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“You have to have thick skin.” Joanne (name changed) is a woman and an apprentice in a male-dominated trade union. She has already experienced many…
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As a supervisor at a large retail company, I had always felt safe in the workplace. But this sense of security was upended when I…
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The obsessive pursuit of another has been romanticized in novels like Wuthering Heights, vocalized in song lyrics filled with dejected passion, and dramatized by famous…
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In the spoken word poem “White Men Say Weird Things to Me” posted to Button Poetry’s YouTube channel, Ebony Stewart discusses the sexualization and harassment…
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On December 6, Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women, Debbie Major’s deeply-moving first-person narrative called Lost Voice: Discovering Life After…