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Professor Nicole Charles featured in VIEW to the U

On IWD 2021, delighted that Nicole Charles is being featured on this podcast, speaking about her work which is so deeply relevant for this current pandemic moment. This edition of […]

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Another Story Book Launch: On Property with Rinaldo Walcott

Congratulations, Rinaldo!   Another Story Book Launch: On Property with Rinaldo Walcott Thursday February 25 | 7:00PM – 8:00PM Join the virtual book launch for Rinaldo Walcott’s ON PROPERTY on […]

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WGSI PhD, Elisha Lim, gives TEDx talk

Elisha Lim explains the collision between algorithms and marginalized issues. Ad metrics rank social justice in terms of publicity and promotional opportunity. This is good for politicians, advertisers and influencers, […]

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Why abolition in our time should go far beyond defunding the police

By Rinaldo Walcott – Excerpt from On Property The Toronto Star – Sat., Feb. 6, 2021 In On Property, Rinaldo Walcott traces the history of abolition — and the present-day cry […]

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Choosing Real Safety: A Historic Declaration to Divest from Policing and Prisons and Build Safer Communities for All

On January 17, prison abolition activists from across the country released Choosing Real Safety: A Historic Declaration to Divest from Policing and Prisons and Build Safer Communities for All.  We […]

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Pandemic (In)Securities

Police Abolition/Black Revolt by Robyn Maynard ROBYN MAYNARD is a Black feminist abolitionist scholar-activist and author of the national bestseller Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the […]

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Huge Congratulations to Robyn Maynard!

Please join us in celebrating with Robyn Maynard, one of five winners of the Talent Award, one of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Impact awards, and the  only University […]

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Congratulations Kehkashan Basu

Congratulations to Kehkashan Basu who was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30. She is the youngest person on the 2021 list in the area of Education. Kehkashan is in her […]

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Congratulations Ferdie Lopez

Ferdie was this year’s recipient of the Award for Scholarly Achievement in the Area of Gender-Based Violence. Each December 6th, the University of Toronto community marks the National Day of […]

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M. NourbeSe Philip: GA(S)P: Experiments in Radical Hospitality (recorded webinar)

Watch recorded webinar here.