14 Thursday Jan 2010
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2010, Antigone Foundation, calendar, Dreams for women, female athletes, Olympics, postcards, Vancouver
We’ve uploaded two new videos about the calendar. Feel free to distribute them to help spread the word or show your support for all 2010 Women Athletes!
27 Tuesday Oct 2009
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2010, American athletes, Angela Ruggiero, Ashley Wagner, calendar, canada, Canadian Athletes, Cathy Priestner Allinger, cross country, Erin Hamlin, female athletes, figure skating, first nations, First Nations Snowboard Team, freestyle, girls, hockey, Julia Clukey, Katie Willis, Kirsten Manley-Casimir, luge, Michelle Roark, Olympics, para-nordic skiing, paralympics, Rachel Armstrong, Robbi Weldon, Sara Renner, ski jumping, snowboard, speed skating, US Athletes, Vancouver, volleyball, women
Ashley Wagner, U.S. Women’s Figure Skating Team
Robbi Weldon, Canadian Para-Nordic Skiing Team
Virginia Johnston, First Nations Snowboard Team
Katie Willis, Canadian Women’s Ski Jumpers Team
Sara Renner, Canada Women’s Cross Country Team
Angela Ruggiero, U.S. Women’s Hockey Team
As an organization based in Vancouver, we wanted to highlight the powerful women who will be competing in the Games and work with them to bring attention to the importance of women’s leadership and women’s equality! We believe that these women are fabulous role models for young women and we wanted to work with them to ensure that the Vancouver Olympics has a legacy of leadership for young Canadian women!
The amazing athletes who are featured are:
Rachel Armstrong, Canada Women’s Volleyball Julia Clukey, U.S. Women’s Luge Virginia, Johnton, First Nations Snowboard Team Erin Hamlin, U.S. Women’s Luge Kirsten Manley-Casimir, Canada Women’s Volleyball Cathy Priestner Allinger, Canada Women’s Speed Skating Sara Renner, Canada Women’s Cross Country Michelle Roark, U.S. Women’s Freestyle Skiing Angela Ruggiero, U.S. Women’s Hockey Robbi Weldon, Canada Women’s Para-Nordic Skiing Ashley Wagner, U.S. Women’s Figure Skating Katie Willis, Women’s Ski Jumpers
15 Wednesday Oct 2008
Posted in vancouver events, women's issues
“Keeping the (Gendered) Body in Mind: Doing Yoga with Foucault”
Dr. Cressida Heyes, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality, University of Alberta
“Philosophy of the body” often becomes something of an oxymoron: we think critically about bodies but usually from the head up, without integrating somatic practice into philosophical inquiry. For many practitioners developing bodily awareness is part of the solution to our disembodied existence. But awareness can itself come in different forms, some of which simply sediment the normalizing, panoptic experience of our embodied subjectivity that Foucault famously theorizes. This is especially true for women and for queer or gender non-conforming people, who are likely already to be self-conscious of their bodies due to objectification and alienation from their lived experience and desires. Thus the teaching of body politics can serve to perpetuate rather than genuinely undercut the embodied dynamics it purports to criticise. This presentation draws on the experience of teaching philosophy of the body and of teaching yoga (including within the same course) to argue that certain somatic practices can have politically liberatory effects for those who have been rendered “docile.”
Where: Swing Space Building, 2175 WEST MALL
http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=901
When: Oct 20, 2008, 4pm
12 Sunday Oct 2008
Posted in Dreams for women, vancouver events, women's issues, Young women
I would like to thank everyone who came to the exhibit this week at the UBC SUB Art Gallery! We really appreciated you coming and looking at the postcards, buying calendars and donating money to our project. But we especially appreciated those of you who created postcards! We’ve got a whole bunch of new postcards that we’ll be sharing with everyone over the next few weeks. The next Dreams for Women post, will feature the wonderful works of the generous local artists who donated their time and efforts to imagining a better world for women. I hope you will all look forward to that!
I would also like to remind everyone to pick up their Dreams for Women 2009 calendar! The information is in the post below! Buy one for yourself, buy a bunch for your friends as gifts or buy copies to sell as a fundraiser for your non-profit organization!
23 Tuesday Sep 2008
Posted in vancouver events, women's issues, Young women
Women’s and Gender Studies, UBC is presenting a free public lecture by
award winning Canadian writer Dionne Brand.
Dionne Brand
Inventory
Friday October 3, 2008
AERL Theater (Rm 120), 2202 Main Mall, UBC
7:00pm- 9:00pm
Lecture followed by a wine and cheese reception.
