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16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Nov
25
to Dec 10

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

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From November 25 to December 10 we call on everyone to take action to end gender-based violence. Check out all the events and activities organized by many awesome groups in Dawson.

Keep an eye on dawsonwomensshelter.com for calendar updates, event details, and daily blog posts.

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Intersex Awareness Day
Oct
26
1:00 AM01:00

Intersex Awareness Day

“Intersex is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy. Intersex people are born with these differences or develop them in childhood. There are many possible differences in genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy, or chromosomes, compared to the usual two ways that human bodies develop.”

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16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Nov
25
to Dec 10

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

  • Google Calendar ICS

From November 25 to December 10 we call on everyone to take action to end gender-based violence. Check out all the events and activities organized by many awesome groups in Dawson.

Keep an eye on dawsonwomensshelter.com for calendar updates, event details, and daily blog posts.

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Intersex Awareness Day
Oct
26
1:00 AM01:00

Intersex Awareness Day

“Intersex is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy. Intersex people are born with these differences or develop them in childhood. There are many possible differences in genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy, or chromosomes, compared to the usual two ways that human bodies develop.”

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16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Nov
25
to Dec 10

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

From November 25 to December 10 we call on everyone to take action to end gender-based violence. Check out all the events and activities organized by many awesome groups in Dawson.

Keep an eye on dawsonwomensshelter.com for calendar updates, event details, and daily blog posts.

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Oct
26
6:30 PM18:30

MMIWG2S Movie Night

  • Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre (map)
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Join us at Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre for series of short films about missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit folks. Films will celebrate strength, joy, skills, and folks living through having family members stolen or missing. Many films feature Two Spirit folks sharing their experiences.

6:30pm
Doors open,
conversation & connection

7pm
Films begin

Free! All are welcome!

Organized by Dawson Women's Shelter and Victim Services as part of Nihè dinch’è jì’ wë̀tä̀zul (it is better when you are with us) life promotion and suicide prevention

October 26th is also Intersex Awareness Day

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Intersex Awareness Day
Oct
26
1:00 AM01:00

Intersex Awareness Day

From InterACT:

“October 26, 1996 marks the anniversary of the first public demonstration by intersex people in the United States. Members of the now defunct Intersex Society of North America and their allies arrived in Boston, MA at the annual conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics. They demonstrated and shared their pain in a very public way, denouncing non-consensual infant genital surgeries and demanding the medical industry take notice. Doctors dismissed the activists as a vocal minority in a 1997 New York Times article covering the intersex action. The tides are slowly changing.”

“Intersex is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy. Intersex people are born with these differences or develop them in childhood. There are many possible differences in genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy, or chromosomes, compared to the usual two ways that human bodies develop.

Some intersex traits are noticed at birth. Others don’t show up until puberty or later in life. Intersex people often face shame—or are forced or coerced into changing their bodies, usually at a very young age. Most surgeries to change intersex traits happen in infancy.

The word intersex also invokes a community. Intersex people are diverse, coming from all socioeconomic backgrounds, races, ethnicities, genders and orientations, faiths, and political ideologies. We are united by

  1. our experiences living with variations in our sex traits,

  2. the belief that these differences are a natural part of human diversity,

  3. the idea that people deserve their own choices about their own bodies.”

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MMIWG2S Vigil
Oct
4
5:30 PM17:30

MMIWG2S Vigil

Join us for a gathering, walk along the Yukon River, and bonfire on Front Street in solidarity with the families who have lost Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people to violence and colonialism.

We come together and demand action to prevent the loss of our mothers, aunties, cousins, sisters, and daughters.

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Do Healthier Men Make Healthier Communities? Instagram Live Chat with Tuval Dinner Nafshi
Dec
13
11:30 AM11:30

Do Healthier Men Make Healthier Communities? Instagram Live Chat with Tuval Dinner Nafshi

We’ve heard, “improve women’s health and the whole community’s health improves,” but is the same true for men? Join Tuval and Crickett as they chat about the importance of thinking about gender justice holistically and while avoiding easy simplistic answers.

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16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Nov
25
to Dec 10

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

From November 25 to December 10 we call on everyone to take action to end gender-based violence. Check out all the events and activities organized by many awesome groups in Dawson.

Keep an eye on dawsonwomensshelter.com for calendar updates, event details, and daily blog posts.

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Intersex Awareness Day
Oct
26
1:00 AM01:00

Intersex Awareness Day

Intersex is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy. Intersex people are born with these differences or develop them in childhood. There are many possible differences in genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy, or chromosomes, compared to the usual two ways that human bodies develop.

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Sisters in Spirit
Oct
4
6:00 PM18:00

Sisters in Spirit

Join us for a gathering, walk along the Yukon River, and bonfire on Front Street in solidarity with the families who have lost Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people to violence and colonialism.

We come together and demand action to prevent the loss of our mothers, aunties, cousins, sisters, and daughters.

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Ending Fatphobia to End Violence: Instagram Live Chat with Kira-Lynn Ferderber
Dec
8
2:00 PM14:00

Ending Fatphobia to End Violence: Instagram Live Chat with Kira-Lynn Ferderber

We live in a culture of violence against women, and diet culture helps this violence flourish. Too many forces are telling us to be less, be smaller, and to make sure everything we do is about pleasing men, and being under control. Come learn concrete ways you can change this for those around you, and bring questions!

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