Women's Centre Update 2026 Part 3

De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - tTanya is also committed to the Women’s Centre’s participation in Truth and Reconciliation on Cortes Island.   The two priorities that we’ve put forward since becoming a nonprofit are creating kind of a mental emotional wellness team agenda, and reconciliation. And that’s a spot where volunteers of any gender could participate and help out. We want to find opportunities to show that we’re devoted to reconciliation, and figure out how can we do that in accessible ways, in ways that involve community more I’m hoping that we can do some indigenous film nights in the fall.  Last January we did a reading challenge, and this is something that we intend to do every winter now — and the challenge is to read a book by an indigenous author. And, you know, that could expand in ways to come in the future. Maybe we’ll make it actually like a book club. Tanya said that the Centre does have some indigenous Access Members and she feels there’s some potential for it to serve as a bridge between the settler and first-nations communities.  Not all of our members arenecessarily here because they’re going through trauma! Women are a lot of the time here because they want the warm space, and their trailer’s not that warm in the winter. Or because we’ve got internet or they can print up colored posters for their, events or offerings that they’re putting out in community, you know? But yeah, we definitely have indigenous members. And I feel that Cortes as a community could do more on the level of reconciliation.  I just think that it could be something that’s more of a working part of our community and something that we do on a more regular basis, and that the settler community should be putting together. Centre