Simone Viger is passionate about media arts education and designing engaging programs for youth. She is the Local Programs and Media Arts Coordinator for Girls Action Foundation, where she develops, coordinates, and facilitates programs for girls in partnership with schools and community organizations.
Lire plusYou have this theory that you’ve held on to for a long time, this theory that all of your trips and all of your experiences have dug little holes in you. All of your homes, and all of your lives have burrowed right into your soul and taken hold. So while you may not live there anymore, they still live inside of you, and you feel them, always.
Lire plusEager. Excited. Engaged. Elated.
I would use those words to describe how I felt when it finally hit me that after years of hard work, I finally earned my degree. I was sure I was on a path of career, finally time for adultness. I may even become a writer.
Lire plusI was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon, where I lived until after I graduated high school. Following a couple of years off school, I moved to Montreal to study at McGill University, where I’m finally about to complete my undergraduate degree.
Lire plusEn 2010, plus de 280 000 immigrants sont arrivés au Canada.[1] Parmi eux, des femmes, qui ont décidé de partir, de tout quitter pour espérer mieux gagner leur vie.
Lire plusWhether you’re in high school, CÉGEP, university or unemployed, you’ve probably considered doing an internship to inch yourself closer to your dream job… or simply A job.
Lire plusEmilie Cushman, then a senior at the University of Windsor and her teammates, came up with the idea of creating an interviewing platform that allows admissions officers or hiring managers to record video questions and send them to candidates through email or embed them in their online application process.
Lire plusThere is an idea that the internet is equally accessible to everyone, that it is a medium where one can largely be anonymous, where barriers and prejudices associated with one’s appearance no longer exist.
Lire plusSocial media has an equally destructive and uplifting influence on our sense of self. What will the long term effects be of the overwhelming need to deconstruct our compelling, 3-Dimensional journeys into a bite sized status update that will garner the most “likes?”
Lire plusWith this digital world all around us is a majority of women being left out of the limelight and are men more present? I think that this is actually true and false.
Lire plusToday’s feminism is about the multiplicity of political outlets and voices; it’s about the reclaiming of emotions; it’s about the so-to-speak “messiness” of everyday life. And YES, it’s about the internet.
Lire plusÀ partir d’aujourd’hui, vendredi, le 14 février, www.kickaction.ca invite les jeunes femmes à échanger et à discuter des problématiques qui leur tiennent à coeur pendant un carnaval de blogues d’une durée de trois semaines !
Lire plus“Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind!”
Lire plusLes faits ne mentent pas. Les secteurs des télécommunications, des médias et de l’Internet, quant à leurs postes de hautes directions, sont manifestement beaucoup moins accessibles aux femmes qu’aux hommes.
Lire plusVoici la toute dernière création artistique née du projet Filles et Égalité: une valeur ajoutée! Il s’agit d’une vidéo artistique créée par les jeunes femmes qui conforment le réseau, dans laquelle elles expriment leur point de vue sur l’importance de leur espace entre filles et prennent position sur l’égalité ente hommes et femmes, depuis leur […]
Lire plusGrowing up, I experienced many gender-based injustices and I saw it as a prevalent thing happening in my community. As a result, I continue to work hard to foster a society where everyone is equal so that people may have a better quality of life.
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