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Crimson Cabaret

28 Monday Jan 2008

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Crimson Cabaret; Celebrating Creative Women

Don’t miss the event of the winter season,

North Shore Women’s Center annual fundraiser on Saturday, February 2nd, 2008!

Crimson Cabaret is a rare artistic collaboration that draws together a collection of acclaimed local performers.

This engaging evening will showcase the vibrancy of the creative female spirit from Taiko drumming, vocal ensemble and theatrical comedy to aerial performance, singer songwriters and a variety of stunning folk and modern dance.

An outstanding silent auction begins at 5 pm. Items include: original art, handcrafted jewelery, adventure trips, holistic healing, a lover’s basket, hair and make-up products, a booklover’s collection, a golf package, restaurant vouchers, a weekend getaway, and much more!

All proceeds will go toward continuing the North Shore Women’s Centre’s programs and services in 2008.

Dreams for Women – Second Week…

26 Saturday Jan 2008

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Antigone Magazine is launching a Feminist Postcard art project and fundraiser but instead of asking what your secrets are, we want to know what your Dreams for Women are.
What are your own dreams for yourself, your friends, your sisters, your daughters? Paint, draw, write, sketch or decoupage your dreams on a postcard and send it to the address below
Antigone Magazine
C/O WILLA UBC
Box 61-6138 SUB Boulevard
Vancouver, BC, Canada
V6T 1Z1
OR
antigonemagazine at hotmail.com
With your postcard submission, we ask that you make a donation (if you can!) to Antigone Magazine for anywhere from $1 to $10. You can send your money along with your postcard or donate on our blog. But don’t worry… if you don’t have the money, just send along the postcard and tell people about this program. We will be posting postcards every second Saturday starting in January!
What is Antigone Magazine? We’re a grassroots national magazine that works to encourage young women to get involved in politics in Canada. We work to empower young women to engage politically and civically and to actively take part in leadership roles.
We are raising the money in order to help launch the Antigone Foundation, a national foundation that will encourage young women aged 10-30 to get politically and civically engaged. Help support Antigone as we help to make the dreams of young women come true!We want submissions from all over the world – so forward this on! Post it on your blog! Or link to it!

Guerilla Grrls: Masked Avengers

25 Friday Jan 2008

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The Guerrilla Girls: Masked Avengers!

Friday, February 1st, 7:30pm

Art Historian Barbara Tyner, MA, delivers an illustrated talk on how the Guerrilla Girls have exposed sexism, racism and corruption in art, film, politics and pop culture with facts, humour and outrageous visuals. Since 1985, the GG’s have worked collectively and anonymously to produce posters, billboards, public actions, books and other projects bringing “fake fur and feminism to new frontiers.”

Fashionably wrong

24 Thursday Jan 2008

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Hillary Clinton may have lost the vote of the fashionistas who follow Anna Wintour.
As Women’s Wear Daily reports, Clinton was expected to appear in an issue of Vogue during the presidential race, but pulled out last minute over fears of sexualizing her campaign.
A Vogue spokesperson recently confirmed, “We were told by Ms. Clinton’s camp that they were concerned if Clinton appeared in Vogue that she would appear too feminine.”
But has this really jeopardized her chance at the White House? With the most popular woman in the world officially endorsing her competitor, Clinton may have already lost the support of the Oprah club.
Hillary is expected to bare the brunt of representing the every woman. Apparently, her camp thinks its better for her to appear more like Tracy Flick in Election than Elle Woods in Legally Blonde.
And Hillary is already being treated differently by pundits like Chris Matthews, reports Slate.com.
Would the fashion world react in the same way if Obama pulled out of a haute couture shoot? Or would they ever have expected him to appear in the first place?
Courting female voters, or any voters for that matter, is new terrain for the first female front runner in U.S. history.
Unlike male candidates who can rely on results of campaigns gone by for advice for how to run a campaign, for Clinton, there is no precedent for addressing “women’s issues” that have been thrust upon her, such as infidelity, sexuality and navigating the world of high fashion.

Celebration of Morgentaler Decision

23 Wednesday Jan 2008

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Before and Beyond

Come celebrate the 20th anniversary of the historic Supreme Court decision
that finally gave Canadian women true reproductive choice!

Monday, January 28, 2008, 6-10pm

SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

Featuring: Reception, cash bar, speaker’s panel, and new documentary film
“Henry”

Here is a poster with details:

Click to access Morgentaler-Jan-28-08-flyer.pdf

For more info, contact jharthur@shaw.ca

See you at the event!

