[Image-1] Like literally millions of people, I am in shock. You’ve watched the debates, the interviews, the news—Donald Trump is the worst of the worst and somehow, he is now going to be the leader of the free world. I have been apolitical my whole life. I am not proud of it but I won’t […]
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How to be a feminist killjoy
Notes from a Feminist Killjoy book launch Monday, November 14, 6:30pm Art Bar + Projects, 1873 Granville Street free When Erin Wunker presented a paper on rape culture at a Brock University panel in 2014, she was thinking about all the usual things: Calming her nerves, fine-tuning her speech, remembering key points. As she prepared, […]
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Childhoodbusters: A ghost of their own
Ghostbusters opens Thursday, July 14 with limited screenings. For Movie Times see page 27. In 1984, before the internet was invented or most of the people who scream on it were born, there was a movie about nerds eradicating ghouls in New York City, full of Dan Aykroyd and barely concealed gay panic, as was […]
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The feminist guide to summer screens
Streaming now (CRAVE) Casual This sleeper dramatic comedy, now in its second season, stars the great Michaela Watkins as Valerie, an older divorced woman trying to navigate a drastically different dating world, and Tara Lynne Barr as her sex-positive teenage daughter. Airing now (Lifetime) UnREAL The eternally underappreciated Constance Zimmer teams up with Shiri Appleby […]
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Trust your GUTS
Up-tempo beats, positive vibes and sweaty bodies will fill The Company House on March 10 when GUTS holds a dynamic dance party, its first in Halifax. The online Canadian feminist magazine has already held several of the fundraisers across the country, and the creators say they’re excited to bring the event to our seaside city. […]
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Juxtapose is a performance to smash the patriarchy
From Thursday to Saturday, Live Art Dance presents the North American premiere of a one-hour duet between Finnish-born choreographer Cecilia Moisio and Polish performer Katarzyna Sitarz. Juxtapose is an interdisciplinary feminist dance that’s frilly but fierce, subdued yet savage. Moisio explored these seeming contradictions in a recent conversation (Q&A has been edited and condensed). How does […]
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Show with the flow
“It’s such an intersectional topic,” says Alanah Correia, the curator of Our Bodies, Our Blood, a menstrual-themed art show opening at Plan B on Tuesday. “It’s not just about femininity and gender issues but it’s also environmental, political, religious and so on.” After attending a fertility workshop with a pal last January, Correia realized that […]
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Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-A-Thon’s takeover
Wikipedia has a problem. Of the 20,572,652 editors that populate the online encyclopedia, only 13 per cent are women. Organizers of the Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-A-Thon event believe that this lack of female editorship results in less content about notable women. “It seems that the ratio of the content providers is being reflected in the actual content […]