Gender & Sexuality Learning Series : Sex and Economy
2023-11-09 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Vancouver) | Online
Join us for a workshop series over the fall to unpack key languages that we use in our writing, research, and dialogues of academia on topics of gender and sexuality. To register for this series (which you can join in full or by session), please fill out this form!
These events will take place bi-weekly online beginning on Thursday, September 14 from 1-2:30pm

In these workshop, we’ll have the chance to explore the nuances of terms and deepen our understanding of them. We’ll also discover how language can both reflect and shape our attitudes towards sex, gender, and sexuality, and explore ways to use more inclusive language in our lives. Topics include: critical vocabulary of sexuality and gender, the question of agency, rethinking sex, portrayals of sex and sexuality on-screen, and capitalism and sexuality. Please find the dates and sign up for the sessions you are interested in below.

About your Facilitator:
We have these sessions run by our Co-Director of Research and Education, Hannah, who holds a Masters’ Degree in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies from SFU. She thrives on community work and on various ways in which she can support and care for the members of SFPIRG. Having been a teacher for over ten years, Hannah loves to organize events and facilitate workshops for students in order to help them find calm in a chaotic world and resist the systems that actively oppress our bodies. She loves to find new ways to practice self-care and active rest both for herself and for practicing it with the community.

Thank you wanting to join us for this important discussion!

What to do about wellness checks : Are Mental Health Professionals the Best Alternative to Police “Wellness Checks”?
2023-10-28 14:30 - 17:30 | online – Zoom, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Join SFPIRG for a workshop series that will explore the violent reality of police “wellness checks” and our current social responses to people experiencing mental health crises. Through this series, we will build an understanding of police violence when responding to people in crisis, proposed psychiatric responses as alternatives to police, and also start to explore possible alternatives.
These online sessions are free and open to anyone. Feel free to attend any or all three offerings.
Many of us are aware that when the police conduct “wellness checks” or otherwise engage with people experiencing mental health crisis, all too often they end up killing or violently assaulting the person in need of care. A commonly proposed and practiced solution is that mental health professionals, with or without an accompanying police officer, should replace an exclusive reliance on the police, and that psychiatric care is what is needed. Let’s explore these proposed solutions, and consider whether there might in fact be a better option if our goal is to promote safety, healing and mental wellbeing for all.
Register for this session here.

Gender & Sexuality Learning Series : Sex on Screen
2023-10-26 13:00 - 14:30 | Online

What to do about wellness checks : The trouble with Police in “Wellness Checks”
2023-10-14 14:00 - 17:30 | online – Zoom, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Join SFPIRG for a workshop series that will explore the violent reality of police “wellness checks” and our current social responses to people experiencing mental health crises. Through this series, we will build an understanding of police violence when responding to people in crisis, proposed psychiatric responses as alternatives to police, and also start to explore possible alternatives.
These online sessions are free and open to anyone. Feel free to attend any or all three offerings.
The trouble with Police in “Wellness Checks” Saturday October 14, 2-5:30 (break included)
Our first session will let us dig into the idea and role of wellness checks in mental health crises, the role of police locating wellness checks and other mental health issues, as well as locating this issue within broader concerns about the nature of policing.
Register here.

Gender & Sexuality Learning Series : Rethinking Sex
2023-10-12 13:00 - 14:30 | Online

Radical Reads: We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies
2023-10-05 08:00 - 17:00
Join the SFPIRG Rotunda Library for this radical reads session where we will be discussing the magnificent novel “We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies” by Tsering Yangzom Lama. We are excited to host this session that digs deep into colonisation, displacement, and identity. Register for the event here.

During the course of this session our Rotunda Library work study students and staff will be leading participants through discussion questions. Do not feel like you have to read the entire book for this discussion to be impactful and relevant! Also, if you cannot afford to buy a copy of the book, please contact us at engagement@sfpirg.ca or visit us in the office and we can work on sourcing you a copy. We also encourage you to listen tothis interview with the author to learn more about the story and themes, which will provide you a good base to join the discussion from if you don’t have time to read the book (or in addition to the book)!

This will be an in person discussion on October 26 from 2:30pm-4pm in the SGPIRG Lounge SUB 1410. This is a masked space with many types of seating for any body that might be there. We are not able to offer ASL for this event. If you have specific accessibility needs, please let us know so we can work to meet them.

