Resources for Students
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If Disability Studies students are seeking volunteer experience, the MLPD is happy to provide such an opportunity!
Interested students should reach out directly to Melissa Graham, Executive Director of Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD).
Tel: 204-943-6099 Ext: 3
Email: melissagraham@mlpd.mb.ca
Salary: $18-$19 per hour plus benefits
Seeking a person to support my 28 year old daughter with a disability as she strives to become independent in her own apartment and within the community.
Responsibilities include:
- Willingness to learn and provide healthy cooking for diabetes
- Willingness to gain knowledge relating to Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Accompanying participant in various activities some of which include Zumba, swimming, bowling, etc
- Supporting participant in various work experience placements
- Assisting participant with shopping, housework, and all daily activities of life
- Living in the area around Edison at Henderson…would be an asset
A drivers license and access to a vehicle is a requirement
Generally, the hours needed are:
- Tuesday-Fridays 10:30 AM -3:30 PM
- Monday- Thursdays 5 PM- 10 PM and Sundays 11AM-6PM... but this could vary at times.
Ideally, 2 or more persons could share these hours would be preferable as a change up in staff adds variety to her days
There is also a potential to increase your hours by working with other participants in this organization in which my daughter is supported
Please apply to Gloria (parent)... for a pre-screening by emailing a resume to gwoloshyn@mymts.net. After the pre-screening you will be referred to the Agency supporting my daughter where you will be required to follow their process for hiring. If you have any questions please feel free to email or call 204-995-2423
Launch: Fat Studies Lab (University of Manitoba)
Announcing the launch of the new Fat Studies Lab at the University of Manitoba!
Please join us for the launch of the Fat Studies Lab with a talk by our special guest, Professor Amy Erdman Farrell (Dickenson College), author of the NYU Press book Fat Shame. Special guest performance by the Fat Babes Dance Collective! Free refreshments provided and entry is free!
When: Wednesday, March 12 at 7pm
Where: The Times Change(d), 234 Main Street
Facilitated by: Dr. Deborah McPhail, Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba
About Professor Farrell:
Amy E. Farrell is the James Hopes Caldwell Memorial Chair and Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Dickinson College. Her research focuses on representations of gender and feminism in popular culture, the history and representation of the body and fatness, the history of second wave feminism, and girlhood studies. She is the author of Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism (University of North Carolina Press, 1998) and Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture (New York University Press, 2011), as well as the editor of The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies (Routledge, 2023). A frequent media commentator, Farrell has appeared on the Colbert Report and shared her research on national popular media, including Bitch, the New Yorker, Psychology Today, NPR, and CNN. From 2019-2020 she served as an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, in 2021-22 as a Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and in 2023 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Grant.
About the Fat Studies Lab:
Located at the University of Manitoba, the Fat Studies Lab is an online and in-person space for radical fat politics and scholarship. It is a hub for resources, guest speakers, activism and connection.
Thanks to our event sponsors:
Women's and Gender Studies, University of Winnipeg
Disability Studies, University of Winnipeg
Office of the Vice Provost (Equity), University of Manitoba
Alan Klass Program for Health Equity, University of Manitoba
Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba
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