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MacKay Rampages On With More Sexist Bullshit, While New Brunswick Abortions Have Become Even More Impossible To Access
In this week's Lady Business, Sarah Ratchford discusses justice minister Peter MacKay's ignorant comments regarding Canada's lack of legal diversity, New Brunswick's attempts to coerce women out of abortions, and hate crimes against trans people.
4chan Trolls Tried To Destroy Women of Colour's Feminism Via Twitter; Alberta Officially Recognizes Trans Boy’s Identity
In this week's Lady Business, Sarah Ratchford discusses a 12-year-old young trans boy fighting to get his rights recognized in Alberta, mainstream media organizations' misogynist columns, and the male internet trolls who are creating fake Twitter...
Hanging Out with Feminist Pornographers at the Feminist Porn Awards
We've turned our popular column, Lady Business, into a show! Check out the series premiere, where Sarah Ratchford hangs out with feminist pornographers to figure out what feminist porn is all about.
On Feminism: A How-to Guide for Dudes
I don't have the power to bestow you with a feminist certification or membership card. There's no moral litmus test for feminism. But I would suggest that if you claim to be a feminist, you should be a practicing one.
Athletes Allegedly Orchestrate Post-Prom Gang Rape; And There's Not Nearly Enough Women in Provincial Politics
Sarah Ratchford examines a contentious alleged rape case in North Georgia. Then, she looks at the number of female candidates running in Ontario's provincial election.
Mandatory Californian STI Porn Star Tests, Canadian Military Sex Assault Denial, and #YesAllWomen
This week in Lady Business we discuss porn actors are being put through the ringer when it comes to proving to the government, the bros in the Canadian military who are claiming they don’t have an internal problem with sexual assault concerning their...
Mask Your Beastly Old Breasts with Surgically Implanted Underwires
You can now have a bra surgically inserted beneath your skin and screwed right into your rib cage with titanium screws to keep your breasts perky. Sarah Ratchford discusses why this new procedure is indicative of our pernicious obsession with...
Women’s Butts The Latest Election Issue; NYPD No Longer (Always) Using Condoms As Evidence Of Sex Work
Today's trip down Lady Business lane takes us deep into the sexist social media idiocy of a Liberal Niagara-West Candidate, and to the NYPD's archaic handling of sex worker issues.
Rapist Sentenced to Community Service at Rape Crisis Centre; More Nigerian School Girls Stolen.
This week in gender politics, Sarah Ratchford looks at the shocking lack of international action in response to the Boko Harum abductions; and how a Texas judge's decision to sentence a convicted rapist to community service at a rape crisis centre is...
The Internet Becomes A Bit Less Misogynist; Janet Mocks People Suffering from Cisness
Sarah Ratchford's Lady Business tackles shady anti-choice Google ads, Janet Mock mocking the type of interview questions she routinely faces, and the tragic case of the missing Nigerian schoolgirls.
Quebec City Is the Best Place for Women. Also, Please Stop Thinking You Know How To “Save” Black Girls
Sarah Ratchford's latest round up of the week in gender politics tackles colourism, the best place to live in Canada if you're a woman, and the horrifying Game of Thrones rape scene everyone is debating.
Mansplainers Mansplain Necessity of Mansplaining, Radio Station Wonders If People Are To Blame For Own Sexual Assaults
Sarah Ratchford returns for another round up of the week in gender politics.