¤ Field Notes from the Feminist Economy
¤ Field Notes from the Feminist Economy
Roe v. Wade. Amber Heard. Recent mainstream media articles suggest feminism is not only losing, but dying. Is it?
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Roe v. Wade. Amber Heard. Recent mainstream media articles suggest feminism is not only losing, but dying. Is it?
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On June 7th and 8th, over 200 gender equity NGO’s, grassroots feminists, feminist organizations and women’s organization CEOs gathered-in person-at Carleton University in Ottawa. What was it like?
We must understand that financial independence is a cornerstone to dignity, and that achieving financial independence for women in India is fraught with societal challenges
Women’s and gender minority rights are again under attack; It’s time to organize for power. But do we remember how?
A collection of provocative essays from a quick-witted, queer, non-binary, sex-positive, working-class anti-capitalist.
The number of women venture fund partners and women-led venture funds are at an all time high. But raising money is still a grind for women entrepreneurs.
Alexandra Mandewo, 18, recently won an award for her poem – Believe Her.
Breaking patriarchal bonds, defying age-old norms, fighting social injustice… this activist, feminist and humanist takes centre stage yet again to raise awareness about violence against women.
Studies have been done about the hardships that Black female entrepreneurs face. The proposed solutions are literally steeped in capitalism & white supremacy.–Althea Branton
Women’s and gender minority rights are again under attack; It’s time to organize for power. But do we remember how?
How a game designer creates games to nurture and promote eco-activism.
Meet three indie media mavericks who are challenging the patriarchal definition of journalism in Canada.
If the small business space is mostly conservative, where does a left-leaning woman entrepreneur go for solidarity and support?
For Moore, keeping overheads down by designing and implementing a frictionless, flow-based business model and finding clients are critical factors for a successful business.
International Women’s Day (#IWD2022) is over 100 years old. It creates connection. Amplifies important initiatives. So why “flip the script”?
Less than 10% of all indie media outlets in Canada are majority women led and/or owned.
Let’s change that.
Are you passionate about a social justice cause and activism but don’t know how to interact with politicians? Then this workshop is for you! As activists, part of our job is lobbying politicians to support our cause, but to some this may be a daunting process. Canada has three levels of government, and you may be unsure which level to reach out to.
The workshop will present a brief overview of each government’s jurisdiction to give you a better understanding of who to contact depending on your cause. You will also receive tips on how to interact with politicians at the municipal, provincial, and federal government in the Canadian context.
Speakers:
Paige Mason is a fourth-year political science major at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba. She has been a board member of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada since September 2020. She became interested in feminism and social justice advocacy as a teenager, which led her to pursue a degree in politics and become an activist for reproductive justice.
Paige has been involved with numerous feminist and human rights groups, such as representing her community in 2021 Daughters of the Vote, and volunteering with the Manitoba Association for Rights and Liberties, Justice4BlackLivesWinnipeg, the Manitoba NDP, and recently Access MB, a grassroots organization advocating for no-cost contraception. She has experience interacting with elected officials at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels and has worked as an executive assistant to a Winnipeg city councillor. Through her years as a political science student, Paige has gained extensive knowledge of the Canadian political system and has taken a specific interest in the intertwining of politics and abortion rights.
Date: June 18th (Saturday)
Location: Online
Cost: $10
AMC2022 will explore emerging futures at the intersection of art, technology, education, media, and visionary resistance/organizing. It will convene nationally online and in-person for residents of Detroit, Metro Detroit, and communities throughout Michigan (occupied Anishinaabe, Peoria, and Meskwaki land) from June 30th – July 3rd, 2022. To make our conference as accessible and COVID-19 safe as possible, we are asking participants who are not located within the Detroit Metro Area to join us virtually.
Date: June 30-July 3rd
Location: Hybrid (Detroit and Online)
Cost: $75-500
For more information and to register
About the Event:
The study of music from the perspective of feminist theory raises significant questions that transcend the methodologies of any one subdiscipline of music. Feminist Theory and Music (FT&M) has met biennially since 1991 to provide an international, transdisciplinary forum for scholarly thought about music in relation to gender and sexuality, as well as for performances that present such thought in sound and embodied action.
