Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Carol Barkwell, the founding Executive Director of Luke’s Place, is retiring at the end of the week. To say she will be sorely missed would be a significant understatement. Under her visionary and ever-patient leadership, Luke’s Place has grown from Continue reading Happy retirement, Carol!
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?