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The Blogging Carnival is Back!


For four weeks on Kickaction.ca our illustrious guest bloggers will discuss a variety of subjects such as body identity, substance use, experiences with immigration, thoughts on sexuality, and lots more!

 

On the weekly blog menu:

Feb 14-19: On my terms: Bodily self-determination
Feb 22-26: What's the crime?
March 1-5: Welcome to Canada? Experiences, struggles and celebrations
March 8-12: Girl-talk: sexual power and pleasure

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National Retreat participant speaks to effect of climate change in the North

Check out this article, and the video (to the right of the article). The article tells us Artic ice is meling "much faster than our most pessimistic projections" (University of Manitoba Prof. David Barber). 

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Miss G did it! An Ontario High School Gender Studies course is here!

Miss G: "It is with great pleasure and deep honour that we present to you, at long last, the result of all our collective labour, the fruit of our feminist-activist loins: The final draft of the Ontario-wide GENDER STUDIES COURSE!!!"

Avatar Canadian style

I was reading the paper earlier this week and I stumbled across an article about Avatar (shocking, I know) and how director James Cameron was the only director who could pull something like Avatar off.
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THURSDAY, February 4 between 5-6pm -No One Is Illegal Radio - Migration, Sex Work, and Anti-Trafficking

The February 2010 edition of No One Is Illegal Radio focuses on migration and sex work, specifically on the root causes of migration, the effects of anti-trafficking legislation on women-identified (im)migrants, and the criminalization of sex work.

Join the Revolution

So, it's been roughly one year since my roommate became obsessed with the ominously named THE PAPER CUP ARMY. I can't really explain what happened there, it wasn't my obsession. All I know is one day I came home and my roommate had started a collection of used paper cups and was storing them in our small two bedroom basement apartment. She's an artist, so I look online and find pictures on her facebook of little cups with word bubbles.

Learn Something why don't ya

Don't you just love the internet it's filled with how to videos. Here are two where you can learn sign language. 

Palatable Black People

On American T.V. black celebrities and T.V. personalities always have a particular look. They tend to be lightened up with straight hair and fine features. They all kinda fit this particular mold. Have you ever noticed how much Beyonce looks so much different than when she first started out with Destiny’s child?

 

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You say complicated. I say exasperating.

Here's just a few poems I wrote in the past. I decided to share it with you all and it would be nice if you'd share your opinion about them too.

Ps: I'm not that much of a skillful writer in french so Please correct me if there are some spelling mistakes. I would appreciate it; I'm a learning anglophone myself. lol

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Quotes from Juno, Hard Candy, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Here's just some quotes I pulled out of a few of my favourite movies. Hehe.
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Summoning the dead with PINK!

Wanna have something pink and scary for your sleep over girls? You should get this!

 

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ewwwwww, the national post disses women studies. (aka, feminists attack)

ewww. so i checked my facebook wall to see FemRev Collec Tive post this article from the National Post. National Post Editorial Board: Women's Studies is still with us.ew, ew , ew.

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Des Duchesses de carnaval féministes!

Découvert via jesuisfeministe.com, l'initiative de la revengeance des duchesses!

Jusqu'au 14 février.

À lire, c'est hilarant!

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¡Somos Latinas!

¡Somos latinas! est une vidéo artistique réalisée par les participantes du programme l'art d'être une fille du Centre d'aide aux familles latino-américaines (CAFLA) en collaboration avec la Fondation filles d'action dans le cadre du projet Filles et égalité: Une valeur ajoutée.

New Year Hope

We've all had a good sample of 2010 now and for most of us, it's mostly just business as usual. But for some, 2010 not only marks a new year, it is the start of a new life.