Posts by theagenda

McGill First Peoples’ House

McGill First Peoples’ House

We strive to provide a ‘home away from home’ for First Nations, Inuit and Métis students at McGill University. Playing...

ieiénthos akotióhkwa planting group

ieiénthos akotióhkwa planting group

Reclaim Turtle Island

Reclaim Turtle Island

A cross-border grassroots project that works to develop resources for Indigenous sovereigntist and anti- colonial struggles on Turtle Island (“North...

Rap Battles for Social Justice

Rap Battles for Social Justice

Rap battles uniting hip-hop heads and activists, showcasing the wide range of talent in the MTL scene while educating the...

Art Matters

Art Matters

Art Matters is a student-run festival that celebrates the vitality of Concordia University’s multidisciplinary artistic community. The festival promotes the...

HOWL! Arts Collective

HOWL! Arts Collective

Howl! arts collective is a Montréal-based collective of cultural workers, artists, and activists working for social justice via artistic expression.

Atelier Céladon

Atelier Céladon

Atelier Céladon is an artist organization that prioritizes the voices and labour of Indigenous and People of Colour engaged with...

Sidetracks Screenprinting Collective

Sidetracks Screenprinting Collective

Sidetracks is a collective whose mandate is to make screenprinting accessible to projects and organizations working for social change, especially...

Settlement Reparations FB Groups

Settlement Reparations FB Groups

Resource for peoples Indigenous to so-called Canada (Inuit, Métis, First Nations) to receive support from settlers living on our stolen...

Barriere Lake Solidarity

Barriere Lake Solidarity

We are a network that supports Barriere Lake, an Algonquin community four hours north of Montréal, that has been asserting...

Montréal Noir

Montréal Noir

Montréal Noir est un collectif de citoyens Montréalais inquiets par les dérapages policiers envers les communautés noires et le racisme...

Black Lives Matter Montreal

Black Lives Matter Montreal

BLM Montréal is an action group that aims to form connections and to work in solidarity with black communities, black-centric...

radical access mapping project (ramp)

radical access mapping project (ramp)

Disability Justice focused accessibility auditing is about collectively creating useful, accurate, broad-based and up to date accessibility information about the...

McGill Student Accessibility and Achievement office

McGill Student Accessibility and Achievement office

(formerly McGill Office for Students with Disabilities) Students can register with the Student Accessibility and Achievement office if they are...

DisAbled Women’s Network/Réseau d’Action des Femmes Handicapées

DisAbled Women’s Network/Réseau d’Action des Femmes Handicapées

Established In 1985, the DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada (DAWN) is a national, feminist, cross-disability organization that has provided opportunities...

Action Centre

Action Centre

Multicultural activity centre for those with physical or cognitive disabilities that aims to empower, support and include. Provides educational, recreational,...

Accessibilize Montreal!

Accessibilize Montreal!

Accessibilize Montreal! aims to make Montréal a more accessible place in every way: from the mindsets and interactions between Montrealers...

Access Centre for Students with Disabilities

Access Centre for Students with Disabilities

Concordia students with a variety of disability conditions can use the ACSD. Some examples are: vision, mobility, hearing, chronic medical...

McGill Black Students’ Network

McGill Black Students’ Network

Founded in 1970, we are a SSMU service, available to the entire McGill and Montréal Community. We are dedicated to...

GARAM MASALA (Montreal Alliance of South Asian Leftists and Allies)

GARAM MASALA (Montreal Alliance of South Asian Leftists and Allies)

We are a Montréal-based group called “GARAM MASALA” (an acronym for “Groupe d’Action Révolutionnaire sud-Asiatique de Montréal / Montreal Alliance...

Tout Le Hood En Parle

Tout Le Hood En Parle

Tout Le Hood En Parle puts forward the testimonies, histories and cultures of people of colour through online video interviews,...

Our Bodies, Our Voices

Our Bodies, Our Voices

An inter-generational, youth-led, arts-based mentorship and training program that seeks to empower QTBIPOC youth aged 18 – 24.

Project X

Project X

Part of Head & Hands. Works to support youth by helping them find creative ways to survive the effects of...

Mtl Sans Profilage

Mtl Sans Profilage

Une recherche action participative sur les relations des jeunes et de la police dans un quartier de Montréal.

Black Community Resource Centre

Black Community Resource Centre

The Black Community Resource Centre (BCRC) provides and implements professional innovative support services to individuals, communities, para-public and public organizations....

DESTA Black Youth Network

DESTA Black Youth Network

As a community-based organization serving marginalized youth, aged 18 to 35 in the Greater Montréal area, our mission is to...

