Leah Levac (she/her)

Congratulations LWWRC cluster co-lead @leahlevac, Laura Pin, Amanda Buchnea, Jayne Malenfant, and Jes Annan on their article which highlights people with lived experiences of homelessness in drafting a progressive National Housing Strategy. Read it here bit.ly/42JEJzR!

10+ years ago I decided that I wanted to help get more women elected, and since then... 2012 - @leahlevac for Ward 10 2015 - @cathmckenna for Ott Centre 2020 - @K8inFred for Fredericton 2024 - @susanholt for New Brunswick ✅

The 2024 Activist-in-Residence forum on Advancing Reproductive Justice in Black and Brown Diaspora Communities in Canada is on May 27 from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM in-person at 10C (42 Carden St, Guelph) and on Zoom. Email air@uoguelph.ca for more details and a schedule! @leahlevac

Congratulations to @dstienstra and @leahlevac on their chapter on developing a gender equality index in Labrador. The book, Counting Matters, investigates effects of the rise in gender equality measurement on effective gender equality policy implementation ubcpress.ca/counting-matte…

This will be an awesome panel! I can’t wait to hear from Dr. Diana Lewis, @LilyBarraclough, Cheyenne Sundance and Dr. Klaire Gain. Join us in person in Guelph, or virtually. Mar. 8 at 12 pm ET. Register at uoguel.ph/environmental-… @CSAHS_UoG @GuelphPOLS

New Post: An Open Letter to Premier Danielle Smith Re: “Preserving choice for children and youth” Announcement ablawg.ca/2024/02/15/an-…

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Tanya Talaga nails it @TanyaTalaga This. Not many others would understand this context. HIY HIY “Brandi Morin never shies away from a hard story or a fight. A fearless Indigenous author and journalist, Ms. Morin won a prestigious Edward R. Murrow award in 2022 for her work covering the murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls’ crisis in this country. As a survivor of that very crisis, she is intimately familiar with what the colonial system has done to Indigenous Peoples – the violence, the imprisonment, the shunning and separation that emerged from two colliding worldviews – and it is from this lens that she covers every story she walks into. On Jan. 10, Ms. Morin was at a freezing-cold, Indigenous-led encampment of fewer than a dozen people on a two-acre lot in Edmonton, interviewing Roy Cardinal, one of the spiritual leaders of this marginalized group. They are struggling to exist in their tents because they can’t afford housing on their own land… Yet she found herself forcibly removed from the scene, arrested and charged with obstructing a peace officer – a criminal charge that carries a maximum sentence of two years in jail. There are several serious issues concerning the arrest of Ms. Morin, but perhaps the grossest is the dangerous precedent of journalists being muzzled or threatened for telling the story of the lived experience of Indigenous Peoples.” theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Join this year's Activists-in-Residence, Nneka MacGregor and Dr. Marsha Hinds Myrie for a fireside chat about Black women and gender-based violence. For information and registration, visit uoguel.ph/airs-fireside-… @leahlevac @uofgprof @UoG_ARTS @CSAHS_UoG @WomenatcentrE

Re-posting with alt text on image. Join us on Feb. 2 for this excellent panel. Fostering Care and Wellbeing in Northern Communities. Register at uoguel.ph/the-caring-nor… @VPLabrador @LabradorCampus @NUAbility @yukonfeminism @Live_Work_Well @GuelphPOLS

February is shaping up to be a busy month! We are thrilled that the Activist in Residence program hosted by the Getlab.ca is holding this Fireside Chat on Thursday Feb. 8. Get details and register at uoguel.ph/airs-fireside-… @CSAHS_UoG @CESIGuelph @gwwic

Re-posting with alt text on image. Join us on Feb. 2 for this excellent panel. Fostering Care and Wellbeing in Northern Communities. Register at uoguel.ph/the-caring-nor… @VPLabrador @LabradorCampus @NUAbility @yukonfeminism @Live_Work_Well @GuelphPOLS

Re-posting with alt text on image. Join us on Feb. 2 for this excellent panel. Fostering Care and Wellbeing in Northern Communities. Register at uoguel.ph/the-caring-nor… @VPLabrador @LabradorCampus @NUAbility @yukonfeminism @Live_Work_Well @GuelphPOLS