sabah rahmath - women's empowerment coordinator, racialized young professionals network

the full moon memory walk takes place on friday, september 16^th.  please show your solidarity and support and join the walk in honour of missing and murdered indigenous women.

come join us for a relaxed, educational, engaging and collaborative discussion by the gender issues centre about healthy, good, fun sex focused on consent and communication from feminist, queer, sex-positive and gender inclusive perspectives.

everyone welcome! light refreshments will be served.

click here to see the poster for this special event.

the event will begin at 6:00pm with drumming and speeches, and continue with an empowerment march.  following the march, there will be a time for music and creativity; jayal of the sharing our stories project will be facilitating zine making, and there will be colouring sheets available throughout the evening.  we also will have jen metcalf of outside the lines playing for us again.  further, in recognizing the need to ground ourselves after events such as this, dr. jen chisholm from the women’s studies department will be offering a restorative yoga session towards the end of the night (no previous yoga experience needed).

pre-event happenings:
there are a few events happening in anticipation of take back the night that you’re welcome to attend!

jay (honouring our stories) and the northwestern ontario women's centre will be having an even for sign and banner making in anticipation of take back the night. this will be held on october 27^th from 4-8pm at the northern ontario women’s centre (184 camelot). see the event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1166845233380832/

the gic will be hosting an on-campus pre-event creative space in the agora on november 1^st starting at 9am and going right through until 4pm.  there will be sign-making, as well as tshirts for folks who want to participate in the clothesline project (people can decorate/write on a t-shirt as a way of sharing their own story, in whatever words, pictures might best represent them.  it's a way of remembering the fact that all of those shirts represent stories, some which we may never get to hear.).

ma-nee chacaby will discuss her new book titled "a two-spirit journey - the autobiography of a lesbian ojibwa-cree elder".

the department of women's studies presents their brown bag speaker series with a talk by dr. barbara parker.

the women's studies brown paper bag speaker series presents a talk made by dr. chris sanders.