CUTV Reports on Why We Need a Sexual Assault Centre at Concordia
Check out CUTV’s report on our workshop about the need for a sexual assault centre at Concordia University:
Category: Announcements
Internship Opportunity with Life After Life [A Collective Dedicated to De-criminalization & De-carceration]
Internship Description: The Life after Life Collective is an action workgroup of both the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy and QPIRG McGill (see below for our mandate and approach as well as annual budget). We are currently hiring a new project co-coordinator for a short-term paid internship to work with …
Good news! Concordia to Allow Use of Preferred Name Starting in Fall 2012
The 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy is delighted by the recent news from Concordia University that it will now allow trans’ and gender non-conforming students to use their preferred name throughout their university education. The name of common usage will replace the legal name on the student I.D., on letters …
Welcome to our New Board of Directors!
The 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy is pleased to announce the election of its new Board of Directors for 2012-2013! The election took place at the Annual General Meeting on April 30th. Our Board members for the coming year are as follows: Wendy Heitmann Portia Larlee Mike Lumsden Caitlin O’Neill …
What Are We Working With? Looking At Concordia’s Policies as they Relate to Sexual Assault
Policies create rules or standards to be consistently followed. They also set the tone on various issues within an institution. With the rate of sexual assault at post-secondary institutions far exceeding the rate among the general population (1 in 4 over the course of an average post-secondary education), policies on …
Reproductive Justice: Protest Motion 312 on Parliament Hill (Bus to Ottawa!/Bus à Ottawa!)
Guess who’s trying to attack reproductive rights again? Harper And guess who’s going to tell him we are watching him? Us! The conservative government is using the “private motion” technique to reopen the abortion debate. This is quite in line with what is being done in the states where women …
GSA Students Vote to Support the 2110 Centre!
From April 3rd to 5th, Graduate students voted in favour of paying a fully-refundable ¢50/semester fee levy. Thank you! By supporting the 2110 Centre you help sustain: + initiatives to end gendered violence and racism + solidarity initiatives with native, immigrant and international communities + volunteer, training, internship and job …
Graduate Students at Concordia: Vote YES for the 2110 Centre!
The 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy at Concordia is putting a fee levy question to Concordia graduate students as part of the upcoming GSA elections from April 3-5, 2012. You can help sustain initiatives to end gendered violence in all its forms by voting YES to the 2110 Centre for …
Indigenous Solidarity Statement – Israeli Apartheid Week Montreal
We gather this week to assert our opposition to colonialism and apartheid, and our solidarity with Indigenous struggles for dignity and self-determination. As the organizers of Israeli Apartheid Week in Montreal, we believe that we cannot speak meaningfully about Israeli Apartheid without speaking first about the realities of apartheid here …
Hundreds Show Their Support at February 14th March for Missing and Murdered Women
photo by Thien V Quan. http://quelquesnotes.wordpress.com Click here to listen to CKUT 90.3FM‘s broadcast from the march.