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SUMMARY:Bringing Down Barriers: 2SLGBTQIA+ Youth
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1153368338461917/ \n\n\n\nAdvance registration required. Register at the Zoom link provided in this event posting. April 2021 is the 20th anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month\, a time to honour the voices and experiences of victims and survivors\, and to bring awareness to issues relating to sexualized violence. Everyone has a role to play in ending sexual assault\, harassment\, and abuse.  \n\n\n\nThis year\, Avalon has partnered with other community organizations working to support survivors of sexualized violence\, to bring people together for conversation\, learning and strategizing on bringing down barriers to service access. “2SLGBTQIA+ Youth” is the third of these conversations.Topics discussed will include ways to offer comprehensive care when youth may not have stable or supportive home/family spaces\, the importance of autonomous self-direction and informed consent modalities\, up-to-date language\, and best practices in supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ community members (Two Spirit\, Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, Transgender\, Queer/Questioning\, Intersex\, Asexual\, plus (+) other ways individuals express their gender and sexuality outside heteronormativity and the gender binary). \n\n\n\nThe Youth Project’s mission is to make Nova Scotia a safer\, healthier\, and happier place for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth through support\, education\, resource expansion and community development. The Youth Project is a multi-service organization hosting an education team\, programming team\, and support services worker with an aim to further the inclusion and wellness of 2SLGBTQIA+ under the age of 25\, foster 2SLGBTQIA+ knowledge exchange and training\, increase access to public services\, and provide social and cultural programs/services/celebrations for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and their communities. \n\n\n\nThe webinar will feature Carmel Farahbakhsh\, (they/them) who is a community worker/ educator\, experimental violinist\, and artist. They have collaborated on The Khyber Centre For The Arts board for three years\, and are enjoying their new position as co-director of local music festival EVERYSEEKER. They also recently transitioned from a five-year term coordinating South House Sexual and Gender Resource Centre to working as the executive director at The Youth Project\, seeing a direct link between this community work and access to creative spaces/ arts community. Carmel also actively collaborates with local initiatives with the aim to create wider 2SQTBIPOC support systems locally. \n\n\n\nThe Avalon Sexual Assault Centre is a feminist organization working to eliminate sexual assault/abuse\, and to change the current socio-political culture that fosters sexism\, social injustice and other forms of oppression.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/bringing-down-barriers-2slgbtqia-youth/
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SUMMARY:Black Environments Matter
DESCRIPTION:Join the South End Environmental Injustice Society (SEED) for an online forum exploring the impacts environmental racism holds upon our Black and Indigenous communities throughout Nova Scotia.  \n\n\n\nFor generations Black residents in the South End of Shelburne have been burdened by living nearby a toxic waste facility. Through education and awareness\, SEED aims to create an understanding of the significant effects of environmental racism beyond climate change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn partnership with South End Environmental Injustice Society (SEED) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to attend \n\n\n\nTo register\, email SEED at seedshelbourne@gmail.com. SEED will email you the link before the time of the event.
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/black-environments-matter/
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SUMMARY:Special event for CUPE members: Why the New Democratic Party?
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/202958007973725/  \n\n\n\nSpecial event for CUPE members in Nova Scotia and across the country. \n\n\n\nHave you ever wondered why CUPE is partisan? Do you find it hard to distinguish one party from the other?Please join us for a critical look at the relationship\, historic and current\, between labour and the New Democratic Party. We’ll consider the NDP’s growth\, popularity\, demise and re-birth as election time looms over us in Nova Scotia. \n\n\n\nHear from our panel of experts for a frank discussion and ask questions! \n\n\n\n– Stephen Kimber\, award-winning author and journalist– Barb Nederpal\, president of the Hospital Employees’ Union (the B.C. health services division of CUPE)– Cathy Remus\, former director of CUPE Union Education– Lynn Jones\, Nova Scotian labour and human rights activist\, who is also the first Black general vice-president of the Canadian Labour Congress and the first Canadian-born African woman to seek office in a federal election \n\n\n\nModerated by Archana Rampure\, CUPE’s national director of research and former NDP staffer. \n\n\n\nOnline via Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/96393527764 \n\n\n\n7 p.m. Atlantic time
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/special-event-for-cupe-members-why-the-new-democratic-party/
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