Topics: Sexual diversity rights
Events
Celebrating Pride: Kendall Gender presents KENAISSANCE
May 24, 2024, doors open at 8:00 p.m.
Cost: $20
Location: Bonnie & John Buhler Hall
Beyond the Rainbow Storytime
May 26, 2024 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Cost: Free event; registration appreciated
Location: Stuart Clark Garden of Contemplation, Level 3
Beyond the Rainbow Brunch
May 26, 2024 10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Cost: $20 (does not include food). Brunch items offered at varying prices. Registration is required.
Location: Boreal Bistro, Level 1
Exhibitions
Ododo Wa: Stories of Girls in War
October 2019 to March 2025
The journey of two girls from Uganda who were abducted and held captive for years by a rebel group. Later, they discovered the power of using their voices to seek justice for women who survived captivity with the LRA.
Stories
Claiming our rights as a transgender family
By Rowan Jetté Knox
Names and pronouns may change but love stays constant.
Voices of women and girls in war
By Isabelle Masson
Grace and Evelyn were abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda when they were just girls. They managed to find their way back to freedom but have faced many new struggles since they returned home.
Five women all Canadians should know
By Matthew McRae
The year 2016 marks a century since women in Canada first got the right to vote and so it seems like a fine time to celebrate the achievements of Canadian women.
Exploring women’s rights and gender equality
By Chloe Rew
If I were alive in Canada before 1929, I would not have been considered a person. “Persons” under the British North America Act referred only to men.
