Posts Tagged ‘Quebec’

• December 3: Day of Action Against Bill 94

  December 3rd, 2010 In case you haven’t heard enough about Bill 94 from my two posts this week, I wanted to...

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• Revealing Democracy: A Conference on Bill 94 (Part II)

  December 2nd, 2010 (See Part 1 here.) I didn’t make it to the Friday panels because of schoolwork, but I was...

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• Revealing Democracy: A Conference on Bill 94 (Part I)

  December 1st, 2010 Quebec’s Bill 94, which would deny access to public services to women who wear niqab, is back in...

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• Niqabs, Media, and Taking Action

  May 18th, 2010 Today is the Day of Action on Quebec’s Bill 94, which I wrote about last week. In honor...

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• Action Alert: Quebec’s Bill 94

  May 13th, 2010 The provincial legislature of Quebec, Canada, is currently considering a bill that would refuse key social services to...

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• Out of Sight, Out of Mind: the Niqab Debate and Ableism

  April 8th, 2010 The Quebec niqab thing keeps going and going (ugh), and I’m still avoiding talking about media coverage of the...

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• Niqab by Numbers: Quantifying the Overreactions

  March 25th, 2010 I am so, so sick of talking about the niqab.  So I’m not really going to, despite the...

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• Non-Issue or New Islamist Threat? Headscarves and the FFQ

  May 18th, 2009 The Fédération des femmes du Québec (Federation of Quebec Women; abbreviated as FFQ) recently had a special assembly...

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