Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
When my partner and I left home in late January for our annual winter sojourn in San Miguel, Mexico, the warning bells about the coronavirus were sounding quietly on a far distant horizon. I found them very easy to ignore. Continue reading Home again, home again
Ten women a day are murdered in Mexico, a rate that has tripled since 2007. Of those, 1,000 a year are acts of femicide; double the number five years ago. Thus far in 2020, 360 women have been murdered in Continue reading Without permission from any man
It did not take Canadians long to embrace medical assistance in dying (MAID). Legislation permitting MAID in certain situations was passed in June 2016 and, since then, approximately 13,000 people have taken advantage of the change in law. The three Continue reading Difficult choices
At the San Miguel Writers’ Conference this year, keynote speaker, Mexican writer and academic Rosa Beltran, spoke about images of women through literature and art. In the course of her remarks, she talked about the rates of violence against women Continue reading Justicia — now!