Rebecca and robin discuss the significance of the 2SLGBTQIA+ youth programmes in the environment where we are seeing backlash from the government over the SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) resource. Featuring an interview with Gavin Somers, the education director of the Out In Schools prgoramme, they speak on the new 'Future is Queer' programme that is premiering at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. For more information or to book tickets, check out their website: https://outonscreen.com/vqff/the-future-is-queer/ 

Stella, Logan and Rebecca discuss representaitons of female violent offenders and the societal implications of that. Also exploring further into female representation within the Criminal Justice System.

robin, Logan (the Community Outreach & Promotions Assistnat), and Stella (the Programming Assistant) critique the nuclear family from different angles.

A free-form discussion on gender with robin, and CJSF's Canada Summer Jobs staff members, Stella and Logan. Also a couple of great music tracks!

Vancouver-based author and ultrapreneur, Deb Drummond, joins robin to share Mission Accepted: 262 Women Entrepreneurs, Ultrapreneurs, Creatives & Media, Rock Legacy & Tell All, a recently completed anthology of sisterhood and women’s empowerment. Tickets are available to attend the official book launch and signing event in Vancouver on Thursday, June 6th. 

It is Station Manager, Magnus, stepping in to host this interview with members of the International Women's Day organizing committee, Oreofeoluwa Adeyonu, Director of Administration and Karissa Ketter, Director of Communications when both robin and Pranjali are unexpectedly unable to make it in. M.a.r.c.h !  

Today's program features audio edited from Mobilizing Fear and Misinformation: Anti-SOGI and ‘Parent's Rights’ Movements, a panel discussion hosted by SFU Public Square last week.

A bit haphazard with some technical difficulties off the top, and some loose discussion on the Barbie/Oppenheimer incident at the Golden Globes followed by some reference to the recap of a report from Equality Matters on their 2023 progress. 

Tina and robin discuss "Reference Man" and the 8 key ideas offered by Caroline Criado-Perez in her book Invisible Women.   

Pranjali joins robin and they dig into another conversation about gender at the intersection of technology inspired by Ruth Schwartz Cowan and her research into household technology and social change.  

The show starts with a nod to Trans Day of Remembrance & Resilience, the annual observance held on November 20th to honour the lives lost to acts of transphobic violence and systemic oppression, where this year's theme was In Power and Unity. It Gets Better Canada is a good resource to begin exploring trans-awareness and alleyship. In the last half of the program, robin threads a loose but hopeful throughline that ties queer liberation to the story of Lilith reading an excerpt from The Holy Wild by Danielle Dulsky entitled Parable of Eden's Lost Heroine: Revisioning Lilith.       

A mostly music show with a couple of tidbits of information. In late October, the Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) announced their new program Stand Informed which will provide up to 3 hours of free legal advise from a lawyer to anyone who has experienced sexual assault in BC.  And, UN Women in conjunction with the UN Department of Politics and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) celebrated the 23rd anniversary of landmark resolution that recognized the impact of conflict on women and girls and the importance of women’s leadership in peacebuilding and peacemaking. 

robin speaks with Halena Seiferling, Executitve Director of Living in Community in advance of the Moving From Response to Resilience: Collaborating for a Better BC for Sex Workers Conference happening October 23& 24 at SFU Harbour Centre.  Full conference details, as well as tickets to Monday night's burlesque show on Eventbrite, 

Today on IntraVenus, a conversation between robin and Pranjali inspired by an idea introduced by the folklore doctors, Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, on the research of Katherine Young called Whose Body: An Introduction to Bodylore. Briefly, bodylore "brings folkloristic concerns with body language, body costumes and accoutrements, body movement, discourses and representations of the body, body rituals and taboos, and beliefs about the body to a social history of embodiment."

Karoline, intern journalism student, speaks with Kylie Thompson from Femmillennial opening at the Vancouver Fringe this week for a 6 show run. 

It's roundtable discussion day where robin, Pranjali and Ava each brought a topic and a song. The conversation weaves together well-being, the impact of influencers and algorhythms on social media users and invisible labour. 

Join robin and Nat for a rambling conversation around Barbie, the doll and the movie, which neither has seen (yet).  Click here to read The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, the Ursula le Guin essay referenced. 

