Women’s Waves - A podcast by Vancouver Rape Relief

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Episode 26 Feb 04, 2026

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In this episode, we talk with our long-time ally, Québécoise radical-feminist lesbian organizer Diane Matte. In this conversation (which we hope is the first of a few), we hear from Diane about her upbringing, as the personal is political, and her feminist activism in the 80s and the 90s.

Episode 25 Jun 29, 2025

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In this episode we speak with Beaver, Canadian lesbian de-transitioner, whose journey led her to re-identify with womanhood, and become a feminist activist.

Episode 24 May 09, 2025

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In this episode, we hear from our lesbian feminist allies, Susan and
Renate, about their personal and political journeys to create and
maintain for more than three decades, the independent publishing
house, Spinifex.

Episode 23 Mar 18, 2025

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In this episode we hear from Cenen Bagon from the Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregivers Rights (CDWCR) about the herstory of her group, the campaigns to improve employment conditions, and immigration status of foreign care workers in Canada, and her own life as an activist.

Episode 22 Dec 15, 2024

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In this episode we talk with Kyungjin Oh from the Korea Women's Associations United (KWAU) about women's oppression and feminist resistance in South Korea.

Episode 21 Nov 06, 2024

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In this episode we talk with our member Laurel about this year's conviction of a Winnipeg man who murdered four indigenous women and recall some of the outrageous failures in the case of Pickton, a British Columbia man who confessed to murdering 49 women from the downtown eastside of Vancouver. We will also hear from Carolyn Jerome who was part of the “militant mothers” and their 1971 fight against the Canadian National Railway.

Episode 20 Aug 13, 2024

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In this episode we talk with Héma Sibi, the advocacy coordinator at CAP International, about the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the French law that criminalizes buying sexual services, and with our member Laurel, about Canadian police sexual misconduct.

Episode 19 Jul 03, 2024

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In this episode we talk with our member, Sonam, on some of the ways patriarchy manifests itself in South Asian communities, and with UK based Lesbian second-wave feminist Lynn Alderson about consciousness raising, women's groups as a radical act and women only spaces as crucial for women's resistance.

Episode 18 May 28, 2024

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In this episode we discuss federal and provincial measures to combat some aspects of pornography and hear from UK based Lesbian feminist-activist Liane about the Cardiff’s Lesbian visibility march.

Episode 17 Apr 28, 2024

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In this episode we touch on the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women position paper on the definition of “women”, discuss how men prey on women’s economic vulnerability and the federal bills for Guaranteed Livable Basic Income, review the documentary Hidden Letters and listen to Nehanda’s song "I am a Woman".

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