Third Eye Collective

Third Eye Collective

The Third Eye Collective is an intergenerational grassroots collective led by female-identified people of Black/African origins dedicated to healing from...

All Black Everything Montréal

All Black Everything Montréal

Working document about resources available within Montréal’s Black communities.

Black Indigenous Harm Reduction Coalition (BIHRA)

Black Indigenous Harm Reduction Coalition (BIHRA)

BIHRA facilitate community discussions about sexual health & harm reduction, by & for Black & Indigenous people in Tio’tia:ke. We...

Concordia’s Cooperative Student Housing Project: The Woodnote

Concordia’s Cooperative Student Housing Project: The Woodnote

By Amanda Murphy, based off an interview with Madelaine (Marketing and Communications Intern) and Cleopatra (Support Member), staff from the...

The Areas We Inhabit

The Areas We Inhabit

Brief histories of Tiohtià:ke neighbourhoods By Athina Khalid Having grown up in “Montréal,” I may be biased, but I really...

Super Broke-Ass Guide to Montréal:  For Students

Super Broke-Ass Guide to Montréal: For Students

By Regina Dentata CW: bodies, menstruation, money + finances, food, sex, swear words, alcohol This is the fourth edition of...

Kenny Photos

Kenny Photos

by Kenny Thunder

Dyke Drama

Dyke Drama

By cosmicwyrmrat This article was originally published on cosmicwyrmrat’s blog.   I recently read a thread on Facebook on Échange Q...

Surprise! On a des droits?!?

Surprise! On a des droits?!?

Par Le Collectif Opposé à la Brutalité Policière also available in english version complète disponible ici On doit compter sur...

Harm Reduction + The Opioid Crisis

Harm Reduction + The Opioid Crisis

By Liz Singh CW: drugs HARM REDUCTION Harm Reduction is an approach to public health policy that aims to decrease...

Gender Euphoria Flowchart

Gender Euphoria Flowchart

by Emciel

How to be a Great Ally to Sex Workers

How to be a Great Ally to Sex Workers

by Stella This info sheet is part of a series of five produced by Stella, a “Montréal”-based sex worker rights...

Qu’est-ce que ces objets ont en commun?

Qu’est-ce que ces objets ont en commun?

par Tadamon!  Cette affiche a été créé en 2010. Certains chiffres pourraient ne plus être exacts (par exemple, la population...

Palestinian Solidarity is Not Anti-Semitism

Palestinian Solidarity is Not Anti-Semitism

By Independent Jewish Voices McGill In debates regarding Israel and Palestine, both on campus and in the world beyond Rue...

Betty Better Have My Money

Betty Better Have My Money

SLAV + CULTURAL APPROPRIATION By Lucas Charlie Rose If you were in Montreal this summer, chances are you’ve heard about...

White Dudes

White Dudes

by Andira Hernandez

Decolonization 101: Terminology + Decolonizing History

Decolonization 101: Terminology + Decolonizing History

By Molly Swain + Lindsay Nixon, excerpted from the zine Decolonization 101 tanisi kahkiyaw awiyak, Molly Swain êkwa Lindsay Nixon...

Infinite Slowness

Infinite Slowness

By The Learning from the Land Collective excerpted from the zine Activity’s intentions:  To give ourselves the treat of moving...

Resources for Navigating University When You Have a Disability

Resources for Navigating University When You Have a Disability

By Anonycrip When I started university, I believed that if I required help for things then I wasn’t a true...

Mon coeur n’a plus 20 ans

Mon coeur n’a plus 20 ans

Par Elena Stoodley Sur mon coeur, j’ai gravé “Envoie” et sous ma nuque, “Reçois.” Deux heures de souffrance pour dénouer...

How to Occupy the Admin Building

How to Occupy the Admin Building

By Arno Pedram What do the 2011 mobilization against tuition hikes, McGill University’s abusive reversal of a student referendum result...

Greenwashing + Anti-Capitalism + Decolonization + Food Justice at Concordia University

Greenwashing + Anti-Capitalism + Decolonization + Food Justice at Concordia University

By Le Frigo Vert As a fee-levy group at Concordia, Le Frigo Vert operates as an anti-capitalist alternative health and...

Consent Culture

Consent Culture

By Cliff Pervocracy Additions to the original text have been made by the 2017-2018 School Schmool coordinators and are marked...

#I’m With Sarah

#I’m With Sarah

CW: sexual violence, power dynamics This is an open letter that has been circulating on social media as of June...

Origines

Origines

Par Mercure à la mer Fille orientale, d’où viens-tu? J’aime ton accent, où l’as-tu appris? Où as-tu appris à parler français?...

