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crisis in opportunity: naomi klein on disaster capitalism
Beyond my requisite Women’s Studies viewing of Marilyn Waring’s Who’s Counting: Sex, Lies and Global Economics (which is kick-ass), I hate economics. Economy talk makes me mad. It’s because pundits talk about it as if it’s something more precious than life itself. Same with the market. Or capital. I like my political talk to start and end with living beings and their rights to live, work, and die with dignity. Ok, ok, I’m also intimidated by … READ MORE
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I Needed This Today
The fall is always a busy time for me (and Shameless) but I never seem to learn and always end up with a bad case of “too many deadlines” burnout. Today I really needed to get back to basics and have a quiet moment with a gender-bending super-hero. Here it is, my end-of-day lift. Whose music do you spend time with when it gets to be too much? Thanks to poet Evie Christie for unknowingly picking … READ MORE
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muslim children gassed in ohio - but where’s the outrage?
From Daily Kos: Muslim Children Gassed at Dayton Mosque After “Obsession” DVD Hits Ohio On Friday, September 26, the end of a week in which thousands of copies of Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West – the fear-mongering, anti-Muslim documentary being distributed by the millions in swing states via DVDs inserted in major newspapers and through the U.S. mail – were distributed by mail in Ohio, a “chemical irritant” was sprayed through a window of the … READ MORE
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Kinnie Starr Comes To the Page
I’ve loved Vancouver-based Kinnie Starr since she emerged on the music scene in 1995, so I was more than happy to hear that she’s put her fantastic songwriting talents to the page with a new book titled How I Learned to Run (House of Parlance Media): From Kinnie Starr, an incredibly talented artist deemed “edgy” and “enchanting” by The New Yorker, comes a beautifully rendered — and oft-times haunting — collection of poetry. These are … READ MORE
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Take it Back
Wow, there were so many women and transwomen at Take Back the Night last night here in Toronto. Women sang a capella of freedom, told their herstories in multiple languages, gave testimony of their rape or experience of genocide, shared success stories of ending violence in their lives, read out their frustrations with feminist movements, talked of creative collaborations on the amazing giant puppet that accompanied us, and kids held lanterns high. My bum was … READ MORE
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Web Features
Editor’s Letter
It’s been a hectic time since our Spring issue. The team has been hard at work on our first Shameless book and planning some exciting surprises for the future (our wish list includes a podcast, more events and a short story contest). The Canadian F-Word awards named www.shamelessmag.com the best feminist blog in Canada (thanks to our great blogging team). And, of course, we’ve been pulling together this issue. So, without further ado, here are … READ MORE
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Web Features
Media Savvy: Hollywood’s Square: A peek behind the Hollywood curtain
I should have known better than to think I would like Iron Man. To be fair, I was expecting the bare minimum: a few hours of mindless entertainment, some cool superhero tricks and perhaps a digestible life lesson along the lines of Spiderman’s “with great power comes great responsibility.” That is something I can get behind. But Iron Man was disappointing: two hours of macho aggression cheered on by a heavy-metal soundtrack, technological fetishism, glamourized militarism, … READ MORE
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And In This Corner: Writing through trauma: Writing through trauma
Most of my life I’ve felt ashamed: ashamed of growing up poor, ashamed of being abused and neglected as a child and ashamed of being black in a world that idealizes whiteness. Writing wasn’t a conscious decision in the beginning. Writing was just the thing that was most accessible to a poor, black immigrant child. I wrote cryptic poems for most of my teen years, poems that documented my loneliness, depression and suicidal feelings. I started … READ MORE
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Arts Profile: Gender Outlaw: Kate Bornstein travels beyond gender
Kate Bornstein walks onstage looking a bit like an older, punk Julianne Moore. She’s tall with shiny red hair; her round glasses are bold and colourful; tattoos spread across her arms beneath a black-and-white gingham dress. It’s the only black and white thing about her. In a performance that’s part classroom, part theatre and part therapy session, one message is clear: things don’t always fall into one of two categories. Born a boy, Bornstein became a … READ MORE
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Web Features
Geek Chic: Mothers of Invention: Five great women inventors
They dream up, design and redefine how we live in the world. From the wheel to the iPod to the squeezable ketchup bottle, the inventor — full of wild ideas and steadfast vision — has an uncanny ability to make the rest of us blurt out, “Why the hell didn’t I think of that?” While many women inventors have been forgotten (patents, granting an inventor sole rights to their work, were doled out only to men … READ MORE
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Web Features
The Last Word: Girl
I think it’s about time I set the record straight on something: I’m not a girl. No, it’s not that I’m renouncing my gender or recovering from a sex-change operation. But, at 28 years of age, with a full-time job, my own apartment and a disposition as crotchety as that of your average octogenarian, it’s safe to say I’m no longer a girl. So why do people keep calling me that? And it’s not just me. On … READ MORE
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The new issue is finally here!