Social Justice Policy Clinic : Gender-based Violence and Policy
2023-10-03 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-09-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
Thank you for your interest in this policy clinic, which will not only teach you about different kinds of policy analysis, but also create recommendations for SFU GP44: Sexual Violence and Misconduct, Prevention, Education, and Support which is being reviewed. If you are interested in this clinic, please register here.
This policy clinic is being facilitated by SFPIRG Director of Engagement, Chantelle Spicer, who has seven years of experience in sexualized violence policy in post-secondary institutions. She served as the Co-Chair of Students for Consent Culture Canada from 2019-2022 and has been involved in the organisation for 4 years. She also was a part of the committee that wrote the policy for Vancouver Island University and serves as an advisory council member on a number of provincial and federal government committees related to policy, legislation, and gender-based violence.

Unlike other SFPIRG opportunities, much of this clinic is specifically for SFU students and community members given that it is contributing directly to SFU policy, though all are welcome to join for session 1 where we will discuss gender-based policy analysis more broadly.

As a part of this clinic, you are expected to read the existing policy before our session on Tuesday September 26, which can be found here.

All attend: Session 1, Tuesday September 19 1-3pm (online):
– History of GP44 and SV policy in BC
– Discussing different kinds of policy analysis for Gender-based Violence (GBV) work including GBA+ (commonly used by the provincial and federal governments), Indigenous GBV lens (new framework codeveloped by Indigenous women in BC, and analysis created by Students for Consent Culture Canada

Pick one of the following: Session 2, Tuesday September 26 1-:3:00pm (online) OR Thursday September 28 from 10-12pm (in person)
– General discussion of GP44, what stood out to us as beneficial? what stood out as a challenge or barrier?
– Grading GP 44 through the criteria of Students for Consent Culture

All attend: Session 3, Tuesday October 3 1-3pm (online)
– making our recommendations for policy revisions

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Gender & Sexuality Learning Series : The Question of Agency
2023-09-28 13:00 - 14:30 | Online

Social Justice Policy Clinic : Gender-based Violence and Policy
2023-09-28 10:00 - 12:00 | SFPIRG Lounge SUB 1410, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Thank you for your interest in this policy clinic, which will not only teach you about different kinds of policy analysis, but also create recommendations for SFU GP44: Sexual Violence and Misconduct, Prevention, Education, and Support which is being reviewed. If you are interested in this clinic, please register here.
This policy clinic is being facilitated by SFPIRG Director of Engagement, Chantelle Spicer, who has seven years of experience in sexualized violence policy in post-secondary institutions. She served as the Co-Chair of Students for Consent Culture Canada from 2019-2022 and has been involved in the organisation for 4 years. She also was a part of the committee that wrote the policy for Vancouver Island University and serves as an advisory council member on a number of provincial and federal government committees related to policy, legislation, and gender-based violence.

Unlike other SFPIRG opportunities, much of this clinic is specifically for SFU students and community members given that it is contributing directly to SFU policy, though all are welcome to join for session 1 where we will discuss gender-based policy analysis more broadly.

As a part of this clinic, you are expected to read the existing policy before our session on Tuesday September 26, which can be found here.

All attend: Session 1, Tuesday September 19 1-3pm (online):
– History of GP44 and SV policy in BC
– Discussing different kinds of policy analysis for Gender-based Violence (GBV) work including GBA+ (commonly used by the provincial and federal governments), Indigenous GBV lens (new framework codeveloped by Indigenous women in BC, and analysis created by Students for Consent Culture Canada

Pick one of the following: Session 2, Tuesday September 26 1-:3:00pm (online) OR Thursday September 28 from 10-12pm (in person)
– General discussion of GP44, what stood out to us as beneficial? what stood out as a challenge or barrier?
– Grading GP 44 through the criteria of Students for Consent Culture

All attend: Session 3, Tuesday October 3 1-3pm (online)
– making our recommendations for policy revisions

