We’ve been featured! Check out the Equal Voice Experiences June newsletter here featuring our own Amanda Reaume, Kristen Myres, and Emily Yakashiro!
Experiences is a mentorship program that aims to engage girls and young women in learning and thinking about the impact of politics on their lives and how they might become involved.
For the most part, young women, don’t think like the average politician.
You’ve probably noticed this.
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In fact, young people are very distinct in their way of thinking, and young women’s perspectives and priorities often differ from men’s.That’s why it matters that your voices are heard, your views represented and your experiences considered.
Equal Voice has created Experiences for that very reason. Learn all about it – and some of the astonishing stories that inspired us – right here.
What are your dreams for yourself, your friends, your sisters, your daughters? Paint, draw, write, sketch, or decoupage your dreams on a postcard and
send it to us.
Antigone Magazine
C/O WILLA
Box 61 – 6138 SUB Blvd
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1
OR antigonemagazine(at)hotmail.com
If I’ve learned one thing in the past months it has been to save the energy I used to expend on being angry about injustice and put that energy into thinking and feeling joy, prosperity, sustainability, health and justice for all. This is what will change the world… a ground swell of people pouring their energy into manifesting their ‘preferred future’ instead of being worn down by disillusion and disappointment.
- Molly Carlile
What are Your Dreams for Women?
Antigone Magazine
C/O WILLA
Box 61 – 6138 SUB Blvd
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1
OR antigonemagazine(at)hotmail.com
More Postcards here
C/O WILLA
Box 61 – 6138 SUB Blvd
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1
OR antigonemagazine(at)hotmail.com
Greetings, all! Amanda and Kaitlin are away finishing theses and wrapping up loose ends, so I’ll be posting Dreams for Women postcards from now on (because I rock and am awesome [says Amanda]). Here are some long overdue postcards, as promised. Keep them coming!
A special thanks to Anne Prampart, who made us the beautiful envelope and message (the first three below). Merci, Anne!
What are your dreams for women?
What are your own dreams for yourself, your friends, your sisters, your daughters? Paint, draw, write, sketch or decoupage your dreams on a postcard and send or e-mail it to the address below:
Antigone Magazine
c/o WILLA UBC
Box 61-6138
SUB Boulevard
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1
OR antigonemagazine(at)hotmail.com
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What is Antigone Magazine? We’re a grassroots national magazine that works to encourage young women to get involved in politics in Canada. We work to empower young women to engage politically and civically and to actively take part in leadership roles. We are raising money in order to help launch the Antigone Foundation, a national foundation that will encourage young women aged 10-30 to get politically and civically engaged. Help support Antigone as we help to make the dreams of young women come true!
Sabine at the fabulous blog, www.confabulous.ca (check it out – it is my new obsession!) has started up a discussion on the future of the women’s movement, that I think everyone should check out!
I think this is a difficult discussion that we need to have and which I’ve been having offline with a number of feminist friends across Canada over the last month. How can we mobilize feminists across Canada to collaborate, and how can we do so without marginalizing or oppressing groups or individuals? This is a question that my generation needs to tackle and which I think we have often tried to do so.
In response to Sabine’s request for her readers’ dreams for the women’s movement, I added the comment below? Go check out Sabine’s blog and join in the conversation by adding your own dream!
I would like a stronger women’s movement and a more connected women’s movement. With Web 2.0 technologies, we should be able to create something where women from across Canada and women within our provinces and cities can connect, share, help each other, and collaborate. What are each of our organization’s goals and how can we help each other reach them – how can we include other organizations within the very structure of our events, instead of just having an ‘information table’ for other organizations to promote their events and causes. How can we interest those who might not be already within the struggle to join us? How do we market feminism?
I’ve worked with a number of different organizations and I find that what they all could improve on is working with each other. There is a real need for some sort of collaboration and easy communication between organizations as I think the organizations’ goals are often quite similar. How can we work together and support each other and plan together?
We talk so much about organizational strategic plans these days but I think we need a strategic plan that works across organizations and that unites organizations. We also need to be able to know who is out there and who is working on what issues and how to contact them.
How can we figure out what we all want and what we would like to see and how we can ensure that we do not oppress or marginalize certain groups in our movement? There has been talk that there is no one women’s movement anymore, but that their are various separate movements (and that that is important because it allows certain groups to prioritize their issues) but how can we work together and support each other if that is the case?
And then comes the question of how can we fund feminist work and support feminist work and get people interested in feminist work? And how can we have our work listened to by the media and by politicians? What was it about the National Action Committee that previously gave it such prominence and why has that prominence faded?
