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  • Posted December 11, 2013

Birthing and Labour Support

Guest post by Nicole Pichette Giving birth is something that a woman will remember for the rest of her life. Some women have positive birthing experiences: they feel supported and feel that their wishes for the birth were heard by their health care professionals. Others, however, have negative birthing experiences, where they may feel isolated, […]
  • Posted December 10, 2013

Women are still learning fear on campus

On December 6, we commemorated the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. On this day  in 1989 a gunman entered Montreal’s École Polytechnique. He purposely separated the men and women in the classroom and opened fire on all the women, killing 14. Remembering this horrific event helps us recognize how widespread violence against […]
  • Posted December 6, 2013

Is Justice Blind?

 New Research Paper Explores Why Only 4.6% of Sexual Assault Cases Result in Conviction In commemoration of December 6th, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, University of Alberta Law Student Rhyannon O’Heron and Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) Rape Crisis Centre are officially launching a new research paper titled […]
  • Posted November 29, 2013

Are You Kidding Me?

You know that the patriarchy is starting to slip when it needs pseudo-science to back it up. As reported in The Globe and Mail, recent studies from University of Texas and University of California-Los Angeles have tried to connect feelings of regret about sex with reproduction and… evolution? According to these studies, men are regretting […]
  • Posted November 26, 2013

How Rob Ford’s actions make Toronto less safe

Written by Caity Goerke It seems like all we can talk about these days is Rob Ford. And yet, even with so much coverage, there is so little being said. At WAVAW, we are very aware of the variety of ways in which our lives are made unsafe. We know that we all experience safety […]
  • Posted November 12, 2013

Our Response to the Vancouver Sun Article

Our response to the “What’s behind UBC student hijinks? Bad behaviour: immaturity or something more” article by Daphne Bramham published in the Vancouver Sun on October 24th 2013. We have submitted this response to the Vancouver Sun as well, but have received no communications from them. UPDATE!!!! A version of this letter was published by […]
  • Posted November 8, 2013

Are You Kidding Me?

A doctor featured on Fox News thinks that American women should have to pay more for health care. Apparently, because women live longer and have more organs (?!?!?!), it just isn’t fair for men to have to pay as much as women do. Upworthy says of the doctor “if people should pay only for the […]
  • Posted November 8, 2013

Never Read the Comments

I’m sure we’ve all heard it before – never read the comments. An interesting phenomenon occurs in the comments section of every article ever written on an issue close to feminism’s heart. This phenomenon is so intriguing that it even has its own Law. Lewis’s Law states that the comments on any article about feminism […]
  • Posted October 31, 2013

What is Rape Culture?

Rape culture is a term that was coined by feminists in the United States in the 1970s. It was designed to show the ways in which society blamed victims of sexual assault and normalized sexual violence. Many feminists have provided great definitions of what rape culture is and how it plays out every day. Emilie […]