international women’s day

This is a photo of the rally participants, holding signs, walking down the middle of the street.
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International Women’s Day rally in full swing

Olivia Sherman March 19, 2024

Content warning: mentions of genocide. Editor’s note: Karissa Ketter, a current editor who worked on the article, is an organizer of this event. Yasmin Simsek, a former employee, is also an organizer of this event. The Peak acknowledges this and has taken steps to prevent conflicts of interest or potential bias from influencing the article. On March 3, the International Women’s Day (IWD) march and rally commenced at the šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl'e7énḵ Square (Vancouver Art Gallery, North Plaza). The speakers and performances during the rally emphasized the need for intersectionality; many called for solidarity between different identities for issues that women…

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This is a photo from the previous year’s rally. There are folks in the street, walking with signs.
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Annual International Women’s Day march returns

Olivia Sherman February 26, 2024

Editor’s note: Karissa Ketter, a current editor who worked on the article, is an organizer of this event. The Peak acknowledges this and has taken steps to prevent conflicts of interest or potential bias from influencing the article. With International…

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International Women’s Day needs to represent more than just cis women

Dev Petrovic March 6, 2021

Every year on March 8 for International Women’s Day, social media platforms are flooded with variants of “go girl” posts, celebrating “strong, powerful, independent women.” While women have every right to celebrate the progression of their rights, why haven't we…

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Recipients of the 2020 SFSS Women of the Year Awards announced

Madeleine Chan May 12, 2020

The eight winners of the 2020 SFSS Women of the Year award, from each of SFU’s faculties, were announced earlier in March via social media.  The awards would have been presented at the International Women’s Day Gala, organized by Young…

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Board Shorts: January 22

Michelle Gomez January 31, 2020

Motion passed to increase SFPIRG member fee The Board passed a motion to include a referendum in the Spring 2020 elections about increasing the semesterly member fee for the Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group (SFPIRG). The referendum proposes to…

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International Women’s Day compilation : Unfortunate encounters where men could have done better

Peak Web March 8, 2019

By: Hannah Davies, Lily Fontaine, Gabrielle McLaren, Natasha Tar, Lauren Wallace, Winona Young Luckily, I’ve been mansplained to relatively few times. While I do obviously find it mildly insulting and quite frustrating despite trying not to let it get to…

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Board Shorts

Peak Web February 19, 2019

SFSS Women’s Day Video Project The SFSS passed an amendment to put $790 toward the Women’s Day Video Project, which is to be shown at the SFSS International Women’s Day Gala on March 9. This budget would include lighting, sound…

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World News Beats

Nathaniel Tok March 17, 2018

  Canada and 10 Pacific Rim countries sign trade pact Trade ministers from Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam signed a free trade deal to improve trade and remove tariffs. After the US…

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Badass women of SFU

Eva Zhu March 7, 2018

When SFU opened in 1965, only 37% of the student body was made up of women and only 16 of the 126 faculty staff were women (that’s about 12%). As of fall 2014, 13,000 of the 25,000 students were women…

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