The Dr. Chun Resource Library is hosting a book and media swap!
Build your book and media collection while getting rid of any goodies that are cluttering up your life. Bring your gently used items and swap them for other people’s stuff! There is no need to bring an item in order to participate! Bring and/or take gently used books, magazines, zines, DVDs, CDs, posters, artwork.
FREE! Refreshments provided and TTC tokens available.
WHEN: Wednesday, April 3rd from 4PM – 6PM
The Centre for Women and Trans People is hosting an ASL (American Sign Language) Basics series! Learn ASL basics including fingerspelling, numbers, food, and more in this 8-week series. A Centre volunteer will be leading the series. FREE!
WHEN: Thursdays March 14 – May 2
(March 14, 21, 28, April 4, 11, 18, 25, May 2)
3PM – 5PM
FREE! Refreshments provided and TTC tokens available.
Space is limited. Email cwtp AT utoronto DOT ca by to sign up.
Please note that this series does not grant formal certification in ASL
FREE PASSES TO THE SCREENING OF “STATUS QUO: THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF FEMINISM IN CANADA” hosted by the Philippine Women Centre of Ontario
In celebration of International Women’s Day , Dr. Chun Resource Library members, volunteers and supporters get a free pass to the screening of “Status Quo: The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada” on March 8th, 2013. The pass includes dinner and a discussion facilitated by the Philippine Women Centre. To redeem the pass, email dr.chunresourcelibrary AT gmail DOT com as soon as possible!
The documentary delves into the key issues that women face in Canada, drawing parallels between the necessary fight towards women’s rights in Canada’s previous decades and our current struggles today. Violence against women, reproductive rights, and childcare are among the key issues tackled in the documentary.
In marking the advancement of the women’s struggle for equality, development and human rights, the film will remind us all that the struggle for genuine women`s liberation continues today.
Join us for a screening of this integral contemporary documentary on the women’s movement in Canada!
WHEN: Friday, March 8th, 6:00-8:00 PM (Doors open at 5:30 PM)
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Room 5280
WHERE: 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto (Above St. George subway station)
http://www.magkaisacentre.org/2013/02/14/iwdfilmscreening/
Dr. Chun Resource Library PRESENTS: Literary Liaisons! Celebrating anti-colonial feminist resistance through literature!
To celebrate International Women’s Day and the ongoing resistance to women’s oppression worldwide, the Dr. Chun Resource Library is hosting Literary Liaisons!
Bring your favourite anti-colonial feminist lit and share why you love it while getting to learn about other cool titles you may not have heard of! All forms of literature are welcome- fiction, non-fiction, poetry, comics, zines, you name it! Feel free to bring multiple items!
The event will follow a “speed dating”* format- we will be chatting in pairs and rotating after several minutes so everyone gets a chance to meet and talk!
*Unlike actual speed dating, there are no romantic implications here and no pressure! We simply hope to create a relaxed, inclusive space for sharing, discussion, and hanging out together.
There will be snacks and TTC tokens. All are welcome!
We are LGBTQI+
WHEN: Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Email: dr.chunresourcelibrary AT gmail DOT com
On Thursday February 14th, rallies and marches are being organized across Canada honouring Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. The Toronto rally will be at Police Headquarters at 12:30PM – 1:30 PM, followed by a feast held at The 519 Church St. Community Centre. The Centre will have a contingent attending the rally and feast. If you’d like to join us, we will meet at The Centre on Thursday February 14th at 12PM and leave together. You can also meet us at the rally itself: look for our pink banner. We have also been asked to contribute our support by helping with clean up after the feast at The 519. We are gathering a clean up crew! If you are interested in helping, please stay after the feast. Also, if you’d like to make a sign for for the rally, we’ll have art materials available Tuesday and Wednesday 12PM – 6PM.
*** Please note that on Thursday February 14th The Spice will be cancelled and the Centre will be closed for the day, in order to attend the rally & feast. ***
What Rally for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
When & Where:
Thursday February 14
Meet at 12PM at The Centre for Women and Trans People at U of T (563 Spadina Ave.). We will walk to the rally together.
Rally is from 12:30 – 1:30 PM at Toronto Police Headquarters
Followed by a feast at The 519 (clean up crew will stay to help)
TTC tokens provided.
More information from the rally organizers:
Toronto’s February 14th Women’s Memorial Rally and Feast:
Strawberry Ceremony with Wanda Whitebird begins at 12:30 Police Headquarters 40 College Street at Bay, Toronto
Community Feast catered by NaMeRes at the 519 Church Street Community Centre; 519 Church Street following the rally.
Please signs and banners about the missing and murdered women only.
Tokens will be available at the rally.
Raising our Voices to Demand a national public inquiry led by Indigenous grass roots women and supported by a United Nations Investigation into Missing & Murdered Indigenous women in Canada
According to research conducted by the Native Women Association of Canada (NWAC) under the Sisters In Spirit Program, over 600 Indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing, most of them over the last 30 years.