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Date: Thursday, July 7 to Sunday, July 10
Cost: $32.04-$83.79
Location:
Arts Research Centre, University of Guelph
50 Stone Road East
Guelph, ON N1G 2W1
Become more proactive, intentional, & effective in how your business advocates feminism & holds itself accountable to feminist communities.
By virtue of calling ours “feminist” businesses, we are making a public and personal commitment to holding ourselves accountable to feminist values and feminist communities. However, since there is no “Feminist Authority” to tell us when we’re meeting our commitments or straying from them, we need to develop our own systems of accountability.
In this workshop, we’ll explore several tactics being used in feminist businesses to hold ourselves accountable as individuals, as groups working together, as entities within marketplaces, and as actors/agents in a larger feminist movement.
Tactics we’ll discuss include (and won’t be limited to) accountability statements, quarterly scorecards, clearness meetings, accountability partners, and peer review teams.
We’ll also consider and help each other understand:
– what kinds of commitments make sense for ourselves and our businesses,
– how we can establish relationships within which we can hold brave and effective accountability conversations, and
– how we can participate in our feminist ecosystem to nudge each other forward with care and love.
Participants will leave with a fuller sense of what commitments they want to take on personally and as a business unit, how they want to be held accountable, and how they can contribute to and support other feminist businesses’ goals.
This workshop is best for:
Date: July 11
Time: 10:00 AM to 1:00 AM EST
Location: Online
Cost: $30-$75
Join us to celebrate women’s empowerment, share your glorifying uplifting stories, empower and inspire Toronto immigrants. This is the opportunity for you to network closely with some amazing business high-achievers, females thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, activists. (All Genders are Welcome).
Date: Friday, July 15
Time: 5:00-9:30 PM
LOCATION: Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West
TO REGISTER
COST: $0 – $250 (sponsors)
AGENDA
4.30pm – Networking, Meet IWB Influencers, Sponsors, Partners
5: 30pm – Speed Networking. 1min elevator pitch – Inspirational (3 best win prizes)
6: 00pm – Find answers from our expert Entrepreneurs, Mentor-Mentee match, field-specific, you will get 30 min free mentoring session from influencers on sales, marketing, investment, customer acquisition, leadership, mindset, spirituality, biz start up, scalability, export/import, financial management, how to define your vision and strategy , sales forecasts, projections and resource needs.
Enjoy delicious drinks and snacks, share collaborative networking, enjoy meaningful conversation and support IWB’s Mission to unite women to be change agents in the world and IWB’s Goal – accelerating women’s business ownership and strengthen their impact on the economy.
Enjoy collaborative networking, enjoy meaningful conversation and support IWB’s Mission to unite women to be change agents in the world and IWB’s Goal – accelerating women’s business ownership and strengthen their impact on the economy. You will gain inspiration from remarkable IWB Founding Members as they share their experiences and offer insight into the world of business.
