Author Archives: caniceleung
Berry foraging, and Peach-Mulberry Boy Bait
I love fruit. I also love fruit-picking, and I especially love it when both of these things are free. It’s my second year as a volunteer for Not Far From the Tree, a wonderful group that seeks to share the bounty of the many backyard fruit trees within downtown Toronto. My experience with them has [...]
Things I believed in when I was 12 — but no longer do
Writing a feminist column, I got the occasional irate reader. Most of them are nitpicky and miss the point, while others are straight up incomprehensible. Up until this point, my favourite one was a rambling, angsty Facebook message from a first-year male, white, university student from Calgary, who said there should be men’s studies if [...]
R.I.P. Cynthia Brouse
Going into fourth year, we had been warned by older students that our copy editing and fact-checking instructor Cynthia Brouse was a little strange — her obsession with Paul Gross, an (overly?) honest admission to the previous year’s group that she lay somewhere between fag hag and celibate — but for a nascent feminist such as [...]
Lady Gaga’s feminist call to arms
You should watch this uncut, two-hour Q&A on showstudio.com with Lady Gaga.
At the 21:30 mark, Mario Testino asks: “Your looks are so extreme. Is this a reaction to something? Are you questioning or altering the status quo of women’s style?”
Yes, yes I am. I am a feminist.
I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to [...]
On douches, douchebag advertisers, and selling uncleanliness to women