11 Thursday Sep 2008
Posted in vancouver events, women's issues, Young women
The Centre for Feminist Legal Studies presents:
Zara Suleman
Family Law Project Director,
West Coast LEAF
“Justicia in Your Face:
Addressing Race and Gender in Law Schools and Legal Education “
Room 157, Curtis Building
1822 East Mall, UBC
I felt during my law student days that I was always waiting for my legal education to being. I always felt that “something” was missing or perhaps that I was missing something…[I]f I could only change, perhaps fit in a little better, my law experience would be rewarding. Both the institution and some of my teachers reinforced this belief. Since then I have understood that the greatest obstacle was not myself but the very structure of the institution and the legal studies program.
– Patricia Monture Angus
As long as we see ourselves as not implicated in relations of power, as innocent, we cannot begin to walk the path of social justice and to thread our way through the complexities of power relations.
– Sherene Razack
Lecture: From the personal to the institutional – Zara Suleman will explore the issues of race and gender (among other intersections) that continue to isolate and make invisible the lived realities of racialized students in law school. This session is meant to be just a beginning to a larger discussion and brainstorm of strategies to address systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, ableism and other oppressions in law schools, legal education and practice.
Speaker Bio: Zara Suleman is the Family Law Project Director at West Coast LEAF (the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund) in Vancouver. She has a B.A. from Simon Fraser University, an LL.B. from the University of Ottawa and an LL.M. from the University of Victoria. She is a long-time activist and former front-line rape crisis and transition house worker. She has also worked actively on anti-racist initiatives and worked for several years as an immigrant and refugee community advocate. Zara’s most recent co-written publication with Leighann Burns is, “Justicia in Your Face: How to Survive Law as an Anti-Colonial, Anti-Racist, Feminist Activist” published in Calling For Change: Women, Law, and the Legal Profession, edited by Elizabeth Sheehy and Sheila McIntyre (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2006).
11 Thursday Sep 2008
Posted in vancouver events
Participate in UBC’s 2008 Suicide Awareness campaign by learning more about suicide prevention and sharing this information with others.
Did you know?
After motor vehicle accidents, suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among Canadians aged 15 – 24.
What is World Suicide Prevention Day, September 10th?
An event that:
-Calls attention to suicide as the leading cause of premature and preventable death.
-Invites development of activities to enhance understanding about suicide.
-Demonstrates how knowledge about suicide can be translated into effective suicide prevention programs.
To learn more, visit: http://iasp.info/wspd/index.php
What’s happening at UBC?
“Reach Out” is the theme of UBC’s Suicide Awareness Campaign, designed to increase awareness about warning signs of suicide and resources available to someone who may be feeling suicidal. The Suicide Awareness campaign supports other efforts at UBC to build a healthy, safe, and caring community.
What can you do?
Learn more about suicide prevention at the following events and resources:
Watch for the poster campaign designed to increase awareness of suicide prevention resources. Here is one of the posters designed for this event:
http://www.students.ubc.ca/counselling/download/suicideawareness_poster_13.pdf.
Look for awareness displays with information on warning signs of suicide as well campus and community resources at events throughout the fall including the Students Annual Wellness Fair, Nov 5th- 7th
Learn about UBC’s QPR Gatekeeper Training program which provides training in how to recognize the warning signs that someone may be contemplating suicide, how to reach out and how to link that person to appropriate resources. For more information about this program visit: http:///www.students.ubc.ca/counselling/qpr/
Talk about suicide prevention to help save lives.
This campaign is sponsored by:
AMS & Pride UBC Health, Safety & Environment
The Vice President Students Portfolio SAFER Counselling Service
Campus Security Vancouver Crisis Centre
First Nations House of Learning Vancouver Survivors Coalition
Human Resources The Josh Platzer Society
09 Sunday Mar 2008
Posted in Dreams for women, UN, vancouver events, Women and politics
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Antigone Magazine celebrated International Women’s Week by participating in two events:
March 8, 2008
BCIT Campus, Vancouver
“Women of the World Unite Against War and Poverty” Info Fair
February 25 – March 7, 2008
The UN, New York
52nd UN Commission on the Status of Women
“Financing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women”
Also included in the video are this week’s Dreams for Women (UN Edition!) postcards, which were made by other participants at the UNCSW. See them in bigger resolution below!
09 Sunday Mar 2008
Posted in vancouver events
Antigone Magazine celebrated International Women’s Week by participating in two events:
March 8, 2008
BCIT Campus, Vancouver
“Women of the World Unite Against War and Poverty” Info Fair
February 25 – March 7, 2008
The UN, New York
52nd UN Commission on the Status of Women
“Financing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women”
Also included in the video are this week’s Dreams for Women (UN Edition!) postcards, which were made by other participants at the UNCSW. See them in bigger resolution below!
09 Sunday Mar 2008
Posted in vancouver events, Women and politics
We from Antigone hope you are having a great day celebrating! Thank you to everyone who caught us at BCIT’s Info Fair. We hope you found your visit very informative and we hope to see you again soon!
~Antigone Staff
