*June 18: A memorial walk and candlelight vigil for the 3rd anniversary of Tiffany Morrison’s disappearance, 8pm in Kahnawake, at the grounds beside the K103 radio station*

Tiffany Morrison is a 25-year-old Mohawk woman who disappeared after getting in a cab that left LaSalle, Quebec in 2006. She shared a taxi back to Kahnawake with a man from the community, who has told police that she remained in the taxi after he was let out at his house. Tiffany has a daughter to whom she is completely devoted, and as her mother said, “she would never leave her like this.” Read the rest of this entry »

2110 Centre Garage Sale (!!!!) – Proceeds to benefit the Solidarity ID Project.
NEXT TUESDAY JUNE 16th, 12-6pm at the 2110 Centrefor Gender Advocacy
(2110 Mackay st.)

The 2110 Centre will be hosting a garage sale next TUESDAY June 16th to benefit the Solidarity ID Project. Come for a delicious thirst-quenching lemonade stand, clothes, kitchenware, trinkets, books, etc.

The Solidarity ID Project, initiated by the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy and Le Frigo Vert is about highlighting issues that arise when there are discrepancies between official papers and personal identification. It is a project that seeks to acknowledge that people should have agency in the ways that they are represented. A large part of the project is to raise awareness about identity, self-determination and representation.
We wish to address issues surrounding, but certainly not limited to, transsexual/transgender/gender-non-conforming people, indigenous struggles, and migrant identities. We are dedicated to making our organizations accessible to people wishing to use names of common usage that differ from their legal ones. For more information contact:
SOLIDARITYIDPROJECT@GMAIL.COM

The 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy presents:

Who’s Afraid of Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

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Film Screening & Discussion
Tuesday, June 16th
7 PM
2110 Mackay Street (Metro Guy)
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A screening of 3 episodes followed by a discussion on the poetics and politics of life and death in Sunnydale. Facilitated by Prof. Trish Salah, and Mubeenah Mughal.
The screening is free and all are welcome! There will be popcorn and other refreshments. Childcare is available by request – please contact the 2110 at least 48hrs prior to the event.

***This location is wheelchair accessible***

This screening is the first in a series of weekly film screenings at the 2110 Centre.
For more information call 514-848-2424 x 7431 or
e-mail:outreach@centre2110.org <e-mail%3Aoutreach@centre2110.org>

Le Centre contre l’oppression des genres (2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy)
présente:
Qui a peur de “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”?

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MARDI le 16 juin à 19h00
2110, rue Mackay (rez-de-chaussée)
(Metro Guy)
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Film et débat modéré par prof. Trish Salah et Mubeenah Mughal

Entrée grautuite et rafraîchissements seront servis! Garde d’enfants disponible sur demande – svp contactez le 2110 au moins 48 heures avant la rencontre pour réserver.

*** La salle est adaptée aux fauteuils roulants ***

Pour de plus amples renseignements contactez-nous :
par courriel : outreach@centre2110.org
par téléphone : 514 848-2424 – poste 7431

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2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy
2110 Mackay (metro Guy-Concordia)
tel: 514-848-2424 ext. 7431

The Solidarity ID Project aims to provide people with a piece of identification that allows the space to articulate and self determine the ways people are represented on ID cards. The project also aims to engage in popular education and advocacy surrounding issues of access and the realities of people who experience discrepancies between their official state-assigned identities and their personal identities. We wish to address issues surrounding, but certainly not limited to, transsexual/transgender/gender-non- conforming people, indigenous struggles, and migrant identities. The project is dedicated to making our organizations accessible to people wishing to use names of common usage that differ from their legal ones.

Activities include:
• Ongoing production of SID cards by volunteers
• Accompanying popular education information (flyers etc.)
• Workshops & information sessions
• Self Portraits: Self Identities Art Show
• Media work

2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy presents:

AUTONOMY AND ACCESS NOW!

Bridging the gap between health care providers and community

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Workshop and Discussion
Date: TUESDAY, April 21st
Time: 6 PM
Place: 2110 Mackay Street
(Guy-Concordia Metro)
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How can all people participate fully in the process of medical care? What is the continuum between patients, providers and community?

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2×4:
A Size-ism Workshop Series for Every Body!

YES! Every BODY is invited! The 2110 Concordia Centre for Gender
Advocacy is proud to present “2×4: A Size-ism Workshop Series for Every Body!” Together we’ll pound out fat phobia and put the squeeze on size-ism in this workshop series where every BODY is invited and celebrated!

“2×4″ workshops will explore, challenge and remix size-ism to create a world that embraces everybodies’ body and everybodies’ size! Each themed evening will include a collaborative art project to arouse action and a facilitated discussion to challenge, imagine and create a community where every body fits. Join us!

2×4 workshops will be held every six Mondays, on these dates Monday,
December 1, 2008, and in 2009: January 12, February 23, April 20th, May 18 and June 29. 7:00 – 9:30 PM

Facilitated by Aaron Miechkota, emailaaronm@msn.com.
Programming info available at www.centre2110.org or email
“emailaaronm@msn.com”

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2×4 Workshops in 2009:

* Health Care Advocacy for Every Size *
S.O.S.! Where in the world can you find a size-friendly doctor?
Tonight we’ll sit with size-sensitive health care professionals to
learn useful insight into managing within the health care system.
We’ll fork up on nutrition and food politics, with a critical discussion of the so-called “Obesity Epidemic” and the treatment of largeness as disability by society. Guest speakers.

