Interview with directors Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert. Margarita is an entertaining feature film about a beautiful, resourceful woman named Margarita (played by Nicola Correia Damude) who works as a nanny. That is until the couple she works for discover that they’re not as well off as they thought, and decide they must fire Margarita [...]
Art&Culture
Blogs
It’s the long weekend and since many of you will be busy cottaging or BBQ-ing or up to whatever other fun & relaxing stuff will take you through to Tuesday, I’ll keep it short and sweet. – Margaret or Kim? Ummm … did any of you catch Margaret Cho playing Kim Jong-il on 30 Rock [...]
Lifestyle
The hot and heady world of queer porn. A few years ago, I needed to decipher my changing tastes. Born and raised small-town straight, there was lots of conditioning to undo, and self-help books just didn’t cut it. Instead, I had to own my desire, feel it in my body and see people I was [...]
History
Book review – Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900–65 Author: Cameron Duder University of British Columbia Press 2010 . Hardcover, $85; paperback (2011), $32.95 Awfully Devoted Women is the first in-depth look at the lives of middle-class Canadian lesbians during the first part of the 20th-century. Drawing on archival documents, newspaper articles and oral [...]
Hotspots
Although it’s officially been here for a few weeks now, spring really seemed to arrive in all its splendour on Saturday, April 9 with the opening of the Feminist Art Gallery (FAG) at the home of its birth-mothers, the dyke-duo of artists Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue. Housed in the stunningly converted garage of the [...]













