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How to Indigenize Pop Culture
Sonya Ballantyne is a lot of things: a filmmaker, a writer, a motivational speaker, a podcaster and yes—even an official Barbie role model.
When she was first contacted by the Mattel toy company in 2019, her first thought was that they were looking to hire her production company, Code Breaker Films, to work on a campaign. Instead, the company sais was one of 60 Canadians chosen to be Mattel role models to mark the 60th anniversary of the launch of the Barbie doll. |
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 | | Deconstructing Patriarachy by Bev Pike | Imagine yourself in 1975 wandering through the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Images of Woman exhibition.
What’s this? So many of the artworks depict women naked, and, in this International Women’s Year show, curated from the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s permanent collection, only 28 percent of the artworks featured are by female artists.
You read that the gallery hopes the exhibit will attract women visitors. Imagine!
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 | | Phoenix Rises by Susan G. Cole | What Radical Feminist Andrea Dworkin Can Teach Us Today
In the U.S. and in Canada, the 1980s pornography debate created a huge chasm in the women’s movement. | MORE > |
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 | | Tuning in to Time's Up by Cindy Filipenko | Canadian women in the entertainment industry have launched a campaign for greater gender parity in the music industry.
Founded in the spring of 2017 by music industry veterans Joanne Setterington and Keely Kemp, Across the Board is pushing for half of all seats on the boards of critical Canadian music organizations to be filled by women. After all, the music industry’s boards advocate on behalf of all artists, about half of whom are women.
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