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My name is Sheryl Smolkin. I’m a lawyer and a journalist and a member of the Feminist Legal Analysis Section ot the OBA. Today I’m talking to Mary Lou Fassel, Director of Legal Services at the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic.

Feminist Legal Analysis Section - OBA Awards Dinner, October 2, 2012

On October 2nd, 2012, the Feminist Legal Analysis Section of the OBA awarded long time feminist and women’s equality rights activist, Mary Lou Fassel, with the OBA Award of Excellence in the Promotion of Women's Equality.

As I consider the word feminist, I’d like to acknowledge two trail blazers who died in the past year: Madame Justice Mabel Van Camp, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Ontario, died April 19, 2012. She was 91.

A brief note on another pioneer who has left us, Doris Ogilvie.

Farewell Madeleine Parent: Her obituaries described her as “one of those radical, uppity women that made people in power nervous” and as having “une volonté de fer et un collier de perles” (“an iron will and a pearl necklace”).

The increasing role that social media has in engaging younger women and men in feminist activism

“For me what Slutwalk is really about is that no matter what choice a woman makes, from skivvies to burka, it doesn't matter how women dress. Dress has absolutely nothing to do with consent to sex,” Brenda Cossman, Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

The increasing role that social media has in engaging younger women and men in feminist activism . . . Two Links About Feminism and What May Become the Next Wave

Legal Icon Retirement marked by The "Gifts in Action" . . . a series of lectures by legal scholars and practitioners entitled: "A conference in Honour of Judge Juanita Westmoreland- Traoré on "Social Justice, Law and Equality" that was held March 16 - 17, 2012, in Montreal.