The Centre for Gender Advocacy (CGA) is an independent, student-funded, Concordia University organisation, mandated to promoting gender equality and empowerment particularly as it relates to marginalised communities. This mandate is achieved through on-going programming, campaigns, resources, services, and advocacy.
Vision
The CGA promotes gender equality and empowerment. We believe that gender oppression is inextricably linked to social and economic justice, and work within a feminist framework that challenges systemic oppressions. To this end, the CGA works in support and solidarity with broader social movements. The CGA promotes gender self-determination, bodily sovereignty, and self-love.
Mission
The CGA, guided by its membership, works towards promoting gender self-determination and bodily sovereignty. The CGA fulfills its mandate by:
• Facilitating social action through ongoing programming and campaigns, as well as building coalitions and working in solidarity with grassroots social movements;
• Providing respectful, confidential peer-to-peer support, advocacy, and resources for those who seek it with a focus on harm reduction, empowerment and self-determination;
• Collaborating with volunteers on existing and volunteer-initiated activities;
• Providing a multi-media resource centre and library, open to the public, as directed by membership contributions and requests, that promotes independent local distributors and publishers; and
• Providing an accessible space to facilitate community organizing and action.
