http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/taxonomy/term/26539/0 en http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/news/2016/07/toronto-burlesque-festival-lightning-rod-political-debate <div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Thursday, July 28, 2016</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> This weekend the Toronto Burlesque Festival begins! Laura Brightwell caught up with the Executive Director of Programming Coco Framboise to get her thoughts on the current burlesque scene. </div> </div> </div> <p><em>Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. <a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank">Chip in</a> to keep stories like these coming.</em></p> <p><a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/rabble/files/node-images/donategreen.png" width="120" height="30" /></a></p><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/6098b2.jpg" alt="Coco Framboise" title="Coco Framboise" width="120" height="71" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/zyralee_vanity.jpg" alt="Zyra Lee Vanity" title="Zyra Lee Vanity" width="120" height="80" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/boylesqueto.jpg" alt="Boylesque" title="Boylesque" width="120" height="72" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/fay_slift_2.jpg" alt="Fay Slift" title="Fay Slift" width="120" height="71" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/news/2016/07/toronto-burlesque-festival-lightning-rod-political-debate" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 27 Jul 2016 19:10:54 +0000 rabble staff 125431 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/news/2016/07/trans-health-care-canada-federal-responsibility <div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Friday, July 1, 2016</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> In part two of this two-part feature, Laura Brightwell examines the existing health-care provisions for trans Canadians and asks what needs to change. </div> </div> </div> <p><em>Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. <a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank">Chip in</a> to keep stories like these coming.</em></p> <p><a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/rabble/files/node-images/donategreen.png" width="120" height="30" /></a></p> <p>Canada has an international reputation for tolerance and free universal health care. However, these provisions don't hold up as well for its trans citizens, whose access to health care is often impinged by systemic transphobia and provincial differences in surgery options.&nbsp;</p><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/214510756_e7faf7bd65_z.jpg" alt="Photo: flickr/Dennis S. Hurd" title="Photo: flickr/Dennis S. Hurd" width="120" height="80" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/news/2016/07/trans-health-care-canada-federal-responsibility" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Fri, 01 Jul 2016 13:20:03 +0000 rabble staff 125108 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/news/2016/06/trans-health-care-canada-provincial-lottery <div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, June 29, 2016</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> There have been some improvements to trans health care in Canada, but is it much to celebrate? We speak to experts and find out what is available across Canada. </div> </div> </div> <p><em>Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. <a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank">Chip in</a> to keep stories like these coming.</em></p> <p><a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/rabble/files/node-images/donategreen.png" width="120" height="30" /></a></p> <p>If <a href="http://rabble.ca/news/2016/05/attack-on-canadas-only-surgery-clinic-trans-people-elicits-zero-reaction">last month's attack</a> on the Centre Métropolitain de Chirurgie in Montreal revealed anything, it's the dire lack of surgery resources for trans people in Canada.</p><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/14196204508_d1cb111555_z.jpg" alt="Photo: flickr/torbakhopper" title="Photo: flickr/torbakhopper" width="120" height="103" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/news/2016/06/trans-health-care-canada-provincial-lottery" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:42:32 +0000 rabble staff 125081 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/news/2016/05/attack-on-canadas-only-surgery-clinic-trans-people-elicits-zero-reaction <div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, May 10, 2016</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Last Monday, an arsonist attacked Canada&#039;s only sex reassignment surgery provider, and no one is talking about it. </div> </div> </div> <p><em>Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. <a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank">Chip in</a> to keep stories like these coming.</em></p> <p><a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/rabble/files/node-images/donategreen.png" width="120" height="30" /></a></p> <p>On the evening of Monday May 2, Canada's only sex reassignment surgery clinic was subject to an arson attack. A man, <a href="http://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/57bd0668-dcc9-4bb6-b384-61bae430f3e7%7C_0.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">armed with a machete, axe and gas can</a>, set fire to the operating room.