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Antigone Magazine will be creating a 2009 Dreams for Women Calendar set to launch in early September and which will be featuring postcards that YOU have contributed to our community art project! And so, we want YOU to be involved in choosing which postcards go into our calendar.We've put together a shortlist and want you to vote for your favourite five postcards (you can do it in the comments). Also, scroll down to the end of the post and learn more about our calendar, how you can buy it promote it... or use it to fundraise for YOUR group!Number 1 Number 2 Number 3 Number 4 Number 5 Number 6 Number … [Read more...]

Here is the 12th week of the Dreams for Women art project and I just want to thank everyone for all the fabulous postcards that have been submitted so far. You gals have been doing such a fabulous job!Thanks to all those who submitted... and keep it up... spread the word! I just wanted to remind readers that we currently only post postcards every second week! We're hoping to post them every week but we need your help! So get some friends together and make some postcards and send them in! First WeekSecond weekThird WeekFourth Week Fifth WeekSixth WeekSeventh WeekEighth WeekNinth WeekTenth WeekEleventh … [Read more...]

The Antigone Foundation and Antigone Magazine would like to congratulate their founder, editor and Executive Director Amanda Reaume for winning the 2008 YWCA Young Woman of Distinction Award. The 25th Annual YWCA Vancouver Women of Distinction Awards were presented May 26, 2008 at The Westin Bayshore in Vancouver, BC. The Women of Distinction Awards honours inspiring women from across the Lower Mainland. The award recipient in each category has distinguished herself by contributing to the community and demonstrating exemplary leadership. UBC graduate student Amanda Reaume was honoured by the award: … [Read more...]

Be sure to check out the info about the Dreams for Women Calendar below! Here is the 11th week of the Dreams for Women art project and I just want to thank everyone for all the fabulous postcards that have been submitted so far. You gals have been doing such a fabulous job! I especially want to thank Catherine Ross' Women's Studies class at the Vancouver School Board, who made many of the postcards this week. I did a presentation for them last week and it was so wonderful to meet the students and to make postcards with them. Thanks to all those who submitted... and keep it up... spread the word! … [Read more...]

Hi Everyone, we hope you're having a great Mother's Day and celebrating all the women in your life :)In the meantime, watch former California State Senator Rebecca Morgan as she argues for greater representation for women in government, and discusses current barriers to women running for public office.Check out the full panel of four women, including Morgan, who have either held elected office, studied women and leadership, worked as executive leaders or helped get women elected. They discuss how gender plays out in politics, particularly in the presidential race, via Fora.tv:http://fora.tv/2008/03/11/Does_Gender_Matter_Are_Women_Leaders_Different … [Read more...]

I'm somewhat amused at this little kerfluffle over photo retouching in Dove's famous "real beauty" campaign, which, after all, is used to sell smoothing lotions among other things.Photo retouching is part of our everyday life in a way it hasn't been in years past. Yes, everything you see on a billboard or in a magazine has been heavily retouched -- but so have lots of family photos. Removing red-eye, fixing colour balance -- that kind of thing is easier than it's ever been, thanks to Photoshop and the like. We're getting to a point where there's no such thing as an un-retouched picture.My outrage … [Read more...]

This postcard was submitted by one of our German readers and says: "I dream of a world in which no girl feels ugly or even not worthy of being loved just because she's single."Here is the 10th official week of the Dreams for Women art project. I especially want to thank the Roosevelt University Feminist Majority members, who submitted a bunch of postcards this week and made a generous and much appreciated donation! Thanks to all those who submitted... and keep it up... spread the word! I just wanted to remind readers that we currently only post postcards every second week! We're hoping to post … [Read more...]