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Questioning Cure: Disability, Identity, and Healing
MAY 11, 3:00 pm EST: Should cure be the ultimate aim of health care? Sometimes aiming at cure entails trying to fix disability rather than enabling disabled people to flourish. Sometimes it obscures the goal of healing, and sometimes aiming at cure entails failing to distinguish between disease and difference. In this webinar, disabled writers and educators Anand Prahlad, Ann Millett-Gallant, and Karen Nakamura will discuss how the idea of cure has shaped their own lives and how we can think beyond cure.
Be the Change Earth Alliance Challenge
Read more for an opportunity for your students to participate in a province-wide challenge related to Environmental Justice.
APRIL 14 – INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PINK
April 14, 2021 marks the International Day of Pink. It is a day where communities across the country, and across the world, can unite in celebrating diversity and raising awareness to stop homophobia, transphobia, transmisogyny, and all forms of bullying. Read more for BCTF resources.
NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN!
The VSTA Annual General Meeting will take place on May 18, 2021, and we encourage any and all interested VSTA members to consider nominations for next year’s Executive Committee. Please read more for details and a link to the nomination form. Nominations close April 23 at 4:00 pm.
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Please ensure that the VSTA has your correct home address, phone number, non-employer email address and if you have changed schools since last year.
