Partnerships
Our faculty, students and staff partner with many organizations, groups and networks across the city of Montreal and internationally.
Our programs prioritize activism and community engagement, emphasizing experiential learning and ethically engaged collaborations across the university and community contexts.
Are you part of an organization that would like to partner with us by hosting students for experiential learning opportunities? We'd love to hear from you!
Our partnerships and networks
Anti-Racist Pedagogy Project
We helped support the development of the Anti-Racist Pedagogy project at Concordia.
C-FAR
We developed work on equity, diversity and inclusion through the feminist university course and helped build the foundations for the later establishment of the Black Perspectives Office.
FFQ - Fédération des Femmes du Québec
The SdBI is a member organization of the FFQ.
Feminist Media Studio
Headed by SdBI fellow Krista Lynes and Razan AlSalah (Department of Communications, Concordia), many of our faculty and students are members of the FMS.
Feminist Researchers Against Borders
SdBI faculty members Gada Mahrouse and Natalie Kouri-Towe are founding members of this international network of feminist scholars and activists.
RéQEF - Réseau Québécois en Études Féministes
Under the direction of Chantal Maillé, an SdBI faculty member, Concordia is one of 11 university branches of RéQEF in Quebec. Members include Geneviève Rail, Natalie Kouri-Towe, Marlihan Lopez and Krista Lynes.
Sexuality Studies Association
The SdBI is an institutional member and sponsor of the Sexuality Studies Association.
Activism & Community Engagement
Our members have also been active in community organizing and engagement, activism, advocacy and action.
12 Days of Action Committee, Fédération des Femmes du Québec (FFQ)
For over a decade, the 12-Day Committee (Nov. 25 to Dec. 6) has coordinated an annual campaign for the elimination of systemic and institutional violence against women. The SdBI is a member organization and has helped host events on anti-carceral perspectives on gender-based violence.
Read the SdBI's zine for the 12 Days of Action.
Éduconnexion
In 2023, with the support of Concordia’s Office for Community Engagement, the SdBI began a new partnership with Montreal-based social justice organization, Éduconnexion, to build resources for transformative justice approaches to gender and sexuality-based violence prevention work under the leadership of Marlihan Lopez, Natalie Kouri-Towe and the Éduconnexion team.
HoodSTOP les violences sexuelles
From 2020 to 2023, working in partnership with Concordia University's Office of Community Engagement, community organizers in Montreal North and HoodStock, this project builds a community and youth-based approach to sexual violence prevention and supporting survivors of sexual violence in the Montreal Nord neighborhood.
The project was led by Marlihan Lopez and the HoodSTOP team with faculty collaborators, Nathalie Batraville and Natalie Kouri-Towe.
The work draws on community-led, collective and non-carceral approaches for front line services.
Harambec
Working in partnership with SdBI, Harambec: Reviving the Black Feminist Collective, provides resources for and by Black women and gender-expansive people in the areas of teaching, experiential learning, research, professional development, mentorship and more.
Harambec is funded by the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation Deep Investment Fund.
