Feminism | The Walrus

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Politics

Can Governments Really Be Feminist?

November 30, 2020January 5, 2021 - by Nora Loreto

Politicians like to claim the label, but they rarely turn it into meaningful policy

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Arts & Culture / May 2020

The Poet Whose Work Helped Set the Stage for #MeToo

April 24, 2020June 10, 2020 - by Anita Lahey

Twenty-seven years after her death, Bronwen Wallace’s feminist poetry feels newly relevant

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Arts & Culture / Music

Taylor Swift Is the Surprising Face of Millennial Anxiety

March 2, 2020July 23, 2020 - by Joelle Kidd

Like most of my generation, Swift knows the exhaustion of constantly selling yourself as a brand

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Business

Why Are We So Bad at Supporting Women in Power?

February 24, 2020June 12, 2020 - by Lauren McKeon

By every standard we use to measure equality, women are still being held back

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Television

The Handmaid’s Tale Steps Deeper Into Darkness

April 17, 2018October 23, 2019 - by Lauren McKeon

The second season of the show is looking less and less like fiction

Year in Action

The Radical Notion of Safe Spaces in Music

January 24, 2018November 11, 2019 - by Carly Lewis

Toronto’s Venus Fest is part of a movement to prove our music scenes can be free of sexism

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Politics

One Year Later: The Women’s March on Washington

January 22, 2018November 11, 2019 - by Amanda Cockburn

As we continue to push for women’s rights, last year’s protests have a lot to teach us about compassionate and rigorous conversation

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Society

Stop Telling Women What to Wear

January 2, 2018March 8, 2020 - by Pamela Divinsky

Any legislation that polices clothing as way of protecting society will invite the kind of oppression Canada normally condemns

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First Person

Why I Want to Believe in Witches

October 31, 2017April 3, 2020 - by Mica Lemiski

Spells and hexes aren’t just trendy—they’re a new way to fight back against a troubling world

Media

The Globe and Mail’s Self-Sabotage

September 1, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Lauren McKeon

By firing two popular female columnists in a bid to save money, our newspaper of record may pay a bigger price: its increasing irrelevance