RESOURCES/RESSOURCES

ORGANIZATION

Gender Equity in Education, M.Ed.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

In the fall of 1997, students enrolled in a department of OISE or the University of Toronto can apply to do a specialized M.Ed. in Gender Equity in Education. Contact Caralee Price at the Centre for Women's Studies in Education,
OISE/UofT, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON,
M5S IV6, (416) 923-6641 ext.
2204, email cprice@oise.utoronto.ca.

CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

Voce Alternativa

Voce Alternativa, an Italian-Canadian women's group, is launching a quarterly newsletter to be distributed in Ontario. Submissions are invited from women writers and artists of Italian descent on topics such as breaking down stereotypes and myths, immigration, history, culture, community, religion, health, sexuality, class and identity. Articles, fiction, poetry, reviews, artwork (please send photocopies) and listings of upcoming events are welcome; where possible please include a diskette (either pc or mac). Send submissions and SASE to Editorial Collective, Voce Alternative, P.O. Box
63003, 1655 Dufferin Street,
Toronto,
ON, M6H 4H8.

Women and Technology
Women and Environments

In the Summer of 1997 Women and Environments will publish a specialissue on Women and Technology. Submissions can examine any aspect of technology in relation to public policy, issues of identity, changes in the home or workplace, history, international development, global economics, accessibility, training, impact on the environment, social values, etc. Contact the issue editor Melanie Stewart Millar at Women and Environments, 736
Bathurst Street, Toronto,
ON, M5S 2R4,
(416) 531-6241,
weed@web.net.

Information Technology and Disabilities

Information Technology and Disabilities, a quarterly, refereed electronic journal published since 1993, is seeking submissions for upcoming issues. ITD publishes feature articles on the practical, theoretical and historical aspects of technology and its impact on the lives of people with disabilities, as well as shorter "Department" pieces under the headings K-12, Campus Computing, Libraries, Access to Employment, and Online Information. All submissions must be sent electronically (email or disk copy) to Tom McNulty, Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York,
NY, 10012, (212) 998-2519, TDD (212)
998-4980, mcnulty@is.nyu.edu. ITD is
available on the web at http://www.rit.edul-easi/itd.htmi.

Religious Identities, Spiritual Practices, and Queer Communities
Queer Press

Queer Press is seeking submissions from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and transsexual people for an upcoming anthology on religious identities and spiritual practices. Contribution are welcome from those who remain within and those who have withdrawn from religious affiliations of their upbringing, those who have developed their own spirituality and those whose work involves responding to the spiritual and religious needs of the queer community. Deadline is December 31, 1996. Submissions should be no more than 2500 words and should include three paper copies, a disk copy if possible, a brief bio and an SASE (international reply coupon for submissions from outside Canada).
Queer Press, P.O. Box
485, Station P, Toronto, ON, M5S 2Tl,
luhmann@yorku.ca.

Traveling Between Worlds: Queer E/Im/Migration
Queer Press

Experiential and fictive stories are welcome from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and transsexual people for an upcoming anthology on Queer E/Im/Migration. Where do you call home and how do queers experience leaving/coming home? What stories do we tell of traveling in and between a multiplicity of worlds? How do our stories of e/im/migration shape us, our sexualities and our communities? Contributions are welcome to take up the theme of Queen E/Im/Migration in the widest possible sense. Deadline and guidelines for submissions apply as above.

FILM/VIDEO

Video Pool Inc.
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Video Pool is a production and distribution house with a resource of hundreds of arts, documentary and experimental videos organized under subjects such as media, performance/dance, sexuality/gender, social change, First Nations, humor, personal documentary, etc. Contact:
Video Pool Inc., #300, 100 Arthur St.,
Winnipeg, MB, R3C IH3, (204) 949-9134, fax
(204) 942-1555, vpdist@wpg.ramp.net.

FILM/VIDÉO

Désirs de liberté
vidéo femmes
700 rue du Roi, 1er étage
Quebec (Québec) GIK 2X7
(418) 529-9188
(418) 648-9201 téléc.

Le féminisme, on avait oublié? On dit que c'est fini? Désirs de liberté survole trente ans de vie et rend hommage a toutes ces femmes, trop nombreuses à nommer, qui ont construit ce mouvement de fond dans notre société. 52 min. vidéo. Vidéo femmes est un centre de production et distribution de vidéos réalises par des femmes.

BOOKS/PUBLICATIONS

There's No Excuse for Abuse
YWCA of Canada
80 Gerard Street E.
Toronto, ON, M5B IG6
(416) 593-9886
(416) 971-8084 fax

This kit contains practical information on what to do if you know a woman (friend, colleague, neighbor, relative) who is experiencing violence. Includes sections for workers in health care, law enforcement, social work. $10/kit.



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