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DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
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Author(s): 
Anzaldua, Gloria; Wester, Marlies; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2000-06
Pages: 
16
Summary: 
AGM Agenda; Mother's Day Picnic and BBQ; Volunteers enjoy canoeing and relaxing; Letter Hey Women!; Free Legal Advice Letter; Four Day work week Employees Schedule; Calendar; Regular Programming: Learning Group; BWSS; Shiatsu Massages and Refelxology; Women's Voice; Women Surviving Together; Anti-Violence Discussion Group. Crafty workshops - beading with Leona; Farbic Arts with Freeda; Dreamcatchers. Newsletter Submissions; BBQ for National Aboriginal Day; Outings: Waterslides picnic; Crescent Beach picnic; Lighthouse Park picnic; Witness camping. Transsexuals Protected by Human Rights Legislation; BC Human Rights Tribunal; Transgendered umbrella term applies to transsexual people, transvestites, drag queens, cross-dressers, and gender-benders; History of BC Human Rights Case - Tawni Sheridan transsexual woman denied right to be free of discrimination based on sex when bouncer at night club in Victoria told her she would be asked to leave if she continued to use women's washroom; Human rights - Right to Define Gender Identity; Right to Access Gendered Space and Participation in Gendered Activity; DEWC Policy on transexuals
Keywords: 
DEWC AGM; Mother's Day Picnic; Volunteers; Letter Hey Women!; Free Legal Advice; work week; Employees; Calendar; Newsletter Submissions; Transsexuals; Human Rights Legislation