Summer 2024

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The summer 2024 cover features work by visual artist Shelley Niro, who depicts her mother in a beaded portrait. Read the interview with the artist where she discusses her travelling retrospective exhibition, 500 Year Itch, and the themes of matriarchy, memories, and Grandmother Moon that shape her practice.

Learn about the history of Herizons and the work of recently retired editor, Penni Mitchell, whose tenacity and leadership has kept the publication going for over three decades.

A third feature takes a critical look at anti-trans policies, making connections to wider “parental rights” movements and the various local and national responses.

Plus, read up on news, Black women’s recognition, connecting through food, and the long fight to search the landfills here in Winnipeg.

As always, if you’re looking for creative inspiration, look to our reviews section for the latest books, music, film, and art.

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Vol. 38 No. 2 (Summer 2024) Table of Contents

 

Feminism Upfront

ERA Spells Abortion

Indigenous Women Protest in Brasília

France Enshrines Freedom of Choice

Canada Passes New Anti-Forced Labour Supply Chain Law

‘Saltanat’s Law’ Criminalizes Domestic Abuse

News round-up by Penni Mitchell

 

Features

Penning Feminist Lives: Herizons has been the centre of Penni Mitchell’s lifework

Recently retired Penni Mitchell was with Herizons since the early days. She joined what was then The Manitoba Women’s Newspaper in 1982, and soon after, it changed names and transitioned to a magazine. In this article, Mitchell reflects on her journey as editor after the relaunch of the magazine in 1992. Other women involved in the publication glean insight into the exciting early days of feminist publishing in Winnipeg.
by Nelle Oosterom

Who’s Afraid of Gender? Anti-Trans Policies in Danielle Smith’s Alberta

Last winter, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith took to the social media platform X to announce a flurry of anti-trans policies framed as government protection for children and expanding choice for parents. A critical look at the impending policies—and the reactions to them from many angles—reveals their danger. Judith Butler’s new book, Who’s Afraid of Gender, is used as a tool for gender analysis.
by Corinne L. Mason

500 Year Itch: In Conversation with Artist Shelley Niro

Celebrated, prolific, senior Indigenous artist Shelley Niro approaches her work with wit, irony, and satire. Her first major solo retrospective exhibition, Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch, totals 136 pieces and is currently touring in Canada. In this interview with the artist, Niro reflects on her roots, her artistic process, and how personal relationships inform her work.
by Rhéanne Chartrand

 

Columns

Editor’s Muse: The Long Fight to Search the Landfill
by Christina Hajjar

Breaking Free: Black Women’s Struggle for Recognition
by Daysha Loppie

Hungry for Change: Connecting through Food
by Kyla Pascal + Kathryn 君妍 Lennon

 

Reviews

ART

A Dialogue with Objects by Magdalene Odundo, review by Patricia Ellah

FILM

Après-coups (Afterwards) by Romane Garant Chartrand, review by Maureen Medved

BOOKS

Suing for Silence: Sexual Violence and Defamation Law by Mandi Gray
Review by Julie S. Lalonde

We’ve Been Put Through Fire & Come Out Devine by Mary Simmerling
Review by Julianna Notten

A Death in the Family: Stories Obits Tell by Donna McCart Sharkey
Review by Kathryn Bell

Ezra’s Ghosts by Darcy Tamayose
Review by E.R. Zarevich

The Pain Project: A Couple’s Story of Confronting Chronic Pain by Kara Stanley with Simon Paradis
Review by Bonnie Sherr Klein

Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care by Ethel Tungohan
Review by Elaine Coburn

Bianca by Eugenia Leigh
Review by Megan Kiyoko Wray 

Scientific Marvel by Chimwemwe Undi
Review by Jody Chan

MUSIC

Adult and a Child by Sarah Feldman

Kiyam by Phyllis Sinclair

Reviews by Rosie Long Decter

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