Gender-Neutral Toys for All the Kids in Your Life
Wondering what toys to buy your children, nieces and nephews this Christmas that won’t send a stereotyped message? We’ve come across lots of suggestions to help you out, thanks to […]
To Remember Is To End All War
To Remember is to End All War
Human Trafficking on Peterborough Highways: No easy out for victims
By Melodie McCullough Glancing recently through Peterborough’s backpages.com (an online site for advertising sex), Carly Kalish, in the space of five minutes, found numerous and obvious signs of human trafficking […]
Understanding Intersectionality
© By Dr. Lynn Gehl Introducing Intersectionality When creating a more liberating world inclusive of all people, an intersectionality lens, or an intersectionality methodology, is required. Intersectionality theory was first articulated by Black women who were dissatisfied with the efforts and knowledge emerging from White feminism as it fails to […]
Migrant Workers’ Rights: The Struggle Continues for Permanent Immigration Status
By Melodie McCullough When Gabriel Allahdua found out he was coming to Canada, he couldn’t believe his good luck. But shortly after arriving, the reality of life as a migrant […]
DON’T RAPE . . . And Other Things Your Kids Should Hear as They Leave Home for School
Second in a Series in a Partnership between JOURNEY Magazine and Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre By Melodie McCullough Are you sending your child off to a post-secondary school? Do you know that it is during the first eight weeks of classes in September and October that the majority of sexual […]
Rooting Out Racism: A Family Affair
As an activist in Toronto, Daniel Braithwaite made sure the book Little Black Sambo was banned in Toronto schools in the 1950s ; his daughter, Jane, continues to spread his social justice […]
Forty-Three Years Sheltering Women: Lynn Zimmer Still Leads the Way
By Melodie McCullough Do you know Lynn Zimmer? Maybe you have met her through the Women’s Business Network of Peterborough, or perhaps through her volunteer work with the United Way […]
Music to Soothe the Soul
Hospice Peterborough’s Bedside Singers Reach Out to Palliative Patients By Melodie McCullough It is a gift for both the ones receiving and the ones giving. For the past seven years, a group of Hospice Peterborough, Ontario, volunteers have been singing at bedsides in the palliative care unit at Peterborough Regional […]
Meet Kathy Hardill, Street Nurse to the Homeless
“All diseases have two causes: one pathological, the other political.”: Rudolf Virchow, 19th Century German pathologist. By Melodie McCullough (Originally Published August 2016) Every week, street nurse Kathy Hardill roams the […]
Motherhood … and Violence
First in a Series in a Partnership between JOURNEY Magazine and the Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre. By Melodie McCullough Motherhood: A time of joy, a time of feeling loved, a […]
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