For People in Toronto

Sent from the Toronto Women's Bookstore:

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The Aboriginal Sex Workers Outreach Project Presents…

A BBQ for Aboriginal sex workers and their allies

FRI SEPT 18, 11am

Riverdale Farm



Come and meet other Aboriginal sex workers and their allies. A perfect chance to network, hang out, and eat good food!


TTC directions:

From Castle Frank Subway Station, get on Parliament bus and get off at Winchester . Walk east to the end of the street. The Farm is on the right. if you're on a bike just go east of Parliament on Winchester and do the same thing.


From College or Queens Park Subway Station, hop onto the eastbound streetcar and get off at Sumach Street, east of Parliament. Walk north to Carlton Street , then through the Riverdale Park West. The Farm is located at the east end of the Park. Look for the Maggies Banner!

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- TTFN,
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Links of the Day

From Questioning Transphobia:
The Biology of Forms -- on bio-political systems of control. Really good read. Check it out.

Note: It's a follow-up to this post about why the author hates filling out forms or - more acurately - about cis privilege and the medical establishment in emergency situations. (Oh. Goody.)

<*wanders off, grinding teeth*>

Feminist Links for ZionAngel

So a friend of mine just messaged me. She's working with a high-school group called the Young Women's Studies Club and she wondered if I had any teen-suitable feminist articles that she could dirrect them towards.

I sent her the following list (which, granted, is rather heavy on the "read the whole blog!" rather than the "this is a useful article", but still).

Suggestions? Add-Ons? Substitiutions? Please feel free to contribute! :-D


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Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog lays things out so that beginners (both beginner feminists and beginner allies) can get a rough understanding of some basic concepts before plunging into the feminist blogosphere. Highly recommended as a starting point. (The other starting point being the various links I got from Shrub.blog).


There's Scarleteen which is all about youth and sexuality, and is awesome.


Similarly, there's Shameless, which is the blog counter-part to the Canadian magazine of the same name. It's a feminist magazine aimed at teen gals, that examines different kinds of privilege as well as different ways to get activist in your communities. It's phenomenal.


Shrub.blog is kind of on hiatus for now, but it's got a LOT of really EXCELLENT 101-links down the right-hand side-bar. Really well-organized and everything is cross-linked for easy reference. This one was "my first" feminist blog, so it's quite dear to my heart. ;-)
Some particularly good links from there are:
Think women have achieved equality? Think again.
AND
And the unforgetable "Check My What?" On Privilege and What We Can Do About It. This article is really phenomenal. :-)


Advice for the New Feminist -- which includes a handy list of "You might be a feminist if..." traits, although a number of them assume the presence of offspring and so are probably aimed at a slightly older audience. Still some good ones in there, though, plus a collection of 101 links that might be of help if the Feminism 101 Blog doesn't answer everything.


Feministing gets a lot of young traffic (and the gal who started the blog has also written the book Full Frontal Feminism) though I don't know how much of their readership is highschool-age. That said, it typically has a tonne of links and interesting articles, and there's a community that people can join, so it could be useful.


And... Julia Serano has some really good things to say about gender and different *kinds* of sexism.
The link is to actually to her FAQ, which talks about the term "cis" and cis privilege, but if you can find online exerpts from, say, the introduction to her book, Whipping Girl[1], that would be a very good resource to send them to.

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- TTFN,
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[1] Sadly *not* available through the "look inside" function at amazon.com[2].

[2] I may not shop there anymore, but I do use their site to get information.