¤ Field Notes from the Feminist Economy
¤ Field Notes from the Feminist Economy
“I was looking to create a space where we could feel safe to be authentic – feel safe to be supported, feel safe to, you know, focus on work-life balance, with the goal of protecting against clinician burnout. That was the big picture for us.”-Jillian Walsh
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“I was looking to create a space where we could feel safe to be authentic – feel safe to be supported, feel safe to, you know, focus on work-life balance, with the goal of protecting against clinician burnout. That was the big picture for us.”-Jillian Walsh
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The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, putting many other rights, not just the right to an abortion, under threat. While reproductive rights in Canada are more secure, this is not the time to become complacent.
When a cannabis enthusiast saw a gap in a modern day gold rush marketplace, she seized the opportunity.
Like many early-stage founders Houtekier said “Yes to everything”. Including the metaverse.
On June 7th and 8th, over 200 gender equity NGOS, 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?
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?
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
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
Less than 10% of all indie media outlets in Canada are majority women led and/or owned.
Let’s change that.
Contemporary artists of color contest the whiteness and colonial legacies of ‘queerness’ and do so on a global stage. In addition to such contestations, queer of color art and
visual culture render queer more capacious with the capacity to imagine otherwise. From the importance of genre such as portraiture to the critical valence of certain materialities, Dr. Bissonauth asks: how might a queer of color gaze incite another way of seeing; how do such works of art help us see differently?
This presentation will not adhere to a particular chronology; rather, Dr. Bissonauth approaches the material thematically. The presentation will mostly draw on contemporary examples (1980s onwards) alongside some historical sources that aim to shed light on transnational perspectives on queer, feminist, and transgender artmaking and aesthetic theory.
Date: July 20, 2022, 6:30-8:00pm EDT
Where: Online
Cost: Free
To register and learn more click here.
Ally Is A Verb: The Legacy of White Allyship examines the stories of white disrupters throughout American history.
If “not all white people are racist”, then how does white supremacy persist? This Workshop seeks to answer this question.
Session One: White Supremacy F***s Us All
Session Two: Meet the Disrupters
Session Three: Trauma, Self Regulation, and Allyship with special guest K Thomas
Session Four: When Allyship Goes Wrong
Session Five: What Makes a White Disrupter?
Date: August 5, 2022, 6:30pm – August 6, 2022, 1:30pm EDT
Where: Online
Cost: $228-$378
August 12th, 2022 (in-person/or virtual)
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT
LIVE in Toronto and ONLINE everywhere!
Cost: Free
On August 12th, 2022, the 1st IDEAS for Gender Equality Community Building Event will be held in beautiful downtown Toronto, Ontario (in-person as well as virtually).
To begin, a panel discussion will spotlight Multi-stakeholder Partnerships that have taken bold steps to promote gender equality through inclusion, diversity, equity and access solutions. Following the panel, participants will engage in collaborative solution-building (The #IDEAS4GE Innovation Challenge) to advance the full participation of women (in all their diversity) in the workplace, marketplace, and communities across Canada.
The #IDEAS4GE Innovation Challenge will build on panel insights and the lived experiences of participants from diverse stakeholder groups to accelerate gender equality in leadership, on boards, in trades, STEM, and entrepreneurial endeavours.
Join stakeholders from small/medium enterprises, big businesses, labour and trade associations, civil society, non-profit organizations, and government at all levels who share your commitment to promoting understanding and valuing the important contributions made by all women to the economy and quality of life for all Canadians.
Together we can build a nation that is inclusive, values diversity, and promotes equity and access for all women – one community at a time.
The Toronto Diversity Festival promotes our region’s rich diverse culture and heritage through arts and cultural performances.
Moksha Canada Foundation is excited to share that our 5th Annual Toronto Diversity Festival will be an in-person event this year!!