Un Statut Pour Toutes et Tous et Une Cité Sans Frontières

Un Statut Pour Toutes et Tous et Une Cité Sans Frontières

Extrait du livret Solidarité sans frontières par Solidarité sans frontières Also available in English // también disponible en español Le Canada repose...

Community Alert

Community Alert

Excerpt from Community Alert: Montreal is not a Sanctuary City, by Solidarity Across Borders, published in At the Heart of...

Alternatives to Calling the Police

Alternatives to Calling the Police

Compiled from Various Sources Call a Friend, Not the Cops! There are a lot of situations that we are not...

Untitled Photos

Untitled Photos

by Surah Field-Green

RECIPE: Make Your Own Oat Milk

RECIPE: Make Your Own Oat Milk

Lactose hurt your belly? Vegan, but tired of paying $4 a carton to support the dairy-alternative industrial complex? Allergic to...

Another Black Life Taken by the Montréal Police

Another Black Life Taken by the Montréal Police

Collateral damage in a racist ‘war on drugs’ by Robyn Maynard   May be reprinted with permission. Bony Jean-Pierre, a 47-year-old...

The Men Who Loved My Body (And the Things They Said)

The Men Who Loved My Body (And the Things They Said)

By Caleb Luna He asks me about my first time ‘I think I was 23. It was a first date’...

Not Shaving Isn’t Always a Choice for Women of Colour

Not Shaving Isn’t Always a Choice for Women of Colour

By Paniz Khosroshahy Adopted from a piece first published in gal-­dem I don’t shave, because I believe that the hair removal...

Fat Body Politics

Fat Body Politics

By Anonymous I want to talk about the politics of being fat. I want everybody to have a serious self-reflexive...

An Open Letter on Black Lives Matter

An Open Letter on Black Lives Matter

By Helen Ogundeji I am hurting and I am healing and often it is very difficult to decide which state to...

Temporary Recruitment Agencies, Immigrant Labour and Labour Precariousness in Montréal

Temporary Recruitment Agencies, Immigrant Labour and Labour Precariousness in Montréal

By Viviana Medina & Manuel Salamanca, Members of the Temporary Agency Workers Association (TAWA) of Montreal Few people in Montréal...

Québec’s Student Movement: People Power on Campus

Québec’s Student Movement: People Power on Campus

By Joël Pedneault For decades, Montréal has had a strong tradition of street protests. Unions, communities, feminist groups, and leftist...

But Disability is Different…

But Disability is Different…

By AJ Withers Time and time again, people make the argument that disabled people don’t have to be included in social...

Bees-Ness in Montréal

Bees-Ness in Montréal

By Cameron Stiff – lesabeillesdespossibles.wordpress.com It was spring of 2007 when I saw the headline: “Millions of bees mysteriously vanish....

Creating the World I Want

Creating the World I Want

By Juniper Glass It is a cold morning after a huge snowfall. I have an early meeting with a potential...

Assurance-Chômage : encore un clou dans le cercueil

Assurance-Chômage : encore un clou dans le cercueil

Par Hans Marotte — Mouvement Action Chômage de Montréal macmtl@macmtl.qc.ca Depuis la fin des années quatre-vingt, les gouvernements fédéraux ont...

Transformative Justice 101

Transformative Justice 101

from the revolution starts at home: confronting intimate violence within activist communities. chen, ching-in, jai dulani, and leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha,...

Prisoner Solidarity

Prisoner Solidarity

Printed alongside Why Should I Become a Pen-Pal to a Queer Prisoner? What’s Prison Abolition? The experiences of those who have...

Being Fat is Okay

Being Fat is Okay

from thepursynurse.tumblr.com “Bodies are inherently valid” – Mark Aguhar (calloutqueen) Fatphobia is a term for the systems of oppression in...

Law 35 in Québec

Law 35 in Québec

By Gabrielle Bouchard, Peer Support & Advocacy Program Coordinator at the Centre for Gender Advocacy On April 17, 2013, the...

Gateway Showdown Might Dwarf Idle No More

Gateway Showdown Might Dwarf Idle No More

extracts from an article by Will Braun (Mar. 4, 2013) Chief Theresa Spence is back home in Attawapiskat and Idle...

Concordia to Open Sexual Assault Resource Centre

Concordia to Open Sexual Assault Resource Centre

By Bianca Mugyenyi, Campaigns Coordinator at the Centre for Gender Advocacy Since the spring of 2011, the Centre for Gender...

Sexual Health: Barriers and Beyond

Sexual Health: Barriers and Beyond

By Jos Porter, Health Services Coordinator at Head & Hands Protection… If you’re having penetrative sex, condoms protect against most sexually...

Radical Health

Radical Health

By Jos Porter, Health Services Coordinator at Head & Hands When we talk about health, thoughts of how many colds...

