Tag Archives: Violence Against Women

IT’S ABOUT COMMUNITY, NOT COMPETITION

It’s About Community, Not Competition By Jorge Antonio Vallejos I’ve been running my website for two years and five months.  My concept in terms of how I highlight writers is original: review, interview, video.  It’s a whole week on a … Continue reading

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AFTER THE SHOOTINGS: A POEM BY QWO-LI DRISKILL

After the Shootings Quanneapague, December 14, 2012 By Qwo-Li Driskill The names of children sharp needles of loss we use to suture the gash of memory that rises from Potatuck land the story bleeds onto us shouts rapid fire crumples … Continue reading

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DECEMBER 17: INTERNATIONAL DAY TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX WORKERS

Today is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.   Here is a poem I wrote for sex workers: White Van. Watch, SHARE, Tweet, be an ally. Subscribe to the Black Coffee Poet YOUTUBE Channel: 140 videos: Poetry, … Continue reading

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A POEM BY CHRYSTOS FOR THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN OF DECEMBER 6TH

Hundreds of candlelight vigils were held yesterday for the 14 white women that were killed by Marc Lepine in 1989.  It was a horrible, sexist, misogynist killing.   Thousands of Aboriginal Women, Women of Colour, Queer Women, Disabled Women, Transgender … Continue reading

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HONOURING THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN OF THE DECEMBER 6TH VIGIL: INDIGENOUS, OF COLOUR, DISABLED, QUEER, TRANSGENDER, SEX WORKER…

Every year in the land now known as Canada a vigil is held for the 14 white women killed in 1989 at Ecole Polytechnique in what is called The Montreal Massacre.  These women should be, and are, remembered.   So … Continue reading

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CHALLENGING THE WHITENESS OF THE DECEMBER 6TH VIGIL

This video interview with Deb Singh of the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre Multicultural Women Against Rape was filmed in 2010.   It was  part of a special week challenging the whiteness of December 6th called Remembering The Forgotten Women of … Continue reading

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BCP ON “ONE VOICE RADIO” WITH MALIKAH AWERI AND DANE SWAN

Earlier this month I had the pleasure of being on One Voice Radio hosted by the ever talented poet and singer Malkah Aweri.   My co-guest was Toronto poet Dane Swan, author of Bending The Continuum.  We all participated at … Continue reading

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INTERVIEW WITH STEFOKNEE WOLSCHT

Stefonknee Wolscht is a 49 year young Canadian spiritual transwoman; passionate defender of trans rights; resource navigator for marginalized LGBTQ people at Stefonknee.com ; public speaker;  activist; dad/mom of 7 wonderful kids; Opa to Jake & Rebecca; sexy and single. … Continue reading

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REMEMBERING HELEN BETTY OSBORNE: A POEM BY MARILYN DUMONT

This week we honoured Helen Betty Osborne via an Opinion Editorial, Lest We Forget, by Cree academic Robyn Bourgeois a Thank You Letter to Helen Betty Osborne by Norway House Cree Nation resident Megan Bertasson and here we have a … Continue reading

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REMEMBERING HELEN BETTY OSBORNE: A THANK YOU LETTER FROM A YOUNG CREE WOMAN

Nineteen-year old Cree woman Helen Betty Osborne was murdered by 4 white men November 13, 1971.  Osborne’s death and case have been labelled a “conspiracy of silence”.  We hounour Helen Betty Osborne this week on blackcoffeepoet.com via an Opinion Editorial, … Continue reading

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