The Centre for Gender Advocacy would like to express its most solemn love for trans people across Canada today following a day filled with hatred, sadness, rage and, in some cases, physical harm. We’d like to start with a huge thank you to Celeste Trianon and Sarah Worthman for all …
On March 3, 2014, Chris Crass came to speak at Concordia. A Safer Concordia campaign event! Here is video of the event! Chris Crass is a longtime organizer and writer working to build powerful working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation. He has written and spoken widely about anti-racist …
On Thursday, Feb 27, 2014, Will Prosper came to speak at Concordia University as part of the Centre for Gender Advocacy’s speaker series: Thick skin: reflections on race, gender and political resistance. Here is a recording of the talk! Will Prosper is the founder and spokesman for Montreal-North Republik, a citizen’s …
McGill university has decided to hire a coordinator to work with the sexual assault centre, and will hold two public forums throughout the year to deal with issues of sexual consent but advocacy groups are saying this is too little, too late, and have planned a protest tonight. Billy Shields …
by ICEEU Visuals Approximately 600 Native women have gone missing or have been murdered since roughly 1980 according to the Native Women’s Association of Canada. Other organizations and activists suspect that the actual number is as high as 3000. The reality is that Native women in Canada are at least …
Glen Canning has been seeking justice for his daughter, Rehtaeh Parsons in the wake of her sexual assault and suicide death. He spoke at McGill University on October 3rd, 2013, as the keynote event of our series “Another Word for Gender: an intro to feminst organizing and action.” There were …
Feb 14th 2013, Montreal. The will to fight comes from a heart overflowing with love. Ellen Gabriel is a Native/human right activist, and former president of Quebec Native Women (QNW). She joined the members of her community of Kanehsatà:ke in March 1990 as they erected barricades to protect The Pines …
Feb 14th, 2013: Over 700 gathered at St. Laurent Metro this Valentine’s Day to make this year, Montreal’s 4th annual memorial march for missing and murdered women the largest yet. The first women’s memorial march was held in 1991 in response to the murder of a Coast Salish woman on …
Sisters in Spirit Memorial March & Vigil for Missing and Murdered Native Women, October 4th, 2012, 6-9pm. Montreal. Watch live streaming video from cutvmontreal at livestream.com Photo: Vincent Meurin
Panel Discussion–Defending the Land: Indigenous Women’s resistance to Plan Nord and community violence, Concordia University, H-110. Friday, September 28th, 2012 Watch live streaming video from cutvmontreal at livestream.com Photo: Michael Paolucci
