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Ruby Hamad’s White Tears, Brown Scars: A Rousing Account of Race, Gender and Whiteness

Review by Camilla Patini The construction of whiteness and what this means for women and people of colour is the subject of Australian writer Ruby Hamad’s excellent first book, White …

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Camilla PatiniRuby HamadWhite Tears Brown Scars

On the Importance of Fighting Violence Against Women: Melissa Blais’s "I hate feminists!"

Review by Camilla Patini On December 6, 1989, a 25-year-old man burst into an engineering school, the École Polytechnique de Montréal, in Canada. Declaring ‘You’re all a bunch of feminists, …

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      • Heightened Talk
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