Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
I am really happy I am not a CAS worker. Frankly, I don’t want the responsibility; I would be too afraid of making the wrong call. What if I removed kids from their home when it wasn’t really necessary? What Continue reading The state vs parents: the playing field is even less level for some than for others
In a world in which we love to judge mothers for everything they do (or don’t do), it would be hard to top Agave, the main female character in the Anne Carson version of Euripides’ play Bakkhai (played, as pictured Continue reading Feminist reflections on motherhood: There’s nothing worse than a bad mother
It seems that, in the context of sexual assault, the word “unfounded” means very different things to different people. Robyn Doolittle’s unprecedented series in The Globe and Mail earlier this year brought the word into the forefront of many people’s Continue reading The language game of sexual assault
When I was in my last year of high school, I had never heard the word feminist and I knew nothing of the women’s movement. However, I did have a strong, if largely un-nuanced, sense of right and wrong, and Continue reading Where are all the girls?