In the first half of the program, Jude Mah (they/them), Coordinator for the SFSS Out on Campus student space joins robin and Nat to talk about some PRIDE events. To be a vendor at the Community Market on Wednesday, July 26 from 11am-3pm in Convocation Mall, you have until Monday, July 17 at 4pm to sign up.  In the last half hour, robin and Nat bring attention to 2 health related initiatives: 200, 000 free HIV tests available to Canadians by mail service through CATIE and the report from CBRC Seeing Us as We Are: Gender, Sex & Sexual Orientation Identification in Electronic Health Records.        

Nat and Aahelee fill in for Robin to host a wide-ranging episode, discussing UN gender equality goals and the 2022 film Women Talking.

robin and Nat, CJSF's new A&E Coordinator, co-host where they both bring something that caught their attention to the discussion table. And they play some great music!  

Link to the interview referenced by Nat in The Tyee.  And, TikTok of Lucille Ball referenced by robin.

Good morning Vancouver,

Today's episode was very special, because it was host Vivienne's last show of IntraVenus :(

That's why Vivienne decided to host a very special last show with a very special guest : Kylie Vincent.

Kylie Vincent is a comedian, an actor and a writer. She is coming to Vancouver with her new Solo show "Bird" to perform for one week at the historic theater "The Cultch".

On Speak Up! Kylie opens up about her past, her future and her experince with traveling across the US for eight months long and living in a self-built SUV with her disabled dog. She also gave us an insight into her new show "Bird", how she came up with the idea of creating such a show and how comedy changed her and her life.

Additionally, Vivienne not only did an interview with Kylie but saw her opening show at "The Cultch", too. "Bird" is a very funny but serious comedy show where Kylie speaks up about her traumatic childhood, her dating life and how it feels to be a female-identifying person in the 20th century. It made Vivienne lough and think at the same time, because Kylie manage to hold the split between talking about rape, abuse and trauma while making the people lough. A good mix between humor and serious issues!

If you are interested now, you can buy tickets on the cultch website here. Go check her out to laugh, to think and to find out why all men are monkeys.

Tune in above!

Good morning Burnaby,

Today's host Pranjali and Vivienne talked about a very important topic : The new law that allowes people to access free birth control in BC! To look on things with a better view, Vivienne interviewed Dr.Katelyn Mudry from AccessBC about the new pilot program that provides free birth control for everyone in BC. They talked about how AccessBC achieved this huge change in the goverment with their free birth control campaign. Pranjali and Vivienne discussed, besides the interview, how birth control is handled in their home countries India and Germany.

You could also listen to some fun tunes ( playlist above) and to Pranjali's and Vivienne's life update, because it was they last IntraVenus show together :(

Stay tuned for next week's episode and now enjoy today's show above!

Good morning Vancouver!

Looking for a fun and meaningful spring equinox event on March 20th? Then you should definitely check out the cbrc event for the official Two-Spirit and LGBTQIA+ Celebration and Awareness Day that is happening on March 20th from 2 pm to 7 pm PT, at Junction (1138 Davie St.)!!

If you want to hear more information and the background story of this important day, then you should definitely tune in into today's episode, because today's host Vivienne and Pranjali not only talked about this day but also had the Two-Spirit manager Jessy Dame live on air, too! He answered all of the questions they had and gave much more insight into the celebration and event!

Besides that., they listened to some fun tunes and talked about what springs mean to them.

Now lean back and tune in above!

Good morning Vancouver,

How can I be single and happy at the same time? How can I achieve a certain self love? Is it okay to feel lonely? These questions are answered by today's hosts Pranjali and Vivienne in this episode of IntraVenus. It is all based on the podcast "Call Her Daddy" with the episode "How to be single and happy". If you're looking for more advise about how to be single and happy and a blend of mental health topics and hilarious stories, you should definitely tune into "Call Her Daddy".

They also had a special guest for an live interview today: Graduate student Yasmin Simsek from the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women' Studies. She gave us an insight into the celebration of International Women's Day and shared details about the upcoming march on Sunday, March 5th, that 6 SFU students are organizing for International Women's day.

