From June 3rd-6th, the unceced Coast-Salish Territories of Vancouver were host to two Conferences: Women Deliver—"the world's largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights, and well-being of girls and women,” and Feminists Deliver—“a grassroots collaboration of British Columbia-based self-identified women, girls, non binary and Two Spirit people and the organizations that support them that have come together, on account of the 2019 Women Deliver Conference.” Web Editors Elysse Cloma and Elizabeth Holliday took the opportunity to attend both conferences and reflect on the spaces they created and held.

“I ask theatre organizations to trust us, and let us Deaf artists lead the process for the best possible impact. This is the kind of work where we ask people to give up their position of power and allow space. It is not easy to do.”

National Indigenous People’s Day is coming up on June 21st, and we’ve rounded up just a few of the special events happening around the city for you to check out! All of these events (like everything SAD Mag does) take place on the unceded, ancestral, and occupied territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

Whenever I think about why I’m an artist, it’s because it saves me…We live in a society that doesn’t protect art or even really advocate it, so, when people tell me no, I want to do it even more.

“One can’t help but have a sense that whatever the BS of the current times and political landscape, there is within the community the strength to resist and persist towards a better and more inclusive, compassionate future.”