Women’s Waves - A podcast by Vancouver Rape Relief

Episode 21

In this episode we talk with our member Laurel about this year's conviction of a Winnipeg man who murdered four indigenous women and recall some of the outrageous failures in the case of Pickton, a British Columbia man who confessed to murdering 49 women from the downtown eastside of Vancouver. We will also hear from Carolyn Jerome who was part of the “militant mothers” and their 1971 fight against the Canadian National Railway.

Episode 20

^{In this episode we talk with Héma Sibi, the advocacy coordinator at CAP International, about the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the French law that criminalizes buying sexual services, and with our member Laurel, about Canadian police sexual misconduct.} 

Episode 19

In this episode we talk with our member, Sonam, on some of the ways patriarchy manifests itself in South Asian communities, and with UK based Lesbian second-wave feminist Lynn Alderson about consciousness raising, women's groups as a radical act and women only spaces as crucial for women's resistance.

Episode 18

In this episode we discuss federal and provincial measures to combat some aspects of pornography and hear from UK based Lesbian feminist-activist Liane about the Cardiff’s Lesbian visibility march.

Episode 17

In this episode we touch on the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women position paper on the definition of “women”, discuss how men prey on women’s economic vulnerability and the federal bills for Guaranteed Livable Basic Income, review the documentary Hidden Letters and listen to Nehanda’s song "I am a Woman".

Episode 16

In this episode we discuss femicide cases in Canada and in Brazil and review the Women’s Equality Coalition submission on prostitution to the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls.

Guaranteed Livable Income : BC Women’s Alliance in Conversation with Evelyn Forget & Hannah Owczar

For International Women's Day 2022, we hand the mic to our sisters at the BC Women's Alliance, a coalition of women calling for a guaranteed livable income in Canada.

Here is their interview with Evelyn Forget and Hannah Owczar, authors of the new book Radical Trust : Basic Income for Complicated Lives.

http://bcwomensalliance.ca/index.html

Pornography Harms Women - Part 2

Part 2 of our two part series called "Pornography Harms Women"

Interview with Izabella Forzani from the Brazilian group Recuse A Clicar, which stands for "Refuse to Click" in English. The group does public education around the impact of pornography on women and is calling for men and women to stop watching pornography.

Women's Waves is produced in Vancouver (Canada) by Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter.

Pornography Harms Women - Part 1

Part 1 of our two part series called "Pornography Harms Women"

Working on the frontlines has informed us on how women are impacted by pornography. Our collective member Sophia Hladik shares Vancouver Rape Relief's demands with regards to MindGeek, and revenge porn, before her interview with Meghan Donevan from the Sweden based organization Talita, who supports women exiting the porn industry.

Women's Waves is produced in Vancouver, Canada, by Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter.

Lesbian Visibility

April 26th 2021 is Lesbian Visibility Day. For the occasion, we interviewed Liane Timmermann from Get the L Out UK and Natalie Wlock from the Vancouver Lesbian Collective. The episode ends with a poem by lesbian feminist poet Chrystos.