SFPIRG Open House!
2023-09-21 11:00 - 14:00 | SFPIRG Lounge SUB 1410, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Join us and some of our friends in the community to learn more about SFPIRG! This is an excellent opportunity to learn about what we do, our values, space, and ways we can support you in your academics and social justice organising!
We will have light snacks and beverages, puzzles, button making, games, and new friends to make! This is drop in open house, but please let us know if you are coming so we can appropriately plan for snacks.
Accessibility Considerations:

our office is located near the elevator in the Students’ Union Building
our door is wide enough to accommodate most mobility aids
we have a wide variety of seating available for many body types
we only use lamps in our space so those sensitive to overhead lighting can enjoy their time with us

Social Justice Policy Clinic: Gender-based Violence and Policy
2023-09-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Online

No Cops on Campus Open House
2023-09-18 18:00 - 19:30 | SFPIRG Lounge SUB 1410, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Join members of the coalition No Cops on Campus to learn more about the work they are doing this fall! Members will be available to talk about organising they have done so far, plans for the coming term, and how you can get involved! We will be serving light snacks and beverages, as well as making buttons! Please fill out this form to register (this is a drop in event, but we need to know how many snacks to plan for!)
About No Cops on Campus
No Cops on Campus (NCoC) is a collective of students and staff from across SFU campuses with a shared goal of growing, dreaming, and advocating for something beyond a status quo that relies on policing and security.
SFU relies on security largely because of a misunderstanding that colonial policing is the only way to keep people “safe” on campus. Yet, this form of safety does not extend to those who are traditionally targeted by policing systems including BIPOC communities, Muslim peoples, disabled peoples, queer peoples, and low income or houseless community members. We support and encourage those within educational institutions who are imagining futures with non-violent and inclusive community safety instead. Our work is built on decades of work by students across North America who similarly push for the implementation of these life-affirming alternatives to policing.
We as a student and workers collective are working toward the elimination of police and policing presence on all SFU campuses.
Accessibility Considerations:

our office is located near the elevator in the Students’ Union Building
our door is wide enough to accommodate most mobility aids
we have a wide variety of seating available for many body types
we only use lamps in our space so those sensitive to overhead lighting can enjoy their time with us
although we are interested in engaging in challenging conversation around police, prison, and abolition we will not tolerate abusive or condescending behaviour in our space. You will be asked to leave the space during the event if you are making our guests feel uncomfortable.

Gender & Sexuality Learning Series : Critical Vocabulary on sex, gender, and sexuality
2023-09-14 13:00 - 14:30 | Online

Join SFPIRG at Clubs Days
2023-09-13 11:00 - 14:00
Join staff and volunteers of the SFPIRG during the SFSS clubs days to learn more about the ways you can get involved in the social justice community!

Join SFPIRG at Clubs Days
2023-09-12 11:00 - 14:00 | Convocation Mall, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Join staff and volunteers of the SFPIRG during the SFSS Club’s Days to learn more about ways you can get involved in your social justice community!!

Meet SFPIRG at the Services Fair!
2023-09-07 12:00 - 15:00, 2023-09-06 12:00 - 15:00
Join staff and volunteers of the SFPIRG during the SFU Burnaby service fair to learn more about the resources and supports we offer students and the SFU community!

Rita Wong: "Letters to Our Loved Ones: A Writing Workshop"
2023-03-07 11:30 - 13:00 | SFPIRG Lounge SUB 1410, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
SFPIRG Rotunda Library is excited to announce the next session of our visiting author series with Rita Wong. Rita Wong grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and is the author of three books of poetry, sybil unrest, written with Larissa Lai; forage, and monkeypuzzle as well as co-edited collection downstream: re-imagining water. Wong has won the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Emerging Writers Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her work investigates social issues and ecology. She lives in Vancouver and is an associate professor in critical and cultural studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

It is human to feel grief when we see places we loved being sacrificed, as we see happening on Burnaby Mountain. Ecological grief is a global condition, which we experience in specific locations as we see trees clearcut and streams poisoned by industrial projects like the TransMountain pipeline expansion. Rita Wong will introduce the 1308 Trees project, a collection of letters written to some of the thousands of trees that have been killed for the pipeline expansion, at the very time when we needed more trees, not less. She will invite workshop participants to write their own letters and poems or to make offerings for their beloved more-than-human relatives: the trees, the hummingbirds, the creeks, the salmon, the orca, the nooksack dace, and more, all of whom are losing their lives and/or homes to the pipeline expansion. Acknowledging the grief, voicing it, is a step in processing it, and finding ways to transform it into collective action, to honour the lives that have been lost and continue to be threatened, including our own.

