Women's and Sexuality Studies Student Association - WSSSA

01/30/2025

✨ Drop-In Peer Support Annoucement ✨

Hi everyone! My name is Belen Blizzard and I am Concordia's 2SLGBTQ+ Student Support Coordinator. My office will now be open for peer-support every Wednesday from 12 to 4pm. You're welcome to drop in at any time or email me to schedule an appointment at: [email protected].

What you can expect: a space of non-judgment and active listening where your feelings and experiences will be honored. I am here to support 2SLGBTQ+ students and hold space for topics ranging from identity, coming out, sexuality, experiences of homophobia and transphobia (and how they interest with race, disability, and more), and how they transpire in and out of the academic space. I am also equipped to redirect you to resources surrounding name and gender marker change, access to hormone and trans affirmative healthcare, and more. Overall, I aim to provide a space in which 2SLGBTQ+ students feel comfortable and safer in sharing their experiences and seeking support. Please email me for my office number, located in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.

Lots of warmth! ❤️
~ Belen

12/06/2024

Thank you to everyone who attended the grief circle. Some photos from the collective grief altar. ❤️‍🔥part of a student led event for the 12 days of action against gender based violence organized by Belen Blizzard, Vanessa Massot & Mar Ibrahim.

11/30/2024

As part of the 12 Days of Action Against Gender-Based Violence, students from the SDBI have decided to organize a grief circle: an opportunity to hold grief in the palms of the collective. As the world continues to disintegrate under the countless brutalities of imperial and capitalist powers, we invite you to join us for a moment of processing. We believe that in order to build a different world, it is imperative that we allow space to mourn the world as is, to externalize and alchemize the grief into a sense of possibility, together. This event is open to members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and their allies.

The event will be held at Star Bar, located at 4671 Saint-Laurent, from 5 to 7pm. We will begin with a movement workshop, led by Lee Ingram, a q***r Black multi-disciplinary artist and movement facilitator. Following the movement, we will share a few poems, and then open the floor for discussion, facilitated by Belen Blizzard, Vanessa Massot and Mar Ibrahim. Pizza will be provided by the wonderful folks .

Hope to see you there,
in grief & solidarity
❤️

Lee’s bio:

Lee Ingram is a multi/inter-interdisciplinary artist and movement facilitator based between Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) and Lək̓ wəŋən territories (Victoria). She is a q***r Black/mixed-raced womxn of the African-Caribbean Diaspora, exploring the ways their body can contradict expectations of dance, performance, and identity, while also remaining open to the experience of ancient and ancestral ways of moving to be revealed.

11/19/2024

WSSSA Voted Yes To Strike. Thank you to everyone who participated in our GA. WSSSA has voted to strike Nov21 & 22. Keep an eye out for mobilization events happening this week. Check out the full details from our meeting, minutes are linked in our bio :) Interested in getting involved ? Sign up at link in our bio

11/06/2024

WSSSA will be hosting a General Assembly (GA) next Wednesday November 13th, at 11:45 pm in the SDBI library to discuss and vote on a motion to strike. The proposed strike would take place Nov 21-22 to demand our administration cut all ties with the zionist entity. Last march the students voted unanimously to support a BDS motion and commit to withdrawing economic and political support to the Israeli state. The BDS movement aligns with WSSSA’s actions and values opposing oppression, racial violence, ethnic cleansing and human rights violations. Please join us Wednesday to support the fight against financial and academic collaboration with the settler-colonial Israeli state. Zoom link will be made available in our bio. Surgical & K95 masks will be available on site and are strongly encouraged.

10/31/2024

Hello all,

WSSSA invites you to join us in conversation with Greta Hofman Nemiroff. In conjunction with the course on the oral history of the Simone De Beauvoir Institute. Greta was active in the institute in the 1970’s and will be joining us to discuss and dream about the Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Institute and student leadership. This is a chance to learn from our collective history and bask in Greta’s knowledge and experience at the Institute in the early days. Greta co-taught, with Sister Prudence Allen, the first course on Women’ s Identity and Image at Sir George Williams in 1970. She was involved in CEGEP teaching and in establishing the New School of Dawson College, as well as the Women’s Studies programme at the same institution. She has been an activist throughout Canada and internationally since the 1960s, and held the federally funded Joint Chair of Women’s Studies  at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa (1991-1996). She is committed to student leadership in institutions, and is currently writing her memoirs. The event will take place Nov 07 at 5:45 pm in the ER-672 classroom. Open to all SDBI students & friends of the SDBI. Light snacks will be provided. Surgical and N95 masks will be available on site.

10/10/2024

You’re invited to a passion show; a night of offerings, written, sung, danced, comedic, or otherwise. All artistic practices are encouraged! The stage is yours. Open to all students & friends of the SDBI. Join us for a talent show, costume contest, pumpkin carving, bake sale, photo booth, prizes and dancing. The event will be taking place at Notre-Dames Des Quilles on 32 beaubien st E, closest to Beaubien metro from 8:30pm-onwards. The venue is located on the first floor but there is one step to enter the venue once inside. Surgical & N95 masks will be available on site and are strongly encouraged. Wear a mask to make events more accessible to our community! The venue is a cash only bar with an ATM on-site.
Want to sign up to perform? Fill out the link in our bio. This event is a fundraiser for the Collectif Appui Aux Movements Des Premier Peuples, in support of the Association of Land Defenders of the Nehirowisiw Aski Territory. You can donate to their fundraiser by purchasing a by donation ticket to our event, buying a treat at our bake sale or directly through the link in our bio. Tickets soon to be made available.

09/28/2024

WSSSA will be hosting a general assembly Wednesday October 09. Happening Wednesday at noon (12pm) both on zoom & in person. Come join us either at QPIRG Concordia (2100 rue guy, #205) or over zoom for our first general assembly of the year! We will discuss vacant WSSSA positions and more. Zoom link will be available in our bio and we are looking forward to seeing you all. Surgical masks will be available on site.

09/16/2024

To all students of the Simone de Beauvoir; please join us for an informal discussion concerning the recent memo from the Provost on the removal of “political statements”. This will be a space to learn more information about the memo, discuss feelings and reactions to the administration’s decision, and reflect on possible responses. Hope to see you there!

09/13/2024

To all students of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute: welcome or welcome back! As the new semester begins, the Women’s and Sexuality Studies Student Association (WSSSA) would like to invite you to a Back to School Mixer on September 18th from 7:30-9:30pm at the SDBI Library (ER 672). The mixer will be an opportunity for new and recurring students to get to know each other and make connections!

04/11/2023

We're looking for 1-2 students to conduct a survey on accessibility and anti-racism at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. Check out the application form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfr-W63VLsSSQakRzCGbABU180SooK73wUcRQsdHpseuCrI7g/viewform?usp=sf_link and further details https://docs.google.com/document/d/12mKHlsQDXHHypDU6y_QH1eBl97cIwrroDnAqy0cqLTU/edit?usp=sharing !

03/06/2023

If you want to get involved with WSSSA for next year, the nomination period for the elections is March 6th-10th! Check out our blog post on all the positions and how to run:

Hello everyone! In this post, you will find details on the elections and the WSSSA positions that are up for election. What are elections? ASFA (Arts and Science Federation of Association, our umbr…