6:30pm – Opening Keynote by Alex Ihama – Motivation, Darine BenAmara – Gender Equality, Stephen Clarke– Social Impact, Natasha E. Feghali, Janet Brown– Women Empowerment Naira Velumyan, Diversity Zaire Wanzambi & Peter Ratnikov– Youth Empowerment
7.00pm – Book Launch ‘Narcissism’, Congratulations Marian Balogun
7:10pm – Circle of Unity & Love – candles, hearts, minute of silence, gratitude Jenny Kalimbet Mila Bezpala-Brown Olesya Kolisnyk
7:20pm – QUIZ by Jelena Solujic About Women’s Leaders – Win Prizes
7:30pm – Inspirational Speeches by Entrepreneurs, Women-Leaders, Activists, IWB Founding Members 1 min each: Aziza Zareh, Eszter Sebok, Maria Carolina Ojeda, Annie Hardock, Shirin Ariff, Arnella Renda-Tarantino, Gila Yefet, Zak Lioutas,, Kim Singh, Kacy Chohan, Micky Gulati
7.45pm – City official Kinga Surma, MPP, MODERATOR: Dr. Doaa Mohsen
7:55 – Inspirational Heroes Irina Jacobson, Papito Wilson and exciting announcement: Tony Simms will be inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame
8:05 – Francine Mbvoumbo, New Program Launch Mothers to Daughters (M2D)
8:15 – Jacqueline Dixon, Thank you Sponsors Alterna Savings, Scotia Bank, CryptoLifeTo, Bazar Online, Atomiic Exchange Purpose Driven Travel, Comda Promotional Products
CONTENT – ENCOURAGING POSITIVE IMPACTS
IWB promotes diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and access. Diversity makes us more innovative, creative and leads to better decision-making, among all other positive impacts. We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity of people and content across all communities.
5:30 PM Speeches to Empower by Attendees and IWB members
MOTIVATION: Maria Carolina Ojeda, Inspirational Business Leader, helping you discover your PASSION & PURPOSE and Alex Ihama Global Leadership Speaker
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT Panelists: Hamza Saeed, Sandeep Kathuria , Tanesha Agrawal, Maisie Cu, Arlene Arrospide, Mofę Adesina, Vishwa Jardosh, Diksha Wasal, Sam Elattar, Fareshta Ghanikhill Moderator: Jacqueline Dixon
250 people will be attending this event. You must be registered. Seats are limited.
Sponsorship- and Exhibition opportunities are available to a limited few. Sponsors will shine in a powerful group.
Please Contact: Svetlana at 416.824.0015 info@immigrantwomeninbusiness.com for more information.
On June 7th and 8th, over 200 gender equity NGO’s, grassroots feminists, feminist organizations and women’s organization CEOs gathered-in person-at Carleton University in Ottawa. What was it like?
Roe v. Wade. Amber Heard. Recent mainstream media articles suggest feminism is not only losing, but dying. Is it?
Alexandra Mandewo, 18, recently won an award for her poem – Believe Her.
We must understand that financial independence is a cornerstone to dignity, and that achieving financial independence for women in India is fraught with societal challenges
Breaking patriarchal bonds, defying age-old norms, fighting social injustice… this activist, feminist and humanist takes centre stage yet again to raise awareness about violence against women.
Women’s and gender minority rights are again under attack; It’s time to organize for power. But do we remember how?
A collection of provocative essays from a quick-witted, queer, non-binary, sex-positive, working-class anti-capitalist.
The number of women venture fund partners and women-led venture funds are at an all time high. But raising money is still a grind for women entrepreneurs.
How a game designer creates games to nurture and promote eco-activism.
Studies have been done about the hardships that Black female entrepreneurs face. The proposed solutions are literally steeped in capitalism & white supremacy.–Althea Branton
In this personal essay, creative entrepreneur Timaj Garad shares her experience attending StrikeUp 2022– A ‘not business as usual’ conference for women entrepreneurs.
FREE DOWNLOADABLE 8-PAGE ZINE Time to educate yourself on Canada’s abortion rights history, the current landscape of organizations working to maintain these rights, increase access and ideas about what YOU can do to ensure these rights are there for people who need them in the future.
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Highlight Reels For All Six Episodes from Season One/Two Now Available on Youtube.
Episode #1: Farzana Doctor/Seven
Episode #2: Catherine Bush/Blaze Island
Episode #3: Nora Loretto/Take Back the Fight
Episode #4: Leanne Betsamosake Simpson
Episode #5: Shaena Lambert/Petra
Episode #6: Jael Richardson/Gutter Child
Episode #7: Rivera Sun/Winds of Change
Episode #8: Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo/The Queer Evangelist
Join Lana Pesch again 2022 for another series of intimate conversations with feminist authors at The Feminist Enterprise Commons.
