Herizons Magazine

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... MORE >	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... MORE >
Viola Desmond Led Civil Rights Fight By: Evelyn C. White Born and raised in Halifax, Viola Desmond was a successful beautician who, in 1946, challenged racial prejudice. MORE >	The Powerful Influence of Iroquois Women By: Jan Noel The Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, allocated a degree of importance to women which was quite singular. MORE >
Red Tent Revolution By: Jeanie Keogh Twenty-two years ago, Madeleine Shaw (photo, left) struggled to find a solution to the uncomfortable bladder infections she experienced brought on by the o.b. tampons she was using. MORE >	The Fight For Dignity: Women With Disabilities By: Sandhya Singh In 2007, 19-year-old Ashley Smith died in federal custody at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario. MORE >