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The Association of Ryerson Midwifery Students (ARMS) is pleased
to announce a special screening of The Business of Being Born on Monday February 11, 2008 at 730pm at Ryerson University.
Room: KHS 239 (Kerr Hall South, 40/50 Gould St. Toronto Ontario)
For map: http://www.ryerson.ca/maps/map_nf.html
Price: $2 for students, $4 for non-students (recommended) and free
for children.
50% of proceeds will go towards ARMS and 50% of proceeds will go
directly to Diversity Midwives Collective non-OHIP client support fund.
Children are welcome although please be advised that there will be no
babysitting available. Refreshments will also be sold.
For more information about the film: www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com
Regardless of who you would vote for (if you could vote for someone,) you have to admit this Clinton quote from her Super Tuesday speech in New York really reminds you how amazing this US presidential primary is:
“I especially want to thank my mother, who was born before women could vote, and who is watching her daughter on this stage tonight.” (sniffle.)
In a climate where the prevailing motto of sex-ed policy sometimes seems to be “The Less You Know…”, nothing is more radical than a youth-oriented, queer-friendly, holistic approach to sexual health. Stacey May listed a few good places for information online; now I’d like you to meet Head & Hands, a Montreal-based centre for youth advocacy, and its badass sex-ed program The Sense Project.
From the website:
The Sense Project is a two year pilot project that aims to provide community-based sex education support for youth aged 13 to 16 at Montreal-area schools. It was conceived in light of the Quebec educational reform, which has essentially cut sex education from the curriculum at a time when the rates of sexually transmitted infections (STI’s) are alarmingly high in Canadian youth. The project aim is to support young people’s healthy sexual development by giving them the information and emotional tools to make sensible choices. We aim to do this by helping participants acquire the information, motivation and behavioural skills necessary to reduce their risk of STI’s/HIV and unintended pregnancy.
Exciting, right? You want to get involved now, don’t you? Well, Head & Hands is always looking for volunteers and members. Or, alternately, if you live in Montreal and are of the booty-shakin’ persuation, the Main Hall (5390 St. Laurent) hosts a weekly dance party called Faggity Ass Fridays.
(poster by tommyt)
All the proceeds go to The Sense Project, and it is a guaranteed off-the-hook insane-o time. This week the lineup includes DJs Lynne T (of Lesbians on Ecstacy), Tommy T (longtime faggityass makepartyhappener who will mix Kate Bush with Metallica and make you love it) and, uh, moi (you knew there was going to be some shameless self-promotion somewhere, didn’t you?). Plus, this week V-Day Montreal will be performing their radical queer take on The Vagina Monologues before the music starts. Doors at 10, $5 or pay-what-you-can. Work it out like your momma taught you.
Secrets From Your Sister, a great Toronto indie bra place and longtime Shameless supporter, is having a 20% off sale next Wednesday, February 13th.
The 20% off sale is for “Dead Bra Day”.
You just bring in that bra that has never fit you right, has straps that are too skinny, too thick, too pink for your liking, and let it be repurposed, refurbished, and strapped on to support someone else’s more differenter boobs. In exchange, you’ll get 20% off a new bra, properly-fitted.
“Dead” bras still in good condition will be donated to the Toronto General and Western Hospital Foundation: Womens Own Detox Center Fund, for women recovering from drug addiction.
Note: The 20% off is good for one new bra only (regardless of how many bags of dead ones you have with you).
The store will have extended hours from 9am-9pm to accommodate the special event. For more details and minor fine print info, check out their website.
And remember that Secrets recently relocated just a block and a bit away from its old digs (now just west of, instead of just east of, Bathurst and Bloor). Happy Shop/Swapping!
(secrets from your sister)
560 Bloor St. W., Toronto
416.538.1234
Miss G is counting on you!
Our sisters behind the Miss G Project for Equity in Education recently sent me this update on what’s going down in the struggle for Women and Gender Studies content to be introduced into high school curriculum in Ontario. Please pledge to call the Ministry on Valentine’s Day!!!
Please join us in our most crucial campaign yet!
“No More Miss Nice G__” is a phone calling campaign taking place on February 14, 2008. HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! We are asking all supporters of the project to call the Ministry of Education expressing that we cannot afford to wait any longer for a Women’s and Gender Studies course to be added into the Ontario Secondary School Curriculum.
**** Calling the Ministry of Education is absolutely not as stressful nor as intimidating as it may sound. In fact, you are a citizen and it is the Ministry’s job to listen to you and to take your calls.
Shameless Magazine is gearing up to launch its next issue at a special fundraising launch dance party on March 8. You will receive your extra special personal invite once we iron out the nitty-gritty details!
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Don’t forget that you only have a few more days to nominate your fave blog for the first annual Canadian F-word Blog Awards. Nominations close February 8!
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The Globe and Mail reports that a 17-year-old Ontario teenager was expelled after submitting a work of fiction “about a disgruntled student who murders one of her teachers:”
Brendan Jones, a Grade 12 student at Heart Lake Secondary School northwest of Toronto, was expelled last week, leaving him facing an uncertain future. Brendan is just three credits shy of graduating from high school and was hoping to study criminology at university next fall. But it is not at all clear whether he will be able to transfer to another high school in the province.
Brendan’s father, Ron Jones, conceded in an interview yesterday that the essay, written as part of a final exam, was inappropriate, but he accused school officials of overreacting.
“This is not like a threatening letter,” Mr. Jones said. “This is an exam that they were told to write. Was it a bad topic? Yeah, probably. But I don’t think it’s of a nature that should be terminating a student’s career.”
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