joanna chiuGender & Hurricane Sandy
Joanna Chiu

The mother in Staten Island, New York, whose sons were swept from her arms when a surge of floodwater hit. The elderly woman who died in her daughter’s embrace while trapped in their flooding home.

The wake of hurricane Sandy was filled with heartbreaking stories,


susan g. coleCan We Thrive Without Our Bookstores?
Susan G. Cole

Many of us here in Toronto are in shock over the closing of the Toronto Women’s Bookstore in November. After 39 years and many different operating paradigms—collectives, partnerships, single owners, non-profit and for-profit arrangements—the store,


whistle-blowers, Malala Yousafzai, Sandra FlukeBlow the Whistle
Penni Mitchell

When a woman steps forward to publicly disclose that corporate interests are being placed before health and environmental protection, we call it whistle-blowing. When a woman steps forward to publicly disclose that male privilege is being placed before the protection of girls and women, we call it feminism