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This week – the week leading up to Trans Day of Remembrance (November 20) – is Trans Awareness Week. This is a time dedicated to increasing visibility and awareness of transgender communities, their resilience and the ongoing discrimination they encounter. We have created a non-exhaustive list of events, resources, and voices to amplify visibility and understanding

The University of Waterloo and Canadian universities and colleges across the country are coming together on October 1st and 2nd to facilitate a national conversation to develop concrete actions for change in higher education and in our communities. 

June 1, 2020

To our Waterloo Community,

We acknowledge and accept responsibility for our silence on the issues of anti-black racism and hatred on our campuses. HREI wanted to ensure our statement came with tangible, coordinated actions, but we regret that we were not more responsive and thank our campus community for their continued honesty and for holding us accountable. We commit to doing better.

After a record number of submissions, the 2020 HeForShe Writing Contest winners have been selected.

Congratulations to Diana Parry, Associate Vice-President Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion, and professor of Recreation and Leisure Studies, on being named the recipient of the 2020 Angela Hildyard Recognition Award in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

Women-Identified Academic Writing Retreat is a partnership initiative between the University of Waterloo’s Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion Unit, the Office of Research, and the Writing and Communication Centre. It was created to:

Please visit the University of Waterloo's Coronavirus website for the latest information. 

On November 19, 2019, the Waterloo community was delighted by a Songs in the key of Cree integrated performance-speaker event.

As an activist and historian vocal on Indigenous rights, History PhD student Lucy Vorobej works to raise consciousness of how historical negative stereotypes and injustices were created and how they can be redressed within Canadian society.

Donna Strickland joined the ranks of Marie Curie this week, becoming the third woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in physics.

Read the entire article posted in the Waterloo Record.