Posts tagged OBA

Story of last night’s Slutwalks panel at the OBA

Nov 4th

Posted by Sonia Lawrence in Commentary

Journalist Peter H. Martyn has collected many of the tweets from this event (see info about the event here) using the Storify tool.  Neat, because if you read it through, it gives you a fair bit of info about what happened at the session.

One of the most stunning moments of the evening was when Ronda Bessner, assistant dean of Osgoode Law School’s JD program, who had organized the original safety session with Toronto Police, praised panelist and SlutWalk co-founder Sonya Barnett for her consciousness-raising efforts. Barnett responded that Bessner’s words were the first feedback that the SlutWalk organizers had heard from More >

Contest (Osgoode students only, sorry)! Nov. 3 OBA Dinner/Talk: Feminist Legal Analysis: Part of the solution, or part of the Problem?

Oct 24th

Posted by Sonia Lawrence in Opportunities

CBA – Feminist Legal Analysis: Slutwalks: Part of the solution, or part of the Problem?

SPEAKERS Sonya J. F. Barnett,SlutWalk CoFounder Brenda Cossman, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Karin Galldin,Galldin Law, Feminist Legal Practice

I want to go to this Ontario Bar Association program (click through link or see below), but I can’t make it work with my schedule.   Next best option:

in exchange for a promise to write up a short blog post on this event OR some other issue (pls specify) OR do 8-10 tweets on the night for IFLS, I will hand out max four student tickets to More >