Women and Gender Studies Institute
“Black+Queer+Human: A Conversation” is a one-day symposium that attends to the present urgency of critical conversations from a queer perspective on black life and its complexity across space, place and […]
Collective intelligence and preparation: a story of running away An old story of running away is retold and the question of what happens if really there isn’t any new information […]
As a student of the Women & Gender Studies Institute, you’ve been invited to attend a dinner with alumni from WGSI and a select group of students on Thursday, October […]
A three-day workshop bringing together scholars and practitioners exploring the politics of circulation, infrastructure, and mobility. All events open to the public. Registration is required to attend workshops. To register, […]
You are invited to a public gathering to pay tribute to Beth Brant (Degonwadonti) - her life and her groundbreaking work. Folks will be reading from some of her incredible […]
To inaugurate the D.G. Ivey Library graphic novel collection, WGSI has invited Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki to come discuss their new graphic novel, This One Summer. To talk about […]
Diasporic Stasis and the Frequency of Black Refusal This talk takes what may seem a counter-intuitive proposition as its primary point of departure – that stasis is neither an absence […]
The #BringBackOurGirls hashtag that was popularized by politicians and celebrities in spring 2014 with global attention brought to the 200 school girls kidnapped by Muslim militants, Boko Haram. However, over […]
I trace simultaneous and related discourses of indigenous life and death (our ever-predicted vanishing) as these discourses and practices unfold in genome science and other cultural fields in which indigeneity […]
This talk attends to Native feminist theories of change. I see these as compelling theories of compelling change: they are authored by Indigenous feminists, they consider change and land materially, […]