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- It's Enough to Make You Sick: Women, Toxins and our Environment
- Webinar: Casting Light - Media representation of the female body
- Responding to the needs of women and girls in Haiti
- Events in Canada during Black History Month
- Rising to the Challenge: Sex-and gender-based analysis for health planning, policy and research in Canada - Book and workshops
- Call for Papers: Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme (cws/cf) Women and Cancer
- Call for submissions: Toolkit for gender, sex and health research
- Application deadline extended: Community Visitors Program at the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies
- Girls do what they have to do to survive: methods used by girls in the sex trade and street economy to fight back and heal
- Internet-based health promotion programs for sexual minorities in Canada
1. It's Enough to Make You Sick: Women, Toxins and our Environment
Tues. Feb. 23, 2 - 4 p.m. with a reception to follow – Fairmont Chateau Laurier - 1 Rideau St, Ottawa CWHN hosts a roundtable conversation about women’s exposure to a broad range of toxic environments, with presenters from the Centres of Excellence in Women’s Health. Topics will include mental health of health care workers, Indigenous women & water and Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan. Registration will be limited to facilitate discussion. Please email info@cwhn.ca
2. Webinar: Casting Light - Media representation of the female body
Feb. 4 - 12:30-2 p.m. Eastern. An informative, challenging discussion about the impact of media imagery on girls and women hosted by the National Eating Disorder Information Centre and the Canadian Women's Health Network, coinciding with Eating Disorder Awareness Week, happening this week, February 1 to 7, 2010. For more information, visit NEDIC.
3. Responding to the needs of women and girls in Haiti
In recent feminist blogs, read about a number of organizations that are responding to the needs of women in Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake. See: Change.org: Women’s Rights and Our Bodies, Our Blog. For more information on the current situation of women in Haiti, visit the Association for Women’s Rights in Development website.
4. Events in Canada during Black History Month
Learn more about Black culture and history during Black History Month. See this website for a calendar of Black History Month events throughout Canada, compiled by Toronto-based educator and black history scholar Gary Pieters. For music, artists and film festival at York University for Black History Month, visit this site. Read “Canada’s black history needs chronicling” By Larry Cornies, in the London Free Press.
5. Rising to the Challenge: Sex-and gender-based analysis for health planning, policy and research in Canada - Book and workshops
This new book, released by the Atlantic and British Columbia Centres of Excellence in Women’s Health and the Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence describes the process of sex- and gender-based analysis and offers a collection of case studies and commentaries that illustrate SGBA in action. The three centres have also piloted training workshops with federal and provincial public servants in Halifax, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver. To find out more about the training, email pwhce@uwinnipeg.ca. For copies of the book, visit this website.
6. Call for Papers: Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme (cws/cf) Women and Cancer
Deadline for submissions is extended to: February 15, 2010 Alarmingly high rates of cancer are affecting women in Canada today, across all social, economic, and geographic boundaries. This cancer epidemic has generated a wealth of feminist and non-feminist discourses that have an impact on the lives of all women, not only survivors. Given the scale of the problem, we believe that a critical engagement with these discourses, as well as an examination of the material realities of cancer, are both timely and necessary. For information on possible topics and submission guidelines, see this website.
7. Call for submissions: Toolkit for gender, sex and health research
The Canadian Institute of Health Research’s Institute of Gender and Health is putting together a toolkit for gender, sex and health research and we want your input! The toolkit will consist of information and resources, including research instruments, publications, how-to guides, examples of best practices, and other relevant materials. Do you know of a resource that we should add? Please send your suggestions (with relevant background materials, if applicable) to Zena Sharman at zsharman@exchange.ubc.ca by March 1, 2010. For more information on this call, visit CWHN.
8. Application deadline extended: Community Visitors Program at the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies
Deadline for applications extended to: February 28, 2010. The Centre for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of British Columbia has established a Community Visitors Program as part of its outreach initiatives. The CVP is intended to assist community-based and grass roots organizations in research initiatives that could be undertaken using the resources of the Centre and the university.
9. Girls do what they have to do to survive: methods used by girls in the sex trade and street economy to fight back and heal
The Young Women's Empowerment Project has just released a research report regarding young women involved in sex work. (PDF) YWEP is made up of girls, including transgender girls, and young women, including trans women ages 12-23 who have current or past experience with any part of the sex trade and street economies. The goal of our work is to build a movement of girls with life history in the sex trade and street economy.
10. Internet-based health promotion programs for sexual minorities in Canada
It has been more than a year now since we started the research entitled: Internet-based health promotion programs for sexual minorities in Canada: A study of the components, objectives and future developments. We have focused more specifically on identifying 1) the different components of the websites and other Internet activities developed by a range of organizations, 2) the targeted LGBT populations, 3) the health topics that are addressed, and 4) the goals of these activities. Some of the preliminary results can be found here. (PDF)
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Canadian Women's Health Network