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In utter grossness, high school boys make a contest out of trying to have sex with Grade 8 girls

When do these titles apply? Single, unmarried, getting your MRS

New and improved ways to test your trust: male birth control options

The choice is always complicated, synthetic estrogen

This cuts to the core of community responsibility and how your acts affect others. Disturbing ant violence video

Shaving revisited, in the new summer heat/mainstream

Science is always thinking about us, HIV and women

Or are they? Who else is missing from heath trials?

New ways to acknowledge selling your body. Sex work as socializing work

In the region: maternity health a problem

For our musical contribution:
Feminist playlist take one

Feminist playlist take two

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The first Rebelles Reader of the year is themed for your convenience.

Marriage and Family:

Polygamy is hot
The Boss blows me away again
Marriage is complicated
Cornwall report on abused children in Ontario
Daycare in Ontario improving

Emerging Feminist Theory:

Patients elude us all
A closer look at Italian television
Gender based activism

Body Politics:

Euthanasia in Quebec
Ireland and abortion
Hair pulling: particularly offensive unsportsmanlike conduct

Fashion:

High heals are oppressive
Saturation of negative body images
Things that can be improved with feminism: Titanic edition

Technology:

We've learned all there is to know about some things, it seems
Research on women's bodies? More shocking than this story

Montreal Massacre:

In remembrance/in outrage

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Even though it was the American Thanksgiving last week, there was plenty of appalling news to keep the reader going

Anti Feminists are all around us. I learned at the Montreal Rebelles meeting that many anti groups have roots in past feminists endeavors. Men being disenfranchised? I imagine that would be infuriating enough to lash out at, not that women know anything about that

Speaking of lashing out, Andrea Gibson eloquently put emotions into words when she was in Fredericton last month. A St. Thomas journalism student produced this piece on the event

Also locally, at the Morgantaller clinic, a protester has often tried to convince the escorts that the face of Jesus is visible in the plastic bag of a photograph he has. One crazy can often find another

Something from a perspective I hadn't considered, hugging as body politics. Good thing we have cuddle parties to help us learn about consent and comfortable touch

Finally, for this week's dose of fun culture, cat apartments

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language was everywhere this week. not to be overshadowed by facebook, douchebag seemed to be the term people were talking most about

also, we might want to reconsider the implications of our online lives

plants are good for our socializing and their own

students and sex workers have a say about labour conditions and rights

while we fight for equality, some women are living day to day

U.S. health care update from the Huffington Post, and breast cancer research news

to end on a lighter note, in fashion, androgyny is in, and so is Emily Blunt

and in music, Julie Fader was in the Maritimes this week, catch her and Brian Borcherdt tonight in Moncton

ooh, and this made me laugh

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This week I couldn't help but read about the potential sale of NB Power. Even Rick Mercer was making fun of us. Living so close to an NDP province makes us look even worse

In cute animal news, NB lions can't keep their emotions in check

Wall Street success story?

I like the idea of the German Chancellor's quiet revolution

This one speaks for itself, what if we did as much to prevent rape as we did to prevent H1N1?

I like lists, particularly the ones challenging us to think about equality and how we can be active in it

Speaking of gender, famous people make everything more interesting

Women's history is only in it's 4th decade. This is beautiful and horrific all at the same time somehow

More shock, medical horror stories, this time with vaginas

Sometimes I think things are getting better. Then I read something like this

Finally, if you were able to catch any of Silver Wave Film Festival this weekend, you were sure to hear about the amazing short, Broke. Nominated for Best Original Music, Best New Brunswick Short Drama, Best Screenwriting, and winner of Best Actress in a Short Drama

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This week's Reader ranges from the infuriatingly pejorative to the absurdly ill prepared:

Seriously? "Police said they first offered help to the prostitutes to try to get them off the streets, but when it didn't work, they started making arrests"

On abortion, some things never change? Ancient style and Canadian struggles

Bill Maher suggested we hear more about Dick Cheney these days than when he was VP. I think he was right

Speaking of Mr. Maher, tired of reading about H1N1 shots on your facebook feed? I know I am

I do like to read anything with feminism in the title that isn't in a feminist publication, though. Nona Willis profile

Don't forget to vote for the Bucky Awards. Check out Hannah Georgas while you're at it

Finally, I wonder where they thought people would go? Or if anyone considered that people would have to go at all

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First off this week, we're reminded by Feministing how amazing and positive it is to have men like Michael Kimmel speaking about equality and language

He also mentions Mad Men as his current, favourite tv show. Check out Elisabeth Moss's interview about her character's feminism here

In reproductive rights this week, a New Brunswick update, offering a compassionate perspective to the 40 days of 'life' (I can overuse quotations too) protesters in Fredericton.

