Women and Gender Studies InstituteWomen of Rojava: Dreams, Resistance and Challenges Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Shahrzad Mojab (OISE) who will speak on “Women of Rojava: Dreams, Resistance and Challenges.” Dr. Walid Saleh (Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations) and Dr. Jens Hanssen (Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations) will be the discussants.
Manal Hamzeh from the University of New Mexico, Las Cruces will present "Egyptian Women's Testimonios: Resisting Violence/Seeking Justice" While Egyptian women were/are major shapers of the Jan 25th Revolution, this talk will explore how their embodied experiences were/are both central sites of violence and revolutionary resistance in the post-Mubarak militarist and Islamist regimes. In this […]
Join us for a panel discussion with leading researchers and activists focusing on contemporary issues concerning women in the Middle East. Meet the speakers: Sharifa Sharif is an Afghan–Canadian feminist author who has worked in the areas of adult education, women and development, community development, journalism and politics in Kabul, Canada, India and Prague. Manal […]
Christina Sharpe is associate professor in the Department of English and Programs in Africana, American, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies at Tufts University. Her book, Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects, was published in 2010 by Duke University Press. Her current book project is titled In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. She has recently […]
The Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto and Glad Day Bookshop present: “Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low” by Dr. C. Riley Snorton. Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the “down low”—black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not […]
These groundbreaking events bring together academics, artists, activists, and community members as they discuss the contributions of queer Filipinos/as to Canadian culture & society. (see poster for more details) Co-sponsored by WGSI
Four Theses on Posthuman Feminism This paper outlines the main tenets of feminism after the posthuman turn. The four theses are: that feminism is not (only) a humanism; that anthropocentrism has been displaced and Anthropos is now off-centre; that non-human life or Zoe is the ruling principle and that sexuality is a force beyond gender. […]
The Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT) conference will run February 5-7th 2015 at the University of Toronto. This year's theme focuses on Queer Performance on stage and in everyday life. Join us for a weekend of panels, performances and film screenings! All of our events and programming are FREE, accessible and open to the public. […]
A Conversation between Zun Lee and Rinaldo Walcott Zun Lee is an award-winning photographer from Toronto, Canada. He was born and raised in Germany, and has also lived in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Chicago. His work has been featured in The New York Times, TIME Lightbox, BURN Magazine, Hyperallergic, Slate, and other publications. Widely hailed as […]
The Comparative Perspectives on Precarious Employment Database (CPD): Feminist Approaches to Studying Labour Market Insecurity This panel will introduce researchers to a new cross-national database designed to facilitate research and teaching investigating gender and precarious in a comparative industrialized context. Launched in late 2014, the Comparative Perspectives on Precarious Employment Database (CPD) is an online […]