Check out the march on Instragram : @iwdmarchvan 

Feel free to reach out to Yasmin with any further questions as well : yasmin_simsek@sfu.ca

Now lean back, tune in and enjoy!

Hi everyone!

Pranjali and Vivienne hosted IntraVenus today!They discussed how dating apps influence our dating life and what changed over the history of dating apps. To have a better perspective on how dating apps change our life and identity, their invited a special guest: Carman Fung, researcher, expert and teacher at SFU.

Pranjali interviewed Carman about her research and it's background. Carman's research is situated in queer Asian studies, cultural studies, media studies, audience studies, and transnational/globalisation studies. They talked about bordercrossing media, ideas and sexual terminologies that influence our personal gender and sexual identities today. Additionally, Carman explained how and why the identity of queer asian women changed from a "tomboy" identity to a more feminine identity and how queer asian women express themselves on lesbian dating apps.

Do you want to have a better insight into the dating app world? Tune in above and enjoy!

Hi everyone!

Pranjali hosted today's episode of IntraVenus! She talked about audio, radio and online gaming spheres from a feminist perspective. For that she invited Stacey Copeland and Maria Sommers, both working in relation to online technologies and media ecosystems. They unpacked their research and spoke about their work at SFU and beyond. Besides that Pranjali played some pretty cool songs (playlist above).

She also has some book recommendations for you that are all about today's topic! Check them out:

https://www.routledge.com/Feminism-Labour-and-Digital-Media-The-Digital-...

https://phantompod.org/ep-35-voices-pt-2-the-sound-of-my-voice-stacey-co...

Now enjoy and tune in above!

Hi folks!

Hope you all doing great! Today Vivienne hosted an interview with Paola from the Sexual Violence Support and Prevention Office. Paola and Vivienne talked about the work of the SVSPO work at SFU and how they support and help survivors of sexual violence. Students of all gender and sexual identities are welcome. Today we talked about how to support disclosures of sexual violence and also we briefly discus how to be abetter bystander. Topic was also how to support survivors as a bystander and what you should be aware of while talking about sexual assult. They also spoke about SAAM ( Sexual Assult Awareness Month) and what the SVSPO is doing here on SFU campus.

If you need help or know someone who needs help, please contact the support centre. You can do that by joining Zoom drop in sessions, call them or just drop by.

Zoom sessions: Mondays and Thursdays 10:30 am-12:30 pm / Tuesdays and Wednesdays 1:30-3:30 pm or call them at 778 782 7233.

If you need help and can't reach anyone at the office you can also connect with the following organizations:

VICTIMLINKBC 1.800.563.0808 24/7 toll-free, confidential, multilingual telephone service across B.C. Provides information and referrals for anyone impacted by crime.  

You are not alone!

If you are interested now, tune in above!

 Hi there,

today we talked about gender-based violence, the Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women day and reflected the BWSS Webinar "Colour of Violence- Race, Gender and Anti-Violence Services" , that we joined two weeks ago. This show also included an interview with Dr. Angela Brooks-Wilson as well. With her we talked about women in engineenring and how women in STEM are threated right now and what problems they still have to face.

We also had a chat about the Colour of Violence - Race, Gender and Anti-Violence Services Report and what we learned from it. The report enlighten about ongoing support service issues, how intersectionality plays a big role in GBV and more. It is really worth reading it , because it helps you understand the current issues in our society,  gives you a whole new lens to look on things and helps you reflecting yourself and your own actions.

So please enjoy and tune in!

Hey there,

today we talked about art, played our favorite songs and interviewed an artist, Elizabeth Barnes, from the current art exhibition "Culture Crawl" at Vancouver, BC. It's located at 1000 Parker St, Vancouver, BC, Canada. You can see Elizabeth's art at Suite 465. Elizabeth does multimedia painting and teached art at university over 30 years. She has now retired from that and only focuses on her work as an artist.  We talked about her work as an artist, her story and what she thinks about the role of women in the art scene. If you are interested now, just click above and tune in!

You can also reach out to Elizabeth via Instagram, Email or click on her website. Her instragram is @endless_murmuring, her Email is lizzybartist@gmail.com and check her out on her website  https://elizabethbarnes.ca/home.html.

