NYSHN & WEA | Resources for Indigenous, Queer, Youth & Environmental Justice: You Are Made of Medicine is a new mental health peer support manual for 2SLGBTQIA+ Indigenous youth, composed by the Native Youth Sexual Health Network and available in full online. The NYSHN also frequently collaborates with the Women’s Earth Alliance, and in 2016, they published Violence on the Land, Violence on Our Bodies together, a collection of stories from lived experience towards building an Indigenous response to environmental violence. Read the report here.
Yellowhead Institute | Reporting on Indigenous issues in Canada: Yellowhead Institute an Indigenous-led research and education centre at Toronto Metropolitan University, publishes in-depth articles oriented to Indigenous philosophy, amplifying Indigenous voices to provide alternatives to settler colonialism in Canada today.Read this week’s in-depth analysis of the extent to which Canada has responded to Call to Action #93
BC-CHSF | LunchLAB Video: This is a historic year for school meal funding in BC, with the 2023-24 budget issuing funding for all school districts in the province with the Feeding Futures program. In the wake of the success of their ongoing campaign, members of the BC Coalition for Healthy School Foods were recently featured in the CBC Vancouver short film Getting an Audible Education. View here.
Local Representation | Barriers Project Report: Local Representations is a partnership between The Feminist Campaign School and Climate Caucus to investigate systemic barriers to women’s participation as leaders in local government structures in British Columbia and Alberta. Research results from 2021 to date are available in a full report with recommendations here.