</p><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/screen_shot_2016-05-10_at_9.49.42_am.png" alt="Screenshot: Google maps" title="Screenshot: Google maps" width="120" height="72" class="imagecache imagecache-120-width-scaled imagecache-default imagecache-120-width-scaled_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/news/2016/05/attack-on-canadas-only-surgery-clinic-trans-people-elicits-zero-reaction" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 09 May 2016 20:40:40 +0000 rabble staff 124344 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/film-festivals-toronto/2016/05/angry-inuk-doc-makes-case-sustainable-seal-hunting-can <div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog"> <div class="body"> <p><em>Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. <a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank">Chip in</a> to keep stories like these coming.</em></p> <p><a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/rabble/files/node-images/donategreen.png" width="120" height="30" /></a></p> <div class="read-more"></div> </div> </div><p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/film-festivals-toronto/2016/05/angry-inuk-doc-makes-case-sustainable-seal-hunting-can" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 05 May 2016 17:13:19 +0000 Film Festivals in Toronto 124293 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/film-festivals-toronto/2016/05/new-cheerleading-doc-subverts-convention-and-celebrate <div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog"> <div class="body"> <p><em>Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. <a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank">Chip in</a> to keep stories like these coming.</em></p> <p><a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/rabble/files/node-images/donategreen.png" width="120" height="30" /></a></p> <p>Award-winning Canadian director, Christy Garland, is premiering her third feature documentary at Hot Docs, North America's largest documentary festival, in Toronto this week. Garland is well known for her award-winning documentary, <em>The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song</em>. However, <em>Cheer Up</em> proves to be a more light-hearted film than her earlier features.&nbsp;</p> <div class="read-more"></div> </div> </div><p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/film-festivals-toronto/2016/05/new-cheerleading-doc-subverts-convention-and-celebrate" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 04 May 2016 16:55:41 +0000 Film Festivals in Toronto 124267 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/books/reviews/2016/03/fat-activism-history-and-fat-people <div class="field field-type-date field-field-story-publish-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">March 24, 2016</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-for-node"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/200px-width-scale/node-images/fatactivism-seconddraft-cover.jpg" alt="" title="" width="200" height="303" class="imagecache imagecache-200px-width-scale imagecache-default imagecache-200px-width-scale_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p><em>Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. <a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank">Chip in</a> to keep stories like these coming.</em></p> <p><a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/rabble/files/node-images/donategreen.png" width="120" height="30" /></a></p><div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Charlotte Cooper&#039;s book Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement studies the history of fat activism and seeks to challenge its current, more problematic, narratives. </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/books/reviews/2016/03/fat-activism-history-and-fat-people" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/books/reviews/2016/03/fat-activism-history-and-fat-people#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:59:55 +0000 rabble staff 123611 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/09/youre-doing-phd-let-me-tell-you-how-stupid <div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog"> <div class="body"> <p><em>Like this article? Chip in to keep stories like these coming.</em></p> <p><img src="/sites/rabble/files/node-images/donategreen.png" width="120" height="30" /></p> <p>In the past week, as I have wrapped up my nine-to-five job in Communications, I have had a lot of discussions about my next adventure. Namely, my embarkation on a PhD in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies at York University here in Toronto.</p> <p>Now, as a feminist and queer woman who blogs about the troubles with the world and has generally engaged in queer activism, I am used to people saying stupid shit to me. However, I have been floored by the level of disrespect and pure ignorance I have met with this past week as I discuss this transition with former colleagues, neighbours and general acquaintances.</p> <div class="read-more"></div> </div> </div><p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/09/youre-doing-phd-let-me-tell-you-how-stupid" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:54:54 +0000 Laura Brightwell 120000 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/08/men-and-masculinity-studies-really-radical <div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog"> <div class="body"> <p><em> <a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank">Chip in</a> to keep stories like these coming.