Adamant Eve

Rose-Eva interviews Hayley Muir and Kaely Cormack from the Shiverettes at the Sled Island music festival. Hayley and Kaeley talk about their new album and what it means for them to be a a feminist punk band. They also discuss their own feminist arts festival that they’re created entitled Femme Wave, and get into what the term gossip really refers to.

Listen to the Shiverettes here: https://theshiverettes.bandcamp.com/album/real-shrill-bitches

This episode is about celebrating the great Toni Morrison. We’re featuring a panel that took place at the Garneau Theatre on September 1st after a screening of the documentary about Toni Morrison entitled the Pieces I am. The panel features Shama Rangwala, Shirley Anne Tate, Dr. Helen Frost, and Jumoke Verissimo.

In this episode, we watched the 2019 film Hustlers and discuss the way that sex work is depicted on screen. We invited guests Laura Kruse and Fia Friske to join Adamant Eve contributors Autumn Moronchuk, Wen Chan and Rose-Eva Forgues-Jenkins for our roundtable discussion.

Part 2 of Rose-Eva and Lisa's conversation with Lauren Groves, Alison Tunis, Michelle Kennedy and Karen Kirkpatrick about fat activism. The previous conversation has been about the way that the medical system views fat bodies and how this perpetuates a lot of harm. In this episode, the discussion starts off with the question - what are the repercussions for being outwardly fatphobic( fat-phobia being the fear or dislike of folks living in fat bodies).

In this episode, Lisa Pruden and Rose-Eva Forgues-Jenkins talk to Lauren Groves, Alison Tunis, Michelle Kennedy and Karen Kirkpatrick on the topic of fat activism. They explore some of the issues with the way that society views and treats folks who live in fat bodies.

On this episode, Lisa and Rose-Eva sit down with Registered Provisional Psychologist Lauren Groves to talk about how to go about seeing a mental health therapist for the first time. They discuss how to choose a therapist, when to start looking for one, a what a first session might look like. This is part 1 of their conversation.

On this episode, we turn our feminist gaze to public and active transportation, exploring the role of transportation in our lives and why it deserves feminist critique. First we hear from illustrator and community advocate Serena Tang about how she got interested in walkability and bikability. Then we hear from Anna Ho, co-founder of Paths for People, an organization that advocates for safe active transportation. Finally, we hear from visual artist Carla Rae Taylor about a public mural she painted in Edmonton’s Churchill Station that honours missing and murdered Indigenous women.

On this episode, we revisit an older segment on Alice Walker and Womanism. Then we hear from Trina Moyles, Albertan author of “Women Who Dig: Farming, Feminism, and the Fight to Feed the World,” about early women farmers and feminism in farming.

On this episode, we explore queer women’s health and identities. First, we hear from LGBTQ community advocate Stephanie Booth about the specific health concerns that queer women face. Then we have a casual discussion about the word “queer” itself.