“’Was he physical?’ I wonder if they are imagining what my face would look like black and blue. I know they are asking for proof that my relationship was, by popular definition, abusive and then they want to know why I stayed. The truth is that the few times he hit me were tiny [...]
This week's blog is brought authored by B.H., a YW team member and advocate extraordinaire. Calgary Pride 2017 is this weekend and I find myself reflecting on change. Pride has grown in Calgary year-after-year resulting in a need to expand to a larger location to accommodate the crowds. Political controversy abounds at Pride events [...]
Returning to work seems like a daunting task for any first-time parent. You’re trying to balance the responsibilities that come with being a parent along with your own expectations of what kind of parent you should be. On top of all of that, you’re thinking about returning to work and trying to figure out how [...]
De-escalation, minimizing and acquiescing may not be words every woman can define, but are most definitely skills that almost every woman have mastered by their early adulthood. We have learned how to minimize situations that make us uncomfortable, laugh off unwanted advances, avoid endangering ourselves by angering a man, ignore catcalls and whistles when [...]
It seems like women have been fighting for the right to control their health for a really, really long time - like more than 200 years long. Despite all the time that’s passed and the strides that have been made towards equality, women’s access to safe and legal abortions is continually called in to [...]
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” Audre Lorde Women and men are not equal. It’s a common misconception that because women and men can compete for the same jobs, negotiate for similar pay and attain the same levels of education that [...]
Cowboy hat, check. Cowboy boots, check. $1.5 billion dollars for Alberta’s largest transit project, check. The hype for the Green Line LRT project which found politicians using words like ‘monumental’ and ‘transformative’ is understandable given how critical infrastructure is for low-income individuals. In a city dubbed the most expensive for low-income people to live [...]
Alright folks, if you’re dreaming about pancakes, getting a mildly weird craving for mini doughnuts and itching to do the electric slide, you’re not going crazy; it’s time for the Calgary Stampede! The next 10 days of the greatest outdoor show on earth are both entertaining and exciting for the city and it’s up [...]
Canada 150. 150 years of confederation and 150 years of complicated history with anyone who wasn’t Caucasian, a man and an Anglophone. Canada is toasting to its 150th birthday, but the celebration is complicated. 150 years ago women, Indigenous peoples and people of Asian background couldn’t vote; racism was alive and well (and legal); [...]
In honour of National Aboriginal Day, we are featuring a blog post from Sui-Taa-Kii (Danielle Black) a woman from the Siksika First Nations, part of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Plains people, Treaty 7. Sui-Taa-Kii talks about reconciliation and what that word means to her along with The word reconciliation has always been interesting [...]
