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More Than Skin Deep Why Women Love Their Tattoos Canada’S Disappeared Women the Search Begins Treasured Chest Kyle Scanlon’S Surgical Journey WOMEN’S NEWS & FEMINIST VIEWS • Fall 2005 Vol. 19 No.2 • Canada/US $5.95 MORE THAN SKIN DEEP WHY WOMEN LOVE THEIR TATTOOS CANADA’S DISAPPEARED WOMEN THE SEARCH BEGINS TREASURED CHEST KYLE SCANLON’S SURGICAL JOURNEY Publications Mail Agreement No. 40008866 • PAP Registration No. 07944 Return Undeliverable Addresses to: PO Box 128, Winnipeg, MB R3C 2G1 Canada table of contents FALL 2005 / VOLUME 19 NO. 2 CANADA’S 20 DISAPPEARED WOMEN Officials have been slow to investigate or have simply ignored the fact that an estimated 500 Aboriginal women have gone missing in the last 20 years. Now, that may be about to change. by Lauren Carter SKIN 24 DEEP Women love their tattoos. And a growing number of women are taking up the trade. Find out why their love of the art form is more than just skin deep. by Alexis Keinlen Terri Brown speaks to reporters about missing Aboriginal women. See page 20. WHITE KNIGHTS 28 DARK THREATS An Interview with Sherene Razack, author of White WOMEN’S NEWS Knights, Dark Threats, a book that challenges the notion that we live in a tolerant society where racism Casting Call: Art is practiced by only an ignorant few. 7-12 Transforms Body by Ghislaine Alleyne and Soul by Carole TenBrink; Sex Dysfunction Stimulates Debate by Nicole Cohen; Cradling Humanity, Cheryl-Ann Saving Lives by Deepa Kandaswamy; ARTS & CULTURE Wester’s Beautiful Remembering the Butterflies by Women Project. MUSIC See page 7. Maura Hanrahan. 32 REVIEWS Martha Wainwright by Martha Wainwright; Rarities by The Indigo Girls; Book of Life by Maryem Tollar; FEMINIST VIEWS Soviet Kitsch by Regina Spektor; This Island by Le Tigre; Jann Arden by Jann Arden. TREASURED 16 CHEST FALL Breast reduction surgery wasn’t enough to create a 33 FICTION body that Kyle Scanlon was comfortable living in, The Seahorse Year by Stacey D’Erasmo; Venous Hum by while making the transition from female to male. Suzette Mayr; Witness My Shame by Shary Boyle; What This is the story about his decision to remove the We All Long For by Dionne Brand; Mackerel Sky by breasts and sculpt his chest. by Kyle Scanlon Natalee Caple; My Husband by Dacia Maraini. Managing Editor: Penni Mitchell Fulfillment and Office Manager: Phil Koch Accountant: Sharon Pchajek Board of Directors: Ghislaine Alleyne, Phil Koch, Penni Mitchell, Kemlin Nembhard, Valerie Regehr Editorial Committee: Ghislaine Alleyne, Gio Guzzi, Penni Mitchell Advertising Sales: Penni Mitchell (204) 774-6225 ARTS AND Design: inkubator.ca 36 IDEAS Web Mistress: Rachel Thompson/BlueMuse Incorrigible by Velma Demerson; Retail Inquiries: Disticor (905) 619-6565 Marian Engel: Life in Letters ed.s C. 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No material may be reprinted without permission. Due to 31 BY LISA RUNDLE limited resources, HERIZONS does not accept poetry or Helping the Helpless fiction submissions. HERIZONS is a member of the Manitoba GLOBAL WARNING Magazine Publishers Association. 47 BY NAOMI KLEIN HERIZONS acknowledges the financial Shell Games support of the Government of Canada through the Publication Assistance Program (PAP) and the Canada Magazine Fund of the Department of Canadian Heritage ON THE EDGE toward mailing and editorial costs. 