It was exactly a hundred years ago that Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social […]
Women Changing the World
Volume 23 Issue 1
Catherine Potter-Duniya Project
Montreal Serai Editor Rana Bose interviewed Catherine Potter, leader of the Catherine Potter-Duniya Project, after her show at the […]
A Woman Changing Women’s Health. Interview with Shree Mulay
Dr. Shree Mulay , Professor Emerita of the Department of Medicine of McGill University in Montreal, is currently […]
Lives Painted Over
Edited by Susan Dubrofsky Has the work of artists who are women been attributed incorrectly more frequently than that […]
Triple Trouble
Think old people can be troublesome? You don’t know the half of it! Why didn’t my mother warn me? […]
Taking Root
Taking Root. The vision of Wangari Maathai. Documentary. DVD 2008, Mongrel Media. Taking Root is […]
Sodi Sambo: The Woman Who Cannot Be Forgotten
Why would one state government spend sleepless nights trying to provide maximum security to someone whose mere existence is […]
George Sand : une femme remarquable / A remarkable woman
English version below. An extract from the documentary George Sand: The Story of Her Life produced by CNDP 2004, Montreal (Quebec) […]
Woman in a line up
To listen to this text click here: [audio:Womaninalineup.mp3] Oh excuse me, I just got pushed from behind, I didn’t mean to […]
Bike Story Son Mother
…I don’t know why I’ve agreed to this… but here I am… here we are… he briskly raps the […]
Round and Round
In grade seven, I had a crush on Eric. Tall, lean, gorgeous Eric. He was in the same year […]
Doting daughters. You haven’t come a long way, baby!
After years of denouncing Mother Country’s contempt for its emigrants stuck in the 1950s, I am airing the dirty […]
The Imam’s Daughter
I was a teenager the last time I saw Fatma. I had just returned home for my summer vacation […]
A Woman Among Warlords – by Malalai Joya
Reading A Woman Among Warlords you may find yourself forgetting on occasion that this is, in fact, a work […]
Perfect Hostage
PERFECT HOSTAGE. Aun San Suu Kyi, Burma and the Generals. By Justin Wintle. Arrow, 2007. In Burma there […]
The Heart Does Break
The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning, edited by George Bowering and Jean Baird, Random House […]
My First Time with Salman Rushdie
Amongst the most memorable names that I heard as a child, growing up in a South Asian Muslim household, […]
Stiletto, Heels and a Pork Pie Hat – a collection of poetry
The following poems are taken from Luigi Moneferrante’s new collection entitled: Stiletto Heels And a Pork Pie Hat On […]
The Housewife’s Lament
The Housewife’s Lament was written as a protest song, out of the experience of women in the not too […]
Review of Stephen Morrissey’s Girouard Avenue
Girouard Avenue, copyright Stephen Morrissey 2009, Coracle Press (Montreal), 80 pages. The Girouard Avenue that Stephen Morrissey offers us […]
Review of Ilona Martonfi’s Blue Poppy
Blue Poppy, copyright Ilona Martonfi 2009, Coracle Press, 72 pages In Ilona Martonfi’s new book of poetry, the title […]
Haiti’s Wounded Long to Heal
February 18, 2010 For Elisa Zlami, the burden of her fractured leg just got heavier, literally. The day before, Marc, […]
Securing Disaster in Haiti
http://www.haitianalysis.com/2010/1/29/the-land-that-wouldn-t-lie-foreign-intervention-in-haiti Reprinted with permission from Haiti Liberte. An abbreviated version of this article first appeared as ‘The Land that […]
Dispatches from Port au Prince, Haiti
February 9th, 2010 Slande flew out of Miami two days after the Haitian earthquake struck. She is a nurse at […]