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Lido Pimienta on Art’s Matriarchal Future

March 8, 2019June 5, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

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January/February 2019 / Society

Why Do We Have Such a Problem with the Way Women Speak?

December 20, 2018February 22, 2021 - by Danielle Kinahan

Women’s voices are often characterized as “shrill” or “nagging”—perceptions that can keep them out of leadership roles

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#MeToo and the Secrets Indigenous Women Keep

December 5, 2018March 8, 2023 - by Lindsay Nixon

Too many have stayed silent about stories of abuse. It’s time to stop protecting toxic men

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Why Wearing Lipstick Is a Small Act of Joyful Resistance

October 22, 2018March 24, 2022 - by Erika Thorkelson

Lipstick is unapologetically feminine. That’s what makes it so rebellious

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Books / October 2018

When Is It Women’s Time to Speak?

October 1, 2018March 24, 2022 - by Casey Plett

In Miriam Toews’s new novel, women in an isolated Mennonite colony debate how to move forward in the aftermath of sexual assault

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Women Who Feed the World

May 3, 2018May 2, 2020 - by Trina Moyles

Farming is traditionally portrayed as a masculine pursuit. Nothing could be further from the truth

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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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