DIY Emotional Well-Being Tips

DIY Emotional Well-Being Tips

taken from the 2009 Slingshot Organizer Fighting oppression is hard work, both physically and emotionally. Too many activists burn out...

You Don’t Need Prison Walls

You Don’t Need Prison Walls

The following is an excerpt from Beyond Amnesty, an anonymous text from the UK. it is an exploration of the...

L’Inconnue

L’Inconnue

She hovers on the fringes, casting doubts with her eyes while bodies circulate, grinning and laughing, swelling with the talk...

GENTRIFICATION … WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT?

GENTRIFICATION … WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT?

[This is an excerpt from the pamphlet Gentrify This!, an analysis of current processes of gentrification in Montreal. As real...

P-6 in Montréal

P-6 in Montréal

By Macho Philipovich This year, the tool of choice used by the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM)...

Student Strike, 2012: A Brief History

Student Strike, 2012: A Brief History

By anonymous From February to September 2012, the longest student strike in the history of Quebec took place. Over the...

Bonjour-Hi? A Teeny-Tiny History of Language Politics in Québec

Bonjour-Hi? A Teeny-Tiny History of Language Politics in Québec

By Joël Pedneault New France was forcefully incorporated into the British Empire in 1760. The linguistic conflict this created can be...

A Brief History of Union Organizing in Montréal

A Brief History of Union Organizing in Montréal

By Tyler Lawson* Labour organizing in Montréal began with the formation of decentralized craft unions in the early 19th century....

The Quest for the Promised Land: How Canada and Israel Perpetuate Settler Colonialism

The Quest for the Promised Land: How Canada and Israel Perpetuate Settler Colonialism

By Margaret Gilligan The settler-colonial projects of the states of Canada and Israel have willingly participated in the dehumanization and...

Fight for Nothing. Some Thoughts on Queer Nihility

Fight for Nothing. Some Thoughts on Queer Nihility

By Edith Doyle Forward- Before we begin, the writers of this piece would like to acknowledge a number of factors...

Against Marriage Equality

Against Marriage Equality

By Ryan Conrad With the recent passage of gay marriage nationwide in the United States by a narrow June 2015...

Trans Rights & Trans Lives in Montréal

Trans Rights & Trans Lives in Montréal

By Kama La Mackerel In December 2013, the Québec National Assembly adopted Bill 35 which modi ed Article 71 of...

Tips for Making Your Event More Accessible

Tips for Making Your Event More Accessible

Excerpted  from QPIRG Concordia’s Accessibility Guidelines 1. Compensate all contributors fairly. If at all possible in cash, and at the...

Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter

By Helen Ogundeji In a society where white bodies are prioritized and those of any other variation are marginalized, violence...

Indigenous Sovereignty or There’s Nothing to be “Proud” About Canadians

Indigenous Sovereignty or There’s Nothing to be “Proud” About Canadians

By papâmâstêw-otipêyimisiwiskwêw Canada is a hostile occupying force that represses Indigenous nations. In spite of the national mythology that Canada...

Heart of Joy and Pain

Heart of Joy and Pain

by Maria Trujillo

A Molt in the Afternoon

A Molt in the Afternoon

By Anna Vail I have my red fruits to eat today, in time for your going. All peel and pile...

Curtain (White)

Curtain (White)

By Jess Goldson Sounds clatter, Drowning out the waves that wash over me. Crowded landscapes lose meaning, Undefined by the...

My Afro

My Afro

By Jess Goldson My afro grows up toward the sun like tulips in the spring. Up, up, my curls defy...

Prisons in Canada

Prisons in Canada

By The Termite Collective cw: racism, prison industrial complex, incarceration, state brutality, capitalism, settler-colonialism, anti-blackness, settler-colonialism, mental and bodily wellness,...

Panic Attacks + Tips for Calming Down

Panic Attacks + Tips for Calming Down

Excerpted from Nailbiter: an anxiety zine Panic attacks are an exaggeration of the body’s ‘normal’ response to fear. The chemical adrenaline...

The Limits of “Tenant’s Rights” Based Advocacy

The Limits of “Tenant’s Rights” Based Advocacy

By Catherine Jeffery cw: bureaucracy, ableism, classism, racism, gentrification, capitalism, neoliberalism, tenant-landlord power dynamics, state brutality What do tenants’ rights...

Condo Culture

Condo Culture

by Andira Hernandez

Trans Affirming Resources in Montréal

Trans Affirming Resources in Montréal

Excerpted from the zine Trans 202: Trans-Affirming Resources in Montréal and Basic Terminology by Raphaële Changing your name or mention...

Deer Woman

Deer Woman

by Chief Lady Bird