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Challenging racism in all its complex forms: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

18/03/2020Access to justice, Criminalization, Economic security, Gender-based violence Update

This Saturday, March 21st, we will celebrate this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racism. At this moment, we nervously watch an openly racist leader to the South tries to hang onto power, white nationalist movements gain strength in Europe, and Indigenous people in Canada, regardless of whether or not they are actively supporting the Wet’suwet’en land defenders, are being … Read more Challenging racism in all its complex forms: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Eight Black writers to check out during Black History Month and beyond

19/02/2020Access to justice, Criminalization, Economic security, Family well-being, Gender-based violence, Healthcare Update

“We need, each of us, to begin the awesome, difficult work of love; loving ourselves so that we become able to love others without fear so that we can become able enough to enlarge the circle of our trust and our common striving for a safe, sunny afternoon near to flowering trees and under a … Read more Eight Black writers to check out during Black History Month and beyond

A feminist governance framework recipe

15/01/2020Access to justice, Criminalization, Economic security, Family well-being, Gender-based violence, Healthcare Update

Academics such as Anne Orford have challenged feminists who operate at the intersections of law, equality, and social justice to imagine a rights framework that avoids reproducing the pervasive and often unspoken assumptions of imperialism and patriarchy. To me, feminist governance frameworks challenge masculinist and Eurocentric approaches to labour, decision-making, and communication by calling on us to actively reimagine … Read more A feminist governance framework recipe

Five ways to bring feminism into the high school classroom

04/09/2019Access to justice, Criminalization, Economic security, Family well-being, Gender-based violence, Healthcare Update

What does a feminist education look like to you? We’d like to think it includes teaching students about justice, encouraging critical thinking about power and inequality, and giving young people tools that they can use to help themselves and others to live happily and freely. With the addition of a social justice elective for grade 12 students and the work being … Read more Five ways to bring feminism into the high school classroom

A mixtape to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day

19/06/2019Access to justice, Criminalization, Economic security, Family well-being, Gender-based violence, Healthcare Update

“My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.”- Louis Riel The above quote from Metis leader Louis Riel has been resonating with me, as I reflect on the incredible richness of the Indigenous arts scene across Turtle Island (North America) and … Read more A mixtape to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day

Celebrating 20 Years of Youth-to-Youth Legal Education

09/06/2019Access to justice, Criminalization, Economic security, Family well-being, Gender-based violence, Healthcare Update

One of the ways that West Coast LEAF uses the law as a tool for social change is through public legal education. Our public legal education program encourages people to think critically about the law and society, and to understand and exercise their legal rights. For the last 20 years, part of the way we conduct our … Read more Celebrating 20 Years of Youth-to-Youth Legal Education

Kids’ books for social justice: learning and unlearning

20/02/2019Family well-being Update

“As a parent of a young child, I find that there are two kinds of opportunities for learning about social justice with kids. The first are the learning moments when an opportunity arises to talk to my kid about the impacts of discrimination and injustice—for example, talking about why we wear orange shirts on Orange Shirt … Read more Kids’ books for social justice: learning and unlearning

The Feminist Argument for Proportional Representation

07/11/2018Access to justice Update

I’m passionate about voting. I vote wherever and whenever I have the opportunity. What I don’t love is feeling like my vote doesn’t count or feeling forced to vote “strategically,” not for who I want to win, but against the person I definitely hope will lose. If you’re in a riding that’s considered “safe,” perhaps … Read more The Feminist Argument for Proportional Representation

One Mouth and Two Ears: Setting Intentions for the Sisters in Spirit Vigil

03/10/2018Access to justice, Gender-based violence Update

Tomorrow, October 4, is the annual Sisters in Spirit Vigil. This is a day to honour and remember Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse people; those we have lost to ongoing colonial and misogynistic violence across Turtle Island (otherwise known as North America). The Native Women’s Association of Canada describes the vigils as a … Read more One Mouth and Two Ears: Setting Intentions for the Sisters in Spirit Vigil

The Feminist Tent

20/09/2018Access to justice, Criminalization, Economic security, Family well-being, Gender-based violence, Healthcare Update

West Coast LEAF has long been a trans-inclusive organization – to some extent. Since 2003, we have explicitly defined “women” as encompassing all those who define themselves as women, whatever their sex assignment at birth. The hard part for us in recent years has been whether and how to include people who don’t define themselves as women; … Read more The Feminist Tent