Despite clear evidence that this is an ongoing issue, the federal government decided in the fall of 2010 to end funding to Sisters in Spirit. Instead monies in the amount of $10 million have been dedicated to a central RCMP missing person centre. The same institution – who, along with the Vancouver Police Department, failed to properly investigate Pickton in 1997 – was at the centre of a public inquiry in Vancouver. The sham inquiry into the failed Pickton investigation has since been completed with no consequences for any guilty parties and was boycotted by 20 of the 21 groups who were granted standing due to the denial of adequate funding for legal defense.
Pickton, who was convicted for six murders, has admitted to killing 49 women. A total of 18 murders occurred after he was arrested and released for the attempted murder of a sex worker in 1997. This is blood on police hands, yet RCMP officers testifying at the sham inquiry state “there are few things they would change about how they did their work.”
It should come as no surprise that the Committee to End Discrimination Against Women at the United Nations has accepted submissions put forward by advocates of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) as well as the Native Women’s Association of Canada and announced their intent to launch an inquiry into Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women.
On February 14th we come together in solidarity with the women who started this vigil over 20 years ago in Vancouver’s DTES, and with the marches and rallies that will be taking place across this land. We stand in defense of our lives and to demonstrate against the complicity of the state in the ongoing genocide of Indigenous women and the impunity of state institutions and actors (police, RCMP, coroners’ offices, the courts, and an indifferent federal government) that prevents justice for all Indigenous peoples.
Endorsed by Native Women’s Resource Centre, Anduhyaun, No More Silence, Ontario Aboriginal HIV Strategy, Native Youth Sexual Health Network, Camp Sis, Sistering, Ontario Federation of Labor, IWD Toronto Committee, Muskrat Magazine, TRCC/MWAR, Gathering Weavers, Christian Peacemaker Teams- Aboriginal Justice Team, Canadian Chiapanecas Justice for Women, Maggies,OCAP, METRAC, Indigenous Sovereignty and Solidarity Network, The Redwood, Aboriginal Student Association at York (ASAY), CUPE local 1281, Women and Gender Studies Institute at U of T (WGSI), International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN), International Socialists, Health for All, Toronto New Socialists, NOII, Communist Party of Canada, Centre for Women and Trans at U of T CWTP, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, OPIRG Toronto and Students against Israeli Apartheid U of T, Educators for Peace and Justice (EPJ) & Rank and File Education Workers of Toronto (REWT), Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Rising Tide, United Jewish People’s Order-Toronto and the UJPO Social Justice Committee
GENEROUS FINANCIAL SUPPORT BY:
Elementary School Teachers of Toronto (ETT), Sam Ginden Chair in Social Justice and Democracy Ryerson University, Sistering, WGSI
List of Feb 14th Memorial Marches in other communities:
http://womensmemorialmarch.wordpress.com/national/
https://www.facebook.com/events/392727830818932/
==>Trans Film Night: TRANS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
==>Free Film! Free Snacks! Free Talk!
The Trans Film Screening Series hosts a FREE screening of:
*** “PAY IT NO MIND: MARSHA P. JOHNSON” ***
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“REMEMBER ME IN RED”
Everyone welcome. Allies welcome.
► PAY IT NO MIND: MARSHA P. JOHNSON : a documentary about the revolutionary trans activist, Stonewall instigator, Andy Warhol model, drag queen, sex worker and generous New York character. From the 1960′s through her too-soon demise, Marsha persevered through a life embodied by her middle initial P, which stood for “Pay It No Mind.” Queer history doesn’t just happen. Trans rights don’t just happen. The revolution takes a queen with a smile, flowers in her hair – and possibly a brick in hand! This Trans Day of Remembrance let’s think through our historical responsibility – take action – and smile.
dir.: Michael Kasino
rated:
language: English (with English captions)
► REMEMBER ME IN RED: questions how even when we choose to be our most authentic selves in our lives, how will be remembered in death? This short is a testament to all those who live on their own terms, only to risk dying on someone else’s.
dir.: Hector Ceballos
rated:
language: Spanish (with English subtitles)
+Post-film discussion.
DATE AND TIME:
Monday November 26, 2012
6pm – food / 6:30pm – film
LOCATION:
William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks st.
For info and accessibility contact: transfilmseries AT gmail DOT com
|| ASL-English Interpretation || captions || gender-neutral washrooms* || wheelchair accessible ||
|| trans-positive space || food – vegan & nut-free with gluten-free options || TTC tokens available || FREE ||
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@TRANSfilmseries
William Doo Auditorium
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TRANS WEEK OF REMEMBRANCE
EVENT LISTINGS 2012
The Centre for Women and Trans People will commemorate this year’s Trans Day of Remembrance by offering a full week of Remembrance for Trans, Genderqueer, Gender-variant and Gender Non-conforming people, and all who have been impacted by anti-trans violence and discrimination. A week is not enough – together let’s continue to actively resist violence and celebrate trans lives always. The Centre is honoured to be part of this work and hopes everyone has a chance to create a space for the remembrance of community members hurt or lost, and to collect and share in our own personal reflections.
ALL events are free. Refreshments and TTC tokens will be made available.
