UTM ~ Campus Resources
UTM Women & Gender Equity Centre
The UTM Women & Gender Equity Centre (WGEC) is a non-profit organization located on campus. Their mandate is to increase student awareness of issues pertaining to contemporary women at both a local and global level.
The centre offers various events and educational workshops available to staff and students throughout the school year. The UTM Women & Gender Equity Centre is an excellent place to hear about upcoming events that relate to women's issues both on campus and in the community.
Location: Maanjiwe nendamowinan (MN) 2285
Additional resources at UTM:
St. George ~ Campus Resources
The Dr. Chun Resource Library
The Dr. Chun Resource Library is a space for community members and University of Toronto students to access factual, critical, and alternative materials that facilitate resistance to oppression among and between diverse communities. In particular the library is committed to collecting materials that reflect the local voices of our community, and the voices of those who have been marginalized and oppressed in our daily lives and in political mobilizing.
The Dr. Chun Resource Library offers its patrons unconventional and difficult to come by materials that reflect a wide variety of issues including: social justice, anti-racism, feminism, ableism, trans awareness, food politics, colonialism, reproductive rights, environmentalism, violence against women, sexuality, poverty, and much more!
Location: 563 Spadina Avenue, just north of College in the Centre for Women and Trans People
The Centre for Women and Trans People at the University of Toronto
The Centre for Women and Trans People is committed to providing a safe, harassment-free drop in space for all women and trans people on campus. We provide free support, referrals, resources, and advocacy on issues of sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism, violence, health and poverty through our workshops, events, services, and programming.
The Centre was founded by U of T women undergraduate students in 1986. They organized to create a safe, accessible space for all women at U of T to gather, seek support, and advocate on issues relevant to them. The Centre is a student funded, volunteer driven, non profit, campus, community organization governed by its Collective.
Location: Room 100, 563 Spadina Avenue, just north of College
New College Library (Ivey)
The New College Library (Ivey) houses the leading collection of Women and Gender Studies resources in Canada. Its collection includes books and periodicals, as well as publications from the various Status of Women’s committees across Canada. The New College librarian, Jeanne Guillaume, has also received an OCUFA award for her internationally-recognized work in developing a cataloguing system for Women's Studies and Gender Studies scholarship and a Women's Studies and Gender Studies database.
Guillaume has assembled extensive electronic collections, including: Women's Studies Database, a CD-ROM collection consisting of 109,000 records covering the humanities, social sciences, health, law, grassroots feminism and feminist organizations; Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts, an international abstracting service designed to meet the information needs of busy librarians and all those working in teaching, studying, or researching any of the main areas of Women's Studies and Gender Studies; Gender Studies Database, which indexes 500,000 records on women and gender studies, feminist studies and diversity studies, inside and outside academia, with several hundred links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on carefully selected websites (available at http://www.library.utoronto.ca > eresources > eindexes); and Contemporary Women's Issues, covering over 600 sources published by more than 100 organizations around the world beginning with sources from 1992.
Location: 20 Willcocks Street (New College)
OISE Library
The OISE Library includes a Women's Resource Collection. Please refer to the website for further information.
Location: 252 Bloor Street West
Additional resources at St. George:
- Status of Women Office at U of T
- University of Toronto Sexual Violence Prevention & Support Centre
- Women & Gender Studies Institute U of T
Additional Resources at U of T Scarborough:
Worldwide Women's Programs
Women's Studies Programs, Departments, & Research Centres
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