#29-22 Outside In – a political memoir: Canadian MP made hard issues mainstream
From 1980 until 2015, Libby Davies represented the political interests of her neighbours, on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, including homeless and
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#25-22 DURGA PUJA … Kolkata celebrates a fierce Goddess
Durga is a major Hindu Goddess, whose many powers include motherhood, war, and the destruction of all evil. Puja is
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#22-22 Home-Based Work and Union Wages … In Australia, living wage for outworkers is the law
With the Labour Party’s return to power in 2022, the accreditation body Ethical Clothing Australia is regaining national funding to
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#21-22 Privatized Feminism, Commodified Love … Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Hochschild in dialogue
Just before Labour Day 2022, renowned US journalist and writer Barbara Ehrenreich died. In 2000, she was about to release
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#20-22 Apostasy is a Women’s Issue … A movement against the hegemony of religion in public life
In a recent edition of the Australian program Accent of Women, host Jiselle Hanna very cautiously takes on the topic
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#14-22 Indigenous Climate Action … Eriel Deranger on resistance to fossil fuel mining
The rousing keynote address by Eriel Tchekwie Deranger of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, at the American Public Health Association
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#13-22 The mother of motherhood studies … Dr. Andrea O’Reilly broke an academic taboo
Around 1997, Dr. Andrea O’Reilly began writing, editing, publishing, and organizing around the study of mothering and brought it forward
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#08-22 Leymah Gbowee on Peacemaking … women must make spaces for ourselves in all the negotiations, Nobel Laureate said
Shortly before she was announced as a Nobel Peace Laureate, Leymah Gbowee was on a book tour in the US.
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#02-22 Butch Is Not a Dirty Word … Masculine women claim their stripe in the gender rainbow
Women who find themselves “on the masculine side of centre” often experience disapproval, rejection, and pressures to change. Madelaine Imber
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#51-21 Irish Grannies Rage for Peace … and for Ireland’s neutrality
Margaretta D’Arcy, known to longtime WINGS listeners as Radio Pirate Woman, is a nearly-88-year-old Irish actress, playwright, feminist, and peace
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