Mom, can a man ever be president?

22 Tuesday Jan 2008

Posted by antigonemagazine in female politicians, women in politics

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“Do you think a man could ever be president?” the little boy in Ireland asks his mother. All his life he has only seen women presidents, currently Mary McAleese.”

I have to say that I love any article that starts like that! Not that I want young boys to feel like they are unable to hold political power but because it is so revolutionary to think of a place where female power is so naturalized. It also is quite indicative of how children respond to the modeling of roles and behaviors. Young women have a harder time imagining themselves in positions of power because they have few exterior models of women in those positions. I’ve quoted a couple of parts of the article below but you should really read the whole thing:

Joanne Sandler, deputy executive director for programmes at the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), tells this little anecdote to show that in some places it can be routine for women to be found in leadership roles. “In places like Ireland and Finland it is becoming less extraordinary to see a woman in power,” says Sandler. And it is this kind of female power that could bring more women into leadership, she says. “When you see women in positions of power, in ministries, obviously the self-image of girls changes, and they envision themselves in those places. But that kind of change will take a very long time, though it has started,” she adds. The change does not necessarily correspond to a nation’s level of economic development.

There is not a relationship between more money and less gender discrimination,” says Sandler. “Money and power have an influence in those women achieving power. But money alone doesn’t explain it. “Look at the elections in Liberia. A woman who has education, a former employee of the World Bank and the U.N., with an impressive resume, against a man who had no high school education, a soccer player (George Weah). Imagine the opposite: against a man with Johnson-Sirleaf’s background, would a woman with Weah’s credentials be a serious contender? To be a contender for high level political office, women have to bring a lot of extra qualities in order to get into the race. They need the same things as a man, plus others.” Ayesha Kajee, former researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs and board member of Supposedly developed societies which continue to operate under highly patriarchal and authoritarian family and leadership structures can on the other hand “institute policies that result in institutionalised and societal antipathy towards empowering women,” Kajee says. “Women themselves in these societies are often tacitly complicit in the latter, because they have been socialised to think that access to power is undesirable, unfeminine or irreligious.”

One of the main obstacles is the violence that women candidates face. Not only physical violence, but also how they are addressed, how they are reported on, which emanates from gender discrimination. And it is not confined to Africa.” Women leaders are under a different kind of scrutiny, she says. “They are still a novelty because it is so unusual…But there is great expectation from Johnson-Sirleaf and (Chilean President Michelle) Bachelet, by women and by others. Do they receive a greater level of scrutiny than others? Is it fair?”

The Press of Trafficking

21 Monday Jan 2008

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In keeping with our coverage of the phenomenon of trafficking, I direct you to this article by Simon Houpt of the Globe and Mail. My title is both a pun on the immediacy and very urgent reality of trafficking in our society, and the way in which the media helps to foster this sleeping giant (now roused).

The pervasiveness of trafficking is only too evident throughout Houpt’s discussion, because as he astutely observes, even the “health & Fitness” section of New York Magazine is littered with ads for spas whose hours are outside of the normal spa customer’s regime.

Houpt’s article chronicle’s NOW’s fight to pressure the major New York magazines to eliminate their sex-industry ads–a difficult fight indeed given the millions of dollars in revenue such ads provide to the magazines.

Nonetheless, over the past months various publications have made promises to withdraw these ads:

The sex seems to be disappearing from the city.

Over the last few months, advertisements for what are euphemistically referred to as “adult services” have been vanishing from New York’s weekly newspapers and glossy magazines. In August, the alternative newsweekly New York Press announced it was dropping ads for escorts, models and “classy, sensual ladies.” And just three weeks ago, New York magazine marked the new year by eliminating the small but lucrative Adult category in its back-of-the-book Marketplace section.

The moves by both publications came after pressure from a local chapter of the National Organization of Women as part of a campaign to raise awareness of human trafficking. NOW says trafficking isn’t just an abstract event unfolding in some ruined paradise halfway around the globe. Citing a statement by the U.S. Department of Justice that JFK Airport is a major hub for trafficking, it notes that a number of brothels busted over the last couple of years in the city had been operating on the backs of illegal immigrants smuggled into the country and kept virtually enslaved. The ads, NOW insists, are an integral part of that illegal economy.

