Are you a passionate learner, but maybe a slow, easily distracted reader (thanks Netflix), and you crave more accountability for nurturing a steady reading habit?  Are you a respectful human, who is wired for connection and happy to participate in healthy discourse, or sometimes just observe it?

Well then, Grace Club Book Club welcomes you with open arms!

This is an easy, affordable way to connect with lovely humans, further intersectional feminist discussion, and encourage growth and activism within our #GraceClubYVR community... who’s in?

Suggested membership fee for those attending will be $5 -$15 per event to help pay for the space rental and anything left over will go towards one of our favourite local grassroots organizations WISH Vancouver . 

Our society has a narrow definition of what a worthy body is, and will challenge that very idea. Because of mixed messaging, we often end up feeling confused and disconnected from our bodies. Grace Club will examine and explore how to cultivate a healthy and inclusive framing of all bodies, and make space for celebrating diversity and uniqueness.

Join us Thursday April 2nd for an evening of compassionate conversation and radical exploration into various liberating perspectives and lived experiences, around being in our bodies, and how we can start relating to our bodies in a new way. We will discuss topics such as body image, ableism, and transphobia, while exploring perspectives such as body positivity and body neutrality.

Speakers Hillary McBride, Savoy Williams, and Heather McCain are going to share their different experiences of embodiment, with host of the most Lystra Germaine Sam holding space. 

We will discuss topics such as body image, ableism, and transphobia, while exploring perspectives such as body positivity and body neutrality.



What: Join us for an intimate Grace Club evening discussing the topic of Sex Positivity!

For this event, we'll explore various liberating perspectives, in order to de-mystify and de-stigmatize what is too often shrouded in secrecy and shame. This will be a judgement-free zone, where we'll learn from our speakers' expertise and experience, and allow for some lively Q & A.

When: Monday March 9th 6-9pm

Where: Suite Genius Mt Pleasant , #200- 225 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver BC. This venue is wheelchair accessible, and has gender neutral washrooms.

Who: Speakers Gillian McCormick, Morgan Switzer-Rodney, and Jenn Doan, along with host Savannah Erasmus, will cover aspects such as sexual health, the anatomy of pleasure, kink, shame, and well, how to have better sex! Open to all womxn (cis or trans) and non-binary folx.

Gillian McCormick's first job is pelvic health physiotherapist. Her second is as podcast Co-Host for the Small Conversations for a Better World podcast. Lastly, she is an advocate for Clean Beauty. She is also a wife and a mother of two teen-aged children. She lives and works in her community, North Vancouver, British Columbia. She values people, family, nature, health, movement, inspiration, creativity and courage. She is intrigued by the transitions in human lives and loves to shepherd her clients across the threshold of new experience. Gillian brings over 20 years' experience to the Pandora’s Box of Pelvic Health. She is fascinated with the interconnectedness of the body systems, of human lives, of biological systems – consideration of how it all works together and the mysteries still unknown help find her place in our chaotic world.

Morgan Switzer-Rodney is a young Black, kinky, queer femme, full-time activist and part-time artist residing on the stolen ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, S’ólh Téméxw, Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ peoples. This time last year, she was being targeted with jube jube laden slingshots by her Aunt, !Kona, and other members of her chosen leather family at local annual kink conference West Coast Bound. Morgan has been bootblacking for the last two years as a form of service to her community amongst other things. She has been co-curator of the salon series Black Chat for the last 3 years. Running this space out-of-pocket and her home space, this work is a foundational act to counter the constant policing of Black lives, and to shine a light on the importance of intergenerational organizing. She was a core member and organizer of Black Lives Matter-Vancouver, working to unite the Black community in the lower mainland through art, dance, community conversation and protest, to fight the oppressive forces that be. Morgan works (and plays) through a foundational and intersectional feminist lens that begins with, and centralizes, women of colour, especially queer and trans women of colour.

Jennifer Doan is a sex & relationship coach and host of the podcast Taking Back Slut. She believes virginity & gender are social constructs, that sexuality is as fluid as her iced coffee and that everyone deserves to feel empowered by sex. Jenn has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Bustle, Slutty Girl Problems and Tinder. She helps womxn all over the world connect with their bodies, find confidence and have great sex. Follow her on Instagram @jenn_doan for rants and unapologetic nudes. 

Partial proceeds from this event will be going to The Unist’ot’en (C’ihlts’ehkhyu / Big Frog Clan) who are the original Wet’suwet’en Yintah Wewat Zenli distinct to the lands of the Wet’suwet’en. Your contribution ensures that supporters on the land have food and medical supplies, that Unist’ot’en Youth are able to visit their territories, that Wet’suwet’en Elders have the necessary materials on the land to teach traditional hunting, gathering, food processing, language skills, songs, stories and more. Your monetary contributions enable the Unist’ot’en Clan to stop the pipelines that threaten all of us.

From Denial to Acceptance- Decolonizing 101

Grace Labs are similar to Grace Club speaker series in their vision and intention, but are a deeper dive into a specific educational opportunity. 

Grace Lab x Decolonizing Practices

What is Decolonizing? And why does it matter? This is your invitation to come explore this question. 

This will be an unforgettable workshop guided by Michelle Nahanee, Squamish of Decolonizing Practices   and Jacqueline Jennings, Mixed Heritage, Cree, Anishinaabe, Métis and settler descent.

Think of it as a Decolonizing 101 Learning Lab.

“Decolonizing Practices are actions we can take, words we can say & ideas we can unlearn/learn to address the challenge of where to start within the enormity of Reconciliation.” - Michelle Nahanee

Can you see your roles within this work? Decolonization is for everybody, supporting us all to move beyond neocolonial denial and be better ancestors. This Grace Lab will help you build the resilience you need to stay in the dialogue of decolonization and generate commitments you can grow with.

Meeting everyone where they are at, we will be exploring our complicity within colonialism, guided by decolonial love and matriarchal care.

Go to https://decolonizingpractices.org/ to learn more!

Grace Club meets on the unceded and occupied territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Watuth) nations of the Coast Salish people.

We are committed to moving toward a future that’s all about revealing, renewal and rediscovery. 

Join us! Humans of all ages, all genders, all abilities, and all expressions are welcome.

What to expect:

• Facilitated Sharing Circle

• Play of Sínulhkay and Ladders game

• Activating your personal connection to Decolonization! 

Please share this event with your networks; friends, family, students, educators, co-workers, and business owners.

In order to be as inclusive and accessible as possible, we are offering 4 types of tickets-

• $80 financially secure 

• $40 financially steady

• $0 financially precarious (Think of this as a waitlist- we will allocate when we know how many scholarships have been funded) 

• $40-80 Donation ticket- We highly encourage you to pay it forward, purchase a ticket for someone who may face barriers to attend.