48 BY LYN COCKBURN Publications Mail Agreement No. 40008866, PAP Registration No. 07944. Return Undeliverable Addresses to: PO Box 128, Winnipeg, Reality Check MB, Canada R3C 2G1, Email: [email protected] HERIZONS FALL 2005 1 letters UNLOADING ON MOTHERS Confronting what it means to be a mother focus has been only on my baby. But what Perhaps Leigh Felesky (my own preconceived notions of what I’ll do about support for mum? and Mira Kirshner and won’t do,societal expectations,parenting I repeatedly asked for help with breast- should have titled their trends) has been anxiety-provoking and feeding,but yet I found emotional support for article (Summer 2005 extremely difficult. I had expected to apply me lacking. Herizons) “The Mother many of the attachment parenting principles Barbara Pal UNLOAD” because it (co-sleeping,breast-feeding) only to find that Toronto, Ontario appears to me that they I couldn’t do it. After a traumatic birth were interested in trying to assuage their own (homebirth planned,but we ended up in hos- VULVODYNIA ARTICLE parenting guilt by blaming the “breast-feed- pital), I was exhausted, anxious and over- LAUDED ing imperative.” whelmed. I found it impossible to fall asleep I would like to congratu- How sad that they have fallen into the trap with my newborn beside me in bed. So the late Helen Anderson for of holding those who try to empower women baby slept and I didn’t.After three days and a her courage to publicly to breast-feed and to practice attachment slight hemorrhage, I begged my husband to disclose her personal parenting responsible for inducing blame take the baby to the next room so I could get experience with vulvo- and guilt. How easy to sit back and criticize some sleep. I was still too anxious to sleep, dynia,in the Spring 2005 hospitals,public health and lactation consult- too overwhelmed. issue of Herizons.This is ants for not making the system better for Breast-feeding problems increased my my first time responding to a magazine arti- women. Perhaps the most telling sentence in anxiety. I had a midwife who came everyday cle, or any media piece, for that matter. the article is the one stating that no one men- for a week. It took her 15 to 20 minutes each Anderson’s candour has inspired me to tioned that breast-feeding an infant might time to try to latch my baby on.My episioto- engage in “the vagina dialogues” she propos- take several hours a day.If this is a surprise, I my stitches burned every time I sat up to try es. After all, you don’t have a dialogue if only wish them luck because it doesn’t get easier. to latch my baby on,I felt exhausted and ill. one person is talking.And one of the reasons Parenting is challenging and having children Breast-feeding sessions became my baby cry- vulvodynia is so underexposed is because in our lives is time-consuming. ing at my breast, not opening her mouth at most women who suffer from it feel they are My job as a breast-feeding advocate and all,kicking,scratching and pushing away,and alone in their pain. If more women would educator is to give parents accurate informa- me crying, using tubes to finger feed her, for- openly share their testimonials, it would help tion to make informed choices. I don’t make mula supplementation, herbs to increase my others to feel less isolated.It would also bring people feel guilty; that feeling comes from milk supply,domperidone,pumping to draw to light how prevalent, yet ignored, this con- within themselves. out my nipples and to express breast milk. dition really is. Unfortunately, awareness The authors make it seem that you cannot This whole process has left me feeling like about vulvodynia is so limited precisely be a feminist and still breast-feed and attach- a huge failure. Breast-feeding advocates say: because many women suffer in silence. ment parent. That is absolutely not true. “There’s no reason why a healthy mother and According to a 2003 study by Brigham If they feel so strongly that women are baby should not be able to breast-feed.” I Women’s Hospital,up to 16 percent of women being failed by the system, and I agree that haven’t had breast cancer or breast surgery, suffer from chronic vulvar pain during their they are, then put some energy into trying to my baby doesn’t have a short frenulum or lifetime, yet only about half seek treatment. change the system.Put pressure on govern- cleft palate.Yet we were unable to do it.
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