Comments on: Feministe Feedback – Getting Beyond U.S.-centric Feminism

By: Links for July 28, 2008 « Doing Feminism

Links for July 28, 2008 « Doing Feminism — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:44:59 +0000

[...] Feministe: Feminist Feedback – Getting Beyond U.S.-centric Feminism “So much of the English language feminist talk online is about the US. How do talk about it in a way that shows that we’ve worked hard, we’ve won victories, but we still have a long way to go with First Nations/Aboriginal women, with immigrant women, and with white, middle-class women.” [...]

By: Cedar

Cedar — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:36:03 +0000

Oh! and i just want to plug this petition in support of Dr. Henry Morgentaler's appointment to the order of Canada. it's not getting the traction it should in the blogosphere. please forward to friends, etc. the anti-choice folks have been getting way to much free air time in our press.

By: Simplejewel

Simplejewel — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:11:55 +0000

Hey! I’m so happy to see someone mentioning Miss G! I’m the co-chair of the Ottawa chapter and we are making some serious headway.

So yeah, shameless plug – SUPPORT MISS G!

But I also echo that Shameless is great as are the discussion boards on Rabble.ca

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:51:56 +0000

Hopefully this isn’t a double-up, I got an error :\

I have had a nosey round the internets for NZ feminist sites but there’s nothing really.

Nonsense! Take a look at The Hand Mirror for starters.

Anna mentioned the Down Under Feminists Carnival. The Carnival home page is here. There have been two editions so far, the first on Hoyden about Town, and the second on my blog, In a Strange Land, and both with plenty of NZ feminist blog posts.

Oo, thanks. I never said I searched that hard. lol All I found with a few Googles were a few feminist organisations/women’s groups, not blogs

By: Ms Uppity

Ms Uppity — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:34:18 +0000

I agree with Cedar & fireeyedgirl. Shameless and KickAction are the two biggest online web resources I’ve found for Canadian feminist content. I’m not sure if this is entirely accurate, but I find that there is a lot more grassroots activism or organizations going on in Canada (at least where I live) rather than a widespread web presence that is from a uniquely Canadian perspective.

There’s also the Miss G Project (http://www.themissgproject.org/) to get a women & gender studies course into Ontario curriculum.

By: fireeyedgirl

fireeyedgirl — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:58:52 +0000

ditto to Cedar’s points about ‘universal healthcare’ (which is not universal if you’re an immigrant or refugee) – i’m definitely grateful for what we have but if it’s not supported in a variety of ways then we won’t continue to have it.

also ditto to the fact that GLBQ & trans folk face a lot of ignorance & lack of accessibility to healthcare.

and also i’d like to second the assessment Cedar makes of ‘multiculturalism’ – it ultimately provides white canadians with a way of patting ourselves on the back, and an excuse for ignoring things like the way the bouchard-taylor commission gave a forum to a lot of racist & xenophobic bs in quebec this past year… i don’t think that quebec is the only province with these sentiments present under the patina of ‘multiculturalism.’

By: Deborah

Deborah — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:39:30 +0000

I have had a nosey round the internets for NZ feminist sites but there’s nothing really. Nonsense! Take a look at The Hand Mirror for starters. Anna mentioned the Down Under Feminists Carnival. The Carnival home page is here. There have been two editions so far, the first on Hoyden about Town, and the second on my blog, In a Strange Land, and both with plenty of NZ feminist blog posts.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:09:52 +0000

The provincial political party that I belong to has a fund call WIL – Women in Legislature. One way of getting more First Nations Women and Women of Colour to run would be putting funding together to support and encourage women of colour in their efforts.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:03:29 +0000

Dana, if you check out Hoyden About Town, they do a Down Under Feminist Carnival that is Aus & NZ blogs. Lots of interesting stuff there.

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:21:16 +0000

Not actually contributing anything here but as a NZer I get a certain amount of shit from my friends/family about almost exclusively reading/contributing to US sites.

I have had a nosey round the internets for NZ feminist sites but there’s nothing really. There are organisations, but not sites like this. I did talk to a woman at the Rape Crisis centre about volunteering and she basically said it sounds like I’d be too triggered and maybe I need to see someone first :\

So I don’t know, I just enjoy reading blogs like this and discussing it with people… and we don’t seem to have any NZ equivilents