Persons Day: The Indigenous Famous Five Contingent (Updated Version)
© Lynn Gehl Persons Day, October 18th, is a day when many women’s groups celebrate the efforts of The Famous Five for their role in gaining women’s rights in Canada. […]
Why we (still) Take Back The Night
One in three; one in six; one in five. Say what? In Ontario, one in three females, one in six males, and one in five transpeople experience gender-based violence — […]
Lisa Clarke — Living Life Her Own Way
Happy-ever-after storybook endings don’t always happen. But Lisa Clarke now knows that’s okay. Clarke, community engagement and project manager at Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre, (KSAC), was recently named as one of Peterborough’s […]
Painting Paddles By The Lake
Hope Zatorski at Harbour Art Gallery On Stoney Lake this summer, not only can you ‘paddle your own canoe’, you can ‘paint your own paddle’, too. On a recent rainy […]
Meet Keara Lightning, Red Pashmina Young Woman of Impact
Keara Lightning: “Indigenous scholar, activist, environmentalist, community builder, skilled writer, quiet leader, and an inclusive teacher with deep convictions and a passion for the many initiatives she takes on and […]
Meet Sneha Wadhwani, Red Pashmina’s Young Woman of Impact
Sneha Wadhwani speaks three languages, is enrolled in an academically-challenging International Baccalaureate (IB) school program, volunteers with dozens of local community groups, has a job throughout the school year and […]
Meet Hanah Howlett McFarlane, Red Pashmina Young Woman of Impact
In 1991 in the midst of the first Gulf War between the United States, Kuwait and Iraq, Hanah Howlett McFarlane, almost four years old, attended a peace walk in Toronto […]
Older Women as Social Activists: Still Kicking After All These Years
What comes to mind when you hear the words, “older women”? Is it the thought of frail and lonely grey-haired women who are burdens to the health care system? Maybe […]
“6(1)(a) All the Way”: Lynn Gehl Continues Fight Against Indian Act Sex-Discrimination
By Melodie McCullough (For an update on Bill S-3 see: https://www.change.org/p/canadian-government-remove-all-of-the-sex-discrimination-in-the-indian-status-registration-provisions-of-the-indian-act-enough-is-enough/u/20879596?) After 32 years of fighting the Canadian government over sex-discrimination in the Indian Act — and an Ontario Court of […]
Sharing, Healing and Resilience at Closing Exhibition of Sexual Assault: The Road Show
Discussing sexual assault side by side with resilience is an “exciting combination” that promises opportunities for understanding and healing, says Lisa Clarke, community engagement manager at Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre […]
