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    Susan is a journalist, author, playwright and former senior entertainment editor at NOW. A graduate of Harvard, where she co-founded the university’s first women’s collective, Susan is a feminist activist and musician – she started Toronto’s first all-women rock band in 1978 – with a focus on violence against women. She has written two books on the subject, Pornography And The Sex Crisis and Power Surge: Sex, Violence And Pornography (both Second Story Press). Her play, the groundbreaking comedy A Fertile Imagination about two lesbians trying to have a baby, has been produced seven times across the country and she has edited Outspoken, a collection of scenes and monologues from Canadian lesbian plays (Playwrights Canada Press). She writes about film and politics and is currently NOW’s contributing books editor.

  • Stratford Festival review: modern take on Othello deepens Shakespeares tragedy

    OTHELLO by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). At the Festival Theatre, Stratford. Runs in rep to October 27. $28.75-$150.29. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. See listing. Rating: NNNN Othello is...
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  • Stratford Festival review: modern take on Othello deepens Shakespeares tragedy

    OTHELLO by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). At the Festival Theatre, Stratford. Runs in rep to October 27. $28.75-$150.29. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. See listing. Rating: NNNNOthello is...
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  • TV review: The Handmaids Tale takes a big turn in season three

    THE HANDMAID’S TALE, SEASON 3 (Bruce Miller). Begins airing June 9, 9 pm, on Bravo. Rating: NNNN Even the most devoted fan of this exceptional...
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  • Inside Out review: Dykes In The Streets

    DYKES IN THE STREETS (Almerinda Travassos, Canada). 37 minutes. Rating: NNN Lesbian invisibility has been a painful fact of life for dyke activists. Almerinda Travassos...
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  • Inside Out review: Good Kisser

    GOOD KISSER (Wendy Jo Carlton, U.S.). 84 minutes. Rating: NN Some might argue that the premise of Good Kisser is problematic: a lesbian couple tries...
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  • Three emerging theatre artists receive the first annual Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Awards

    Jon Kaplans memory loomed large as the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Awards were inaugurated on Monday evening. There were more than a few tears as...
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  • It’s time to reconsider polarizing radical feminist Andrea Dworkin

    LAST DAYS AT HOT SLIT: THE RADICAL FEMINISM OF ANDREA DWORKIN (Semiotext(e)/MIT) edited by Amy Scholder and Johanna Fateman. 408 pages. As women everywhere coalesce...
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  • Hot Docs review: A Kandahar Away

    A KANDAHAR AWAY (Aisha Jamal, Canada). 83 minutes. Rating: NNN Jamal’s family, led by their father, Abdul, an Afghani immigrant, is on a trek to...
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  • Hot Docs review: Seeing Red: Stories Of American Communists

    SEEING RED: STORIES OF AMERICAN COMMUNISTS (Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, U.S.). 100 minutes. Rating: NNNN Long-time radicals look back on decades of political activism in...
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  • Hot Docs review: Beloved

    BELOVED (Yaser Talebi, Iran/Persia). 54 minutes. Rating: NNNN An Iranian octogenarian woman tending her cows in the Iranian mountains seems an unlikely subject to capture...
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  • Hot Docs review: The Daughter Tree

    THE DAUGHTER TREE (Rama Rau, Canada). 88 minutes. Rating: NNN Midwife Neelam Bala travels Punjabi villages dispensing care and advice to pregnant women and their families....
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  • Hot Docs review: The Trial Of Ratko Mladic

    THE TRIAL OF RATKO MLADIC (Henry Singer, Rob Miller, UK/Norway). 100 minutes. Rating: NNN This well-made documentary – superbly shot and cut – about the...
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  • Hot Docs review: Union Maids

    UNION MAIDS (Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu, U.S.). 52 minutes. Rating: NNN The subjects of Union Maids are female organizers who often risked their...
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  • Hot Docs review: Khartoum Offside

    KHARTOUM OFFSIDE (Marwa Zein, Sudan/Denmark/Norway/France). 75 minutes. Rating: NNN Here’s an apt entry into Hot Docs’s Persister program. Soccer-loving young women face with fierceness and...
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  • Hot Docs review: Haydee And The Flying Fish

    HAYDEE AND THE FLYING FISH (Pachi Bustos, Chile/Brazil). 73 minutes. Rating: NNNN Any movie about state-run torture is not for the faint of heart. But...
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