¤ Field Notes from the Feminist Economy
¤ Field Notes from the Feminist Economy
One important lesson about coalitions is the ultimate goals of the group should outweigh any individual differences.
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One important lesson about coalitions is the ultimate goals of the group should outweigh any individual differences.
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In capitalist economies, everyone needs to think about wealth–especially women. Here’s why.
According to the recently released State of Women Entrepreneurs 2023, the gap between men and women are getting narrower.
Melanie Grad and Ruth Wylie bring empathy and flexibility to Perspective Squared through their approach to strategy, creative, and production.
The first Freelance Summit was held on Friday, February 3 in Toronto at Metropolitan University. Participants discussed the crippling erosion of freelance worker well-being in Canada–and if working together was part of the answer.
More than 745,000 people died in 2021 from overwork that resulted in stroke and heart disease, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Jenn Hazel has apps for that–and more.
Mentorship sounds great, but often misses the mark. Why?
A people-first and feminist-led business, Lucky Ones – a media production company – strives to move away from traditional patriarchal and hyper-capitalist structures and instead lead with care and transparency.
A career in policing for a Black woman leads to liberation—and a new business.
The Global Gender Gap Report 2021 ranks Canada in 24th place on gender equality and estimates 61.5 years until parity can be achieved.
These four Canadian dystopian sci-fi novels will inspire you and your activist priorities for 2023.
The new film by Sarah Polley featuring an all-women, all star cast exploring the in-depth debate that exists in the feminist movement in the context of women living in a Mennonite community in Bolivia. Women Talking opens Dec 16 in Canada and Dec 23 in the U.S.
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Male inclusive gender equality groups are growing in number. Should feminism be worried?
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Less than 10% of all indie media outlets in Canada are majority women led and/or owned.
Let’s change that.
WHERE: ONLINE
WHEN: April 5, 11-1pm EDT
FEE: $10-20 USD
REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/learning-from-feminist-business-histories-tickets-596993512667?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
Bring your sandwich and your curiosity! Join this Lunch ‘n Learn conversation to hear (at least) five ” top takeaways” from our recent course in Feminist Business Histories.
We’ll take a brisk tour of the timelines of three representative feminist businesses to see — and re-see — challenges that faced the first cohort of these businesses because they were feminist businesses.
We’ll consider how feminist businesses conceived in the 1960s-1980s — during feminisms’ undeniable emergence as a social justice movement — grappled with tensions around racism and privilege, identities and inclusion, remaining connected with their customers, and as always, balancing the demands of profits, prices, pay, and politics.
Because these are *all* challenges you are or will be facing in your feminist business, we can learn from how our fore-feminists addressed these tensions.
We’ll end by considering how these histories can inform your strategies and actions now.
WHERE: ONLINE
WHEN: Monday, April 18th, 1-5pm EDT
FEE: $400 USD +
What would creating a Reparations Plan do for the communities we are a part of and/or impact? How can we focus on addressing institutional accountability and racial disparities directly, rather than talking around the solutions? This 4 hour training for institutional representatives will cover:
Facilitators will work with participants to clearly identify what reparations models would work as part of their organization’s commitment to racial justice.
This event will be closed captioned.
FAQ’s:
Where does the fee go?
Fees collected from this training will go towards facilitators, funding community led reparations visioning space, and Black led projects.
What if I can’t attend the entire training?
The training will be recorded. So, if you need to leave early, or want access beyond the day of, you will receive a recording of the event.
Who should attend this training?
Anyone who will be taking back what they learn from this training to an organization.
Who is running this?
Lead Facilitators
J Mase III is a Black/Trans/queer poet & educator based in Seattle by way of Philly. As an educator, Mase has worked with community members in the US, UK, and Canada on the needs of LGBTQIA+ folks and racial justice in spaces such as K-12 schools, universities, faith communities and restricted care facilities. He is founder of awQward, the first trans and queer people of color talent agency.
J Mase is author of And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer’s Reflections on Grief, Unemployment & Inappropriate Jokes About Death as well as White Folks Be Trippin’: An Ethnography Through Poetry & Prose. He is head writer for the theatrical production Black Bois.
His work has been featured on MSNBC, Essence Live, Everyday Feminism, Black Girl Dangerous, the New York Times, Buzzfeed, Blavity, the Root, the Huffington Post, TEDx and more.
Winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Non-Fiction and a Creative Capital Award, he is co-director of the forthcoming documentary, the Black Trans Prayer Book and is finishing his latest solo work, Is Your God a Violent God? Finding a Theology for Survivors.
Dubbed the Ancient Jazz Priestess of Mother Africa, Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is a Black Nigerian, Cuban, Indigenous, American Performance Artist, Author, Educator, a Helen Hayes Award winning Playwright (Klytmnestra: An Epic Slam Poem), a 2021 Helen Merrill Award Winner, Advocate, Dramaturg, a 2x Helen Hayes Award Nominated choreographer (2016, 2018) and co-editor/co-founder of the Black Trans Prayer Book.
She is the curator and associate producer of Long Wharf Theater’s Black Trans Women At The Center: An Evening of Short Plays.
She also narrated The Netflix Docu-series Visions of Us.
Apart of her work on the Black Trans Prayer Book documentary, she is producing and curating events centering Black/ Indigenous/ Brown trans people, Co-facilitating workshops focused on healing and Black Trans history.
DATE: April 27th
WHERE: Online
FEE: $10-40 Sliding Scale (USD)
TIME: 1:00-2:30 EDT.
Join us on April 27 for AWARE 2023: A Conversation with Dr. Roxane Gay about sexual violence, our relationship to our bodies, rape culture, colonialism, and oppression.
