BY: Wall of Femmes LOCATION: Parkdale PHOTOS BY: Ashton Pal FIELD NOTES: Wall of Femmes, a Montreal-based feminist collective, has brought some of its art to the streets of Toronto. From “Who What Why” on the group’s website: “The women we select to highlight come from all over the world and from all walks of [...]

“I want to learn to code (a bit) and I want other ladies in #Toronto to join me. Anyone at #swtoronto know any women who might be interested?” tweeted Heather Payne on June 10. It was a fateful missive, as that tweet launched the mini-empire that is now Ladies Learning Code, a series of workshops [...]

“A lot of people assume that I’m comfortable discussing everything about sex,” says Good For Her owner Carlyle Jansen. “They find it really surprising that I can get really shy with my partner. It’s about intimacy and risk; I don’t have a lot of risk telling you my desires, but if I tell my partner and they say that’s really weird, that hurts. Most people think there aren’t any hard edges left for me when it comes to sex, but there are.”

Most of the cast of Check Out, this year’s production of the AMY Project. One by one, the 12 girls sitting on the edge of the stage introduce themselves: Shannon, Tharnya, Shellie, Ana Maria, Grace, Lola, Mercedes, Noelle-Najnaah, Nicola, Alia, Emma, and Sukey. “And we are AMY.” Sometimes it’s easy to assume that youth automatically [...]

Photo by Nick Kozak/Torontoist. Yesterday afternoon, I took to College Street with an estimated 3,000 people as part of SlutWalk Toronto. The rally was a response to an incident with police earlier this year, when Constable Michael Sanguinetti advised a group of Osgoode Hall law students in late January that “women should avoid dressing like [...]

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard by reader Becky Winninger, going northbound on the Yonge subway line on a weekday afternoon. A bunch of high school guys in uniforms are talking about grades. Guy #1: My English teacher has one of those double last names, and you [...]

The federal government announced that it’s going to give Ontario’s 1,000 remaining tobacco farmers $300 million so the farmers can stop growing tobacco. The farmers are all very excited about being paid money to not farm tobacco, and plan to grow marijuana instead. The Ontario government claims it’s fast-tracking a high-speed rail line from Union [...]

Antonia Zerbisias is back! After the fade-out of Azerbic, the smart, entertaining and well-loved blog she wrote for The Star, she’s just recently returned with a new blog, Broadsides. For those who are uninitiated in the ways of this fierce and funny columnist, she is a regular contributor to The Star‘s Living section. Now, it’s [...]

Photo of Julie Doiron courtesy of Jagjaguwar. Feminism means different things to different people—and for many people it means something negative. From the angry feminist stereotypes to news outlets simply ignoring it, feminism is an important movement that’s gotten a bad rap. Ladyfest Toronto is aiming to change that by throwing a festival that proves [...]