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category: Social Science
published: Apr 2015
ISBN:9781926452982
publisher: Demeter Press

This Is What a Feminist Slut Looks Like

Perspectives on the SlutWalk Movement

edited by Alyssa Teekah; Erika Jane Scholz; May Friedman & Andrea O’Reilly

tagged: women's studies
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In April 2011, a team of five people put together Slutwalk Toronto, a protest responding to slut shaming and victim blaming culture, exemplified by a recent event at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. In the name of campus “safety”, Toronto Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti advised “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order to not be victimized”. The sentiment of those in the over 3000 crowd that day were shared by folks around the globe - leading to over 200 Slutwalks internationally and the establishment of “Slutwalk” organizing groups. This collection engenders a critical engagement with the global phenomenon of the Slutwalk movement, considering both its strengths and limitations. The chapters take up Slutwalk through a feminist lens (broadly defined) consider- ing Slutwalk as a successful social movement, a site of tremendous controversy, and an ongoing discussion among and between waves of feminists across the life cycle and across the globe. Through poetry, photography, scholarly articles, creative non-fiction, personal essays, the collection seeks to unpack the discursive performance of Slutwalk as well as explore the experiences of people who attended various and diverse Slutwalks marches/protests in North America and Asia.

About the Authors
Alyssa Teekah has organized in community and academic research spaces, working with queer Asian-Canadian filmmaker Rich- ard Fung, the Centre for Women and Trans People at York University, and Masala Militia, a ‘brown’ feminist collective. She holds a MA in Gender Studies from the University of Toronto.

Erika Jane Scholz was one of the initial founders of the 2011 Toronto SlutWalk. She holds an MSW from the Factor-Inwentash School of Social Work at the University of Toronto.

May Friedman is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Ryerson University and the author of the award-winning Mommyblogs and the Changing Face of Motherhood.

Andrea O’Reilly is an associate professor in the School of Women’s Studies at York University. She is co-editor/editor of many books on motherhood, including Maternal Theory: The Essential Readings (2007) and Feminist Mothering (2008). O’Reilly is author of Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart (2004) and Rocking the Cradle: Thoughts on Motherhood, Feminism, and the Possibility of Empowered Mothering (2006). She is founder and director of the Association for Research on Mothering, (ARM), founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, and founder and editor of Demeter Press, the first feminist press on motherhood.

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