We are a non ad-based, open access, nonprofit indie media enterprise that funds its editorial work via reader and allied sponsor donations.
In 2021, we published over 50 original feature stories about social justice centered founders and their venture crafting work. We also published policy critiques, news and views from the intersectional feminist movement’s front lines, plus informative essays and “how to” articles.
Less than 10% of all indie media outlets in Canada are majority women led and/or owned.
Let’s change that.
About Equal Futures 2022: A Gender Equality Summit Collaboration, Collective Action and Community Are you interested in advancing gender equality in your community? Are you looking to connect with gender equality champions, innovators and influencers?
Equal Futures 2022 is a unique opportunity to re-energize Canada’s gender equality movement by expanding the capacity of champions working to advance gender equality in communities across the country.
The Summit will be an inspiring platform to strengthen our collective actions in creating real, lasting change to advance gender equality and ensure equal futures for all from coast-to-coast-to-coast!
Summit objectives:
1. Bring the members of the gender equality movement in Canada together to deepen partnerships and build community connections;
2. Create authentic spaces for attendees that allows them to share knowledge, strengthen capacity and collaborate. 3. Provide a platform for the gender equality community to come together and push for collective action in the key areas that impact them.
Registration for our first-ever gender equality summit, Equal Futures 2022: A Gender Equality Summit, is now open! Taking place from June 7 to 8, 2022, the summit will be held at the beautiful Richcraft Hall, overlooking the Rideau River, at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Date: June 7, 8 2022
Location: Ottawa (In Real Life)
Where: Carleton University (9376 University Dr, Ottawa, ON)
Conference will take place in Richcraft Hall.
Campus Map
For more information and to register, visit:
Equal Futures 2022: A Gender Equality Summit
AMC2022 will explore emerging futures at the intersection of art, technology, education, media, and visionary resistance/organizing. It will convene nationally online and in-person for residents of Detroit, Metro Detroit, and communities throughout Michigan (occupied Anishinaabe, Peoria, and Meskwaki land) from June 30th – July 3rd, 2022. To make our conference as accessible and COVID-19 safe as possible, we are asking participants who are not located within the Detroit Metro Area to join us virtually.
Date: June 30-July 3rd
Location: Hybrid (Detroit and Online)
Cost: $75-500
For more information and to register
About the Event:
The study of music from the perspective of feminist theory raises significant questions that transcend the methodologies of any one subdiscipline of music. Feminist Theory and Music (FT&M) has met biennially since 1991 to provide an international, transdisciplinary forum for scholarly thought about music in relation to gender and sexuality, as well as for performances that present such thought in sound and embodied action.
______________________________________
Date: Thursday, July 7 to Sunday, July 10
Cost: $32.04-$83.79
Location:
Arts Research Centre, University of Guelph
50 Stone Road East
Guelph, ON N1G 2W1
Become more proactive, intentional, & effective in how your business advocates feminism & holds itself accountable to feminist communities.
By virtue of calling ours “feminist” businesses, we are making a public and personal commitment to holding ourselves accountable to feminist values and feminist communities. However, since there is no “Feminist Authority” to tell us when we’re meeting our commitments or straying from them, we need to develop our own systems of accountability.
In this workshop, we’ll explore several tactics being used in feminist businesses to hold ourselves accountable as individuals, as groups working together, as entities within marketplaces, and as actors/agents in a larger feminist movement.
Tactics we’ll discuss include (and won’t be limited to) accountability statements, quarterly scorecards, clearness meetings, accountability partners, and peer review teams.
We’ll also consider and help each other understand:
– what kinds of commitments make sense for ourselves and our businesses,
– how we can establish relationships within which we can hold brave and effective accountability conversations, and
– how we can participate in our feminist ecosystem to nudge each other forward with care and love.
Participants will leave with a fuller sense of what commitments they want to take on personally and as a business unit, how they want to be held accountable, and how they can contribute to and support other feminist businesses’ goals.
