Women and Gender Studies Institute
*Culture Shifts Presents... FREE Screening of Re:Orientations by Richard Fung A fascinating look into the lives and thoughts of seven queer pan-Asian Canadians as they look back on a 1984 documentary in which they featured. How have they changed? And how has the world around them evolved and changed? In 1984, Richard Fung […]
Intersections Lectures, etc., The Political Ecology Working Group (Department of Geography and Planning), The Department of Anthropology, and The Women & Gender Studies Institute (University of Toronto), are pleased to announce the following lecture and workshop: Thinking with the Trouble: Human-Fish Relations, Reciprocity and the Petro-state in Treaty Six Territory, Alberta Dr. Zoe Todd (Department […]
Rinaldo Walcott, Director of the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. This research seminar is being rescheduled. More details will be posted soon.
Please join us for an emergency town hall forum to address urgent questions regarding the US Executive Order (the so-called ‘Muslim Ban’) and its implications for the University community and for Canada. The Town Hall will address both the widespread and uneven implications of the order for the University’s staff, students, faculty, visitors, and families, […]
Chris Johnson (WGSI and Department of History, University of Toronto) Travel Sickness: Pan-Africanism, Medicine and Misogynoir in Interwar Caribbean Harlem Through a historical case study of Caribbean health activists in Harlem, this talk explores the persistence of patriarchy and misogynoir in black politics, and the suppression of bodily autonomy in visions, demands, and agendas for liberation. […]
WGSI in partnership with CSI and Working Women are hosting a screening of Deepa Mehta’s new film, Anatomy of Violence, and we are honoured that she will be in attendance. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion.
Kai M. Green is a shape-shifting Black Queer nerd Boi; An Afro-Future, freedom-dreaming, rhyme slinging dragon slayer in search of a new world. A scholar, poet, and filmmaker, Dr. Green earned his Ph.D. from the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity with specializations in Gender Studies and Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California. […]
Participants: MADINA TLOSTANOVA Linköping University | Postcolonial feminisms and Russian/Soviet Empire INA MERDJANOVA Irish School of Ecumenics | Muslim women in the Balkans ETHEL BROOKS Rutgers University | Romani women and feminisms in Central/East Europe and diaspora NJOKI WANE OISE/University of Toronto | African women and feminisms JASMIN ZINE Wilfred Laurier University | Muslim Women […]
Social Justice in Art and Media: The Power of the Platform Amanda Parris – Artist, Educator, Playwright, Writer and Scholar HOST: EXHIBITIONISTS and MARVIN’S ROOM, CBC CO-FOUNDER: the alternative education organization Lost Lyrics CREATOR: The Ride or Die Project, inspired by women supporting loved ones who are incarcerated CONTRIBUTOR: Rhymes to Re-Education, a Hip Hop education resource guide ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Wombmanifesto, the first celebration of women […]
Want to talk about feminism? “Talking Back” (a title borrowed from the one-and-only bell hooks) is an intersectional feminist discussion group that will incorporate current events, pop culture, and whatever is on the mind of whoever turns up that day. It is a casual, non-academic space to ask questions, make connections and be heard. We […]