these handful of bigots, who have exhumed resources to stand in the way of forward movement for feminism, are a reflection of the greater population of canada, and the western world. it is no accident that Trans Exclusionary Radical “Feminists” (TERFs) are sitting and working alongside a ...
Maybe the only way to get there is by acknowledging how undemocratic we really are today, while also recognising how powerful we could be if we weren’t. Both Taylor and Brady’s films encourage us to open ourselves up to new forms of life; to feel compassion for others in a world that...
Throughout generations, various prayers have been composed to express religious and cultural experiences of the Jewish community, such as holidays life-cycle and national tragedies. However, some social issues, such as sexual assault, have been excluded
Once I got older I learned who Carol Doda was in a general sort of way but I didn’t know too many details about her life or how she came to have her likeness in lights at a club in North Beach, so I was happy to learn more via the new documentary, CAROL DODA TOPLESS AT THE ...
The call from the Equal Justice Initiative, led by Bryan Stevenson, urged all of us to change the dominant cultural narrative by reframing what we remember about the racialized violence in this country’s past. The erasure or justification of that violence is what allows for the perpetuation and...
“That’s the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see,” said Sofia Coppola in an interview withThe New York Timesin 2003. That cinema provides the possibility to depict the world differently is obvious, so it seems a shame that Coppola’s investment seems to be in the...
two deaf-mutes represent innocence in front of the rest of the world. Perhaps [the film] is a way to cancel the tragedy, to elaborate the tragedy. I didn’t want to give, with my film, a bad view of the world, but a good view of the world; to save innocence against the rest....