(Click on the above image or here to access the interactive map.) UPDATE as of November 1, 2019 12:30pm: The panel has found a new venue which they will release shortly before the event takes place. Follow this facebook event page for updates about the rally/protest: https://www.facebook.com/events/529386161147677/. Overview This analysis was created and written on … Continue reading Know Your Enemy: An Analysis of the November 2, 2019 Panel of Hate
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Trans and Sex Worker Communities & The Vancouver Public Library: A Reflection by CATA
This letter was submitted at the Vancouver Public Library board meeting on April 24th, 2019. Vancouver Public Library 350 West Georgia Street Vancouver, BC V6B 6B1 unceded Coast Salish territory To Christina De Castell, Head Librarian; Councillor Christine Boyle, Board Member; Jennifer Chan, Vice Chair, Library Board; Kurt Heinrich, Board Member; Zahra Hussein, Board Member; … Continue reading Trans and Sex Worker Communities & The Vancouver Public Library: A Reflection by CATA
How Vancouver Rape Relief is at Odds with Indigenous Self-Determination
November 4, 2020 Update: On March 14, 2019, days after their International Women's Day event, the City of Vancouver Council voted to to provide termination funding for Vancouver Rape Relief. This decision was specifically regarding VRR's explicit exclusion of trans, gender variant, and Two Spirit people from their services and organization as well as their … Continue reading How Vancouver Rape Relief is at Odds with Indigenous Self-Determination
Update: CATA’s Demands Have Yet to Be Met
Vancouver and District Labour Council, CUPE BC and Chinatown Action Group continue to fail trans women and sex workers (to view this as a note on facebook visit: https://www.facebook.com/TheCoalitionAgainstTransAntagonism/ ) In the afternoon of May 1st, 2018, Organize BC informed CATA about the cancellation of the Evening Panel scheduled to take place this Friday, May 4th, … Continue reading Update: CATA’s Demands Have Yet to Be Met
The Future of the City We Want: Why Sex Work is a Labour Issue
Please see the update to our open letter here: https://noterfsnoswerfs.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/update/ This open letter is written on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples - specifically the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations, in what is colonially known as Vancouver, Canada. A closed letter, sent April 25th, 2018, was authored and emailed privately … Continue reading The Future of the City We Want: Why Sex Work is a Labour Issue
Yuly Chan: A Documented History of TERF/SWERF Ideology
Written on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations, in what is colonially known as Vancouver, Canada. This document serves to archive examples and evidence of a demonstrated effort in the promotion of harmful, violent TERF/SWERF ideology by Yuly Chan for the purposes of … Continue reading Yuly Chan: A Documented History of TERF/SWERF Ideology
Response to Vancouver Women’s Library
This is a repost of an open letter that was publicly posted by Gays Against Gentrification and written by an anonymous group of people in so-called Vancouver, Canada. We are posting it here to ensure its visibility and longevity as it is a part of local trans and trans sex worker history. *This note is … Continue reading Response to Vancouver Women’s Library
Coalition Against Trans Antagonism 