The Stories We Tell: How Media Coverage of Sexual Violence Can Perpetuate Harm
May is Sexual Violence Prevention Month, yet victims of sexual and gender-based violence still cannot find justice in their stories told by the Canadian media.
Feminism
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Why all Canadians Need Decommodified Reproductive Healthcare
In Canada, reproductive healthcare is deeply commodified, affecting access to resources from contraception to fertility treatments. Canadians tend to pride themselves on being “better” than their southern neighbours, but in this instance, being better is not good enough.
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Femininity, Hyper-Commodified: Consumerism, Social Media, and Beauty Standards
Profits become supreme despite the enabling of a destructive culture of consumption around physical appearance, the erosion of the gains of feminist movements where looks are made more valuable than liberation, and where youth conceptualise ageing as an aesthetic problem rather than a wonderful part of life’s journey.