We will announce a full list of accessibility considerations once we are sure which location we will be using for this event.

SFPIRG will provide all physical writing supplies. we do encourage folks to handwrite for this workshop, but if typing is more accessible please bring your own tablet or laptop.
We will provide a variety of different seating options for the many types, accessibility needs, and shapes of bodies present.
We re not able to provide ASL interpretation for this event

SFPIRG x SFSS Womens' Centre Radical Reads: "Abolition.Feminism.Now"
2023-03-02 13:00 - 14:30
After registering for this event, we ask that you go to the Women’s Centre (SUB 2220) any time between 9:00am to 4:00pm to pick up your own copy of Abolition. Feminism. Now. which you will get to keep! Our meeting in the SFPIRG student Lounge (SUB 1410) on March 2nd will be to discuss the book, so please complete it by that time.
Do not feel like you have to read the entire book for this discussion to be impactful and relevant! We also encourage you to watch this video with Angela Davis and Gina Dent who visited SFU in 2022 to discuss Abolition Feminism Now or this video with Haymarket books at the release of this important work.. this will provide you a good base to join the discussion from if you don’t have time to read or finish the book!
For any questions or concerns, please email us at womenscentre-admin@sfss.ca and/or engagement@sfpirg.ca

SFPIRG 2023 Annual General Meeting
2023-02-15 17:00 - 19:00 | Online
Join SFPIRG for our Annual General Meeting!
Every year we gather together as an organisation to think about where we have been and where we are going. This is an opportunity to recognise amazing community work we have supported and led, talk about finances and funding of a non-profit organisation, and recognise the work we have ahead.
Register here!
As a student-funded organisation, we love opening up our doors to share the work we have done together as a community! Every year at our AGM we review what we have done in the past year, reflect on what works, what doesn’t, and think through how we use student funds to fuel change in the world – and in students! This year, we ware excited to be joined by sχɬemtəna:t St’agid Jaad Audrey Siegl of Musqueam Nation to welcome us to the territory and discuss how we move from territorial acknowledgements to LandBack and Indigenous sovereignty.
Once again, we will be hosting this event online for the safety of the communities we work with. We will not have ASL available for this event, but will have closed captioning available. We are also committed to making spaces emotionally accessible for folks, which includes supporting generative conversations (even/especially when its difficult) and providing trigger warnings. If you have other accessibility needs we can work to meet, please let us know by emailing Chantelle at engagement@sfpirg.ca
We will be updating the meeting documents as we get them prepared:

the SFPIRG AGM Agenda, which includes the review of our annual report and budget, as well as an opening from Audrey Siegl.
the meeting minutes from our 2022 AGM
the 2023 Annual Report of our activities and relationships
Financial reports for the reporting period as well as the auditor’s recommendations

Critical Vocabularies: Intersectionality
2023-01-31 11:30 - 13:00
Join us for a workshop to unpack key languages that we use in our writing, research, and dialogues of academia starting off with a really foundational one: Intersectionality! We are thrilled to co-host this workshop with Julia Lane from the Student Learning Commons. The event will take place on Tuesday January 31 from 11:30-1 in WAC Bennet Library room 7301.
Register here!
Through a combination of open discussion and engagement with relevant research and writing scenarios, we will consider how the concept of intersectionality can be useful and meaningful in our work as student scholars.

Learning Objectives:

Develop a critical understanding of the concept of intersectionality
Engage in open, collaborative discussion with peers about intersectional research and writing
Develop your own sense of how intersectionality can be a meaningful and useful part of scholarly work

Accessibility at this time:

this will be an in person event and will not be recorded
we unfortunately do not have the funding for ASL at this time
this event will be happening in the WAC Bennett Library at SFU Burnaby campus. we will be wearing masks in this space for the well-being of the community during this time of increased COVID transmission. we will have masks available.
the location of the workshop is accessible via elevator.
the chairs in the room are “office type” chairs with a mesh back and padded seat.
there are gender-neutral washrooms down the hall from the room we are using.
we are committed to making this an accessible and safer space for a constellation of sexualities and gender in the films we show, in the questions we ask, and how we facilitate discussion.

