Guest post by Niaz Dorry. I lost a friend yesterday. Kim Libby was a rabble-rouser. She rubbed the right people the wrong way. She was ready to do things no one else was willing to do or wasn’t yet ready to do. Continue reading
Tilting at Windmills
Tag Archives: women in the fisheries
There’s No Crying on a Fishing Boat
Guest post by Stephanie Boudreau. My father likes to joke that he comes from a place where “the men are men, and the women are men too”. Both of my parents are from Yarmouth County in southwest Nova Scotia. My … Continue reading
Honoring Fisheries Activist and Malaysian Airlines Passenger Chandrika Sharma
Guest contribution by Brett Tolley. Reposted with permission from the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) blog Who Fishes Matters. At NAMA we were greatly disheartened last week to hear that Chandrika Sharma, a tireless advocate for the human rights of … Continue reading
Fishwork, Dear
Guest Contribution by Alison Smith. The poems below are from a series called Fishwork, Dear, which I wrote about ten years ago when I worked part-time at a couple of fish plants in a community south of Liverpool, Nova Scotia. I … Continue reading
