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Penni Mitchell's blog
Sisters in SpiritSubmitted by Penni Mitchell on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 07:32
It turns out that you can decimate entire nations by undermining the power of their women. It helps if you’ve got superior firepower, too, but as far as the colonizing of the upper half of Turtle Island is concerned the elimination of Aboriginal societies was successful in large part because of the sexism that was infused into them under the laws of European colonists.
The Indian Act of 1870 was a masterful piece of work.
Swimming UpstreamSubmitted by Penni Mitchell on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 06:48“Is that white lady teaching you how to swim?” A bright-eyed black boy posed the question as I, wearing shorts and a red life jacket over a T-shirt, exited the water at a beach in Seattle. Then in my late 30s, I’d gone on the outing with a friend, herself a skilled swimmer who raced sailboats. Buoyed by Candace’s life vest, I’d enjoyed a carefree frolic in the water. “No, I wasn’t swimming,” I said, as I trudged through the sand past the youngster. “But I hope to learn someday.”
Ethical OilSubmitted by Penni Mitchell on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 10:33Kathryn Marshall, spokesperson for the oilsands lobby group Ethical Oil, is no doubt pissed at U.S. President Barack Obama’s announcement that he’s putting off a decision on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project for 18 months. The pipeline promises Canadian oilsands bitumen to Texas refineries. Ethical Oil has put millions of dollars into lobbying and marketing tar sands oil as a squeaky-clean source of oil.
Trans Bill Needs SupportSubmitted by Penni Mitchell on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 10:12Recently, Toronto’s CIUT Radio invited me onto a talk show to talk about the top sex stories in the media headlines. We discussed the SlutWalk protests of last year and the Bedford case, now under appeal, that struck down Canada’s prostitution laws as unconstitutional.
Sex Selection AbortionsSubmitted by Penni Mitchell on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 07:58I used to think that there was no such thing as a woman having too much control over her body. But consider that the former editor of the Canadian Journal of Medicine, Dr. Rajendra Kale, reported recently that a disproportionate number of female fetuses are being terminated after a couple gets ultrasound information about their fetus’s gender.  |
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