Events

Would you like to share some of your challenges and successes regarding immigration?

The Girls Action Foundation invites you to be part of our new zine! By contributing to this zine, you will be able to share your experiences regarding immigration, the challenges that you faced as well as the successes that made you proud of yourself. It's an opportunity for you to bring and share some of your critical thinking around the immigration process as a first, second, or third generation immigrant girl or young women, or even as a citizen of the host country.

PAUKTUUIT / Inuit Women of Canada have announced a Inuit Youth Sexual Health Confence for Inuk youth between the ages of 16 and 29 in in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik.

Register for the conference on the Toujours rebELLEs/Waves of Resistance website, check out what kind of mobilization is happening in your home province, and you could be in Montreal in October hanging out with a bunch of awesome feminists.

Registration is only 5$ for anyone under 18, and 1$/1000$ of income for people over 18 - and there's a travel fund. Plus, PCN/FA is one of the organizations that helped coordinate, so a bunch of us kickaction.ca people will be there...come join us!

PCN is excited to announce our newest Make Some Noise: Media Arts and Leadership training camp!

Where: Whitehorse, Yukon

When: July 18 – 24, 2008

Whoa, in all the running around we've been doing over here about the Northern Light Gathering and Make Some Noise North, i almost forgot to let y'all know about the Alainait! Arts Festival, handily showcased over on Shameless earlier this week.

So go check out the Isuma TV website, and check out the "ten days of art, music, storytelling, film, circus arts, dance and theatre" being broadcast live from Iqualuit!

Bonjour à vous toutes!!!

Shameless Magazine is proud to be a part of the launch for Branding Miss G__: Third Wave Feminists & The Media by Michelle Miller.

 Women's studies is now well entrenched in the university curriculum. But why isn't it a core part of high school education? The Miss G__ Project for Equity in Education, founded in 2004 by two first-year university students, is lobbying the Ontario government to make this happen. The group's namesake is the historical Miss G__, who was among the first wave of young women to attend university in the United States in the 1870s. During her studies, Miss G__ died suddenly and her death was used as proof that women put themselves at risk when pursuing higher education, a theory that was once used to bar women from higher education...