Thank you wanting to join us for this important discussion!

Finding Our Roles in Social Movements
2023-01-25 13:00 - 15:00
Have you been wanting to be a part of social justice movements? Have you been in social movements for awhile and find you are shifting roles? Join us in the SFPIRG Lounge SUB 1410 for a workshop and discussion on January 25 from 1-3pm about the many roles that exist in making changed! Based on the tools created by Deepa Iyer (@DeepaVIyer) including the Social Change Map and workbook, we will be investigating and discussing how we show up with more integrity to movements that matter to us.
Register here!
Thank you wanting to join us for this important discussion!

Release, Reset Restore Series
2023-01-19 13:00 - 15:30
Looking for a community to heal and grow with? Are you dealing with racism, sexism, or other oppressive/problematic content in the course of your work, organising, or studies? Are you looking for a confidential and supportive space? Are you looking for community with folks who also care about social justice? Come and help us build a sanctuary space for you and your fellow students!
Register Here
Join SFPIRG for our 2023 Care-based Office Hours series for SFU undergrad and grad students! Release, Reset, and Restore will take place on Thursdays from 1:30 to 3pm, starting on January 12. The last session will be on April 30. We will not host a session during reading week. Sessions will alternate between in-person and on-line sessions to meet the needs of our community members.
Each week will focus on a different aspect of healing and wellness, though there is flexibility to respond to the needs of the session members. Activities include mindfulness activities, sharing circles, artistic practice, collective journaling, or sharing resources for those who need further support and guidance.
Please note that these are group support sessions, and so conversations may take place of a sensitive or challenging nature. In order to support a safer environment for all, we ask participants to be respectful, considerate, and compassionate throughout all sessions. Participants who are harassing, discriminating against, or deliberately harming others will be removed from the room. We hope you find community, healing, and ideas for ways forward. Please fill out your information in this form and we will email you the Google Calendar invitation, with a Zoom link included for the sessions happening online, at least 1 hour prior to the next event. This link will work for all Office Hours sessions. Your information will be kept confidential.
Reach out to us at engagement@sfpirg.ca if you have any questions!
By registering, you will be added to the Google Calendar event series, and will be registered for the full Release, Reset, Restore series of events – drop into any session! You only need to RSVP once! Dates and topics for the series are:

January 12 (in person): Making Space for Joy
January 19 (online): Boundary Making
January 26 (in person): Community Care and Finding our Resources
February 2 (online): Finding our rest
February 9 (in person): Decolonising Wellness
February 16 (online): open session
March 2 (in person): TBD
March 9 (online): TBD
March 16 (in person): TBD
March 23 (online): TBD
March 30 (in person): TBD

Please complete this registration form so we can send you the secure link.

SFPIRG Rotunda Library Book Sale
2022-11-17 12:00 - 15:00 | SFU SUB
Come out to the SUB Social Stage (across from Blenz) to find your new favourite read or resource! We will have over 2,000 books for sale in topics ranging from poli-sci to the environment to poetry. We will be using funds gained from the sale of the books to update our existing library and fund new library programming.

Critical Vocabularies: Intersectionality
2022-11-10 15:00 - 16:00 | SFPIRG Lounge SUB 1410, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Join us for the first in a series of discussions that unpack languages we use in our writing, research, and dialogues of academia! We are thrilled to start the conversation with Julia Lane from the Student Learning Commons and we will be discussing “Intersectionality!” Bring your questions about and experiences with writing intersectionality! We will also be using this discussion to build toward a writing intersectionality workshop in the next term so stay tuned to see how this work grows!