Thanks for listening!

It's CJSF's Fundrive this week which is our annual fundraising campaign to raise $10000 in operating funds. The show features clips from some episodes aired this past year, and the voices of robin, your regular host who is joined by middle-school students, Bea and Layla, who are at the station for Bring Your Kid to Work Day, who contribute to our efforts with their insightful comments and calls to action to make your donation today!  

Civic elections for jurisdictions in the region are fast approaching, and robin's guest Danielle Johnston, City of Vancouver's Democratic Engagement Manager, provides a breakdown of voting from the City's perspective and how voters can learn more about candidates; Tiffany Muller Myrdahl is a Senior Lecturer at SFU and touches on some of the barriers to civic engagement in this interview; and Mahtab Laghael, Campaign Lead for Women Transforming Cities Hot Pink Paper Campaign,  talks about the policy asks created based on community engagement and what we as voters should be paying attention to if we want to center equity in our voting.  Inform your vote with Votemate and get access to candidate profiles where you can compare platforms side-by-side; Vancouver's 2022 voters' guide available in 11 languages; and the City of Vancouver's open data portal where you can see voting records for Council members as part of an ongoing commitment to open, transparent and proactive disclosure of data. 

CJSF's journalism interns Anika and Hannah host the hour. 

Today's episode brings together a varied conversation about topics deemed of interest by co-hosts, Kiana, Summer Programming Assistant, Hannah, Student Intern, and robin, Programming Coordinator. You'll hear a little about gossip, feminism and BBL as well as some tunes. 

Michelle Farook Garcia is robin's guest for Episode 28 of Triple Threat: Feminist, Fifty-ish & Fabulous. Listen in to hear about Michelle's superpowers of adventure, appreciation and reinvention, and what she adds to the larger conversation of the way daring, curiosity and wisdom are reflected as we age.  

robin speaks to Rachel Cairns, the creator of Aborsh, a new 10-episode podcast addressing abortion in Canada.  The podcast will be broadcast on CJSF starting Monday, August 1st 2022 at 10AM and run 10 consecutive weeks until Monday, October 3rd 2022. 

Today's show looks at abortion in the Canadian context as referenced on the Pro-Choice Action Network timeline.  Also, referenced is an article from The Guardian that suggests a reversal of Roe vs Wade would be devastaing globally, especially for developing countries. 

It's Episode #27 of Triple Threat: Feminist, Fifty-ish & Fabulous on today's Intravenus.  robin's guest is Sara Muir Owen who understands her superpowers as gifts, her daring as heart-driven, her curiosity as wonder, and wisdom as a reciprocal intergenerational loop.   

robin's guest is Nick Miami Benz, a shapeshifter and storyteller who uses dance as a form of exploration and grounding. Nick is performing in the Dance West's 3rd Annual Re-Centring/ Margins Creative Residency showcase tonight at Wong Theatre at SFU’s Gold Corp Centre for the Arts.  

robin's guest is Moira Riggs, SFU Humanities in Archeology masters student who is presenting as part of the Humanities Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium: "Transformation and Change" March 25-26, 2022. Moira's topic, "Beyond Binaries Through Queer Archeology: A Post-Structural Transformation" is the basis for the conversation. 

On todays show, an interview with Olivia C. Davies about the upcoming Matriarchs Uprising contemporary dance festival, a poem called Imbolc/Vision to celebrate the mid-point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, and music.   

Today's show higlights SAAM, an awareness campaign running the month of January on campus at SFU. The second half of the show features an interview with SFU GSWS student, Megan Bobetsis, who shares her Masters degreee project for SAAM as well as the ways community members and students are invited to participate. Some of the music in the show comes from this consent playlist put together by SFU's SVSPO.

The keynote speech given by founding director, Ellen Woodsworth, of Women Transforming Cities for their AGM on December 6, 2021 aired as well as information on the campaign to spread international awareness for Human Rights Day coming up on December 10th.   

2021 Fundrive edition of IntraVenus featuring clips from shows aired this year and commentary connecting content to the value of our radio broadcast!  Tune in, and donate at cjsf.ca/donate.