The organization’s efforts led Governor Eliot Spitzer to pass statewide anti-trafficking legislation in June, emboldening NOW to begin targeting publications around town. “We try to make them understand how [yanking the ads] doesn’t have to be a bad thing,” Sonia Ossorio, the president of NOW NYC, told me last week. “If you have high-end retailers like Tiffany’s, they don’t want to be next to Hot Asian Honeys.” NOW estimates the ads were worth about half a million dollars annually to New York, and perhaps twice that to The Village Voice.

New York was initially unmoved by NOW’s aesthetic and moral arguments, telling the Times in a statement: “If ever the authorities bring evidence of illegal activity behind any of our ads to our attention, we will take immediate action to remove the ad – and the advertiser – from our magazine permanently.” But in early November, two days before a threatened protest by NOW’s sign-wielding masses outside New York’s Madison Avenue offices, the magazine pre–emptively agreed to pull all such ads by Jan. 1.

Houpt further observes that perhaps the best places to start in the fight against trafficking via advertising are ethnic newspapers:

And if human trafficking is the target, the city’s ethnic newspapers might be a better place to start. One brothel busted in March, 2006, where dozens of Korean women were being kept, had been advertising in The World Journal, the largest Mandarin-language paper in the country. “We’re not able to monitor it as closely as we’d like,” admitted Ossorio. “We need to find people who can help us read it.”

Indeed, they do need help. Regardless of the fact that the sex industry does make some women money independent of exploitation and abuse (though I think this is debatable), rescuing those women who are trapped as objects of the sex trade requires that the entire industry come under attack since clearly the institution as it is does not define the boundaries between ‘object’ and objective… As Ossario observes: “I’m not trying to cause them any harm. But you can’t separate trafficking from the sex industry, because trafficking is a part of the sex industry.” Human trafficking is our reality and it should not be ignored…

The Press of Trafficking

21 Monday Jan 2008

Posted by Kaitlin Blanchard in Violence against women, women's issues

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In keeping with our coverage of the phenomenon of trafficking, I direct you to this article by Simon Houpt of the Globe and Mail. My title is both a pun on the immediacy and very urgent reality of trafficking in our society, and the way in which the media helps to foster this sleeping giant (now roused).

The pervasiveness of trafficking is only too evident throughout Houpt’s discussion, because as he astutely observes, even the “health & Fitness” section of New York Magazine is littered with ads for spas whose hours are outside of the normal spa customer’s regime.

Houpt’s article chronicle’s NOW’s fight to pressure the major New York magazines to eliminate their sex-industry ads–a difficult fight indeed given the millions of dollars in revenue such ads provide to the magazines.

Nonetheless, over the past months various publications have made promises to withdraw these ads:

The sex seems to be disappearing from the city.

Over the last few months, advertisements for what are euphemistically referred to as “adult services” have been vanishing from New York’s weekly newspapers and glossy magazines. In August, the alternative newsweekly New York Press announced it was dropping ads for escorts, models and “classy, sensual ladies.” And just three weeks ago, New York magazine marked the new year by eliminating the small but lucrative Adult category in its back-of-the-book Marketplace section.

The moves by both publications came after pressure from a local chapter of the National Organization of Women as part of a campaign to raise awareness of human trafficking. NOW says trafficking isn’t just an abstract event unfolding in some ruined paradise halfway around the globe. Citing a statement by the U.S. Department of Justice that JFK Airport is a major hub for trafficking, it notes that a number of brothels busted over the last couple of years in the city had been operating on the backs of illegal immigrants smuggled into the country and kept virtually enslaved. The ads, NOW insists, are an integral part of that illegal economy.

The organization’s efforts led Governor Eliot Spitzer to pass statewide anti-trafficking legislation in June, emboldening NOW to begin targeting publications around town. “We try to make them understand how [yanking the ads] doesn’t have to be a bad thing,” Sonia Ossorio, the president of NOW NYC, told me last week. “If you have high-end retailers like Tiffany’s, they don’t want to be next to Hot Asian Honeys.” NOW estimates the ads were worth about half a million dollars annually to New York, and perhaps twice that to The Village Voice.

New York was initially unmoved by NOW’s aesthetic and moral arguments, telling the Times in a statement: “If ever the authorities bring evidence of illegal activity behind any of our ads to our attention, we will take immediate action to remove the ad – and the advertiser – from our magazine permanently.” But in early November, two days before a threatened protest by NOW’s sign-wielding masses outside New York’s Madison Avenue offices, the magazine pre–emptively agreed to pull all such ads by Jan. 1.

