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March/April Feminist Launch Party + This is Not a Ted Talk!
Come join us for the launch of our March/April feminist issue! With this issue, we tell readers why we believe Canada needs more feminism—now. In it, we also give a big f*@k that to the popular culture...
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The trouble with (white) feminism
Illustration by Alisha DavidsonMainstream white feminism preaches a privileged, exclusive, saviour-based model. And it’s time for it to goMY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO FEMINISM was through Tumblr. At 17, I...
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Just baby and me
Illustration by Mariah BurtonToday’s skyrocketing daycare costs force many women to choose between work, children and poverty. Why Canada needs a national policy for affordable, accessible careEMILY...
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#Feminism
Illustration by Kris NoelleCritics of social media say it’s nothing but white noise—but it can also amplify women’s voicesAntonia Zerbisias walks into the newsroom on what is her second last day before...
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Why can’t Canada build a feminist brand?
Illustration by Alisha DavidsonBecause there’s more power in crowd-based, grassroots action—that’s why. Soraya Roberts challenges the cult of feminist celebrityIF A FEMINIST FELLS CANADA’S PATRIARCHY...
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The Trope Slayers
CHELSEA VOWEL, MOLLY SWAIN, AND SOME DALEKS AT COMICCON | Photo courtesy Métis in SpaceMétis in Space is a hilariously smart take down of Indigenous stereotypes in popular science-fictionLAST SUMMER,...
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A sneak peek at our May/June issue!
Straight, white, men still dominate the technology industry. In our May/June issue, This Magazine contributing editor RM Vaughan introduces us to LGBTQ activists around the world who are fighting for...
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Project Diversity
Illustration by Matt DaleyStraight, white men still dominate the technology industry. RM Vaughan introduces us to LGBTQ activists around the world who are fighting for changeSTUART CAMERON REMEMBERS...
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Whitewashed
From our education system to our literary community, why is CanLit so white? Nashwa Khan challenges the default narrativeJUNOT DÍAZ UNLEASHED A BOMBSHELL on the writing world when he published his...
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Fight the system
Photo by Molly CrealockHow one teen combats oppression through artMAYA ADACHI IS FINISHING her final year of high school, but prom night and university applications are low on her priority list....
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One year later
Denise Hansen examines the Black Lives Matter movement in Canada—and why there’s cause for anger and hope here, tooPROTESTS AND MARCHES AND SIT-INS have never really been my chosen course of social...
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Tories in review
On newsstands now: Our Sept/Oct 2015 issue!With the upcoming election, Canada is set to take a different path—if we want it to. But to what new direction? To answer that question, we first decided to...
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Tories in review: Islamophobia
SIX YEARS AGO, then 16-year-old Urooba Jamal was walking home from school in Surrey, B.C. with her two friends, one of whom was wearing hijab. Suddenly, she felt something hit her leg. It was a rock....
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Tories in review: Information and transparency
HERE ARE JUST A FEW of the things that keep James Turk up at night: Unapologetic fear mongering; trampling over fundamental civil rights; limiting access to information; an invasive gaze cast over...
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Tories in review: environment
WHEN IT COMES TO THE ENVIRONMENT, Stephen Harper doesn’t have a hidden agenda—he’s always been upfront about his healthy-industry-over-healthy-Earth policies. In 2006, for instance, in his first speech...
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Tories in review: disabilities
IN 2007, the federal government signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Ratified in the House of Commons several years later in 2010, the convention recognizes the rights,...
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Tories in review: LGBTQ rights
OVER THE PAST SIX YEARS, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has—surprisingly—become an outspoken champion of gay rights worldwide. In 2009, Harper arranged a private meeting with Ugandan...
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Tories in review: women’s rights
THE SUN HITS the back of my neck as I kneel over my poster board. It’s a hot summer afternoon in June and I’m colouring with markers, shared with the hands of girls decades my junior, helping with...
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Tories in review: aboriginal rights
IN 2007, after just over one year in power, Stephen Harper’s federal Conservatives dealt a major blow to Canada’s aboriginals—the first of many. That year, the United Nations adopted the Declaration on...
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Tories in review : Immigration
IT’S FROM BEHIND THE PLEXIGLAS BARRIER of the visitor’s cubicle that I wait for Glory Anawa. I’m at the Immigration Holding Centre in Toronto—or, as Anawa and her two-year-old son Alpha have called it...
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