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Bif Naked Rebuilds the Stage of Life
It was a surprising side effect from the chemotherapy Bif Naked experienced during her treatment for breast cancer. Spending time with other women who were sharing her cancer experience clarified something for her.
“I realized how isolating my job was for all those years. It’s like being Rapunzel in the tower. Really and truly, you never meet other women and get to interact.” |
Summer 2016
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 | | The Sweet Taste of Lemonade by Cheryl Thompson | Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter never ceases to amaze audiences. For nearly 20 years, she has consistently recreated herself, her music and her brand.
It is easy to forget that she began her career in 1998 at age of 16 as part of the girl group Destiny’s Child. Since then, she’s become one of the most recognized R&B/pop singers in the world—and one of the most critiqued. With each album, listeners delve into her creative subconscious, and her latest (sixth) solo project, Lemonade, is no exception. | MORE > |
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 | | Six Ways to Kick-Start a New Policy Agenda for Women by Shelagh Day | Now that Canada has a government in which 50 percent of cabinet ministers are women, feminist expectations are running high.
At the top of any feminist wish list will be initiatives to repair the damage done under former prime minister Stephen Harper, a decade that a featured a series of program assaults that set back advancements on equality in Canada.
What follows are some policy initiatives that feminists will be looking to the new Liberal government to undertake, in the short term, to ameliorate some of the damage that has been done. | MORE > |
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 | | Feminist Horror Plots Against Patriarachy by Alison Gillmor | Horror and feminism may seem like an unlikely pairing at first. After all, horror is a cinematic genre marked by ugly violence, menaced by masked men and packed with blonde sorority girls who run upstairs when they should be running out of the house. Then there’s the iconic image of the scary movie: the flash of a knife penetrating soft female flesh. | MORE > |
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Women's News from the Web
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Equality Should Be the Icing on the Marriage Cake
by Joanna Chiu
I am puzzled by many Western wedding traditions. My multicultural family chooses which customs to observe, and, usually, efforts are minimal. We may roast a duck on Thanksgiving, peer at the moon on Mid-Autumn Festival, or go to the movies on...
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Refashioning Fashion
by Ayesha Mian Akram
As a Muslim woman who practices hijab—the wearing of modest clothing and covering my hair—I spend a lot of time navigating. I navigate the politics of being a Muslim woman in Canada and the politics of finding modest, yet
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Rape and Justice
by Penni Mitchell
Within just a few short months, women in North America have mobilized a critical mass movement that is changing the rules of the shame game.
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Pussies Against Feminism
by Lyn Cockburn
They’re mostly well-educated, young and female, and they want us to know that they don’t need feminism.
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Books About Women's History
by Mary Ann Shadd, newspaper publisher
Because it's 2016, the centennary of the year when many women won the vote in provincial elections, Herizons offers up a list of books all about the contributions women made to Canada's equality rights throughout history, from...
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