In 2004, Lily Burana wrote a book called Strip City, a memoir told as a cross-country road trip from strip club to strip club, reconciling her past as a dancer in those clubs with her career as a...
Over the past several months, members of Toronto's large Tamil community have organized a number of protests meant to draw attention to the dire situation in Sri Lanka, where, up until recently, the...
The United States has some of the world’s best hospitals, yet millions of U.S. citizens are unable to access their services, making their existence meaningless to large sections of the population....
In the wake of the KRXQ-FM controversy in which Sacramento, CA based shock-jocks Arnie States and Rob Williams attacked a transgender child during a May 28 on-air diatribe, the station's defenders,...
I learned about Wednesday's shooting at the Holocaust Museum via Twitter, as I do much breaking news these days. More specifically, though, I saw people whom I follow on Twitter asking #tcot, the...
June 6 was “The Pill Kills Day” according to extreme anti-choicers who believe that not only should women not be allowed to have abortions, but that birth control pills actually kill babies. This...
The ability to choose is paramount to the freedom and autonomy of women globally. Patriarchy has invested much in ensuring that women have reduced opportunities and are penalized severely should they...
Any doctor who chooses to provide abortions in America, where there is a pervasive and largely accepted climate of harassment and intimidation against those who do, is undoubtedly an immensely...
As a Brit, I feel quite at home in Canada. The spellings are the same, and British-isms abound. Recently, I decided to explore my Canadian roots more by going to Toronto. Toronto is a strange mix...
On May 26, the California Supreme Court affirmed Proposition 8 by a six to one majority. The eighteen thousand that got married while same gender marriages were legal were issued a reprieve when the...