Dr. Roxane Gay is known internationally for her no-holds-barred exploration of feminism, rape culture, and social criticism. Notable works include Hunger, Dr. Gay’s autobiography focused on her relationship with her body and experience as a survivor of sexual violence; Bad Feminist, a collection of essays widely considered the quintessential exploration of modern feminism; and Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, a searing anthology on the realities of rape culture.
Angela Davis is the host of MPR News with Angela Davis, a weekday talk show that airs at 9 am. Davis has more than 25 years of television reporting and anchoring experience and leads conversations on a wide variety of topics including how the state is changing, Minnesota’s persistent racial disparities, economic issues, education, and mental health.
AWARE is the annual fundraising event for the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault during Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Tickets are available on a sliding scale of $10, $20, or $40 based on what you feel you can afford. Proceeds go toward our vision of a world free of sexual violence via our four program areas: racial justice, advocacy, harm prevention, and systems change.
The event will have ASL interpreting and live, auto-captioning. Please let us know how we can make the event accessible to you when you register. You may share that information on the page after you enter your email address. If you are unable to provide that information when you register, please contact us at info@mncasa.org.
A ticket purchase will allow you access to the event recording for three days after the event.
If you can’t attend but still want to support MNCASA’s work, you can donate through GiveLively or by texting MNCASA to 44-321.
WHERE: IN PERSON/VIRTUAL, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
WHEN: April 27/28
FEE: $199-$1599 CAD
REGISTER:
Gender Analytics creates possibilities for high-impact innovation based on rich analytics, inclusive design and transformational leadership. While most people pigeon-hole gender equality as a question of diversity and inclusion inside organizations, thinking about inclusion as shaping how we design products, services, and policies creates an expansive space for innovation and impact.
The Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) and the TD Management and Data Analytics Lab (TD MDAL)–two leading research centers at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management–are co-hosting the first Gender Analytics: Possibilities (GA:P) conference. This is an opportunity for leaders and innovators from academia, the private sector, government, and non-profits to come together to share learnings and capitalize on insights from intersectional gender-based analyses.
Through engaging panel discussions, small-group workshops, and an online exhibition, you will learn how inclusive analytics can generate new products, services and policies and make real progress on inclusion and gender equality.
More than 20 high-calibre speakers will join seven panel discussions on topics such as:
Decolonizing data and design
Inclusive product and service design
Creating inclusive contracts: insights about the law
Gender Analytics in financial services
Behavioural interventions for more inclusive government policy
Using a gender lens in sports analytics
Responsible AI and machine learning
Welcome to the 3rd Canadian International Conference on Gender & Women’s Studies 2023 (Virtual)
PLACE: ONLINE
DATE: APRIL 29th
TIME: EST
FEE: $175 USD/Listener
CGWS2023 serves as a global platform for exchanging latest research findings for advocates working to achieve a more gender-equal world organized by the Unique Conferences Canada and facilitated by the International Association for Women’s Studies & Gender Equality for the third time. The CGWS2023 offers thought-leading and cutting edge content, unrivaled networking opportunities and friendly atmosphere for both presenters and participants. This top research conference attracts more high profile researchers from around the world than any other similar event in the region.
To REGISTER: https://genderconference.info/registration/
The Equal Futures Network, an initiative of the Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health (CanWaCH), will host Equal Futures 2023: A Gender Equality Summit in Whitehorse from May 17-18, 2023.
WHERE: Whitehorse, Yukon (IN PERSON EVENT)
WHEN: May 17, 18, 2023
FEE: TBD
This second annual event builds off of the success of our first-ever gender equality summit in June 2022 where over 200 champions for gender equality from communities across Canada gathered in Ottawa.
The summit will provide an in-person forum for the gender equality movement in Canada to come together, in all its diversity, to strengthen capacity, share expertise, and shape a path towards a fairer and more equitable Canada. The summit will also be webcast in English and French for those who are unable to attend in-person and ensure access to all.
Equal Futures 2023 is taking place on the traditional territories of Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council.
One important lesson about coalitions is the ultimate goals of the group should outweigh any individual differences.
In capitalist economies, everyone needs to think about wealth–especially women. Here’s why.
According to the recently released State of Women Entrepreneurs 2023, the gap between men and women are getting narrower.
Melanie Grad and Ruth Wylie bring empathy and flexibility to Perspective Squared through their approach to strategy, creative, and production.
The first Freelance Summit was held on Friday, February 3 in Toronto at Metropolitan University. Participants discussed the crippling erosion of freelance worker well-being in Canada–and if working together was part of the answer.
A career in policing for a Black woman leads to liberation—and a new business.
More than 745,000 people died in 2021 from overwork that resulted in stroke and heart disease, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Jenn Hazel has apps for that–and more.
Mentorship sounds great, but often misses the mark. Why?
The Global Gender Gap Report 2021 ranks Canada in 24th place on gender equality and estimates 61.5 years until parity can be achieved.
These four Canadian dystopian sci-fi novels will inspire you and your activist priorities for 2023.
The new film by Sarah Polley featuring an all-women, all star cast exploring the in-depth debate that exists in the feminist movement in the context of women living in a Mennonite community in Bolivia. Women Talking opens Dec 16 in Canada and Dec 23 in the U.S.
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.
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Less than 10% of all indie media outlets in Canada are majority women led and/or owned.
Let’s change that.
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
Convening entrepreneurs, artists, researchers and thinkers to explore the concept of a post-growth economy, share existing knowledge and together, create new knowledge and spark a shared vision of what a better business, economy and society looks like.
Nov 26, 12:00 p.m. EST
OCADU CO (Hybrid Event),
Online: Zoom
In Person: 130 Queens Quay E, Floor 4R, Toronto, ON M5A 0P6, Canada
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