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		<title>Period Poverty 101</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In honour of Empower&#8217;em&#8217;s annual sanitary product drive, we called in an expert to educate our audience on period poverty. The following is a short interview with Meghan the creator of Period Packs, a local organization in Ottawa focused on providing access to menstrual health...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Real Series: Nayaelah Siddiqui</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[This month is Global Diversity Awareness Month so this interview entails discourse about women of colour in the workplace and the challenges they face in Canada. This interview has been conducted as a podcast and broken down into individual recordings. Nayaelah Siddiqui is the creator...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Birth Control 101</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabriella Mieres]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2019 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We asked representatives from Planned Parenthood Ottawa to give us the rundown of everything birth control. We asked five questions that delivered important answers and advice. Please always talk to a professional before making your decision regarding birth control and remember to maintain your reproductive...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Real Series September Special</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabriella Mieres]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the Real Series this month, I will be talking about my own reproductive health journey. This is the story about how I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at 19 years old. To listen to my story, please play the following video.]]></description>
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You are about to enter some unfamiliar territory. Beware, for there are snakes, traps and even more snakes up ahead. But don’t worry my fresh-faced Freshman: I have been there before and I can guarantee it will all work out! You’re heading off into your...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Real series: Cyndia Mondésir</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: The thoughts and ideas expressed in this article do not belong to Empower&#8217;em. Trigger warnings: racism, assault. Cyndia Mondésir is a 21-year-old black feminist leader with a deep commitment to positive and progressive social change. She is an activist, a survivor, and a writer that studies...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Real series: Victoria Tenasco</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabriella Mieres]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2019 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Empower&#8217;em&#8217;s first official woman of the month is Victoria Tenasco. She is an indigenous woman of Algonquin Anishinabekwe descent. Her goal is to revive indigenous culture in both social and academic contexts. Her perseverance in raising awareness about important cultural issues, such as the stigma...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Owning your “feminine” strengths</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drashti Shah]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three traits that are considered “conventionally feminine” by the world at large and how to ‘own’ them to build up your career.﻿ Disclaimer: In this post I will be making some generalizations about people based on gender. I am not saying all women exhibit the...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Gardening taught me to love</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amanda Kristalovich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Listen to them, while plants can’t exactly speak they have a body language of their own. Listen to what people say and watch their body language. We can tell people we’re fine, but our eyes, our mouth, our hands may say otherwise.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Being Black and a Woman in Society</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amanda Kristalovich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2019 19:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sweet but Angry. Strong but Weak. Aggressive but Mild Mannered. Stable but Fragile. Independent but easily Influenced. Beautiful but Hideous. Educated but Boorish. Contradictions? Yes! These are some of the many characteristics that describe the perception of a black woman in society. Today’s society is...]]></description>
		
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