Social Justice & Equity
We work to enhance the experiences of graduate students from traditionally marginalized communities. We work with the Centre for Student Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, and other partners to co-create graduate student specific programs and services with a social justice lens.
Initiatives
Community Poster Art Series: Raising the Voices of Our Racialized Graduate Students
The GSA commissioned artist and therapist Roza Nozari, also known as YallaRoza, to illustrate our most recent poster series. Roza hosted a focus group session with racialized graduate students, that informed both the illustrations and messaging for the series.
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.