Initiatives

Food 4 Hawks

The GSA is supporting the ‘Food 4 Hawks’ project through the Graduate Enhancement Fund (GEF). The project has 4 objectives: improving student food security; building our community; connecting our campuses; and celebrating our diversity. Food 4 Hawks aims to address all dimensions of student food insecurity on our campuses, including food access, availability, utilization, and cultural relevancy. By revisiting campus food security programming, this project will address issues of food scarcity among students as well as broadly improve social and financial support programming.

Menstrual Equity

The GSA participated on the WLU Menstrual Equity Committee to create an educational campaign around menstruation. This campaign was paired with events to coincide with our advocacy to create systemic institutional change on campus.

We invite you to take a pledge to demonstrate your commitment to menstrual equity: destigmatization, affordability and access, sustainability and inclusivity. Simply agreeing that you believe in these core principles of menstrual equity demonstrates that this matters to the Laurier community.

Resources

Anti-Racism Toolkit

This guide is to help students build resources and fight against racism specifically on our own campuses. View the toolkit here.

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2Spirit People Calls to Justice Membership Advisory

This guide is to help implement the Calls for Justice relevant to the post-secondary sector as set out in the final report of the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls. Each of us has a role to play in dismantling the oppressive systems that have led to the genocide of First Nations, Métis and Inuit women, girls and 2Spirit people.