Union for Gender Empowerment

09/21/2026

Hi! There is a very cool lecture hosted by IGSF IGSF McGill, where a very cool trans author who studies trans history!
Tickets are limited, but admission is free!!!!
She has written excellent books such as Changing History (2026), which is her most recent book and what a large part of the lecture is centered around, and speeches such as My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the village Chamonix.

Susan Stryker holds a distinguished visiting appointment at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University and is Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker for Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria; co-editor of the multivolume Transgender Studies Reader; and author of Transgender History. Her work is collected in the Lambda Literary Award–winning anthology When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader, edited by McKenzie Wark.

06/06/2026

Come join us this Monday June 8th at 15h30 to read THE DEEPWATER BRIDE by Tamsyn Muir, a wonderful little story of a teenage girl, omens, prophecy, small-town apocalypse, and a gay manic pixie dream girl. The event is in our office, room 413 of the University Centre (3480 rue McTavish, Montreal). Snacks and tea provided, no preparation necessary.

04/06/2026

Come join us in our office (SSMU building, room 413) tomorrow at 6PM to watch and discuss Paris is Burning (1990)!

03/19/2026

FEMINIST MEDIA CIRCLE
presented by the Union for Gender Empowerment

When: most Mondays at 18h (see schedule below)
Where: room 413, University Centre (3480 rue McTavish)

Let’s come together to read or watch and discuss some feminist media! In these times of ascendant fascism and patriarchy, we must learn, think, and have fun together. We have magazine articles, a film, a short story, and a sewing workshop coming up. No preparation is needed—we will read or watch or make the pieces together during the events. Snacks provided.

Monday March 23rd @ 18h: For a Q***r Revolutionary Movement (2023) & For a Q***r Revolutionary Autonomy (2026) by Louve Rose. Local texts laying out a program for building power as q***r revolutionaries.

Monday March 30th @ 18h: The Ugliest Girls (2023) by Lindsay Wong. A horror short story on the commodification of beauty.

Tuesday April 7th @ 18h: Paris is Burning (1990) directed by Jennie Livingston. A classic documentary about the New York City ball culture of the 1980s.

Monday April 13th @ 18h: Refusal, Reorienting (2026) by ZTL and Counter-Disinformation (2026) by Laïka. The former is a text about anti-racist organizing, and preventing its watering down. The latter uses the history of q***rcore music to inform a fun proposal for propaganda.

Monday April 20th @ 18h: mend your s**t! — a sewing workshop. Bring clothing you want to fix up. We’ll help and teach each other, share skills, and end the semester together.

02/26/2026