We talk about the new Staunch Book Prize for thrillers that don't depict violence against women (you can read the Anne T. Donahue piece in Huffington Post here, "Being A Woman Is Terrifying, So Why Does True Crime Make Me Feel Better?"

Then, we sit down with Diana Weir, executive director of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra to talk about how the organization is led by young women (conductor Gemma New and artist-in-residence Abigail RIchardson-Shulte). She shares some of the creative community programming the HPO is trying, including a whole week of interactive programming for the upcoming Haydn Festival.

We talk about the Hamilton Women's March Forward Summit (which was awesome) and we sit down with DJ Donna Lovejoy to chat about the joys of sharing music. Check out her Women's DJ Workshop at the AGH on Feb 10!

We talk Aziz and consent, plus we chat with Liz Enriquez of Ambitious Adulting!

We chat about 2018 intentions and speak with Shahzi Bokhari from the Hamilton Women's March Forward event, which you can register for here.

For our last ep of the year, we decided to just sit together and reflect on the year, no guest. We talk about our favourite (and much less favourite bits) of 2017, covering topics from motherhood to new years resolutions.

For our second last episode of 2017, we talk about how Artificial Intelligence is biased, as is anything made by humans, and we chat with kickass entrepreneur and Hamilton advocate Tammy Hwang about her various projects supporting immigrants, international students, and entrepreneurs in the city.

On this episode, Jess tells us the story of Lilith and we talk with chef Lisa Fiorino about the ups and downs of being a woman in the culinary industry (hint: lots of dick pics).

On the show today we talked about the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

Anne Theriault's essay remembering the 14 women murdered in 1989 Farrah Khan's tweet thread on women killed by femicide in the last year in Canada CBC website on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Hamilton Native Women's Centre

We were delighted to have guests from Safer Gigs Hamilton on the show! Check them out on Twitter and Instagram.

Learn more about Naloxone here.

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Thank you to Whitney McMeekin for coming on the show to talk about Girl on the Wing's Feminecessity Drive! Find out all about the needed items at

Jess talked about women who do traditional Inuit tatooing. You can watch the video on VICE and read about the practise on CBC.

Erin talked about Maayan Ziv and the Access Now crowdsource pinpointing app for building accessibility information.

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Thank you Denise Christopherson of the YWCA for hanging out with Erin and Jess on Episode 3! On this episode, we talk about New Zealand's awesome new Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the OECD pay gap numbers that put Canada well behind NZ. (Check out the recently released EXCELerator Report, research done in partnership with YWCA Hamilton, which details the lack of leadership positions filled by women and racialized leaders in Hamilton and Halton). We end by chatting with Denise about advocacy and the gamechanging new national housing strategy released today, with 25% of funding earmarked for projects to support women, girls, and their families.