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 & Gender
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…
Finding Community and Trans Elders – bringing trans people and sex work…
Trans women and sex worker communities are no strangers to the death and disappearance of our friends and comrades.…
Gender Liberation Ain’t a Service Provision – trans antagonism within…
Trans women and sex worker communities are no strangers to the death and disappearance of our friends and comrades.…
We Suffer as Women, We Struggle as Women
This article is focused on the particular position of trans women within the global working class.
Not sorry for raiding bathhouses nor brothels – The limits of Trudeau’s LGBT…
On April 18th, historians, LGBT activists, and community members criminalized under Canada’s former anti-LGBT laws…
Our Language – Transmisogyny / Transantagonism
Trans women experience misogyny from the same patriarchal system that oppresses cis women.
Saving lives, a sense of pride, and trans women’s safety at 10 Year Tent…
Judge Sharma’s decision to refuse Vancouver’s application for an injunction to break up Ten Year Tent City was…
Women supporting Women in the Downtown Eastside
This article originally appeared in the Downtown East newspaper – the precursor to The Volcano – in February…
NOTE: Women’s library article held for discussion
This article about the Vancouver Women's Library has been pulled by The Volcano. After posting it on Sunday…