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HERIZONS SUMMER 2018 | VOLUME 32 NO. 2

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HERIZONS SUMMER 2018 | VOLUME 32 NO. 2

news

SLUT OR NUT FILM TAKES ON RAPE ………. 6

by Courtney Edgar

UKRAINIAN DOMESTIC-VIOLENCE

LAW CELEBRATED ………………………………. 7

by Anastasiia Sychova

REVISITING THE STONEWALL NARRATIVE.. 10

by Renée Bondy

VANCOUVER HEALTH COLLECTIVE AT 45…. 11

by Janet Nicol

NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER RECORDS WAR

HORRORS IN SYRIA……………………………… 13

by Dario Sabaghi

features

ISKWÉ’S BLUE SKY FUTURE ………………….. 16

Iskwé says the subject matter of her latest album, The

Fight Within, “couldn’t be more personal and sacred

to me.” In addition to discussing her music, Iskwé

discusses reconciliation and decolonization in this

must-read interview.

by Cindy Filipenko

IRANIAN WOMEN PROTEST

MANDATORY HIJAB LAW ………………………21

Quietly but determinedly, individual women in Iran

are removing the hijab that they are required by law to

wear and posting their protest images on social media.

by Ava Homa

DIGGING DEEP, DIGGING PROUD ……………..24

Whether the work is done in India, Africa or

Manitoba, growing food brings joy and inspires pride

among those who make it their life’s work. It’s a shame

that this work is so invisible.

by Jennifer DeGroot

MAKING ROOM FOR LIFE………………………. 29

Multidisciplinary artist Aisha Sasha John, whose latest

book of poetry is I have to live, joins words with movement

in her recent performances, which include The

Aisha of Oz.

by Cheryl Thompson

FILM REVIEWS . ………………………………….32

Hot Summer Docs: Dina, The Rape of Recy Taylor,

Regarding Sontag and Check It.

by Maureen Medved

HOT SUMMER BOOKS ……………………….. 34

Heroes in My Head: A Memoir by Judy Rebick; The

Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit; Collected

Tarts and Other Delicacies by Tabatha Southey; A

Frenchwoman’s Guide to Sex after Sixty by Marie de

Hennezel; Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for

Menstrual Equity by Jennifer Weiss-Wolf; The Sweetest

One by Melanie Mah; Scarborough by Catherine

Hernandez; Oracle Bone by Lydia Kwa; The Dutch Wife

by Ellen Keith.

ARTIST PROFILE …………………………… 43

Line Dufour Honours Victims of Violence with

Re-collection

by Doreen Nicoll

 

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