Calls for Submissions and Participation

"I do!" is a youth initiative that is part of the project Alliance of Multicultural Agencies Against Forced Marriages in Canada at Agincourt Community Services Association. It seeks to create awareness about gender violence issues, related to forced marriages, among young women through art workshops and to film the workshops for making a documentary.

They have completed the first art workshop which involved young people (13 - 18 years of age) creating posters about what they learned. You can read about that workshop on their blog.

Currently, they are seeking 20 young women (18 - 24 years of age) for their next workshop which will teach them the techniques of Spoken Word and how to express their views about forced marriage using this art. It will be held on Mondays and Tuesdays from July 23rd to August 14th at Chester Le Community Corner (North-West Scarborough.)

For more information and to register, please visit their website.

This call for a physician was put out by the Women’s Health Clinic in Winnipeg last week:

 “The Women’s Health Clinic is a health clinic run by a community elected board. We are celebrating our 30^th anniversary this year.

“Our clinic does a combination of reproductive health care, primary care and consultations for women’s health issues.  We have an outpatient eating disorder program, a surgical abortion program and are developing a pelvic pain program.  We have a strong adolescent health program including a school based clinic.  All of these are run from a primary care perspective.  We have a midwifery practice associated with the clinic and are opening the first midwifery run birth centre in Manitoba this summer.

“Our medical program consists of family physicians, RN (EP)s, RNs, dieticians, counselors and medical assistants.  We have a strong health care team with long term staff who are very supportive of new practitioners.  We frequently consult each other and encourage excellence through communication between our staff. 

“Why work at Women’s Health Clinic?

1.We are a unionized work place.  Our physicians are paid on salary with paid vacation, education and sick leave.  Sick leave can be used to stay home with ill family members/children not only when you are sick.  We also have a benefits package, short and long term disability and a pension plan.

2.We have a participatory management system which allows you to have significant input into the running of the clinic and program development.

3. Staff are encouraged to consider research projects and time can be protected to pursue these interests.

4. Friendly and supportive work environment with lots of support for new physicians/staff. 

5. Ability to develop skills in specialized areas of women’s health

You can certainly read the label on that cleaning solution in your kitchen, but is every chemical in that bottle actually listed?

A new study by the Silent Spring Insititute finds there are potentially dangerous hidden chemicals not showing up on the labels of ordinary household products.

Learn more about this issue, in a call hosted by the Alaska Collaborative on Health and the Environment:

Hidden Chemicals in Consumer Products: What's Not on the Label?

Thursday, June 28, 2012

9 am Alaska Time

10 am Pacific Time

1 pm Eastern Time

The call will last one hour. Sign up for the call to receive the call instructions or call (907) 222-7714

Visit the webpage for this call.

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The DisAbled Women’s Network /Réseau d'action de femmes handicapées (RAFH) Canada with their partner the Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL) are launching a National Community Development Initiative to address various priority issues of concern for women and men people with disabilities and Deaf people in Canada.

Read the job description for the Coordinator of Community Initiatives.

On Monday June 25th or Tuesday June 26th Breast Cancer Action is hosting the free webinar: Take Back Our Genes: Ending the Patent on Breast Cancer Genes.

Register for this webinar to learn about how one company’s control of the BRCA genes creates barriers to research and testing that could be endangering the health and the healthcare of hundreds of thousands of women.

In 2009 Breast Cancer Action signed on as a plaintiff in the patent lawsuit challenging Myriad Genetics. The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation, challenges the validity of the patents that grant Myriad Genetics control over the BRCA1 and BRCA2 (the “breast cancer”) genes. Myriad’s monopoly prevents anyone else from so much as examining the genes, and creates barriers to scientific research and medical care relating to breast and ovarian cancer. It also limits women’s ability to get second opinions when they receive ambiguous test results, which happens disproportionately to women from ethnic minorities, including African-Americans, Hispanics and Asian-Americans.

To find out more and register for the webinar, visit Breast Cancer Action.

The Breast Cancer Fund is asking supporters today (June 12) to join them on Facebook and Twitter to send Campbell Soup Company an urgent demand:

Campbell's, spell it out for us: what's in your can linings?

Here's what the Breast Cancer Fund is saying:

"Campbell's recently announced that it will stop using the toxic chemical BPA in the lining of its food cans (in fact, it's already using a replacement in some soups—we just don't know which ones), but the company hasn't been willing to tell the Breast Cancer Fund or the public what it's using instead.

"People all across the country will be posting this question on social media today to let Campbell's know that they want full disclosure about the chemicals in their food. Join them and help us move this industry leader!

"'BPA-free' isn't enough. Some of the alternatives, like PVC, may be equally troubling. Others, like BPS, just plain haven't been tested enough for us to know if they're safe or not.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 ~ 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Society for Manitobans with Disabilities – Room 202

SMD is across the street from the Health Sciences main entrance (Winnipeg)

Provincial Council of Women of Manitoba is hosting the third meeting of Women Gathering Together at the Society for Manitobans with Disabilities. 

Women Gathering Together is continuing to build a network of Manitoba women from diverse organizations, families, committees, issues, ages, orientations, abilities, and communities – they hope you will join them in gathering together. 

They are organizing to respond to and influence realities that affect our collective health and wellbeing – including examining economic, social, and political structures. Manitoba women are known for being leaders in social action and change, and are reenergizing and reinvigorating and revolutionizing our communities to respond to our lived realities and nurture meaningful change!

See their poster for more information.

The Institute for Gender and Health conference registration is now live!

Montréal, Canada

October 29-31, 2012

Register online

The conference will explore advances in our understandings of how sex and gender influence the health of women, men, and people of diverse gender identities over the lifespan. It will showcase excellence across the full scope of health research, from cell to society, offering a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary learning and exchange. The conference will feature dynamic presentations on new discoveries and innovative interventions, interactive poster sessions, lively discussions and valuable networking opportunities with leaders in the field. 

Details about the exciting line-up of keynote speakers, including world-renowned gender theorist Dr. Raewyn Connell, and the conference program are now available on the conference website.

Satellite Training Opportunity!

In conjunction with the conference IGH is holding a one-day Fall Institute for trainees. The Fall Institute will provide training and educational opportunities for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in the field of gender, sex and health research. Application deadline is July 15, 2012. For more details, please visit this website.

Invites you to its next meeting:
Thursday June 14th , 6pm@ DIRA (potluck style)
2035 boulevard Saint-Laurent, Métro St Laurent

Their invitation says :

“We want to create a safe, non-judgmental space to share experiences of madness to better understand ourselves and each other

We’re critical of the current mental health system and how psychiatric survivors are treated and labelled 

We value our experiences and need a safe space to discuss alternatives and ways forward... 

What does it mean to be called crazy in a crazy world?”

Collectif.radical.sante.mental@gmail.com

For more information, visit their website.