Community engagement

Our work centres community-based knowledge, activism and learning

We partner with groups, activists and community organizations in a variety of ways, such as co-sponsoring events, hosting our students for experiential learning opportunities through community placements, collaborating on community-based research projects and organizing for social justice.

Our faculty, staff and students are also active members of feminist networks across the city of Montreal and internationally.

Our community in action

Faculty, staff and students at the SdBI are at the forefront of social justice organizing.

Discover our history of activism and our recent organizing work

Our faculty member, Natalie Kouri-Towe, spoke on a panel “Protecting Decolonizing and Radical forms of Knowledge in the University” as part of Scholar Strike Canada’s series “Teaching and Learning Against Social Abandonment,” on October 25, 2023
The SdBI helped sponsor a panel organized by Harambec at Concordia’s 4th Space, "Honouring the Living Legacies of Black Women’s Organising in Montreal" featuring Dr. Kamari Clarke, Brenda Paris, Marlène Rateau and Marjorie Villefranche on October 17, 2023
Our faculty member, Nathalie Batraville wrote about the legacy of bell hooks
Our staff member, Marlihan Lopez, opened the first Feminist Summer Institute in West and Central Africa held in Dakar from August 1-3, 2023.
Our staff member, Marlihan Lopez, cofounded Harambec - Reviving the Black feminist Collective, an organization that aims to defend the rights of Black women and non-binary Black people in Quebec in March 2023.
Our staff member, Marlihan Lopez, spoke at CUPE’s annual Women’s Conference in Vancouver in March, 2023
SdBI faculty and staff were in Conversation with the HoodStop team at Concordia’s 4th space on April 25, 2022, discussing experiential learning and sexual violence
The SdBI hosted Kalimah Johnson for a talk on “Unpacking The SASHA Model: Black Women's Triangulation of Assault”, on October 27, 2020