Hey, Fatso! Body Shaming in a Thin World
“And the shame. Oh, the shame of being wrong, all the time wrong, impossible to erase the wrong-bodied-ness that you express everywhere you go. Hide yourself. Don’t move. Don’t dress […]
Joseph Boyden and Indigenous Identity
By Lynn Gehl, Ph.D In the last few weeks and months much has been said about Joseph Boyden and Indigenous identity. Situated as I am in a section 15 Charter […]
Making a Difference in Nogojiwanong with Youth for Water
Rain gardens that filter pollutants; shoreline naturalizations; aid for at-risk species; traditional medicine food gardens; storm and ground water management with low-impact solutions –it’s all part of Youth for Water […]
“A Sense of Hopelessness”: Eating Disorders and the Health Care System
Eating disorders (EDs) are serious and complex illnesses, as anyone who has struggled with them will tell you. But problems within the health care system complicate the situation even more. […]
Send Her to Africa: The Story of a Mother, A Daughter and the Eating Disorder That Transformed Their Lives
By Melodie McCullough Six years ago Lisa Burns took her then almost-17-year-old daughter, possibly suffering with anorexia, to the family doctor. The advice given by the doctor upon diagnosing an eating disorder? “Send her to Africa, so she will see what starving children really look like.” Burns knew it was time to […]
JOVANNA’S JOURNAL An Inspirational Message from Jovanna Soligo
This Moment By Jovanna Soligo I have a Balinese bell that sits on my altar in my studio. When I pick it up and ring it, the air in the room fills with a clear resonance. Something shifts inside me when I listen to that bell. I can’t help but […]
VOICES from the HEART
Poems and Stories of Strength/Resiliency from Space/Time RESILIENT SOUL by Gay Josephine Valles MY SILENCE by N. Wali COZY by Sasha Patterson SONG of the FIR TREE by Mary E. McCullough […]
Bio Brief: KAY MA of OPIRG Peterborough
Kay Ma describes the city in which she grew up in the 1990s — Oakville, Ontario — as “a bastion of bedroom community wealth, the Ford Factory and Tim […]
‘We Were Never Weak and Voiceless’: Five Women Who Made Afghan History
“We were never weak and voiceless. We have always found ways to speak up, even under the oppressive Taliban regime. . . May there be more trouble-making, groundbreaking, change-making, world-shaping women […]
Women in Business: Andrea VanDerHerberg at the Silver Bean Cafe in Peterborough
By JOURNEY Staff Andrea VanDerHerberg prefers to stand outside the spotlight. With an unassuming and low-key approach to life, committed to her roles as wife to Michael and mother to […]
Christine Ethier REVIEWS Anne Tyler: A Brief Glance at an Epic Author
Those of you who have read and enjoyed an Anne Tyler novel will need no convincing to read the rest of her lengthy bibliography. Those of you who have […]
