Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
When a young Kingston woman was killed by her partner last week, police quickly labelled the event a femicide: “The Kingston Police are considering this death to be a femicide as it occurred in the context of intimate partner violence. Continue reading What’s in a word?
When I heard that my book had been shortlisted for the Donner Award, I figured it was a long shot. Up against four books written by academics and published by scholarly presses, my book was clearly a case of “one Continue reading Not this time
Several weeks ago, my publisher sent me an email that began with the sentence “I have some exciting news.” Indeed, she did — the Montreal feminist publisher les editions du remu-menage wanted to translate my book into French and publish Continue reading Who would have thought?
Last week, along with Humberto Carolo of the White Ribbon Campaign and Amiel Houghton of Changing Ways, I spoke at a conference called “Engaging Men: Why. How. Impact.” organized by the Elgin Alliance to End Violence. Humberto spoke of the Continue reading What about the men?