Women and Gender Studies InstituteTracy Robinson, University of the West Indies, Social Justice Education - Loving Laws I and many others have been involved in strategic litigation in the English speaking Caribbean that challenges the constitutionality of laws criminalizing same-sex sex. Many of us rely heavily on reason, especially forms of legal reason, to question laws that criminalize same […]
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 6:00-8:00pm VENUE CHANGE - Due to an overwhelming response to this event, it will now take place at the OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor Street West, Ground Floor (St. George and Bloor), Accessible Space. ASL will be provided. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is “a gifted writer who brings passion and commitment to her […]
Hello first year students! It’s time to think about selecting your programs of study! Whether you have already made your choice or are still deciding, you should attend the Faculty of Arts and Science Plan Your Program Expo! At the Plan Your Program Expo, you’ll be able to: Discover your program options Introduce yourself to […]
Film Screening: Human Traffic: Past and Present A documentary exploring the realities and fallacies of human trafficking. Directed By: Frances-Anne Solomon Discussion: Dr. George DEI (SJE) on the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Reparations and Memory RSVP: laura.toth@utoronto.ca Presented by: The Department of Social Justice Education (SJE), OISE/UT In collaboration with: Caribbean Studies, Diaspora and Transnational Studies […]
Keynote by: Dr. Verene A. Shepherd on Reparation, Reconciliation & Rehabilitation: The Politics of Memory in Caribbean Societies Dr. Shepherd is the University Director and Regional Coordinator of the Institute for Gender & Development Studies and Professor of Social History at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies Discussant: Dr. Eve Tuck […]
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A panel and space to discuss what "butch" is, what it isn’t, and what it might be. Panelists—including people who do and don't identify as butch—will talk about female masculinity and trans masculinity, past and present. Facilitated by Michèle Pearson Clarke Panelists are Tee Fergus, Kathryn Payne, reese simpkins, and Dinah Thorpe Free entry Wheelchair […]
Robert Diaz (WGSI, University of Toronto) Robert Diaz is Assistant Professor in the Women & Gender Studies Institute. His research and community work focus on the intersections of postcolonial, queer, and Filipino/a diasporic Studies. Together with Marissa Largo and Fritz Pino, Diaz is co-editing Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos/as and Canadian Imaginaries(forthcoming in the Critical Insurgencies Series for Northwestern […]
After two successful runs in Toronto and Edmonton, the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics is pleased to co-sponsor a reading of Jill Connell’s The Supine Cobbler – a play about the experience of clinical abortion, set in the spirit of a Western. The reading will be at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre on 28 September, the Global […]
Sidewalk Salon: 1001 Street Chairs of Cairo is a book by Manar Moursi and David Puig, co-published by Onomatopee (Eindhoven) and Kotob Khan (Cairo) in 2015. The book is an intimate portrait of the capital of Egypt seen from its sidewalk street chairs and the thousands of people who occupy them. These far from perfect, used chairs, which […]