This workshop is best for:
Date: July 11
Time: 10:00 AM to 1:00 AM EST
Location: Online
Cost: $30-$75
Join us to celebrate women’s empowerment, share your glorifying uplifting stories, empower and inspire Toronto immigrants. This is the opportunity for you to network closely with some amazing business high-achievers, females thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, activists. (All Genders are Welcome).
Date: Friday, July 15
Time: 5:00-9:30 PM
LOCATION: Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West
TO REGISTER
COST: $0 – $250 (sponsors)
AGENDA
4.30pm – Networking, Meet IWB Influencers, Sponsors, Partners
5: 30pm – Speed Networking. 1min elevator pitch – Inspirational (3 best win prizes)
6: 00pm – Find answers from our expert Entrepreneurs, Mentor-Mentee match, field-specific, you will get 30 min free mentoring session from influencers on sales, marketing, investment, customer acquisition, leadership, mindset, spirituality, biz start up, scalability, export/import, financial management, how to define your vision and strategy , sales forecasts, projections and resource needs.
Enjoy delicious drinks and snacks, share collaborative networking, enjoy meaningful conversation and support IWB’s Mission to unite women to be change agents in the world and IWB’s Goal – accelerating women’s business ownership and strengthen their impact on the economy.
Enjoy collaborative networking, enjoy meaningful conversation and support IWB’s Mission to unite women to be change agents in the world and IWB’s Goal – accelerating women’s business ownership and strengthen their impact on the economy. You will gain inspiration from remarkable IWB Founding Members as they share their experiences and offer insight into the world of business.
6:30pm – Opening Keynote by Alex Ihama – Motivation, Darine BenAmara – Gender Equality, Stephen Clarke– Social Impact, Natasha E. Feghali, Janet Brown– Women Empowerment Naira Velumyan, Diversity Zaire Wanzambi & Peter Ratnikov– Youth Empowerment
7.00pm – Book Launch ‘Narcissism’, Congratulations Marian Balogun
7:10pm – Circle of Unity & Love – candles, hearts, minute of silence, gratitude Jenny Kalimbet Mila Bezpala-Brown Olesya Kolisnyk
7:20pm – QUIZ by Jelena Solujic About Women’s Leaders – Win Prizes
7:30pm – Inspirational Speeches by Entrepreneurs, Women-Leaders, Activists, IWB Founding Members 1 min each: Aziza Zareh, Eszter Sebok, Maria Carolina Ojeda, Annie Hardock, Shirin Ariff, Arnella Renda-Tarantino, Gila Yefet, Zak Lioutas,, Kim Singh, Kacy Chohan, Micky Gulati
7.45pm – City official Kinga Surma, MPP, MODERATOR: Dr. Doaa Mohsen
7:55 – Inspirational Heroes Irina Jacobson, Papito Wilson and exciting announcement: Tony Simms will be inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame
8:05 – Francine Mbvoumbo, New Program Launch Mothers to Daughters (M2D)
8:15 – Jacqueline Dixon, Thank you Sponsors Alterna Savings, Scotia Bank, CryptoLifeTo, Bazar Online, Atomiic Exchange Purpose Driven Travel, Comda Promotional Products
CONTENT – ENCOURAGING POSITIVE IMPACTS
IWB promotes diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and access. Diversity makes us more innovative, creative and leads to better decision-making, among all other positive impacts. We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity of people and content across all communities.
5:30 PM Speeches to Empower by Attendees and IWB members
MOTIVATION: Maria Carolina Ojeda, Inspirational Business Leader, helping you discover your PASSION & PURPOSE and Alex Ihama Global Leadership Speaker
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT Panelists: Hamza Saeed, Sandeep Kathuria , Tanesha Agrawal, Maisie Cu, Arlene Arrospide, Mofę Adesina, Vishwa Jardosh, Diksha Wasal, Sam Elattar, Fareshta Ghanikhill Moderator: Jacqueline Dixon
250 people will be attending this event. You must be registered. Seats are limited.
Sponsorship- and Exhibition opportunities are available.
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