Meanwhile, in the Philippines, access to birth control becomes more and more restricted leaving women with difficult choices (surprise!)

Apparently Catholic numbers are so low, Anglicans are welcome again

In body politics, North Americans discuss male circumcision

And in competing parental advice, crazy parents vs. screaming parents

Finally, The Pack A.D. were in Halifax this weekend and there were not nearly enough people rocking out. Making Gestures

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That Cool Young Woman Who Won an Emmy for Writing Mad Men Got Fired

Pasta as an expression of feminine art

Barbara Ehrenreich reflects on Feminism

Cougar talk makes me uncomfortable

21st Century Babies

In abortion news: "In almost all developed countries, abortion is safe and legal."
and that same study, reported by the BBC

NB's vaccine choice

Finally, a Slovak woman works to understand menstruation. Watch the trailer here

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How Nonsense Sharpens Intellect from the Times

The BBC brings us, Anti-obesity ads shock New Yorkers

Outrageous. Provincial neglect sees mentally ill jailed: Federal Minister.

I knew it.

From NY fashion week

Why anger is good

Little boxes should freak you out

The YMCA Fredericton ran an offensive girls camp this summer. Coincidence?

A continued struggle

And since there isn't a postsecret this week, here's some Sam Brown at Exploding Dog

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Can the Right Kinds of Play Teach Self-Control? From the NY Times.

From Feministing: Ant Colony Reproduces Without Men.

Icons of the New Iran. From The Nation.

And because it's happening and I can't stop reading about it, The Halifax Pop Explosion is this month.

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The Feminist Veil on the Afghanistan Occupation

Scientists create test-tube sperm

John Harris: A world without men? That's not the real ethical issue here

Why Michelle Obama's Hair Matters

A Conference for 'Butches'

Saving Mothers, One at a Time

It Starts With You

Dear friends of the White Ribbon Campaign. We are extremely happy to share our latest campaign with you.

We are launching this campaign just prior to Father's Day here in North America - to celebrate, inspire, and mark the important role fathers (and other adult male role models) can play in promoting healthy and gender equitable relationships in our world.

This campaign hopes to:

* Help men positively influence their younger sons, grandsons, brothers, nephews, students, and community members;
* Engage young people in meaningful dialogue about gender equality; and,
* Connect with other men to find out what works when talking with the boys in their lives.

Campaign Links:
It Starts With You
Ca Commence Avec Toi

I really hope you can visit the site, share it with your friends, and even post some of your own stories. There is a page dedicated to how you can share this with others, download a Facebook link, or download a banner. We would very much appreciate any links to your and your work around the world, any blogging you can do on the campaign - or other ideas of who we should be
sharing it with.

As an online, internet based campaign - we hope that anyone who finds it useful and relevant is able to share and utilize the information.

I think it is also important to express our gratitude for our colleagues at the Family Violence Prevention Fund in the US sharing their research and experience in their "Coaching Boys Into Men" campaign, which was very important to our effort.

The great thing about developing this campaign was learning from men across Ontario, that most of us are already doing this kind of mentoring in our lives. We maybe need some tips and encouragement and inspiration, or to make the links between our roles as fathers and mentors and ending violence against women, but it made for a very inspiring and hopeful experience
developing this campaign.

Thanks for taking a minute to check it out - your feedback is most welcome. And most of all Happy Father's Day!

Until the violence stops,

Todd
______________________________

Todd Minerson, Executive Director

White Ribbon Campaign

men working to end violence against women

p: 416-920-6684 / f: 416-920-1678

www.whiteribbon.com

RebElles Reader

Each week the RebElles will compile a list of links to what we've been reading.

