Rose's Place

Hey there, everyone! Long time no-see, eh? Yeah...about that...*shuffles feet*I've spent the last nine months working myself stupid. I will spare you the details, but let's just say that the new job has nearly been the death of this here kitteh. But you remember: p/t blogger, f/t DRAAAAAMA queen ;)So...tonight I return from Xmas part III (the Don Mills edition), only to find I've been tagged by skdadl. Tagged, I tellsya! Of all the cheek! And to make matters worse, here I am on my first Xmas-free night of holidayz and I've been asked to recount the whole of my working existence. Srsly! If … [Read more...]

We're pleased here in Canada that Bush is making his exit in January. Join our American sisters in this celebration! Mominatrix has initiated "Shave the Date: No Bush Left Behind". … [Read more...]

I'm not going to argue that Stephen Harper didn't have the legal right to appoint his eighteen senators. He pretty clearly does have that right.But what he doesn't have is a moral right to make the appointments. He's still prime minister only because he suddenly prorogued parliament in order to avoid a no-confidence vote (only a few weeks after an election result that he claimed would bring about a kinder, gentler, more cooperative government -- we all saw how well that worked out, didn't we?). He doesn't have the confidence of the house, and, since he holds power only as long as he has the house's … [Read more...]

My body aches for children. It aches to be pregnant, to have a life held inside my womb. It aches to take care of children of my own. To be a mother. Its an odd place to be for a feminist activist. For a one woman army. My cohort of feminist soldiers consist of women and men who are part of a sexual revolution of free love, body love, independence, socialism - to name a few. They are the women and men who promote safer and happy sex, who support a woman's right to choose - but do not themselves... … [Read more...]

I have been away for so long. Writing has long been such a part of me, yet over the past year or so it has gradually faded to something likened to a ghost limb. Part of me, but missing, aching, gone, and I am so disabled by it that I know not how to recover anymore. I have no great explanation for this lack of writing, lack of creativity. But I am at a crossroads in my life I feel. Aching for a change, needing to move forward, yet having no idea how to move forward. Or where to go.... … [Read more...]

Michelle Butterfield reports a tragic and bizarre story in the Calgary Herald this morning (see also the government press release). Shortly before midnight last Friday, a woman was attacked by Daryl Pichler and beaten unconscious. This is a sad and bizarre story. Two men took the woman and Pichler to their home and it wasn't until two hours later that EMS was called. This woman is in critical condition. From the police report it is foggy what happened on Friday night but why would a woman woman suffering life-threatening injuries be talken to her home with the man that inflicted them? It seems … [Read more...]

On December 6, 1989, 14 women were killed at the École Polytechnique in Montréal. They were killed for being women; the gunman singled out women, and claimed he "hated feminists".It's been almost twenty years. Are women still being killed for being women?Take a moment to remember these 14 women. Then take a moment to do something to stop this from happening again, to any woman.Geneviè BergeronHélène ColganNathalie CroteauBarbara DaigneaultAnne-Marie EdwardMaud HaviernickMaryse LaganièreMaryse LeclairAnne-Marie LemaySonia PelletierMichèle RichardAnnie St-ArneaultAnnie TurcotteBarbara Klucznik-Widajewicz … [Read more...]