gender + sexuality

Many young Canadians dream of becoming professional hockey players — a dream that women and girls were excluded from until the inaugural season of the PWHL, a league that finally provided female players a livable wage. How has the reality of a professional women’s hockey league impacted elite female players? For Manitoba’s Katie Tabin, it changed everything — and the effects are rippling out to younger women and girls across the province.

Women are disproportionately affected by invisible illnesses, often turning to alternatives when conventional medicine falls short. Some symptoms aren’t always measurable — but that doesn’t make them imaginary.

As AI makes our modern world ever weirder, this dream-like novel gets more relevant. Ben Berman Ghan’s debut novel “The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits” gives AI a soul — without skimping on the action.

Award-winning author Kazim Ali uses vivid imagery and poetic dialogue to explore themes of love, identity, and cultural displacement in his latest novel, “Indian Winter.”

In his cutting 2024 memoir “Crooked Teeth,” Syrian-Canadian author Danny Ramadan chronicles his tumultuous journey as a queer writer, lover, and refugee across the Middle East, Africa, and Canada.

Connie Kuhns’s book “Rubymusic: A Popular History of Women’s Music and Culture” chronicles how women have shaped the music scene while working twice as hard as the men.

Christine Lai’s literary fiction “Landscapes” combines traumatic memories, art, and resilience against the backdrop of a decaying English manor, scheduled for demolition.

DIY or die — how women in Winnipeg’s music scene embody the values of punk rock.

“Barbie,” “Women Talking,” and “Promising Young Woman” are three recent films that harness the power of female rage and the female gaze to entertain — and crack open the patriarchy that still runs Hollywood.

Fashion isn’t just clothes — it’s identity. From the confidence of a corset to the vibrant stories in African wax prints, our choices say something about who we are.

Ew! Body hair on women is gross! But should it be? Prickly hairs or smooth pixels, will the stigmatization of women’s body hair ever end?

Josie Teed’s memoir “British Columbiana” follows a young woman as she moves to a small town in British Columbia in search of work and self-acceptance.