And how can we acknowledge different political positions within the feminist movement without alienating people from the movement? How can we keep it from becoming a question of who is feminist enough?
These are all questions that I think we need to think about and talk about. I would LOVE to have a monthly or bimonthly ‘Future of (Canadian) Feminism’ Blogging carnival! I am a little busy at the moment finishing my thesis but I volunteer to create one for July when I will be done… unless someone wants to take my idea and start it before then… in which case, Antigone will host the second one!
This to me is an absolutely crucial discussion to have – what is our future, where do we go from here, how can we continue getting stronger? But we also need to figure out how we can guard against the discriminatory and marginalizing tendencies of past organizations. We must do better than we have before.
Please come out to Our Town Cafe (245 East Broadway) on Thursday, April 23, 7:00PM for Bad Dates, Campus Creapers and Drug Rape. Two representatives from Antigone Magazine will be there with representatives from the Aboriginal Women’s Action Network, the BC Women’s Hospital Sexual Assault Center, Vancouver Rape Relief and WAVAW.
It’s all part of their weeklong Urban Woman’s Anti-Violence Strategy: Critical and Essential Feminist Services. For more information, visit www.wavaw.ca.
So, you might be wondering where Dreams for Women went? Well, our wonderful community art project is not gone… it is just on hiatus.
What is this hiatus for, you might ask? Well, its because I’m currently working four part time jobs and finishing my graduate degree. Ugh! Craziness. Anyways, we have gotten some absolutely beautiful postcards (from as far away as France and Portugal!).
Can’t wait to share them with you… but can I wait until mid-May?
With love,
Amanda
I just got this e-mail! Yay Antigone Magazine:
Just in case you didn’t know, you’ve been nominated for Best Feminist Blog – Oh! Canada! English in the 2009 Canadian F-word Awards! First round voting is April 11 – 14 (extended!). One vote per IP addy, please.
What does being nominated for an F-word Award mean, besides glamour, prestige, and a pretty badge to display on your blog? In the big scheme of things, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! More acutely though, it means that someone who is aware of the awards likes your blog enough to nominate it in our anti-sexist snark festival. It means someone thinks you kick ass! AND YOU DO! W00t!
Come on over and celebrate blogging women – we’re having a party and you’re the guest of honour!
Good luck, and thanks for participating.
- Dr. Prole and Pale @ A Creative Revolution
***We are recruiting a diverse group of students from all walks of life at UBC***
The Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth at UBC announces a new project:
TAG LIVING LAB — Walking the talk for educational equity
Be a part of:
-Improving educational equity at UBC
-Finding solutions to challenging classroom situations
-Creating awareness about real student experiences
Participants in the Living Lab Troupe will:
-commit 3 hours per week, September-March, plus 3-5 performances
-engage in a collaborative process with a diverse group of students to devise interactive theatre sketches about challenging situations in the classroom
-perform sketches for the UBC teaching community
-dialogue with audiences about complexities and challenges in diverse and multicultural teaching and learning environments
-become part of a tight community of students: share your stories, learn from others, develop skills and expertise, take risks and have fun!
To learn more about who we’re looking for, see attached flyer.
To express your interest in becoming a part of the TAG Living Lab Troupe, email yael.harlap[at]ubc.ca by **May 1, 2009** and tell us (in up to 100 words):
1. Why you’re interested &
2. What you have to contribute
Remember that we’re looking to create the most diverse possible group, representing all walks of life at UBC!
***You do not need theatre experience, just willingness and passion!***
What: Panel discussion with:
Judy Rebick – former president, Nat’l Action C’ttee. on the Status of Women
Tricia Marwick – Scottish MP, and successful advocate for STV in local elections
Shoni Field – Citizens’ Assembly member additional speaker TBA.
When: Friday, April 17th, 2009, 12-1:00pm
Where: YWCA (Welch Room), 535 Hornby Street, Vancouver
Ever wonder why we elect so few women? A paltry 24% of BC MLAs are women. Voters aren’t the problem –British Columbians are just as likely to vote for women as they are for men.
What we lack are enough women candidates. There are many factors that make it difficult or unappealing for women to run. However, even if we want to run, our current electoral system places barriers in our way.
First Past the Post has the worst record on women’s representation of any electoral system. Fortunately we can get rid of these structural barriers by voting for BC-STV in the May 12th referendum. Come for lunch and find out more
Please feel free to forward this invitation to other women who might be interested.
RSVP (by email or by calling 604-637-3551) by April 15th
*Lunch is provided. Donations to help cover costs are greatly appreciated.