* Collaging Identities: Moving from fat to “FAT!” *
How does sizeism relate to other movements of social and economic
justice? How can we build community and define roles for our allies as
we create a world that embraces all? Using the technique of collage, we, along with our allies, will create a large-scale collaborative artwork that represents the merging of our identies of gender, colour, economics, ability, and more; and explore initiations for those journeying from “fat” to “FAT!” identities. Guest speakers.

* Fat-shionistas: Remix Your Clothes to Fit Your Style and Your Size! *
Dress me up, dress me down! You are invited to an all-sizes (and
fattie-focused) clothing swap, followed by a workshop on remixing your clothes to fit your body and your style! To follow: let’s discuss, imagine and challenging current fat aesthetics, sizeism in fashion and the media, differing perspectives on size around the world, and what it means to be “fat beautiful”.

* Move! And Other Tools for Releasing Sizephobia *
Slide, slide, dip, shake and move it all around! This workshop will begin
with guided meditation to centre the body, mind and spirit through gentle movement and stillness. Next we will explore adapted yoga, especially designed to accentuate the abilities of all sizes. Followed by a mini circle massage. In hour two, we will pump up the volume with a forty-five minute dance masterclass. Can anyone say “Dance-Off”?!!
Guest artist: dance instructor and yoga instructors. Suggestion: Wear comfy clothes to move in!

* Big Time Sensuality! *
This workshop will arouse your sensual curiosity with your body through touch and creative art. Tonight we will create artistic representations of our beautiful selves in a clay modeling workshop, and enjoy the playful boundary-pushing tickle of body painting. Stay on for a discussion on sex at any size, dealing with body shame in the bedroom and more. Guest artists: Melanie Harvey, ceramic artist.

Note: all workshop topics and dates to be confirmed and may change
according to guest speaker availability. Please contact us at
emailaaronm@msn.com or visit centre2110.org for more details.

Mark your calendars:

When: Monday, April 20th from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.

Where: 2110 Centre For Gender Advocacy located at 2110 Rue Mackay (between Sherbrooke and Maisonneuve) in Montreal, Quebec on the Concordia University Campus. We are near the Guy-Concordia metro station on the green line.

Welcome: All are welcome. Free. Child-care provided with 48-hours notice. Wheelchair accessible venue.

March 16th, 7PM at McCord Museum (690 Sherbrooke West)

A lecture by: Beverley Jacobs, President of the Native Women’s
Association of Canada (NWAC)

March 17th, 6PM at Atwater Library (1200 Atwater Ave.)

A panel discussion featuring:

Beverley Jacobs, President of NWAC
Ellen Gabriel, President of Quebec Native Women (QNW)
Laurie Odjick, mother
Bridget Tolley, daughter
Sue Martin, mother

On March 16th Beverley Jacobs, President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, will give a talk on the violence inflicted upon Aboriginal women and girls in Canada from the past to the present and explain the effects of colonization on Indigenous women particularly.
A panel discussion on March 17th will feature Beverley Jacobs, Ellen Gabriel of Quebec Native Women, Laurie Odjick, Bridget Tolley, and Sue Martin, from families directly affected by the disappearance or murder of a mother, sister or daughter.

The aim of these events is to stimulate a broader understanding of and discussion about the reasons behind racialized violence that continues to occur both locally here in Montreal and in the rest of Canada. The general lack of information or proper coverage, as well as an absence of police investigations of missing and murdered First Nations women over the last three decades alone will also be explored as a brutal
form of violence in itself, and raised as a cause for concern. The more long-term aim of the initiative will be to pressure the government to stop ignoring recommendations by the UN and Amnesty International, including a request by the UN committee on the
elimination of discrimination against women to “urgently carry out thorough investigations” to trace how and why the justice system has failed, and why hundred’s of women’s cases remain unsolved.

Beverley Jacobs, of the Mohawk Nation Bear Clan in Six Nations Grand River is an Aboriginal rights lawyer and president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC). She has worked with Amnesty International Canada as a lead researcher and consultant on their
report “Stolen Sisters: Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada,” as has done work on NWAC’s “Sisters in Spirit” campaign. Jacobs was one of many attendees at the Walk4Justice rally on Parliament Hill in September 2008. The rally was the end of a 90-day walk by First Nations women and men aimed at pressuring the
government and sharing personal experiences as a way of raising
awareness.

Since September, four First Nations women have gone missing locally,
including a fourteen-year old Inuit girl who was abducted from a schoolyard in Montreal. This event will offer an important opportunity for students, as well as the broader Montreal community, to think about the issues and get involved in a more concrete way by learning to hold their government accountable for the profound systemic flaws that continue to victimize a particular sector of the population.

The lecture and panel are brought to you by the Justice for Murdered and Missing Women campaign in collaboration with the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy. Both events are co-sponsored by the Simone de Beauvoire Institute, The Quebec Public Interest Research Group
(QPIRG-Concordia), The Women Studies Student Association of Concordia (WSSA) & CKUT 90.3 FM.

Bodily Self-Determinations: Re-imagining a Feminist Framework

This panel discussion seeks to explore the HIV/AIDS pandemic, community responses and activism. Through the work that these speakers have done, this panel hopes to bring light to all of the hidden and silenced histories of the pandemic, illuminating a variety of tactics used to resist and combat oppression, stigma and invisibility.

Guest speakers include Anna-Louise Crago, Mikiki from Toronto, McColeman from AIDS Community Care Montreal, Farah from Solidarity across Borders .

When: Thursday, February 5, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Qpirg Concordia – 1500 De Maisonneuve O. suite 204