Women's equality Archives - Pamela Cross

What’s a feminist?

Pamela Cross — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:31:18 +0000

The hoopla surrounding the recent launch of the movie “Barbie” has me thinking about what it means to be a feminist. Written and directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margo Robbie, I know it has to have some kind of subversive Continue reading What’s a feminist?→

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Screaming into the void

Pamela Cross — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:05:00 +0000

In Miriam Toew’s remarkable book, “Women Talking,” the women members of an isolated religious sect come together to talk about what they should do in response to the realization that, over many years, most of them, as well as many Continue reading Screaming into the void→

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Silenced voices

Pamela Cross — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:30:00 +0000

Salma al-Shebab travelled to Saudi Arabia from England, where she lives with her husband and two young children, in December 2020 to visit her family over the holiday season. She intended to be back in Leeds to resume her studies Continue reading Silenced voices→

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Telling our stories

Pamela Cross — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 12:58:00 +0000

During the four days I spent at the Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission hearings last month, I listened to a number of panels of experts talking about intimate partner violence, and participated in one myself. So immersed was I in Continue reading Telling our stories→

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