Cyndia Cole

Cyndia Cole is a white settler who moved from the USA to Vancouver in 1970 and came out as a lesbian at the age 26. Her writing appears in Together We Stand: Queer Elders Speak Out; Basically Queer: An Intergenerational Introduction to LGBTQA2S+ Lives; Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine; Sharing Our Journeys; and Breakthrough. Cyndia has been interviewed for 1969 and Beyond and An Army of Lovers exhibits. Daisaku Ikeda taught her that words change people’s hearts.

Cyndia is honoured to have worked with others to found or to develop: Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University; Vancouver East Housing Co-op; REACH Community Health Centre; Quirk-e; QMUNITY; Community-Supported Agriculture; and SGI Vancouver Buddhist Pride Group. She has learned that creating community keeps us alive.

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Fighting For Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies

A conversation on the beginnings of women’s studies and feminist activism at SFU and the fight to sustain it today. In 1971, Simon Fraser University offered Geography 404, “The Geography of Gender” – a course that made way for the first Women’s Studies Program in Canada and what would become today’s vibrant interdisciplinary department of … Read more

Each Card Is a Kiss

Her card art is a labour of love Cyndia Cole creates beautiful cards and envelopes from old calendars and craft supplies. They are unique and collectible. Her handcrafted cards and bookmarks also support the work of Quirk-e by serving as personalized “thank you” notes to supporters and sponsors and as promotional tools for our events … Read more