Toronto Women's City Alliance

The Strawberry Ceremony will be online this year and is starting soon - https://www.facebook.com/events/2948888282015312

It is time to act. Call and write your councillor and the mayor today!!!!!!

Wise words shared: PSA Not everyone is made for the frontline, so don’t guilt trip yourself because you think you MUST be on the frontlines to support! This goes out especially to the disabled, chronically ill, their caretakers, nurses/doctors, grocery store workers, farmers, and all other essential persons.... SUPPORT IN OTHER WAYS Donate to a BAIL FUND in your area or around the country Donate MEDICAL SUPPLIES to people working as medics at the protests FEED PEOPLE - buy food and water, or make food, and donate it to those who are part of or affected by the protests VOLUNTEER at non-hot zone areas to supply food and water Continue to EDUCATE the people around you - this is also emotional labor PICK UP people from the hot-zone if they need it Offer to WATCH KIDS if their parents are organizers and need to be on the frontline CONFRONT RACISM wherever you see it, online and with family/friends SHARE LINKS to every resource for protestors you can find - bail funds, information for those arrested, safety precautions, updates for those in your area, etc DONATE directly to frontline people and organizations WRITE articles and blog posts in support of the ongoing protests ORGANIZE on your jobs and in your communities for fair and equitable practices REST is revolutionary and inherently anti-capitalist too, so do your best to rest when you can, and take care of yourself and those around you as much as possible. ***COPY AND PASTE without attribution if you want to share ***

When we are told to stay home to stay safe, there are so many that are not safe even in their homes. 29 year-old Afro-Indigenous woman Regis Korchinski-Paquet w...as killed while at home yesterday. There must be a full, public, and completely independent investigation into her death #justiceforregis #sayhername This is the time for ally ship from white people and non-Black people of colour.

We're proud to be presenting our hot-off-the-press report at the Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative online conference this morning! We've put a feminist lens on harm... reduction take a first look here: English summary: aidslaw.ca//gendering-the-scene-women-gender-diverse-peo/ English full report: aidslaw.ca//gendering-the-scene-women-gender-diverse-peo/ French summary: (full report to come) aidslaw.ca//gendering-the-scene-women-gender-diverse-peo/

Next Wednesday we are holding our first COVID CONVERSATIONS partner event together with the University of Toronto Scarborough, The City Institute at York Univer...sity, and the Goethe Institut. Moderators Ahmed Allahwala, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Scarborough, and Roger Keil, Professor, York University, will discuss "Ortskenntnisse", or "knowledge of place" perspectives from Berlin, Toronto & Vancouver with: Jay Pitter, placemaker, author, speaker and Bousfield Distinguished Visitor in Planning, University of Toronto. Alex Flynn, Assistant Professor Michael Götting, author, journalist, curator and theatre worker; and Markus Kip, Urban Researcher Register: canurb.org/citytalk