She They Us

Season 3 Episode 5

I Refuse to Disappear: Racialized Women Fighting for Space in Canada

In this episode of She They Us, host Andrea Reimer continues the series exploring how women and gender-diverse people create belonging in housing systems that were never designed for them. Building on the previous episode’s conversation with four Black women, Andrea traces the deeper roots of Canada’s housing inequities, r...

Season 3 Episode 4

Andrea begins the episode with housing advocate and urban scholar Stephanie Allen, a Black woman born and raised in Canada, who helps unearth the often-obscured history behind housing systems in North America. Stephanie traces how urban planning, real estate practices, and colonial policy have long excluded and displaced Black communities, even when those policies were presented as neutral. She shares her...

Season 3 Episode 3

In this episode of She.They.Us., we widen the lens on our core question this season: Did housing ever truly work for women and gender-diverse people in Canada? After exploring the historical and ongoing housing experiences of Indigenous women, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse people in previous episodes, we now turn to settler women, beginning with White women, whose stories reveal a different, but no l...

Season 3 Episode 2

In this episode, we continue exploring the context behind Canada’s housing crisis — especially for women and gender-diverse people. While many conversations on housing focus on how systems “used to work,” the truth is that since settlers arrived finding safe and secure housing for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit households has never been straightforward.

We break down the distinctions between First Nations...

Season 3 Episode 1 

Welcome to She They Us a podcast about making room in housing for women and gender-diverse people, brought to you by the Pan-Canadian Voice for Women’s Housing.

In this first episode of Season 3, host Andrea Reimer welcomes listeners back and in conversation with producer Linda Rourke introduces a new direction for the series. Over the past two seasons, we’ve been talking about how to fix housing ...

Season 2 Episode 6 

Please be advised that the topics discussed in this series can be challenging to listen to and explore topics of homelessness, abuse, torture, transphobia, racism, and drug use. Please take care while listening.

In the Season 2 finale of She. They. Us., we bring together voices from across the season, advocates - frontline workers, policymakers, and people with lived experience - to share their pe...

Season 2 Episode 5 

Please be advised that the topics discussed in this series can be challenging to listen to and explore topics of homelessness, abuse, torture, transphobia, racism, and drug use. Please take care while listening.

In this episode of She. They. Us., we explore the urgent need for trans-inclusive housing in Canada through the powerful stories of Jodi Gray and Martha Singh Jennings.

First, we will m...

Season 2 Episode 4 

Please be advised that the topics discussed in this series can be challenging to listen to and explore topics of homelessness, abuse, torture, transphobia, racism, and drug use. Please take care while listening.

When women and gender-diverse people don’t have access to safe housing, and they face violence sleeping outside, where do they end up?

In Ontario, non-urgent Emergency Room visits among...

Season 2 Episode 3 

Please be advised that the topics discussed in this series can be challenging to listen to and explore topics of homelessness, abuse, torture, transphobia, racism, and drug use. Please take care while listening.

In this episode of She. They. Us., we shift from federal policy to local government approaches to housing through the lens of one of Canada’s most expensive cities, Vancouver. 

First, w...

Season 2 Episode 2 

Please be advised that the topics discussed in this series can be challenging to listen to and explore topics of homelessness, abuse, torture, transphobia, racism, and drug use. Please take care while listening.

In this episode of She. They. Us., we will look at the work the Federal Government has been doing - or at the least should be doing - to help women and gender diverse people in the housing...

Season 2 Episode 1

Please be advised that the topics discussed in this series can be challenging to listen to and explore topics of homelessness, abuse, torture, transphobia, racism, and drug use. Please take care while listening.

Welcome back to season 2 of She. They. Us. 

In our last season, we met a diverse group of people who are fighting for housing rights for women and gender diverse people across Canada. We...

You can’t talk about women, gender-diverse people and housing without talking about gender-based violence. But you also can’t talk about violence without talking about solutions for safe and affordable housing for survivors. We’ll talk to Cindy Chiasson from Betty’s Haven in the Yukon and Michaela Mayer at the Canadian Centre for Women’s Empowerment, learn about the experiences of newcomers facing intimate partner violence...

S01 E5: Trans women experience high levels of both poverty and violence, two of the biggest factors in determining whether you are likely to be in housing crisis. Trans and housing rights activist Susan Gapka shares her story of the long road she’s had to take to find a safe place to call home, even as she won protections and rights for others, and we’ll hear from Aaron Munro about how women’s organizations can provide saf...

Gender-diverse people in Canada face discrimination in many aspects of their lives and this all collides in a housing crisis in difficult and often dangerous situations. We will talk to Aaron Munro, a counselor and housing advocate for trans, gender-diverse and two-spirit people, and hear from Avery Shannon about what it’s been like for them to navigate a world still coming to grips with gender diversity during a housing c...