WTC and Sliced Mango Collective put on four workshops to Filipino/a/x youth (ages 15-30) on intersetionality, the basics of community organizing, how to structure your own campaign, and the role of local government. 

We joined 14 organizations to ask City Council to reinvest in equity in their 2023 operational budget. We urged Council and Mayor to vote in favor of programs that would provide resources to the programs and initiatives that serve our most vulnerable populations and spoke at City Council. 

WTC board members, volunteers, and staff joined the community in the DTES to march in honour of Indigneous women on February 14th at the 32nd Annual Women's Memorial March. 

WTC teamed up with the City of Vancouver's Democratic Engagement Office for an open webinar to 150 people demystifying local government. The workshop explained how local government functions and offered a variety of ways to engage and advocate for issues that matter to you at the local level.

We continue to deliver workshops to community organizations on the complexities of intersecting indentities and the importance of considering  intersectionality in every policy decision and action.

We launch our research into the progress made on the TRC Commission's Calls to Action in BC municipalities, barriers to implementation they've faced, and opportunities to accelerate implementation across British Columbia. Douglas Sinclair from Indigenous Watch Dog says, "The report reads and looks great and will no doubt generate a lot of reflection and action across municipalities not only in BC but across Canada."

In 2022 we grew our community to over 100 members who make up our community of intersectional feminists and whose support enables our work and advoacy to have the impact it does! 

Our community organizer, Diana Kamau, provided workshops to SFU Women's Center, Kerrisdale Community Centre, and The Hive on intersectionality and understanding local government. 

In line with our Hot Pink Paper policy asks, WTC spoke at City Council in support of the Vancouver City Council motion to reduce barriers to affordable housing. We received media coverage for our support of the motion in the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver is Awesome. 

In coalition with other feminist organizations, WTC denounced the VPD's treatment of a mother at B.C Women's Hospital in a joint statement. As pictured above, Campaign Lead, Mahtab, wrote "Our public institutions must repair the conditions that allowed for a vulnerable mother to be shot, jailed, and denied access to her own child just weeks after birth.”

We launched our Hot Pink Paper candidate policy commitments on the steps on Vancouver City Hall after a year engaging with community members and front-line community organizations to understand the priority issues of equity-seeking genders in this city. ⁠ We celebrated our successful campaign with community and several city council candidates.
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In collaboration with the YWCA City Shift, SFU's Public Square, and SFU's Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies we hosted a panel discussion with 17 candidates running for City Council. The questions that candidates answered were based on the feedback we had heard in our community engagement process for the Hot Pink Paper Campaign. Questions covered topics like affordable housing, community safety, disability justice, the climate emergency, and Truth and Reconciliation.