Podcast: Women in the Core

 
 
 
As we saw in our feature story on the issue of street harassment, some women have left downtown because of the abuse they suffered. Others feel like it’s getting worse with the growing entertainment district attracting large crowds fueled by alcohol.

How can we address street harassment, ensuring that women can safely live and work in, and enjoy, Edmonton’s core neighbourhoods?

This was the question put to the panel at The Yards spring 2018 issue launch and salon. As part of our partnership on the topics of street harassment, we recorded the discussion and you can now listen to it as a podcast.

Women on the panel:

• Danielle Paradis (moderator), a Metis writer and columnist.
• Grace Cleveland, law student at the University of Alberta and teaching fellow at the Peter Lougheed Leadership College. She brought the online campaign #lawneedsfeminismbecause to our city.
• Lana Cuthbertson, senior manager at ATB Financial’s business innovation Spark team and the chair of Equal Voice in Northern Alberta during last year’s campaign to get more women running for and elected to municipal office.
• Luwam Kiflemariam, the VP of the Oliver Community League.

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This podcast is part of a series co-produced by Edmonton Quotient and The Yards.

Published March 1: “A conversation about street harassment“, a video discussion about how Edmonton can start to make public spaces safer. Published March 6: “Words on the street“, a feature story examining how revitalization and gentrification can lead to sexual harassment.

Podcast produced by Jeff Samsonow.

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