Blog – Page 7

May 16 2023

Breaking the Silence: Confronting Gender-Based Violence

By Salamat Ibrahim

While we’ve certainly made strides in acknowledging how gender based violence disproportionately affects Indigenous Women, and ensuring that we’ve paid respects to victims, we often fail to recognize the root causes of GBV against Indigenous Women. It is then our failure to accept these root causes that allows GBV against Indigenous Women to prevail and prevents our Canadian society from lending our full support, and funding to Indigenous communities.

May 13 2023

The Hunger Games: Just As Relevant 15 Years Later

By Brynn Niblett

Not only does it speak to our current cultural moment, but it is also, simply, a well written story, one which validates our collective need to resist the systems that oppress us and which encourages love and hope in spite of it all.

May 07 2023

The F Word: Feminism. Why we Still Need it

By Tiana Effon

There’s a conversation that I’m sure many others who identify as feminists have had. It goes something like this: “Are you a feminist?” “Yes.” “Oh, I’m not because feminists are so…” followed by many things that aren’t true about or believed by most feminists.

Apr 25 2023

Thoughts on Beauty Services Jobs

By Deena Goodrunning

I think all the jobs in the beauty services industry are a form of art. Styling hair, painting nails, applying makeup, threading and tinting brows, applying eyelash extensions —- all of these practices are forms of art. They all require incredible skill and eyes for detail and beauty, and I really dislike this idea that people who have beauty tech jobs must be unskilled and that the prices they charge for their services are too expensive.

Apr 18 2023

Overconsumption and Deinfluencing

By Megan Gervais

There is nothing wrong with treating yourself to a new item, but we must be conscious of the amount that we are consuming and the possible dangers of overconsumption.