The CONTACT Photography Festival runs from May 1 to May 31. We’ll be profiling selected artists and shows throughout the month. “Glass Ceiling“ O’Born Contemporary (131 Ossington Avenue) Runs to June 2; Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. It’s telling that in Jill Greenberg’s latest exhibition, “Glass Ceiling,” none of the faces of the women [...]

A great many things have and will continue to be written in the wake of a confrontation between the mayor and Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale—about the mayor and his temper, the Star and its coverage of him, and the perpetually tense relationship between the two. But armchair psychologizing and media theory aside, there is [...]

2012 Good for Her Feminist Porn Awards Berkeley Church (315 Queen Street East) Friday April 20, 9 p.m. $25 in advance or $30 at the door Can you be a feminist and enjoy porn? According to female-focused sex shop Good For Her, the answer’s a clear yes (yes, oh, yes!). Channeling American sex educator and [...]

“Does Rob Ford have a woman problem?” asked the Globe and Mail recently. A bold question, but the problem of female representation in politics reaches far beyond the mayor. In Toronto, 15 of the 44 councillors—or 34 per cent—are women, and while that sounds bad, it’s a heck of a lot better than the paltry [...]

Our city’s ubiquitous street advertiser, Astral Media, pulled 38 bus-shelter ads yesterday after receiving an unknown number of complaints regarding their lewdness. The offending image: posters for the movie Goon, in which actor Jay Baruchel is sticking his tongue out between two fingers—what the Canadian Press called a “sexually suggestive sign.” (Duh.) The posters were [...]

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 [...]