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A Crime of Opportunity

by Cara August 20, 2009

Trigger Warning Three years ago in B.C., Canada, a woman woke up in the bed of the man in the image to the left. She was bleeding and bruised, and though she remembered going out for a night on town, she didn’t remember how she got in this bed, or what had happened to her. [...]

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Cis Supremacy, Feminism and Women’s Shelters

by Cara May 2, 2009

I’m a few weeks behind on this, but I really just couldn’t let it pass without comment. It deserves comment, and it needs comment. Recently, Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, a group that provides rape crisis relief, counseling and shelter to battered women and their children, won a court case declaring the right for [...]

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