The new issue of Shameless is here! It’s packed with great stories, including: Things we didn’t learn this summer: Monique Woolnough reflects on her years at camp and asks why the lessons about Native culture are so wrong Abby Blinch teaches us how to build a better bonfire Nicole Cohen watches the credits on Hollywood blockbusters and wonders who the writers are Kate Bornstein talks about why we need more gender outlaws Saintsierra Leonty shares what it’s like to live … READ MORE
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Pages Books & Magazines Profiles Shameless
Check out this interview with Shameless Magazine Editor Megan Griffith-Greene over at the Pages Books & Magazines: Well, in our last issue, we had a story about nipple hair, a bind-your-own-book craft project, a feature on student loans, a piece on Canada’s first university women’s cricket team and a story about seal-flipper pie. I think there are many reasons why we’re unique, but that lineup is one of them. Popular opinion holds that all teen girls … READ MORE
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sometimes
Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes your bike doesn’t work right, and the people you love are far away, and don’t return your phone calls, and there is a weird smell coming from under your kitchen counter that’s probably not going to go away, and you stay up at night worrying about things like the Hadron particle accelerator creating a black hole that will swallow the earth before you have a chance to say you’re … READ MORE
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The Youth Vote
Check out this Global News piece on the Youth Vote and voter apathy amongst the youngest voting demographic. With 20 days until the election, examining why young people don’t feel engaged by and included in national politics is more important than ever. … READ MORE
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What’s on your desktop?
Sometimes you’re just in the mood for a meme. From Webworker, some What’s on Your Desktop? for your Wednesday. I used to be one of those people with icons covering my entire MacBook desktop, all glaring evidence of a failure to properly organize my files. These days, I try to take a desktop organizational moment every other week. Still, I’ve wondered what the things lingering on my desktop we all about. Why were they there? What might … READ MORE
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Come and See Us at Word On The Street
Only a few days until my favourite day of the year! Come visit the Shameless table at Toronto’s edition of Word On The Street, this Sunday September 28th. We’ll be selling mags and givin’ away smiles for free. And of course, we’ll be launching the new issue! Come out and pick up your very own copy. More about this book lover’s favourite day after the jump. On the last Sunday in September, Queen’s Park will transform … READ MORE
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Activist Burnout
While I was making brunch yesterday, I was lucky enough to catch a documentary on activism burnout that aired on CBC’s The Sunday Edition: Our documentary in Hour Two this morning describes what happens when political activists have had too much. Too much marching, too much anger, too many grueling hours of organizational meetings. Some flame out and hit rock bottom. The life of an activist is hardly stress- free. Producer Frank Faulk wanted to find … READ MORE
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The ‘Old Boys Club’ strikes again
According to this Boing-Boing post Researchers from the U. of Florida found that men who believe in what they call ‘traditional roles for women’ (a woman’s place is in the home, employing wives leads to more juvenile delinquency, etc.) earn more money than men who don’t. The same is not true for women. notabene: I think by ‘employing wives’ the author does not mean ‘I’m a gonna go out there and hire me a wife’, they mean, … READ MORE
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The Other Side Of Censorship
QuillBlog has an interesting piece up titled “Two takes on censorship,” which briefly explores how the media interprets the censoring of books based on context. They look at two recent cases of “a small group of people imposing their values on a much larger group” that speak for themselves: Responding to complaints by a Muslim creationist that “its contents were defamatory and blasphemous,” a Turkish court has banned Internet users from viewing Richard Dawkins’ website. Meanwhile, … READ MORE
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