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Violence against women is structural and systemic. It is not only interpersonal or "intimate partner" or "domestic." Structural conditions and social norms allow violence against women. Smash white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.

CONTENT WARNING for rape "A new study has shed light on a startling and sobering statistic, revealing millions of U.S. women report their first sexual experience was rape."

Open the page to find a file with a list of women killed in Ontario since Nov. 2019. The list is partial. "Updates to the list will be made as needed over the coming days up until December 6th 2020. Please check back regularly for updates. If you notice an error or omission you can send an email to [email protected] "

In 2015, Katreena Scott, the director of the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women at Western University in London, Ont., tracked 80 men who had been charged with domestic violence. Half went through a court-mandated 12-week therapy session. The other half were given intensive one-on-one training and coping tools. Scott says the results were astounding. When we were able to engage men and do a little bit of work to reduce their risk, we were able to cu...t re-offending rates in half over two years. Scott says the program no longer exists because the funding was cut. So now we are back to the same situation where men are arrested and nothing happens. There's nobody talking to him. There's nobody managing his risk in this very high-risk time. It's the perfect time to lean in and do something. Via CTV News

It's me, Samira, your friendly Finnish migrant history rabble rouser, popping in again! :) It was really fun sharing those posts about fierce socialist women and returning to some of the research I loved doing, already over a decade ago. Today, though, I wanted to share a brand new blog post published today on History Journal that introduces some of the ideas I'm working with in my current research. The piece is called "Deep Mapping Migrant Settlerhood: Unfolding Histories ...of Finns in Canada" and this work, overall, hopes to bring migration studies and Canadian settler colonial studies into deeper dialogue. The TL;DR gist: The stories we tell and the histories we write always leave other voices and experiences silenced. Specifically, I am thinking about the histories of Finnish settlement in Ontario in the context of the (ongoing) settler colonial project of Indigenous dispossession. How, then, can we begin to complicate the stories we have been telling for generations and address our histories, even when it feels uncomfortable? My idea: let's try visualizing, feeling, listening, and speaking in new ways that allow multiple perspectives to interact. https://historyjournal.org.uk//deep-migrant-settlerhood-u/

Margaret Bourke-White, one of the pre-eminent photographers of the 20th century, is pictured here atop New York City's Chrysler Building in 1930. A staff photog...rapher for Life magazine since its founding in 1936, one of her photos was featured on the cover of the very first issue of the famous news magazine. For decades, Bourke-White traveled the world photographing key events of her time. Early in her career, she took dramatic pictures of architecture and inside steel mills and factories, pioneering a new style of magnesium flare that allowed her to capture incredible details and earned her national renown. In 1930, she became the first Western photographer allowed to take pictures of Soviet industry during the Soviet five-year plan. Like her contemporary Dorothea Lange, she spent much of the 1930s photographing the downtrodden victims of America's Great Depression. When World War II broke out, Bourke-White was the first woman permitted to work in combat zones. She was the only foreign photographer in Moscow when German forces invaded and she captured the bombardment of the Kremlin in a series of dramatic photos. LIFE staff started referring to her as Maggie the Indestructible after repeatedly coming under fire and surviving being on a torpedoed ship in the Mediterranean, stranded on an Arctic island, and getting pulled out of Chesapeake Bay after a helicopter crash. While attached to General Patton's forces in Germany, she was one of the first photographers to document the horrors of the Buchenwald concentration camp after it was liberated. The following year, she photographed Mahatma Gandhi in India, including taking a now iconic photo of him at his spinning wheel. She is considered "one of the most effective chroniclers" of the violence that erupted during the partition of India and Pakistan. Bourke-White had a reputation for being relentless in her pursuit of the perfect photograph to embody her subject. "I feel that utter truth is essential," she asserted, "and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours." For two non-fiction works about her life and photography, we recommend "Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History" (https://amzn.to/38ZX8OU) and "Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid" (https://amzn.to/32YIZxG) For a historical fiction novel about Margaret Bourke-White, we also recommend Girl with a Camera: Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer for ages 12 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/girl-with-a-camera She is also one of the women featured in Reporting Under Fire: 16 Daring Women War Correspondents and Photojournalists for ages 12 and up: https://www.amightygirl.com/reporting-under-fire For two children's books about another famous female photographer, Dorothea Lange, we recommend "Dorothea's Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth," for ages 6 to 10 (https://www.amightygirl.com/dorothea-s-eyes) and "Dorothea Lange" for ages 5 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/dorothea-lange-faces-of-depress) To introduce children and teens to more trailblazing women like Margaret Bourke-White, visit our "Role Models" biography section at http://amgrl.co/2wRJudE Credit: This photo of Margaret Bourke-White was taken by her dark room assistant Oscar Graubner.