.”
For what?!
“The Yankton Sioux tribe is protesting a hog farm development that would harm the land and river.”
Are you kidding me? Last time I visited that reservation, the population read something like 3800. Marty alone has only over 400 people, and about 100 protestors were at the construction site where Long View farms is trying to build.
But it’s true. Two friends of mine, Gary Drapeau and Kip Spotted Eagle, were arrested among others for protecting the traditional territory and standing up for the wellness of the peoples on it.
Peacefully.
They were let go immediately but it was quite symbolic of the utter disrespect of the state for tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction. Never mind the health and well being of everyone else who would be greatly impacted by the waste from this hog farm and their polluted claim on Native land.
Does this story sound all too familiar? Only smaller communities like this aren’t making major news headlines, but it is people like Gary and Kip who are taking a major stand against Corporate America to ensure a better livelihood for the land and people that we really NEED to pay attention to.
Fed up of the continous disregard for the Native community? Let Governor Mike Rounds and the state of South Dakota know you support the Yankton Sioux tribe and to tell Long View Farms to cease all construction on their land.
I support my Inhanktowan brothers and stand in solidarity with them.
STOP DESTROYING MOTHER EARTH!
A couple of weekends ago our good buddy Mike came over for movie night. Which consisted of I Am Legend + The Taste of Tea.
I only really wanted to see I Am Legend (on Blu-ray) for the CG scenes of empty New York. Which it delivered on. It didn’t deliver on much else. (Solid performance by Sam though — pictured at left).
The clear winner was The Taste of Tea. Mike didn’t know much about it, so I was really worried that it was going to be another Beijing Bicycle (which had been a harsh lesson in ‘don’t judge a movie by its english cover‘). But it wasn’t. It was 143 minutes of surrealist … well, not ‘surrealist fun’, but something like that. Irresistibility?
The Taste of Tea does go on. So load up on snacks. If you’re going to dive in, push through the first 15 or so minutes, which I didn’t especially enjoy. If you keep going you’re rewarded with some beautiful long, unaffected shots of Japanese countryside. But more than that, with many captivating, sometimes bizarre, sequences.
When Anna posted about how “nothing says First Day Of Summer…like Cannonball by The Breeders” I couldn’t agree more, and all I could think about was this track:
I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself.
To me, nothing says First Day Of Summer (okay, not officially, but have you been outside today?) like Cannonball by The Breeders. Oh, the Deal sisters and their greasy hair. Oh, 1993. Fifteen years and this song still makes me grin like a maniac. This video, incidentally, was directed by Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, along with Spike Jonze.
Want to be part of the next big FEMINIST thing in Canada???
REBELLES Waves of Resistance
On our way towards our Pan-Canadian Young Feminist Gathering!
11th, 12th and 13th of October 2008 – Montreal
Mobilize, network, energize, and deepen the roots of the young feminist movement across Canada!
For all you Torontonians to learn more about the gathering and how you can get involved, come out to our INFO SESSION:
Monday, April 21st, 6:30-7:30PM
563 Spadina Avenue, Rm. 100 (Centre for Women and Trans People at UofT)
This is a call to all young feminists, students, workers, un(der)employed women, artists, researchers, mothers, feminists of all tendencies and of all types, and of course emerging feminists…
Organizing meetings are happening across the country, so if you are not in Toronto contact info is as follows:
info@rebelles2008.org - www.rebelles2008.org - 514-876-0166 ext. 253.
This is just too disgusting for words.
From the Arctic Sounder:
The state House of Representatives voted Sunday to condemn an “abhorrent” reference to Alaska Native women made by a host on a morning radio show in Anchorage, according to Rep. Mary Nelson, D-Bethel.
The slur was made on Wednesday, April 9, shortly before 7 a.m. on the Woody and Wilcox show on KBFX 100.5 The Fox, said Michelle Davis.
Driving to her job in Anchorage that morning, Davis said she laughed as the two men discussed the car accidents around the city, and joked about how you weren’t a real Alaskan unless you’d crashed at a busy intersection.
Later, one of the DJs on the classic rock station tried to make a play off an old Alaska saying, and asked, “Have you made love to the Yukon and peed in a Native woman?” Davis said.
“I was horrified,” said Davis. “I was completely shocked, it took a long time to sink in, then I got to work and I sat down at my desk and cried. It’s such a degrading thing to say. It’s incredibly insulting.”
Our fantastic web editor, Thea Lim, is stepping down and leaving town to pursue her many talents. She will be sorely missed and very difficult to replace, but we thought we’d give it a try…
Shameless needs a new Web Editor!
Shameless Magazine, Canada’s independent, feminist voice for teens and young women, is looking for a new web editor to help manage and grow our busy, lively blog.(more inside…)
Poking around Feministe’s shameless self promotion open thread yesterday, I found this interesting discussion on things that girls need to know about sex. Here are the first few:
1. There are reliable ways, besides abstinence, to prevent pregnancy.
2. There are reliable ways, besides abstinence, to prevent STIs.
3. Abortion is safe (safer than carrying a pregnancy to term, in fact) and there’s a wide range of legitimate opinion as to when and whether it is appropriate.
Things might be about to change for our American friends – brooklynite has collected some quotes from presidential nominees which suggest that they might be on board with sex ed in a way that previous generations of American political leaders have not been.
So, what do you think every girl should learn about sex?
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