“We have always been here, it’s just that the world wasn’t ready for us yet,” explains Dali, a young Muslim featured in Toronto photographer and artist Samra Habib’s project Just Me and Allah: A Queer Muslim Photo Project. The brainchild of the achingly beautiful 2014 project is finding new life on social media in the aftermath …
It’s January 1st and that means it’s time to touch yourself! That’s right. GIRL, touch yourself and maybe save your life.
They are the Canadian women who inspired us to do better, aspire to greater things, reminded us of our humanity, our frailties and our failures. They are women who made headlines, made us laugh, broke the Internet, broke our hearts and made us think. Elle Beaver brings you its list of some of the women …
Last week, Sundus A., a young 27-year old woman, was told by a woman on a Toronto city bus that she should “get raped” and go back to her country.
Sunday night, former Fly Girl and original Kim KardASShian, Jennifer Lopez took to the American Music Awards stage, impressing with her boss moves and fierce form. But it’s JLo’s couture that really left us stunned and scratching our heads.
If you’re a woman looking for an opportunity as a content writer & SEO specialist in an openly sexist Toronto-based web development company, then, OH GURL, do we have a dream company for you! That’s right – Vestra Inet recently advertised a job description for a content writer who can write for clients, has knowledge …
Genuine reflection on foreign policies and interventions, rather than blame-mongering, needed in wake of Beirut, Paris attacks As news filters out of Paris today and the pieces start to come together, that one piece of information is finally there: One of the suicide bombers had an express passport and came in with other Syrian …
“Canada’s liberal, boxing, strip-teasing new PM,” that “smoking-hot syrupy fox,” the “square-jawed, 43-year-old, strip-teasing, Canadian”
Métis artist Christi Belcourt dropped some serious truths on Twitter this week, sparking #StopStealingOurKids, an impassioned manifesto demanding that Canada’s provinces stop taking Native children away from their families.
Feminist musings found in bathroom stalls across Canada, and around the world. Submit your own to: ellebeaver@mail.com or on Twitter to: @Elle_Beaver
It’s truth time at Elle Beaver: under my hard shell Toronto candy coating is a simple Northern Ontario gal who secretly has a thing for all things lumbersexual. Plaid shirts? YES. Bushy beard? Hawt. Ability to chop wood (no innuendo intended)? ERMYGAWD YES! That’s why on this, the two-week mark before Noël, I share with … Continue reading
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On Monday night, Canada heaved Steve and elected princeling Justin Trudeau as the new Prime Minister of Canada. Or as The Beaverton put it, Canada groggily woke up “after a ‘wild night’, where emotions and alcohol ‘may have gotten a little out of hand’,” next to Justin Trudeau. Continue reading
Well, Canada – we did it. We survived a 78-day (11 week) federal election campaign, the longest in modern Canadian history. They say time flies when you’re having fun, and I think I speak for everyone in this country when I say I cannot recall a more excruciatingly long and painful period in my life … Continue reading
Happy election day, Canada! Get out and vote! And if you’re stuck waiting in long lines at the polls, here’s some great reading material about the women who shaped the 2015 federation election campaign. The candidates, pundits, strategists, advocates and journalists who made headlines, shaping our political landscape. Catch up with our Women of #elxn42! … Continue reading
Because we love democracy, elections and voting, Elle Beaver has come up with a list of helpful links that will help YOU figure out how to exercise your fundamental right as a Canadian citizen and VOTE! Continue reading
Call me a feminist killjoy, but the emerging trend of Canadians turning up at polls wearing clown masks and potato sacks on their heads is… distressing. It’s a trend that’s cropped up in Quebec and Newfoundland, with vastly different motives, but arguably with similar, perplexing results. In Newfoundland, the trend is intended to be supportive … Continue reading
Elle Beaver brings you profiles of the women who are shaping the 2015 federal election (#elxn42), the pundits, spin-doctors, journalists and activists who are making headlines, shaping our political landscape and who are vying for YOUR vote! In this edition, we focus on Up for Debate, the coalition of organizations that fought for an electoral … Continue reading
Last week, Métis artist and activist Christi Belcourt took Twitter by storm with #StopStealingOurKids, an impassioned plea that called attention to how foster care has become the new residential schools. Earlier today, Belcourt again took to Twitter, lauding the efforts of Cora Morgan and Kyra Wilson, both First Nations family advocates and asking for help … Continue reading
They are three young women rocking Canadian feminism, eagerly taking the movement into its next wave: besties and change-makers Lia Valente and Tessa Hill who are remaking the Ontario Sex-Ed curriculum; and badass social organizer Alexi Halket, founder of Crop Top Day, which defied high school dress codes that corner girls into the role of … Continue reading
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