TORONTO DIVERSITY FESTIVAL 2022
DATE: Saturday, August 27, 11 pm to 10 pm
COST: FREE
LOCATION:
Nathan Phillips Square
100 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M5H 2N1
The Toronto Diversity Festival attracts people from all over the GTA and surrounding regions, including many who will have attended Moksha Canada events throughout previous summers. Toronto is Canada’s most ethnically diverse city with nearly 80 percent of residents self-identifying as visible minorities. Arts, culture, and heritage are on the top of mind while residents and newcomers alike look forward to the Toronto Diversity Festival as a safe space to celebrate their cultural diversity with artistic performances, food, music, dance, children’s activities, vendors, local businesses and many more activities for all ages and interests.
The Toronto Diversity Festival promotes our region’s rich diverse culture and heritage through arts and cultural performances; by showcasing foods from different ethnic countries that bring out the rich tastes and traditions from our increasingly diverse region. The festival also celebrates harmony through different multicultural performances. Also, exhibitors will be selling clothing, jewelry, paintings, handicrafts, and food.
The festival will include a variety of participatory activities for all ages to enjoy, including cooking demonstrations, interactive workshops, panel discussions, competitions, games and more.
To celebrate diversity in the Toronto region, Moksha Canada strives to recognize unique differences across cultures by recognizing the many cultures and lifestyles represented in the region.
We are all one, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies…. Let’s celebrate this ‘spirit of oneness’ at the Toronto Diversity Festival at @NathanPhilipsSquare!
Register- https://www.mokshacanada.com/get-involved
To become a vendor or sponsor, call or email:
647-831-7223 | info@mokshacanada.com
For more information and details please visit www.mokshacanada.com
Do you want TANGIBLE GUIDANCE on HOW to be an antiracist ally? We offer a TRAUMA-INFORMED METHOD to dismantle internalized racism. Join us!
Join us in learning and doing what it really takes to combat white supremacy.
This is a space for non-Black people to do the real work of dismantling their racism. You will be invited to awaken to painful truths about the white supremacist beliefs that
operate within yourself and the spaces you occupy. With radical compassion and self-acceptance, you will be guided on the first steps of a lifelong journey of dismantling these
destructive and traumatizing systems of belief and power.
Date: September 11, 2022, 4:00-6:00pm EDT (same time October 9, November 13, December
11 as well)
Where: Online
Cost: $0-35
Day 1: A virtual delivery of the KAIROS blanket exercise will run for approximately 3 hours. We kindly ask for your full commitment to this time frame as it is important to have the full attention of all participants.
Day 2 – 4: These days will be broken down into webinars of cultural awareness on various topics (history, demographics, statistics, and moving forward with inclusion and reconciliation).
The minimum number of participants is 15, and the maximum number of participants is 35. If we do not meet the minimum we will re-schedule for an alternate date.
Date: September 13, 12:00pm EDT – September 16, 2022, Time: 3:00pm EDT
Where: Online
Cost: $300
Hear expert tips from senior female leaders on the different strategies to build your personal board of directors.
Moderated by Angie Vaux, Founder & CEO, Women in Tech forum
When: October 25, 2022, 11:00am-12:00pm EDT
Where: Online
Cost: £5.98 – £14.06
“I was looking to create a space where we could feel safe to be authentic – feel safe to be supported, feel safe to, you know, focus on work-life balance, with the goal of protecting against clinician burnout. That was the big picture for us.”-Jillian Walsh
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, putting many other rights, not just the right to an abortion, under threat. While reproductive rights in Canada are more secure, this is not the time to become complacent.
When a cannabis enthusiast saw a gap in a modern day gold rush marketplace, she seized the opportunity.
Like many early-stage founders Houtekier said “Yes to everything”. Including the metaverse.
On June 7th and 8th, over 200 gender equity NGOS, 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.
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.
Published monthly, our award winning newsletter offers views, analysis, news, tips, plus downloadable tools, recommended readings, shout-outs, and WOAH! Feminist freebies! Don’t miss out!
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.
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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.
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