Here's May 19 - 26, 2009:

Lit Critics Who Peer Under the Covers

N.B. Court of Appeal paves way for Morgentaler's lawsuit

Groups launch campaign to thwart prostitution at 2010 Games

The Xerox way: Copy no one

Law student ordered out of town

A black woman's journey to the rabbinate in North Carolina

Porn star says panel to explore possible Senate run

Myanmar lets diplomats visit Suu Kyi, opens trial

Keep it legal, keep it safe

B.C. man charged with aggravated sex assault, kidnapping

The 'Love Plane': Airline offers overnight matchmaking flight

B.A.T. mobile to soon serve disabled

Editorial: The female underclass

Province won't accept online petition signatures

CF Feminist Bookclub

This Mom Didn’t Have to Die

Supreme Court Rules for Employer in Pregnancy Case

Abuse of child 'witches' on rise, aid group says

Police arrest gay rights activists in Moscow

Woman elected in Kuwait says gender in politics is 'history'

IWD 1 of 2

IWD 2 of 2

A History of Menstrual Activism

Ayelet Waldman's Memoir Of A 'Bad Mother'

Hugs, Twisty: join us as we curl our lip at whiny dads

Back in the Day

F-email Fightback

Women Created Memorial Day

Historians Working to Place Women's Sites on the Map

femilicious.com

DEMOCRATIZING OUR MEDIA - Saturday, May 30

Join us in building a grassroots and democratic alternative to the corporate press in New Brunswick.

What: A day long workshop on democratizing the media in New Brunswick including workshops on print, radio and Internet journalism.

When: Saturday, May 30

Where: Renaissance College, 811 Charlotte St., Fredericton NB

AGENDA

9:30AM - Registration, muffins & tea.

10:00 AM SHARP - Opening/Introductions

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: N.B. MEDIA COOP PROPOSAL
Presentation & discussion.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: BRAINSTORMING/VISIONING
Discussion topics: What is our point? / What do we want to do? / How are we going to do it? / How do we know if we are succeeding?

12:00 PM - LUNCH BREAK (Note: Lunch is not provided. The Farmers' Market is around the corner. There is a kitchen at the venue if needed.)

1:00 PM - OUR "COFFEE NEWS": Presentation of a monthly 1-page print piece of journalism.
Discussion topics: Content / Printing / Distribution / Name.

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM JOURNALISM SKILL SHARES
Free workshops on the basics of print, radio and Internet journalism. Learn how to create a compelling piece of grassroots journalism.

2:00 - 3:00 PM - PRINT JOURNALISM. Facilitator: Justin Dupuis, a journalist with L'Acadie-Nouvelle. This will be an interactive workshop where we take the participants through each step of the article writing process. We'll discuss finding stories, who and how to interview, and how to build an article that's clear, engaging and ethically written.

3:00 - 4:00 PM - RADIO JOURNALISM. Facilitator: Nick Scott from CHSR. Learn more about CHSR -- your community radio station -- and the process of creating radio journalism.

4:00 - 5:00 PM - INTERNET JOURNALISM. Facilitator: TBA. How to set up an effective blog and be the media.

For more info, please email info@frederictonpeace.org

Feminist Book Exchange Explained

The book exchange stickers say "This book has been identified as a Feminist Find by a member of the NBRebELLEs - Fredericton". You may soon find this sticker on the inside cover of a book near you.

This means, the book has been identified as an interesting read from a feminist perspective and is recommended reading for other feminists.

When you identify a book as a Feminist Find, you do not need to justify or qualify your choice. It does not mean that the book is necessarily a "Feminist book" and/or that any ideas within the book are representative of an ideology that the NBRebELLEs - Fredericton may or may not ascribe to. It simply means that a member of our group thinks other feminists should read this book.

These books are meant to be kept in general circulation, so please have a read and pass it on:)

Recommended Feminist Finds List

NBRebELLEs on the web

Hello everyone!

As you may have noticed, we've been playing around with our online resources and have recently started updating our blog and our webpage.

Please feel free to give us some feedback on what you think about what you see, and what you'd like to see!