Menstrual Pad poster Campaign
Hey Women - need a pad? Too bad. You can’t have one! Why not? Because Campus Planning refuses to fill the dispensers in the women’s washroom.How often has your period snuck up on you and left you stuck? Are you tired of desperately asking friend after friend for pads or tampons? Join the R.S.U. Women’s Centre in demanding that Campus Planning fill our machines! Help make menstrual products an essential part of Ryerson’s washrooms. Email womenscentre@rsuonline.ca for more info or if you have a comment. Come by the office and ask us about how you can help!
2010-02-11
Real Women of Ryerson
What does it mean to be beautiful? In our modern world, the idea of being "beautiful" has been altered due to unrealistic images of women in the fashion and entertainment industries. The use of airbrushing has gone overboard so that "slimmed thighs, whittled waists, smoothed skin" are considered standard. The way that women are portrayed promotes unrealistic ideals of beauty.
The Ryerson Women's Centre is working to promote realistic beauty ideas by featuring real Ryerson women in posters across the campus. We will also be taking polaroid pictures of anyone who is interested in our campaign whenever we do outreach as well as asking people to tell us what they think beauty means. By featuring images of real women that have not been airbrushed or retouched in any way, people will be reminded of what women in the real world look like!
2010-01-21
Ryerson Athletic Centre Campaign for Women's Only Hours
The Women's Centre is working alongside women in the community to start a campaign towards Women's Only hours in gym.
There are times that women don't feel comfortable going to the gym alone. For example, some women feel intimidated when working out in the weight room.
Some women can't even go to the gym and exercise for cultural reasons because the gym has males.
Want to get involved? Email, call or visit us in the Women's Centre!
2009-09-30
The Trans Human Rights Campaign
The Trans Human Rights Campaign is trying to incorporate, “gender identity” as prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Ontario Human Rights Code! For more information about the Trans Human Rights Campaign visit: www.transhumanrightscampaign.org
Trans Rights are Human Rights
Canadian Human Rights Act Amendment to include Gender IdentityThe Government of Canada needs to take a stand against transphobia and discrimination against trans people by amending the adding Canadian Human Rights Act to include “Gender Identity”.
Gender Identity would protect trans people (a term that includes, but is not limited to, transsexual and transgender persons).
Gender Identity refers not to biological sex or sexual orientation, but the inner sense of being male or female, or both, or neither, or in between.
Only two Canadian jurisdictions have explicitly enumerated human rights protection for trans people: The North West Territories and the City of Toronto.
Trans people experience, transphobia, a form of discrimination directed against trans people based on fear, ignorance and hatred. An example of this is ‘transbashing’, similar to gay bashing, and involves physical and/or sexual violence directed against trans people.
In 1999, trans activists in San Francisco created the first Trans Day of Remembrance, Remembering Our Dead (www.rememberingourdead.org) to commemorate the lives of trans persons who were brutally murdered as a result of transphobia. Today, this event is recognised in cities across the globe every November 20.
To date, the Canadian Government has failed to amend the Canadian Human Rights Code to include ‘gender identity’. Now is the time to deliver on Trans Human Rights!
2009-09-30
Stolen Sisters Postcard Campaign
Ending Indifference to the safety of Aboriginal Women in Canada
"There is one fundamental fact: her murder was a racist and sexist act. Helen Betty Osborne would be alive today had she not been an Aboriginal woman.”
- Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba
According to Canadian government statistics, young Aboriginal women are five times more likely than other women of the same age to die as the result of violence. The Women’s Centre has been active on advocacy campaigns on broader social justice issues that may impact the quality of life of marginalized women who access The Centre.
In particular, our “Stolen Sisters” campaign is particularly relevant to our mandate (and dear to our activist hearts) because it seeks to shed light on the numerous cases of violence against Aboriginal women that have gone unnoticed by governments, as well as to make connections between poverty, lack of access to post-secondary education, and structural forms of discrimination that work in tandem to put Aboriginal women at unacceptable levels of risk.
Please join the Women’s Centre at this year’s Dec. 6th Memorial (to be held on Friday Dec. 5th) highlighting the Stolen Sisters Campaign in the quad by the Remembrance Sculpture to raise awareness and push all levels of government to take action now! Pick up a postcard in the office TODAY!
STOLEN SISTERS FACTS:
- Social and economic marginalization of Aboriginal women, along with a history of gov’t policies that have torn apart Aboriginal communities, push a disproportionate number of women into situations of extreme poverty, homeless, and prostitution
- The resulting vulnerability of Aboriginal women has been exploited by Indigenous and non-indigenous men to carry out acts of extreme brutality against them
- Within this societal context, the murder of Aboriginal women is fundamentally a racist and sexist act.
Taken from amnesty.ca, Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada (2004)
Email Address: womenscenre@rsuonline.ca
2009-09-30
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