Vancouver Rape Relief enacts violence against trans women
Vancouver Rape Relief (VRR) refuses to affirm trans women as women, but rather than explicitly make the claim that trans women are men, they dodge the question with tautologies like “trans women are trans women.” VRR excludes trans women…
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Women in Tent Cities are fighting back against patriarchy!
Women in tent cities are organizing themselves to band together and fight back against patriarchal violence. The…
Public-Private Colonialism
We have been bombarded by the propaganda of Justin Trudeau’s Federal and Rachel Notley's Alberta governments…
The Future Lives Here! AAD’s new Surrey office continues multi-region…
On May 1st, 2018 Alliance Against Displacement (AAD) signed a lease together with Migrant Worker's Dignity…
Has multiculturalism killed gay liberation?
On May 23rd, the City of Vancouver officially launched their “Year of the Queer” proclamation with a panel…
Accountable to Themselves Alone: On Police Killings
In 2017, at least 65 people in Canada were left dead through police encounters. In so-called British Columbia,…
Breaking private property and the challenge of fighting colonialism
In May of 2017 the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or Landless Workers Movement (MST) published a…
We Suffer as Women, We Struggle as Women
This article is focused on the particular position of trans women within the global working class.
Either version of the NDP’s proposed Tenancy Act reforms will continue the mass…
On April 12th the NDP government in Victoria introduced a Bill to reform the widely criticized Residential Tenancy…
Our Language – Transmisogyny / Transantagonism
Trans women experience misogyny from the same patriarchal system that oppresses cis women.