





Events by South Asian Women’s Collective
SAWC hosts a number of different events throughout the year. Events vary in size and location in Ontario, but they are all focused on creating meaningful spaces for connection to help young South Asian women and gender-diverse people thrive. Listed below are some of our major events, and details are updated as they develop. Subscribe to our mailing list for all event updates and SAWC news!
Interested in partnering with us to co-host a conference for women, students, staff, or youth? Please connect with us at info@satwcollective.com.
Thrive Conference
Well-being Conference
Laadliyan & South Asian Women's Collective are joining forces to host the biggest South Asian Women's Health Conference in May 2025! We will be sharing more event information in the upcoming months on this page, and are looking forward to engaging with the community.
We have created a short form for you to share your interest in participating in the conference, as well as your thoughts and ideas. You can join as a participant, collaborator, speaker, facilitator, sponsor, and/or volunteer.
In partnership with York Region District School Board, Educators for South Asian Heritage, and Educators for Tamils Student Success, South Asian Women’s collective organizes an annual well-being conference for South Asian girls, young women, and non-binary students.
These annual well-being conferences provide students the opportunity to engage with South Asian educators, social workers, and community members in mentorship dialogues to help them navigate life experiences in culturally relevant ways. The conference topics and activities focus on mental health and well-being, career development, healthy relationships, and more. Students are provided opportunities to participate in authentic dialogues about identity, receive resources and tools to support their learning and development, and build meaningful connections with youth and adult allies in the community.
Past Events
Pink Ladoo
Sisterhood Dialogues
We pooled our resources and strengths to create an intimate space and co-hosted an evening with the creator of Pink Ladoo, Raj Kaur. Our shared goal was to come together to complicate and celebrate South Asian femininities and feminisms. It was an evening filled with beautiful connections and meaningful conversations.
One important goal for SAWC is to weave solidarity within our communities and among diverse communities. It is only when we work together across communities that we collectively work to identify and address barriers to well-being and success. Key in this goal is to recognize the many ways in which white supremacy, hate and discrimination have impacted racialized women inclusive of our diverse intersections and identity.
These dialogues were hosted in 2020, and recordings can be accessed below.
Addressing anti-Black racism in South Asian and Tamil communities - Part 1 and Part 2.