Houpt further observes that perhaps the best places to start in the fight against trafficking via advertising are ethnic newspapers:

And if human trafficking is the target, the city’s ethnic newspapers might be a better place to start. One brothel busted in March, 2006, where dozens of Korean women were being kept, had been advertising in The World Journal, the largest Mandarin-language paper in the country. “We’re not able to monitor it as closely as we’d like,” admitted Ossorio. “We need to find people who can help us read it.”

Indeed, they do need help. Regardless of the fact that the sex industry does make some women money independent of exploitation and abuse (though I think this is debatable), rescuing those women who are trapped as objects of the sex trade requires that the entire industry come under attack since clearly the institution as it is does not define the boundaries between ‘object’ and objective… As Ossario observes: “I’m not trying to cause them any harm. But you can’t separate trafficking from the sex industry, because trafficking is a part of the sex industry.” Human trafficking is our reality and it should not be ignored…

Dreams for Women…

19 Saturday Jan 2008

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Dreams for Women is still a biweekly event until we get enough postcards to justify doing it every week (hint, hint: send some in!). But I did want to geive you at least something this week, as well as, to thank those people who have featured Dreams for Women on their blogs.

Particular thanks to the german blog Madchenblog… who said some very flattering things about us.

Also, to Our bodies Ourselves, who also featured the project on their blog!

Here’s the Dreams for Women info for those who haven’t yet heard about the program!

Antigone Magazine is launching a Feminist Postcard art project and fundraiser but instead of asking what your secrets are, we want to know what your Dreams for Women are.

What are your own dreams for yourself, your friends, your sisters, your daughters? Paint, draw, write, sketch or decoupage your dreams on a postcard and send it to the address below

Antigone Magazine
C/O WILLA UBC
Box 61-6138 SUB Boulevard
Vancouver, BC, Canada
V6T 1Z1

With your postcard submission, we ask that you make a donation (if you can!) to Antigone Magazine for anywhere from $1 to $10. You can send your money along with your postcard or donate on our blog: http://www.antigonemagazine.blogspot.com/ . But don’t worry… if you don’t have the money, just send along the postcard and tell people about this program. We will be posting postcards every second Saturday starting in January on the blog!

What is Antigone Magazine? We’re a grassroots national magazine that works to encourage young women to get involved in politics in Canada. We work to empower young women to engage politically and civically and to actively take part in leadership roles. We are raising the money in order to help launch the Antigone Foundation, a national foundation that will encourage young women aged 10-30 to get politically and civically engaged. Help support Antigone as we help to make the dreams of young women come true!

We want submissions from all over the world – so forward this on! Post it on your blog! Or link to it!

Dreams for Women…

19 Saturday Jan 2008

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Dreams for Women is still a biweekly event until we get enough postcards to justify doing it every week (hint, hint: send some in!). But I did want to geive you at least something this week, as well as, to thank those people who have featured Dreams for Women on their blogs.

Particular thanks to the german blog Madchenblog… who said some very flattering things about us.

Also, to Our bodies Ourselves, who also featured the project on their blog!

Here’s the Dreams for Women info for those who haven’t yet heard about the program!

Antigone Magazine is launching a Feminist Postcard art project and fundraiser but instead of asking what your secrets are, we want to know what your Dreams for Women are.

What are your own dreams for yourself, your friends, your sisters, your daughters? Paint, draw, write, sketch or decoupage your dreams on a postcard and send it to the address below

Antigone Magazine
C/O WILLA UBC
Box 61-6138 SUB Boulevard
Vancouver, BC, Canada
V6T 1Z1

With your postcard submission, we ask that you make a donation (if you can!) to Antigone Magazine for anywhere from $1 to $10. You can send your money along with your postcard or donate on our blog: http://www.antigonemagazine.blogspot.com/ . But don’t worry… if you don’t have the money, just send along the postcard and tell people about this program. We will be posting postcards every second Saturday starting in January on the blog!

What is Antigone Magazine? We’re a grassroots national magazine that works to encourage young women to get involved in politics in Canada. We work to empower young women to engage politically and civically and to actively take part in leadership roles. We are raising the money in order to help launch the Antigone Foundation, a national foundation that will encourage young women aged 10-30 to get politically and civically engaged. Help support Antigone as we help to make the dreams of young women come true!

We want submissions from all over the world – so forward this on! Post it on your blog! Or link to it!

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