Full program audio that includes interview with Alley Theatre's co-directors Marisa Smith and Amber Barton speaking with robin about their upcoming production #whatnow. 

Today on IntraVenus, Episode 23 of Triple Threat: Feminist, Fifty-ish & Fabulous with robin's guest Dr. Jeanette Gallant, Vancouver-based ethomusicologist and vocal coach.  We hear about her superpower of deep listening, adaptability and optimism as well as her approach to daring, curisity and wisdom. 

Embodied leadership coach, Bettina Rothe, joins robin on Episode 22 of Triple Threat: Feminist, Fifty-ish & Fabulous. Beyond being superpowered as a fierce illuminatrix, she brings the queen archetype into focus as they explore daring, curiosity and wisdom.  

On this IntraVenus PRIDE 2021 episode, Summer Programming Assistant, Esmee, converse with Summer Outreach & Promotions Assistant, Ciara Reid, on gender expression.  Listen here.

A conversation about the proliferation of rape cases in Bangladesh from the perspective of Saima Choudhiry and Sadia Hossain, two international students from Bangladesh at SFU.

The show begins with a short segment with robin speaking with Athena, the SFSS Womens' Centre Coordinator, and follows up with robin and Stephanie live via telephone in conversation about some of the ways Covid-19 has been devasting to women and girls specifically, and resources available through Vancouver's BWSS.  In the final minutes of the show, they talked about the pending US Supreme Court challenge to Roe vs Wade and implications on abortion access and reproductive rights beyond US borders.  

robin and Stefanie talk about periods from 10 things to tell your daughter about periods to coming-of-age rituals for girls.  Fire and Flower offers these rites locally. 

In episode 20 of Triple Threat: Feminist, Fifty-ish & Fabulous, robin talks to Lynn Fels, a writer, baby boomer zoomer and instructor at SFU to discover her unique super powers, and where/how she finds daring, curiosity and wisdom tugging on her sleeve.   

Audio on today's show includes a speech by local author, actor and playwright, Carmen Aguirre, addressing cancel culture in the arts community, and beyond.  You can also watch the video here, and read the trancript here.   You'll also hear a short audio piece from the Rural Women Radio Series.

Belinda Karsen, Educational Specialist with SFU’s Sexual Violence Support & Prevention Office (SVSPO), joins host, robin eriksson, to talk about Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM).

Vancouver/Ottawa-based Immigration & Refugee lawyer, Amanda Aziz, joins robin to talk about the intersection of gender and access to justice as part of special programming for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence (annually November 25 - December 10). 

Sexpert doctor and intimacy coach, Dr. Teresa Wood, MD, is robin's guest for a frank discussion on human sexuality and how women's sexual pleasure is the missing link in the sexual revolution. Follow her on Instagram and Facebook where you can find her PillowTalks.  

A rebroadcast of an interview robin eriksson did with Ellen Woodsworth, Co-Chair and founder of Women Tranforming Cities, in light of the provincial election this weekend. 

https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/spoken-word-surprise-playlist-10012019 

SFU Sociology Professor, Travers, joins robin by telephone to talk about the social movement and public campaign #LetHerRun (interview from 7:45-43:30) . Voice your support that sports is about inclusion to IAAF President Sebastian Coe and Team Canada and IOC BOD Member Dick Pound.

The SFSS Womens Centre wants currently enrolled SFU and FIC students to know they can be reached online, and they will mail out menstrual supplies, safer sex supplies, and pregnancy tests to students in need.   

Vancouver Eastside Educational Enrichment Society (VEEES) designing the first financial literacy program in Metro Vancouver that specifically addresses the financial literacy and independence of Black immigrant, refugee and migrant women.

Episode of Triple Threat: Feminist, Fifty-ish & Fabulous features Dr. Teresa Wood, relationship, sex & intimacy coach / author / and lecturer, a performance poet, a twin mom and a medical doctor extraordinaire. 

Episode #14 of Triple Threat: Feminist, Fifty-ish & Fabulous with "The Intimacy Coach" Amy Color as robin's guest. 

CJSF Summer Programming Assistant, Pariya, hosts this episode on purity culture.