</em></p> <p><a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/rabble/files/node-images/donategreen.png" width="120" height="30" /></a></p> <div class="read-more"></div> </div> </div><p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/08/men-and-masculinity-studies-really-radical" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 18 Aug 2015 22:56:38 +0000 Laura Brightwell 119790 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/07/cycling-toronto-why-it-sucks <div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog"> <div class="body"> <p><em> <a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank">Chip in</a> to keep stories like these coming.</em></p> <p><a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/rabble/files/node-images/donategreen.png" width="120" height="30" /></a></p> <p>In advance of the <a href="http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=41878%7Efff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&amp;epguid=6395d239-7dd9-47d4-a22f-81a783873e12&amp;" rel="nofollow">Toronto premiere </a>of<em><a href="http://www.bikes-vs-cars.com/" rel="nofollow"> Bikes vs. Cars</a></em>&nbsp;this Friday, I thought I would share this article I wrote about cycling in the city.&nbsp;</p> <div class="read-more"></div> </div> </div><p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/07/cycling-toronto-why-it-sucks" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:55:45 +0000 Laura Brightwell 119417 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/07/when-two-become-one-not <div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog"> <div class="body"> <p><em> <a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank">Chip in</a> to keep stories like these coming.</em></p> <p><a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/rabble/files/node-images/donategreen.png" width="120" height="30" /></a></p> <p>If you're wondering about the title of this blog post, yes I am apparently 12. And no, I don't care. *slams bedroom door*</p> <div class="read-more"></div> </div> </div><p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/07/when-two-become-one-not" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 02 Jul 2015 01:22:54 +0000 Laura Brightwell 118945 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/multimedia/2015/05/uk-votes-conservative-majority-first-time-20-years <div class="field field-type-image field-field-image-for-node"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><img src="http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/380x275-front-multimedia/node-images/4812306731_3c1777dcf0_z.jpg"></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-summary"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">On Friday May 8, David Cameron and a conservative majority were elected in the U.K. election. Why?</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-connected-story"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><a href="/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/05/oh-my-god-britain-what-have-you-done">Oh my God, Britain! What have you done?</a></div> </div> </div> Mon, 11 May 2015 17:37:47 +0000 rabble staff 117950 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/05/oh-my-god-britain-what-have-you-done <div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog"> <div class="body"> <p>"Oh my God, Britain! What have you done?" was one of the first posts I read on my Facebook feed as I woke up on Friday morning in Toronto. I was checking in to see the results of Thursday's general election in the United Kingdom. As I read a bunch of lefty friends' horrified posts, predicting another five years of cuts to public services and a few half-serious vows to leave the country, I actually shed a few tears. I was eating my breakfast when David Cameron's first address to the public as reinstated Prime Minister came on.</p> <div class="read-more"></div> </div> </div><p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/05/oh-my-god-britain-what-have-you-done" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 11 May 2015 00:01:24 +0000 Laura Brightwell 117928 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/03/shitty-things-we-do-to-each-other-activist-communities <div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog"> <div class="body"> <p>When I moved to Toronto two years ago, I immediately fell into a friendship group of femmes and other queers, largely thanks to the welcoming persona of one of the group. I was invited to parties and had femme friends I felt comfortable around for this first time in my life. I had a pretty good social life, pretty fast.</p> <p>And then, about three months later, it all fell apart. I started dating someone who would later become my partner. This person had gone on a date with one of my new friends two days prior to meeting me. Later my friend asked me to stop seeing them, and I refused.</p> <div class="read-more"></div> </div> </div><p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/03/shitty-things-we-do-to-each-other-activist-communities" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:35:45 +0000 Laura Brightwell 116890 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/02/on-being-32-queer-and-not-pregnant <div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog"> <div class="body"> <p><em>Like this article? Chip in to keep stories likes these coming.</em></p> <p><a href="https://secure.rabble.ca/donate/" target="_blank"><img src="/sites/rabble/files/node-images/120x30.png" width="120" height="30" /></a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="read-more"></div> </div> </div><p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/laura-brightwell/2015/02/on-being-32-queer-and-not-pregnant" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:33:04 +0000 Laura Brightwell 116171 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca