Projects
Feminist perspectives on profiling
- in progress -
This project is funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada (WGE).
As a result of concerns expressed by member groups and the need to take a stand on certain policy issues, the Table has proceeded to develop a new project, currently called Feminist Perspectives on Profiling. This project seeks to understand the experiences and discrimination experienced by Montreal women in relation to police and private security forces. The focus will be on women's groups at the intersection of oppressions. To do so, the Table favours an intersectional and anti-racist approach.
In general, while issues of racial, social, and political discrimination and profiling are well documented, they are not always addressed with an intersectional feminist approach. Moreover, the literature on these issues specific to Montreal is less available, except for research done by Anne-Marie Livingstone and reports done under the direction of Victor Armony.
For this reason, the Table convened its members and allied groups interested in the issue to form an advisory committee for the first year of the project.
The steering committee is composed of :
Steps of the project :
- Develop a portrait of experiences of discrimination following consultations with our members and their users.
- Disseminate the portrait to our members, partners, organizations and institutions, elected officials and the general public.
- Form a working group that will identify recommendations following the portrait and plan concrete actions.
Online survey:
For the first step of the project, the collection of data for the development of a portrait, the steering committee developed a survey. Any woman or person of gender diversity who identifies as a woman can respond, as well as anyone who is perceived as a woman. In addition, these individuals must reside or spend several days a week on the island of Montreal/Tio'tia:ke.
For more information, please contact:
Laura Carli, Project Manager
Women's health and well-being
- IN PROGRESS -
This project is funded by the Minister of Health and Social Services (MSSS) as part of the deployment of the Measure 5 in the Action Plan on Women's Health and Well-Being 2020-2024 and will run for a period of three years in partnership with the CIUSSS Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal.
The Measure 5 aims to strengthen partnerships between the health and social services network and the nonprofit sector working on women's health.
The objective of this project is to contribute to the improvement of women's health and well-being in Tio'tià:ke/Island of Montreal through collaboration and consultation.
Project's activities include the following:
- Conduct an intersectional gender-based analysis (GBA+) of the Women's Health Action Plan 2020-2024, assess its impacts for women living in Tio'tià:ke/Island of Montreal and develop strategic recommendations.
- Improve access to popular education workshops on health inequalities using the learning tool developed by the TGFM called The Wheel of Access to Health Care.
- To make the TGFM's Community of Practice on Health, Poverty and Discrimination an essential place for sharing knowledge and experiences relating to women's health. Become a member of the TGFM to join the Community!
- Broaden the scope of the TGFM's Political Action Committee on Health and Social Services. Become a member of the TGFM to join the Health Committee!
- Improve access to women's health and wellness information and ressources through TGFM's online educational platform.
To learn more, contact:
Catherine Lévesque, Project manager
Catherine Théroux, Project manager
Women and Their Relationship to the City
- IN PROGRESS -
This project is supported by the Canadian Ministry of Women and Gender Equality for a period of four years (2019-2023). It aims to build the capacity of the TGFM, its members and partners to intervene on urban issues with intersectional feminist approaches.
The project and activities allow, among other things, to build a shared vision for the future of Montreal, formulate recommendations and develop new tools and spaces to work together to make Montreal/Tiohtià:ke more inclusive and responsive to the needs and interests of all women. The TGFM rallied around the right to the city. Exercising our right to the city allows us to live and evolve in an environment that responds to our needs and realities while being able to initiate and contribute to actions that transform our city.
A steering committee composed of representatives from the West Island Women's Centre, the National Institute for Equity, Equality and Inclusion of People with Disabilities, Logifem and the Women's Y of Montreal supported the deployment of the project in 3 stages.
Steps of the project
- 2019-2021: Consult with the Montreal feminist community through a series of webinars, a survey and a report on Montreal women's right to housing.
- 2021-2022: Develop and adopt a platform of feminist demands for the right to the city which is our vision for the future of Montreal.
- 2022-2023: To appropriate, disseminate and put into action our feminist vision of the city through workshops and training, the Feminist Right to the City Committee and interventions on urban issues.
To learn more, contact:
Marie-Ève Desroches, Project Officer
Community of Practice: Women's Health, Poverty and Discrimination
- completed -
This project is financed by the Secrétariat à la condition féminine du Québec. Duration: Two years. It will conclude on March 31, 2021.
Its goal is to create a community of practice. The purpose of this community of practice is to facilitate the sharing of expertise and tools between individuals working on the issue of inequality experienced by Montreal women related to gender, health, poverty and discrimination.
Proposed by the Health Committee of the TGFM, this project has an initial target of mobilizing contributors who will animate the community of practice and analyze the relationship between health problems and women's poverty using an intersectional feminist approach. During its second phase, the implementation of a virtual community of practice will allow for other contributors to be invited to participate in discussions. At the project's close, an informational tool will be developed on issues of gender inequality in the context of health. It will be distributed among populations who may be affected, service providers and the general public.
To learn more, contact:
Catherine Théroux, Project Officer
Do the Rights Thing
- COMPLETED -
This project, financed by the Canadian Department for Women and Gender Equality in partnership with the DisAbled Women's Network (DAWN Canada) and Action des femmes handicapées (Montréal), is on the topic of access to jobs and services for Deaf and/or disabled women. Its two-year duration was completed in March 2020.
Catherine Théroux, project officer, was mandated to conduct the Montreal segment of this pan-Canadian project. The first phase of the project consisted of creating and facilitating discussion groups and individual interviews. Following the analysis of those discussions, training and informational workshops were developed. These will be offered in the winter of 2020 to Deaf and/or disabled women, employers, service providers and unions. These workshops aim to improve employability and access to services for Deaf and/or disabled women.
To learn more, contact:
Catherine Théroux, Project Officer