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Here’s a roundup of gender issues going down this week: In Ghana, around 200 Liberian women refugees were arrested at the Buduburam Refugee Settlement for protesting against their forced return to Liberia by stripping themselves naked. The UNHCR is planning to send the refugees back with a paltry amount of $100. The women are asking [...]

If you’re twenty-something, a college student, live in an urban city, or any combination of the three, you’ve probably seen keffiyehs adorned by countless young hipsters, activists and fashion-minded folk in the last couple of years. The keffiyeh began its career as a political statement in Occupied Palestine in the 1930’s, as a symbol of [...]

Z-Day has come and gone. March 15th was the official date for world wide events, based around the viewing of the movie Zeitgeist. Multiple venues around Vancouver were involved in housing viewings. If you haven’t watched this monumental think-piece of a movie, you are missing out. Whether you decide to take Zeitgeist as verbatim truth [...]

“[During the Hippie Movement]…You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . . And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t [...]

Happy International Women’s Day Vancouver! This lovely holiday has been around since the turn of the 20th century, and today it’s an official holiday in more than 20 countries throughout the world. Every year on March 8th, thousands of events are held throughout the globe to honor the achievements and experiences of women. While many [...]

In the months leading up to Italy’s parliamentary elections, abortion has become a prominent issue on the election agenda. Former Conservative Premier Silvio Berlusconi, in the running for office, recently gave the United Nations a strong anti-choice message that a fetus should be protected “from conception until natural death.” In December, popular conservative journalist Giuliano [...]

I found a used syringe by my family’s house in south Richmond today. It was sitting in the middle of a parking stall at Richlea Plaza (that’s #3rd and Williams for those not familiar with Richmond.) I poked it with my foot in disbelief. This is the same area I used to run around barefoot [...]

4TheRcrd Magazine in partnership with VIVO would like to give away a few passes to this spectacular event. Curious what this is, read on! Visiting professor for Cultural and Gender Studies, at University of Arts, Berlin; Steyerl has published filmic and written essays centered around questions of globalization, urbanism, racism and nationalism. She is involved [...]