Building systems with women, girls and gender diverse folks benefits everyone.

Ideas move differently when they’re shared in a room instead of alone – so add an intimate evening with Dr. Leslie Kern, feminist geographer and author of Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World and a Cambridge resident to your calendar.

Join us for an opportunity to hear how city and urban design directly impact the lives of women, girls and gender diverse folks in our community – from parks with no benches, restrooms with no changing tables, to inadequate transit for caregiving trips; while highlighting the connection to our work, programming and advocacy.

Whether you’ve supported YWCA Cambridge for years or you’re discovering our work for the first time, you belong in the room for SheTalks: Feminists Cities.

Details: 

When: Wednesday, October 7, 2026 @ 6:00 PM

Where: School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, 7 Melville St S, Cambridge, ON N1S 2H4

Bring a friend. Bring your questions. Come claim space with us.

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This event lands a few weeks ahead of Cambridge’s municipal election on October 26, a timely moment to think, together, about what kind of city we want to keep building, and to leave with better questions to ask municipal candidates.

We hope to see you for an intimate evening that pairs Kern’s ideas about how cities fail women, girls, and gender-diverse people with YWCA Cambridge’s own advocacy and frontline work.