Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
In 2016, Ontario comedian and radio personality Mike Bullard was charged with criminal harassment and harassing communication and later with breaching court orders because he failed to follow the bail conditions imposed on him related to the first two charges. Continue reading Gag me not
For many of us, the news that, before he shot and killed at least 22 people in rural Nova Scotia on April 18 and 19, Gabriel Wortman had assaulted his partner, was no surprise. There had been many hushed conversations Continue reading Looking for the easy explanation
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
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!