CHANGES TO THE SCHEDULE***
Unfortunately, the Community Acupuncture Session on Nov 27th and the Trans 101 Workshop on the 28th will be postponed until January! Apologies for the inconvenience. We will keep you posted!
Trans Week of Remembrance 2012
November 19 – 26
Monday, Nov 19
Interactive Art Instillation
time: 12NN-2PM
location: Sidney Smith Patio
100 St. George Street
wheelchair accessible through west entrance
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Tuesday, Nov 20
Community Gathering
time: 5-9PM
location: Centre for Women and Trans People
563 Spadina Ave, Room 100
wheelchair accessible through Bancroft Ave.
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Coffee & Tea
time: 9-10PM
location: Centre for Women and Trans People
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Wednesday, Nov 21
Radical Reads/Trans Discussion Night:
Prison Industrial Complex and Trans Resistance
time: 4-6PM
location: Centre for Women and Trans People
Reading available here: http://www.deanspade.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/captive-genders-final.pdf
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Monday, Nov 26
Trans Film Screening Series
Pay It No Mind: Marsha P. Johnson
time: 6-9PM
location: William Doo Auditorium
45 Willcocks St.
http://www.facebook.com/events/462638923788807/?fref=ts
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For more information on accessibility, food accommodation, ASL interpretation, and logistics:
cwtp AT utoronto DOT ca
womenscentre.sa.utoronto.ca
416-978-8201
presented in partnership with the University of Toronto Students’ Union (UTSU), Graduate Students’ Union (GSU) and the Sexuality and Gender Diversity Office UT (SGDO)
==>Trans Film Night: SHORT FILMS
==>Free Film! Free Snacks! Free Talk!
The Trans Film Screening Series hosts a FREE screening of:
***COLLECTED SHORTS***
Everyone welcome. Allies welcome.
What are your systems of survival? From local to San Francisco – engage in a night of short films all directed by trans* people of colour. More films to be announced.
► ALIEN FROM EARTH TOO – Tee Tagor
Navigating the worlds of poverty and public services can make anyone feel like an Alien From Earth Too.
► MY INNER TURMOIL – Rashmi
A transgender woman proclaims her true self despite My Inner Turmoil.
► A NIGHT IN THE WOODS – Alexander Lee
A genderqueer Asian survives A Night In The Woods with some help.
►CRAIGSLIST CHRONICLES – Nia King
Apartment hunting is filled with horrors and hilarity.
► CROSSING BARRIERS: TO RE-GAY OURSELVES – Caro Reyes
LGBTQ people of color navigate identity and acceptance.
► IT GETS MESSY IN HERE – Kai Green
Bathroom stories of masculine-identified and transgender folks of color.
► SUICIDE NOTE – Amardeep K Prince
A mental state portrait of a survivor, revealed through a silent meditation with a fantastical bird.
+ more…
DATE AND TIME:
Monday October 29, 2012
6pm – food / 6:30pm – films
FREE
LOCATION:
William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks st.
For info and accessibility contact: transfilmseries AT gmail DOT com
|| ASL-English Interpretation || gender-neutral washrooms* || wheelchair accessible ||
|| trans-positive space || food – vegan with gluten-free options || TTC tokens available || FREE ||
Discussion afterwards.
@TRANSfilmseries
For this session of Trans Debate (or Discussion) Night, we would tackle questions around trans and gender-variant-specific care, whether it is through institutions such as the medical system; psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy spectrum; social services; and less institutionalized forms such as peer support and community-building. We aim to explore and answer the following questions:
1. What does trans-specific care mean?
2. Are the institutionalized forms of care in Toronto serving the needs of trans and gender-variant people?
3. Is there a way to democratize and decolonize practices of care for trans and gender-variant people?
TTC tokens and food will be available.
When: Wednesday, October 17, 4-6PM
***Want a personalized tour of the Centre?
***Want to learn more about the ongoing and upcoming programs at the Centre?
***Interested in getting involved or volunteering? Facilitating or organizing a peer support group? Getting involved with the Dr. Chun Resource Libary and other programs & initiatives?
Come out and join us for The Centre’s fall Open House as part of the Queer Orientation program!!
This your opportunity to share, mingle, make new friends, eat, brainstorm ideas, and make art! Yummy vegan refreshments will be served! There would be taro and honey dew bubble tea, snacks, button making and a raffle draw!
WHEN: Thursday, September 20, 2012
1-4PM
The Centre for Women and Trans People is committed to providing a safe, harassment-free drop in space for all women and trans people on campus. We provide free support, referrals, resources and advocacy on issues of sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism, violence, health and poverty through our workshops, events, services and programming.
The Centre was founded by U of T women undergraduate students in 1986. They organized to create a safe, accessible space for all women at U of T to gather, seek support, and advocate on issues relevant to them. The Centre is a student funded, volunteer driven, non profit, campus, community organization governed by its Collective.
563 Spadina Avenue, Room 100
North Borden Building
Wheelchair accessible through back entrance (Bancroft Ave)
Contact info:
416-978-8201
cwtp AT utoronto DOT ca