International Women's Day events

In Toronto:

1) March 8 - Rally and March from OISE
Time and Place Date: Saturday, March 8, 2008
Time: 11:00am - 4:00pm
Location: OISE
Street: Bloor W (at St. George Subway)
City/Town: Toronto, ON

2) March 9 (?)

3) And in Ottawa - this looks really cool.International Women's Day Art Show

Corrective Lenses:
Challenging Representations of Women of Colour in Art

International women’s day art show and panel discussion

Featuring subversive reproductions of Gauguin, Michelangelo, Gerome, Metzel, Carr and others by women of colour artists from Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Turkiye.

Corrective Lenses:
Challenging Representations of Women of Colour in Art

International women’s day art show featuring subversive reproductions of Gauguin, Michelangelo, Gerome, Metzel, Carr and others by women of colour artists from Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Turkiye.

March 8, 4pm
Vernissage and panel discussion featuring:

Charmaine Nelson: McGill University Art History professor and author of Racism eh? A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race in the Canadian Context
Rosalie Favell: Award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in more than a dozen solo exhibitions and more than twenty group exhibitions around the world
Dipna Horra: a multi-media artist and visual arts reviewer with CBC
radio’s Ottawa Morning
Joanne St. Lewis: University of Ottawa Law professor and recipient of the 2008 Dreamkeepers Award conferred by the Martin Luther King Day Coalition.

Art exhibition March 8 –15 featuring the works of:
Sundus Abdul Hadi, Ilknur Demirkoparan, Rosalie Favell, Dipna Horra, Radha Jhappan, Meera Karunananthan, Joanne St. Lewis and Helina Tadesse

Location:
Jock Turcot University Centre, University of Ottawa

For more information, contact Meera Karunananthan: correctivelenses@gmail.com

Corrective Lenses is sponsored by the following University of Ottawa institutions: The Institute of Women’s Studies, Community Life Services, The University of Ottawa Women’s Resource Centre,The Social Justice Group, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law and the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa.

i have a girl-crush... sigh

Yes, it's Joy Nash - you might remember her from this:

And she has a Blog!!! Yay!

Not entirely progressive - but very good and tres funny!

Enjoy!

When Queen Latifah was a "role model"...

Sigh... I have to give her props though, she does try her hardest to explain it away as though she's not 'shilling' and it's really about 'health' (and maybe it is - but where was Oprah's fitness and food guru? did it have to be Jenny Craig?}....

but I'll always think she was more of a role model here, anyday: (sorry, can't find the 'official video')

the value of pussy...

It is the same sentiment that I've elicited from a lawyer, who says, "I paid 100 grand to go to law school, and I could make more money on my back," the same response I get from an executive assistant, a service-industry worker, and a teacher, who hold five degrees between them. Even Rosen, after asking me how much I'm "worth," exclaims, "That's a lot! Think about your income. Think about mine. I'm not advocating this; I'm just saying I can understand the calculations."

Note to white feminists, again, so if this is so lucrative - what happens to 30+, pudgy, coloured women like me... any price for my pussy?

I forgot - I'm not supposed to be educated, sexy or worthy - unless I'm exotic and submissive...

blah blah blah. And so it goes, more churning for the putting out industry. What was the point of this article again.

Seriously, feminists who advocate that sex-work is value-neutral - i.e. 'nothing sexist' exists - seem to think that it operates in it's own little bubble outside of anything else. I.e. though the author pays lip-service to the fact that being '27' is too 'old' - there really is no critique of the fact that that in itself is sexist. So, while taking money is okay - it's as if, this is just some kind of 'simple isolated transaction'. I.e. the objective of the article was economically reductionist in which women's desires, women's age/beauty/SKIN color/ CLASS - i'm sorry but not everyone has $50K+ to spend on getting an MA - play no part in being desired as 'fuckable', let alone by wealthy men. But of course 'sex-positivity' is NEVER holistic. NEVER. It's is fragemented and selective.

Btw - my blog sucks now and I don't even get 25 hits a day, so if you are going to start a 'war', or let's be clear, I don't like your comments (it's my blog isn't it?) - forget it - I'm just not publishing your comments - bite me.

later.