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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
photo by Thien V Quan. http://quelquesnotes.wordpress.com Click here to listen to CKUT 90.3FM‘s broadcast from the march.
I was sworn in as a Canadian citizen in September of this year. As someone who waited close to ten years to be considered a Canadian, it was the last hurdle towards being freer to help shape this country live in. I am grateful to be allowed to live here. …
Sexual assault is one of the most common violent crimes; and it affects post-secondary students more than any other segment of the population. Over one in four students are sexually assaulted during the course of their post-secondary education; and more than 80% of sexual assault survivors are women. Whereas there …