We have compiled a feminist's guide to navigating McGill. Click on the logos to be redirected to the page of each group!
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McGill Students for Feminisms
With an intersectional approach, MS4F plans events that educate, inspire and empower the McGill community to take action against gender inequality.
McGill Women in Leadership
We are a club of the Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) dedicated to empowering young women as they enter the professional world.
Desautels Women in Business
Providing women interested in a career in management with workshops, speakers, a network and other tools to prepare them for the corporate world.
Intersections Journal
The McGill Undergraduate Gender and Diversity Journal
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The Union for Gender EmpowermentThe UGE is a trans positive feminist organization in Montreal. The UGE operates a library, zine distro, zine library, and Co-op.
Consent McGill
Creating a culture of consent at McGill. Supporting, educating and empowering our community.
Promoting Opportunities for Women in Engineering
POWE is a philanthropic group at McGill under Engineering Undergraduate Society. No notion is too big of a commotion for the women in the McGill Faculty of Engineering.
F WORD
F Word seeks to explore feminism in its present-day cultural context as a unifying, anti-oppressive, intersectional force and provide an accessible community resource through inclusive, constructive multi-media content.
ContoursContours explore l'intersection entre les femmes et le droit. This is a project to map the contours of debates, experiences, concerns and aspirations.
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Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students' SocietyThe Sexual Assault Centre of the McGill Students’ Society (SACOMSS) is a volunteer-run organization committed to supporting survivors of sexual assault and their allies through direct support, advocacy, and outreach.
Women's and Sexual Diversity Studies Students Association
WSSA is the governing collective by and for women's studies and sexual diversity studies students at McGill University.
Queer McGill
Queer McGill is a non-hierarchical social, political, informational and support service for queer students and their allies.
Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist StudiesWe aim to stimulate, support and disseminate research in gender, sexual diversity, and feminist studies.
McGill Women in House
Women in House promotes women’s participation in politics. Female McGill students are given the unique opportunity to shadow a female MP/Senator & gain an...
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While it may seem like there's so much feminist action going on at McGill, in reality McGill has quite a conservative student body and faculty. If you tell someone in Montreal that you go to McGill, it is often automatically assumed that you have conservative leanings. The activist community in McGill is very small compared to the greater number of the student body, and most often the same people participate in different groups.
The more politically feminist groups at McGill are McGill Students for Feminisms (MS4F), The Union for Gender Empowerment (UGE), Sexual Assault Centre of McGill's Student Society (SACOMSS), F-Word, and Queer McGill (QM). MS4F is more of a feminist club prototype, with an education and events-based approach to promoting feminism on campus through an intersectional framework. It is the newest group among the other feminist groups at McGill. It was started because, while lots of feminist action happens separately at McGill, there had not been a feminist club on campus that would centralize all the efforts and energy.
The UGE is a student service that operates as more of a support network. According to their website, "came together out of a need to address systems of oppression which enforce a gender binary and use that binary to privilege some groups and punish those who fall outside it." As such, the UGE provides a physical space and a support for people in their self-directed empowerment. Their space offers comfy couches, tea, snacks, a wonderful zine library and gender empowerment items. SACOMSS' services aim to empower survivors and to raise awareness concerning sexual assault in the McGill and Montreal communities. In addition to providing support for survivors in the form of a crisis helpline, support groups, in-person support and advocacy, they also provide educational services to the wider Montreal community, specially Montreal schools. F-Word is a biannual feminist zine that features feminist writing and multimedia art. QM is also a student service providing support for queer students.
Desautles Women in Business (DWIB), Promoting Opportunities for Women in Engineering (POWE) and McGill Women in Leadership (MWIL) and take on a more liberal approach to empower women in their professional fields. They hold events focused on self and professional development, conferences and mentoring opportunities. Women's and Sexual Diversity Students Association (WSSA) is a student departmental association representing the interests of the department's students. WSSA tends to be the most political departmental association at McGill, and has gone on strikes during the students protests in 2012 and 2015.
Finally, Consent McGill is an initiative led by the university's Liaison Officer (Harm Reduction) providing consent education across the university. This position was created in 2014 in response to the allegations of sexual assault committed by three football players at McGill and mishandled by the administration.
In addition to all the feminist groups, there are also many other activist groups at McGill.
Physical and mental health:Environmental:
Journalism
There are also several equity groups affiliate with various student unions.
Are we missing your group? Get in touch and we'll add it to our list!
The more politically feminist groups at McGill are McGill Students for Feminisms (MS4F), The Union for Gender Empowerment (UGE), Sexual Assault Centre of McGill's Student Society (SACOMSS), F-Word, and Queer McGill (QM). MS4F is more of a feminist club prototype, with an education and events-based approach to promoting feminism on campus through an intersectional framework. It is the newest group among the other feminist groups at McGill. It was started because, while lots of feminist action happens separately at McGill, there had not been a feminist club on campus that would centralize all the efforts and energy.
The UGE is a student service that operates as more of a support network. According to their website, "came together out of a need to address systems of oppression which enforce a gender binary and use that binary to privilege some groups and punish those who fall outside it." As such, the UGE provides a physical space and a support for people in their self-directed empowerment. Their space offers comfy couches, tea, snacks, a wonderful zine library and gender empowerment items. SACOMSS' services aim to empower survivors and to raise awareness concerning sexual assault in the McGill and Montreal communities. In addition to providing support for survivors in the form of a crisis helpline, support groups, in-person support and advocacy, they also provide educational services to the wider Montreal community, specially Montreal schools. F-Word is a biannual feminist zine that features feminist writing and multimedia art. QM is also a student service providing support for queer students.
Desautles Women in Business (DWIB), Promoting Opportunities for Women in Engineering (POWE) and McGill Women in Leadership (MWIL) and take on a more liberal approach to empower women in their professional fields. They hold events focused on self and professional development, conferences and mentoring opportunities. Women's and Sexual Diversity Students Association (WSSA) is a student departmental association representing the interests of the department's students. WSSA tends to be the most political departmental association at McGill, and has gone on strikes during the students protests in 2012 and 2015.
Finally, Consent McGill is an initiative led by the university's Liaison Officer (Harm Reduction) providing consent education across the university. This position was created in 2014 in response to the allegations of sexual assault committed by three football players at McGill and mishandled by the administration.
In addition to all the feminist groups, there are also many other activist groups at McGill.
Physical and mental health:Environmental:
- ECOLE
- Divest McGill
- McGill Research Group Investigating Canadian Mining in Latin America
- Greenpeace McGill
Journalism
There are also several equity groups affiliate with various student unions.
- Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) Equity
- Arts Undergraduate Students' Society (AUS) Equity
- Engineering Undergraduate Students' Society (EUS) Equity
- Science Undergraduate Students' Society (SUS) Equity
- Social Equity and Diversity Education Office
- Joint-Board Senate Equity Subcommittee on Women
Are we missing your group? Get in touch and we'll add it to our list!