All Those Years Ago
I just don’t understand the appeal of most of today’s music.  I fear this could be because, as someone in her mid-30s, I just don’t “get” what the kids are listening to.  Echoing my parents’ sentiments, I seem to be hearkening back to my day when music was “good” and “meant something.”  [...]

It’s hard to say why one person will have cosmetic surgery done and another won’t consider it, but generally I think people who go for surgery are more aggressive, they are the doers of the world. It’s like makeup. You see some women, who might be greatly improved by wearing makeup, but they’re, I don’t [...]

I have never really been interested in participating in sports. I was in the usual activities in school gym classes and my parents enrolled me in community soccer in the summers, but I never was great at it and I rarely enjoyed being part of a team. In middle and high school I did like [...]

I am about to start a job search again. I am currently an academic researcher in social science, my third “career” so to speak since I finished my bachelor’s degree in my early twenties, and I find my work very fulfilling and interesting. However, the downside of the job is its instability due to academic [...]

Sobia Ali

The niqab, or the face veil, has by now become an infamous symbol of fear—whether it is fear for those “poor oppressed” Muslim women, or fear of their “crazy, suicide bombing” brothers, husbands, fathers, or sons; or maybe even fear of them. Regardless, the niqab has now become associated with controversy whichever arena within [...]

The cake was barely cut. The flowers hadn’t started to wilt. The ink was still drying on the marriage license. Yet, for the third time that day, I found myself face–to-face with the one question that, apparently, will follow me everywhere I go from now on. The one question everyone in the free world [...]

If you lost your job, where would you turn? If your house was destroyed in a fire where would you go? If life as you knew it was interrupted, where would you seek solace? In 2006, 572 women turned to The Salvation Army Florence Booth House.

Located in Toronto’s downtown core, Florence Booth House was opened [...]

It has recently come to my attention that some women coordinate their bras and panties. And they don’t just match colours: they buy the sets together. One of my friends won’t buy the bra if there is not a matching panty available.
I was shocked. Speechless, even. Don’t get me wrong: I like to get dressed [...]

Very little scares me more than the threat of childhood sexual abuse.Personally, I have very strong feelings about what I would like to do to the abusers: none of the possible scenarios are pleasant. While I try very hard to remember that I do not know the personal history of the abuser, I also know [...]

The federal Minister for the Status of Women says that women in Canada are already equal, so Status of Women Canada doesn’t need women’s equality goals in its mandate. Are you in that lucky group of Canadian women who have achievedequality? Take this Equality Quiz to find out!
You walk into your workplace. What do people [...]