We are providing a list of TO-based jokers and organizations that we endorse here for a very specific reason: historic marginalization. It is one of Stage Left’s core values to attend to the differences between equal opportunity and equal access. Equal opportunity implies that all people are the same and therefore have the same chances as each other for “success”. Equal access recognizes that so many of us are marginalized by and oppressed because of our social identies as “others” (queer, of color, poor, disabled, Aboriginal, etc.) and that our differences create barriers in opportunities for “success”. In this section, then, any organizations or jokers we include here are those who are creating their own opportunities in ways that celebrate differences rather than negate them and in ways that attend to the need for those of us on the margins to locate ourselves within the centre – on our own term, rather than through assimilation processes. In other words, we endorse TO jokers and groups who necessarily attend to social justice because we need to in our own lives, rather than those who attend to social justice on behalf of us “others”.
The International Theatre of the Oppressed organization
Third Way Theatre (Australia)
Theatre Works (Canada)
Kerri Mesner (Canada)
Owen Tuf (Canada)
Gisella Menzoda (Portugal)
John Scott (USA)
Cheryl Harrison (USA)
Sheila Gaskins (USA)
S. Leigh Thompson (USA)
New Village Press
disinfo.com
rabble.ca
The
Propaganda Remix Project
Confluere: A Network for Social Change
Calgary
Activist
Corporate Watch
PETA
Leftist
Links Archive
Directory
of Social Movements
Word Spy
For a complete list of links related to disability culture, please
visit our disability arts
festival page.
Council of Canadians
with Disabilities
Alberta
Premier’s Council on the Status of People with Disabilities
Norman Kunc
Disabled Women’s
Network (DAWN) Ontario
Not Dead Yet!
International
Centre for Bioethics, Culture, and Disability
International Task Force
on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
JP
Das Developmental Disabilities Centre
Diverse
City Press
Advocating Change
Together
Canadian Lesbian and
Gay Archives
OutProud
Gay
Shame: A Celebration of Resistance
mattilda
aka matt bernstein sycamore
Youth Safe
Queer Youth
Alliance
Gay,
Lesbian, Straight Educators Network
Canadian Lesbian and
Gay Archives
Riot Grrrl
Ink.
Queer Kit
feminist.com
Third
Wave Foundation
Women's
Centre of Calgary
Media Watch
Herizons
National Women’s History Project
International Centre for Research on Women
Grassroots Women
Canadian Ethno-Cultural
Council
Canadian Race Relations
Foundation
Aboriginal
Youth Network
Mayworks
African-Canadian
On-line
Class Action
Class Matters
Tools for Change
Colorlines Magazine
Redwire Native Youth Media
Aboriginal Healing Foundation
Assembly of First Nations
Native Women’s Association of Canada
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