Release, Reset, Restore: Care-based Office Hours
2022-10-27 13:30 - 15:00 | online – Zoom, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Attention all SFU undergrad and grad students! SFPIRG is here to support you!
Are you dealing with racism, sexism, or other oppressive/problematic content in the course of your work, organising, or studies? Are you looking for a confidential and supportive space? Are you looking for community with folks who also care about social justice? Come and help us build a sanctuary space for you and your fellow students.
Join SFPIRG for our 2022 Care-based Office Hours series for SFU undergrad and grad students! Release, Reset, and Restore will take place on Thursday from 1:30 to 3pm, starting on September 29, 2022. The last session will be on November 24. Sessions will alternate between in-person and on-line sessions to meet the needs of our community members.
Content of these sessions will be flexible to the needs of those gathered that day but may include mindfulness activities, sharing circles, artistic practice, collective journaling, or sharing resources for those who need further support and guidance.
Please note that these are group support sessions, and so conversations may take place of a sensitive or challenging nature. In order to support a safer environment for all, we ask participants to be respectful, considerate, and compassionate throughout all sessions. Participants who are harassing, discriminating against, or deliberately harming others will be removed from the room.
We look forward to connecting with you!
How to attend:

RSVP using this form at least 1-hour prior to any session. Please register using the full name and email you will be signing into the Zoom session with (when events are digital). All in person events will take place in the SFPIRG Lounge located on the first floor of the SUB, room 1410.

Please note: if you register less than 1-hour prior to a session, we cannot guarantee that you will receive the event link for that session.

Participants will be added to the event series within the 1-hour prior to each session. If you do not receive an invitation, please be sure to check your spam folder.

You will receive a Google Calendar invitation, with a Zoom link included for the sessions occurring digitally. This link will work for all sessions!
You will be added to the Google Calendar event series, and will be registered for the full series of events – drop into any session! You only need to RSVP once.

Questions? You can reach us at engagament@sfpirg.ca for more information

Full List of Dates:

September 29 (on Zoom)
October 6 (in SFPIRG lounge)
October 13 (on Zoom)
October 20 (in SFPIRG Lounge)
October 27 (on Zoom)
November 3 (in SFPIRG Lounge)
November 10 (on Zoom)
November 17 (in SFPIRG Lounge)
November 24 (on Zoom)

Visiting Author Series: Harsha Walia
2022-10-26 11:00 - 12:30 | SFPIRG Lounge SUB 1410, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
On Wednesday October 26 from 11am-12:30pm in the SFPIRG Lounge Harsha will be reading from her acclaimed and award-winning book Border & Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism.
Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist and writer based in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories. She has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous solidarity, anti-capitalist, Palestinian liberation, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. She is formally trained in law, works with women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
We are delighted to be joined by Harsha as well for a writing workshop following the reading.
In-person space for this event will be very limited so register early. We will be live streaming the event for those who cannot attend in person. Please register via this link.
This is an event put on by the SFPIRG Rotunda Library, which is a network of equity-based libraries at the SFU Burnaby Campus. Other Rotunda Libraries are located in the Women’s Centre and Out on Campus. Each of these libraries offer resources, programming and services unique to their mandate.

Release, Reset, Restore: Care-based Office Hours
2022-10-20 13:30 - 15:00 | SFPIRG Lounge SUB 1410, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada

Radical Reads: On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous
2022-10-20 11:00 - 12:30 | SFPIRG Lounge SUB 1410, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Join the SFPIRG Rotunda Library in our first radical reads session where we will be discussing the magnificent book “On Earth We Are Briefly Beautiful” by Ocean Voung. We are excited to host this session that digs deep into personal stories of immigration, belonging, and identity in advance of our visit from Harsha Walia the following week, who will be discussing the impacts of borders and status.

During the course of this session our Rotunda Library work study students and staff will be leading participants through discussion questions. Do not feel like you have to read the entire book for this discussion to be impactful and relevant! Also, if you cannot afford to buy a copy of the book, please contact us at engagement@sfpirg.ca or visit us in the office and we can work on sourcing you a copy.

Trigger warning: this book does include homophobic slurs, mentions of bullying, violence, and trauma.

This will be an in person discussion on October 20th from 11am-12:30 in the SGPIRG Lounge SUB 1410. This is a masked space with many types of seating for any body that might be there. We are not able to offer ASL for this event. If you have specific accessibility needs, please let us know so we can work to meet them.

This is an event put on by the SFPIRG Rotunda Library, which is a network of equity-based libraries at the SFU Burnaby Campus. Other Rotunda Libraries are located in the Women’s Centre and Out on Campus. Each of these libraries offer resources, programming and services unique to their mandate.
