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A piece of feminist history: Celebrating 35 years of West Coast LEAF

This month, West Coast LEAF officially turns 35 years old, which makes the organization just a year younger than me! As a fairly new member of the team (this month is also my one-year anniversary of joining the staff), Read More

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Six Things to Know about The DTES Ethical Research Manifesto

Back in February 2020, which now seems like a lifetime ago, West Coast LEAF signed on as an organizational endorser of Research 101: A Manifesto for Ethical Research in the Downtown Eastside. The Manifesto was developed by peer workers in Read More

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Meet the Report Card Partners

On May 27, we will launch our Gender Equality Report Card. We are excited to share this report assessing what the BC government has done—or failed to do—to advance gender justice and human rights between December 2018 and early Read More

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Community in action: Ways you can support our most marginalized communities during Covid-19

In these times of uncertainty where events are rapidly unfolding, it is hard not to feel overwhelmed and daunted by the challenges we must confront. Like many of you, West Coast LEAF’s staff team is in our fifth week Read More

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

A note from the West Coast LEAF F This! blog team We decided to go ahead and publish this month’s regularly scheduled blog post that ties into the upcoming annual International Day for the Elimination of Racism. As our Read More

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Setting the Table for the 2020 Equality Breakfast

All year round at West Coast LEAF you can be sure to hear — the doorbell dinging, phones ringing, and the click, click, click of keyboards, producing a steady hum beneath the flow of collaboration, education and legal work Read More

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

Photo Credit: The New York Public Library on Unsplash “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 Read More

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A Feminist Governance Framework Recipe

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, Read More

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