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Announcing the Board of Directors for 2013-2014

Many thanks to all who attended the Annual General Meeting on April 2nd to support the Centre and elect the new Board of Directors! It was so terrific to be with all of you and reflect on the last year. There’s been so much incredible activity at the Centre and we couldn’t have done it without the energy and efforts of our amazing and dedicated volunteers!

We are pleased to announce the Board of Directors for the 2013-2014 year:

Paloma Amato
Katharine Hall
Olivia Kamgain
Emilia Koberg
Abby Lippman
Dan Parker
Jayna Patel
Rose-Marie Whalley

We also wish to sincerely thank the 2012-2013 Board of Directors for their contribution to the organization:

Wendy Heitmann
Portia Larlee
Caitlin O’Neill
Lena Carla Palacios
Dan Parker
Jayna Patel
Emma Pietrangelo
Morgan Pudwell

Call for proposals: Mapping Concordia’s gender-neutral bathrooms

Did you know? Concordia is making great strides in becoming more inclusive of LGBT students. For example, in the last year, changes were implemented to make it easy for Trans* students to have their preferred name used in all communications with the university so as to avoid being outed to fellow students and faculty.

The next step is to create an accessible map of Concordia’s gender-neutral bathrooms – an essential resource for all gender non-conforming students!

The Dean of Students and the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy invite you to propose a mapping system. This call for proposals is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at Concordia.

We currently have a list of all of Concordia’s gender-neutral bathrooms (.dwg and .xls formats) and need someone to put this data into a map format that is:

• Printable by site/building/floor (if possible)
• Navigable by site/building/floor (if possible)
• Accessible through the web (embeddable)
• Modifiable
• Eventually, transferable to a mobile app

A stipend of $300 will be offered for the selected project.

Proposals should contain:
• a solid description of the tools and methods that will be used to create the map
• if possible, an example of a map that would show the end result

Deadline for submission is January 25th.

Project deadline is March 1st.

Send your proposal to psa[at]centre2110.org

Thank you to CCSL and CSU!

We’d like to express our sincere thanks the Concordia Council on Student Life (CCSL) and the Concordia Student Union (CSU) for providing us with retroactive funding for the amazing talk by activist and author, Loretta Ross, that took place on September 27th.

The event was also supported by our fabulous allies at the Sustainability Action Fund and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.

If you missed the talk (or want to relive it) you can watch it here. And if you want to listen to the kick-ass song that the Reproductive Justice League Choir composed for the occasion, you can listen to it here.