Allison McNeely
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Last night was Take Back the Night Calgary, 2011 edition.
It was my very first time attending and organizing a Take Back the Night event — believe it or not. I thought it was a success. We had around 250 great participants show up and there were lots of posters and great audience [...]
So I was annoyed and concerned the other day about Edmonton’s Bear 100.3 FM holding a contest to win a wife, yeah? Human trafficking and other concerns? Well, it was an unintentionally ironic choice on my part to go see The Whistleblower on Saturday night.
Aashish and I [...]
“It’s a perfectly reasonable excuse to pack as many sequins and glitter onto your person and prance around.” — Betty Galore.
Geea and I interviewed Betty Galore about burlesque for Yeah, What She Said a few weeks ago. Betty is a burlesque dancer and co-founder of the Alberta Burlesque Alliance. During the interview, we [...]
I really wish columnists would stop writing about SlutWalk. I’ve noticed recently that certain columnists, often female ones, drive a lot of unfair, inaccurate and unnecessarily rude commentary surrounding SlutWalk.
Margaret Wente managed a salient point about how only educated, privileged women are likely to be participating in SlutWalks, but then buried it [...]
