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We Are Still Here for You

We Are Still Here for You

Despite the pandemic, the Nellie has shared an interactive and supportive year with our community. Between July 2020 and May 2021, we hosted 14 Nellie Cafés and 8 Nellie Workshops. Our crowning achievement for this past year was our very successful undergraduate student conference & poetry slam, held on March 4-5, 2021, showcasing the research […]

Join us for the first Undergraduate Student Conference and Poetry Slam

Join us for the first Undergraduate Student Conference and Poetry Slam

The Nellie Langford Rowell Library, housed in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies in Founders College at York University, is excited to announce the first Nellie Library Undergraduate Student Conference, to be held virtually on March 4 and 5, from 10:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. EST daily. To close the conference on March 5, the […]

“Women’s Rights are Human Rights” Exhibit Marks International Women's Day

“Women’s Rights are Human Rights” Exhibit Marks International Women's Day

To mark International Women’s Day, on March 11, 2020, the Nellie Langford Rowell Library, along with the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies of York University, and lovingsister.com jointly launched a photography exhibition “Women’s Rights are Human Rights.” The exhibit documents women’s marches in Toronto in 2017 and 2018, and Washington D.C. in 2019, […]

Nellie Commemorates with Graffiti

Nellie Commemorates with Graffiti

Check out the graffiti written on the shower curtain at the 1994 exhibit for Persons Day. women + voice = more voiceHow wondrous the love of the Great Mother for all her children - Khaeli Today I celebrate who I am and all that I have yet to be - Trisha The great celestial word-barrow is powered […]