SBA Programming and Events
- QT2SBIPOC Summer Social (with Ice Cream!)
Community Events and Resources
- Government Survey on Accessibility Standards in Education
- Proclaiming our Roots: An oral history project by and for mixed Black and Indigenous people
- Slut Walk Toronto: Saturday, August 12, 2017, 2-6 p.m.
- Anti-Oppression and Anti-Racism Workshop
- LGBTQ+ Penpals Needed
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing BIPOC Space
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SBA Programming and Events
QT2SBIPOC Summer Social (with Ice Cream!)
Join Students for Barrier-free Access (SBA) and the Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Trans* People of the University of Toronto (LGBTOUT) for a summer social for Queer, Trans and Two-Spirit, Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (QT2SBIPOC).
We will have ice cream (including vegan and gluten free ice cream), fruit and exciting toppings, along with some other snacks. There will also be activities, including games, colouring and crafting.
Join us for the treats, stay for the amazing people!
Date: Friday July 28, 2017
Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm
Location: SBA Centre, 215 Huron Street, Suite 924, on the 9th floor.
Wheelchair accessible. Accessible and all-gender washroom located on the same floor as the event room.
Please note that the SBA Centre is a scent-free space.
If you have any questions, or access needs please contact Nadia at sba.advocacycoordinator@gmail.com
***This is a QT2SBIPOC only space. As always, we appreciate the support we receive from our white allies by respecting this space and by sharing this event information with their networks.***
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Community Events and Resources
Government Survey on Accessibility Standards in Education
Ontario’s government is committed to ensuring that every student has access to the supports they need to succeed in school. The Education Act, administered by the Ministry of Education, provides the legislative framework for accommodations for students that are required by school boards. At the post-secondary level, the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development works with publicly funded colleges and universities to provide students with disabilities the necessary support services and accommodations they require.
You have been invited to share your thoughts on proposed areas of focus for a new accessibility standard for education under the Act. The information you share will be provided to a Standards Development Committee responsible for making recommendations to government. Your experiences with barriers you have faced to achieving an accessible education for yourself, your child, your students, or colleagues, as well as success stories you have witnessed in your school, college or university, will help to inform the work of the Committee.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EducationSurveyEN
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Proclaiming our Roots: An oral history project by and for mixed Black and Indigenous people
This summer, we want to hear from you about what it means to be Black and Indigenous!
Please join us for a weekend to create personal videos that explore your unique identity. Equipment, supplies, food, transit, tech training and an $X honoraria will be provided.
All you have to do is come ready to share.
Study location: Toronto, Ontario
Dates: August 25 – 28th, 2017
Space is limited. We need your commitment to attend all 4 days.
Participation is voluntary.
Childcare subsidies are available.
For more information about this research project, please contact: Ciann Wilson, 519-884-0710 ext. 4911 ciann.wilson@gmail.com
This research project is funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and has been reviewed and approved by the Wilfrid Laurier University Research Ethics Board (REB #5239)
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Slut Walk Toronto: Saturday, August 12, 2017, 2-6 p.m.
In 2011 SlutWalk Toronto started a global movement against rape culture following an incident involving the Toronto Police Service instructing York University students not to dress provocatively to avoid victimization. Since then, SlutWalk has grown with solidarity actions in 60 cities across the world each year. This year SlutWalk Toronto is working with Maggie’s: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project and Silence is Violence to center sex workers rights in our struggle against rape culture and sexual violence.
On Thursday July 13th we invite you to join us for a community dinner and visioning meeting from 6-9pm at 526 Richmond Street East in downtown Toronto. We want to hear from community partners, SlutWalk participants and advocates as the need to keep pushing back against sexual violence, rape culture, stigmatizing attitudes, as well as systemic forms of oppression and violence is as prevalent as ever.
Together, we hope to establish space for people to share experience and learn from one another, strengthen individual and community capacity, and practice resistance to all forms of violence. We would like to engage in partnerships with other anti-oppression groups, community organizers, and social justice advocates to share resources and inform the upcoming SlutWalk 2017 march and rally scheduled for August 12th at Barbara Hall Park.
Please join us for a meal and visioning session to discuss SlutWalk 2017, your vision for a fantastic event and how we can make this year’s action as thoughtful and inclusive as possible! If you cannot make the dinner and would like to connect to see how our initiatives might complement one another, contact us at: slutwalk.yyz@gmail.com, Facebook, or Twitter.
Please also visit these links for more information about Maggie’s: Toronto Sex Worker Action Project and Silence is Violence UofT
Strength and solidarity,
SlutWalk TO Volunteer Team
Note:
**We encourage a scent-free environment and ask that participants refrain from using scented products before coming to the space.
**We will be able to provide childcare if you let us know in advance by email: slutwalk.yyz@gmail.com
**If you have any specific accessibility needs or dietary requirements please email: slutwalk.yyz@gmail.com and we will do our best to offer accommodations.–
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Anti-Oppression and Anti-Racism Workshop
This workshop for artists explores the language, theories and practices of anti-oppression in depth. Institutional, community based and organizational strategies for building equity and unlearning oppression are central to the content and objectives of the workshop. Creative, technical and collaborative models for building equity and liberation will be explored. Group activities, case studies and discussion are critical tools to apply the learnings of this workshop.
When: August 9th, 2017
Where: 180 Shaw Street (Artscape Youngspace)
Cost: FREE
Participants will have access to a plethora of digital and print resources to continue their learning journey beyond the scope of the session.
Presented in Partnership with Generator, and b current performing arts
Facilitator Rania El Mugammar
Part of the SummerWorks Intensive Leadership Program (S.L.I.P.), a series of public events that explore how we can remove barriers and dismantle systems of oppression through artistic practice.
ACCESS
All SummerWorks venues are physically accessible, and many events offer accessible options such as ASL Interpretation, Relaxed Performances, and free or discounted tickets. For more info on accessibility at SummerWorks, visit summerworks.ca/access
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LGBTQ+ Penpals Needed
Here at Prisoner Correspondence Project in Toronto, we have a stack of letters from individuals who are living their lies as LGBTQ+ people inside prison walls and are seeking a penpal. If you’re on the LGBTQ+ spectrum and are reading this message, please consider becoming a penpal through Prisoner Correspondence Project TO!
The isolation that incarcerated people experience is often more intense for those who are LGBTQ+ and transgender, Intersex and gender non-conforming people are over-represented in the prison industrial complex. Corresponding with a penpal is a small act of solidarity that can break through this isolation and create meaningful relationships.
If you’d like to become a penpal, email us at priscopro.toronto@gmail.com
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DEAF & HARD OF HEARING
BIPOC: BLACK, INDIGENOUS & PEOPLE OF COLOUR
Unite to share experiences and learn skills to enhance your life.
Springtide
Resources
@SPRINGTIDE_VAW
Location: 215 Spadina Ave, Suite 220 (Floor 2R)
(Spadina & Queen St. West) M5T 2C7
Email to register or for more info: info@springtideresources.org
Be heard!
Be inspired!
Become our
own advocates.
A SPACE JUST FOR US
Proudly brought to you by:
Springtide Resources, Alterna Community Fund and the LGBTQ Youth Initiative with generous support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
Students for Barrier-Free Access 