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Community Care Centre to focus on health and well being of students
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Flawless performance documents a hilarious feminist journey
This show will tickle all of your funny bones
Gender-neutral gifts make more considerate gifts
Pink items are for girls and blue ones are for boys, and dividing clothing and toys along these gendered colours is still a normal practice. However, interestingly enough, a hundred years ago the reverse was true, blue for girls and pink for boys. This concept of how gender colour connotations can change reveals that colour…
George Brown students can use prefered names
Students at George Brown College can now use their prefered names on official school documents
Gender and sexuality rock the boat at queer dance exhibit
Rocking the Boat: Celebrating Queer Content in Canadian Concert Dance is an exhibit currently running through April 1 at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. The exhibit is run by Dance Collection Danse, spawned from the mind of Pamela Grundy, a former dancer with the Danny Grossman Dance Company.
Album Review: Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me!
Mike Specht The Lance WINDSOR, Ont. (CUP) — After announcing in 2011 that singer Laura Jane Grace (born Tom Gabel) was a transsexual, Against Me! began work on what would be their first studio album with Grace as front woman. The transition comes to the forefront of the group’s work as Transgender Dypshoria Blues is a ten-song concept…
Advertising your sexism is always a bad idea
By Karen Nickel “E-Bikes, the most environmentally friendly way to stalk your ex”. Terrance Luscombe, a recent graduate of York University’s Masters of Environmental Studies, couldn’t believe what he saw. While walking in his Ossington and Bloor neighbourhood, he happened by Tev E-bikes, an e-bike retailer whose latest advertising campaign contained the phrase. The poster…
Free to Pee washroom safety campaign at GBC
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter Discrimination of all kinds has occurred in the restroom. It has seen racial segregation, homophobic policing, non-accessibility, pay toilets against the poor and time limits for substance users. It’s a place of ongoing bullying, harassment and assault due to rigid enforcement of gendered washrooms. Accessible and safe public bathrooms are…