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International Women’s Day Special Event: Second – Third World Women Dialogues (Race, Colonialisms and State Socialisms)

OISE/UT Library 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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 […]

International Women’s Day Lecture with Amanda Parris

Bahen Centre for Information Technology 40 St. George Street - Room 1160, Toronto

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 […]

Talking Back: A feminist discussion group

U of T Centre for Women and Trans People 563 Spadina Avenue, #100, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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 […]

WGS Research Seminar

JHB 100A, Jackman Humanities Building 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada

Professor Phanuel Antwi, Department of English, University of British Columbia "On Labour, Embodiment, and Debt in the Academy" The point of this talk is to essay – in the old-fashioned sense of "try" – out an argument that grapples with the deteriorating effects that the neoliberal university, in its current state of extreme precarity, has on […]

We Are The Land – JAIME BLACK ARTIST RESIDENCY (March 16th – March 22nd, 2017)

Hosted by the Women & Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto Co-convened by Karyn Recollet and Melissa Nesrallah Winnipeg - based Métis multidisciplinary artist Jaime Black will be an artist in residency at the University of Toronto, hosted by the Women & Gender Studies Institute (WGSI). Jaime addresses the complexities of history, gender, place, identity, […]

2017 Youth Sexual Health Research Symposium: Fight Forward, Fight Back

William Doo Auditorium 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The goal of the symposium is to bring together community youth (ages 16-30 who are part of a youth group/organization, not attending University, or would like to get connected with people of similar passions) and university students to share their research and artistic pieces on youth sexual health. In the current political climate, this year's […]

We Are The Land – Opening Gathering

William Doo Auditorium 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Opening Gathering/Reception for Jaime Black's Artist Residency: We Are The Land. Featuring: Welcoming remarks, Artist Talk with Jamie Black, performance by Tahnee Bennet, Silent Auction, Indigenous artisans/vendors, food from Tea & Bannock, and more This event is free, open to the public and accessible. There will be a designated children`s art table at each event. ASL […]

We Are The Land – Film Screening: Lisa Jackson’s Highway of Tears (CBC), Suckerfish, Snare, Parkdale, The Visit, Pow. Wow. Wow, and Savage + Q&A with filmmaker

University College, Room UC 179 Media Room 15 King's College Circle, Toronto

Highway of Tears" is about the missing or murdered women along a 724 kilometer stretch of highway in northern British Columbia. None of the 18 cold-cases since the 1960's had been solved, until project E-Pana (a special division of the RCMP) managed to link DNA to Portland drifter, Bobby Jack Fowler with the 1974 murder […]

We Are The Land – “Mohawk Girls” Episode Screening + Q & A with Maika Harper

WGSI Lounge, Wilson Hall University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In the TV series "Mohawk Girls," four twenty-something Mohawk women are trying to find their place in the world. And, of course, trying to find love. But in a small world where you or your friends have dated everyone on the rez, or the hot new guy turns out to be your cousin, it ain’t […]

We Are The Land – Artist Talk: Jaime Black on The REDress Project & Conversations with the Land

University College, Room 140 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jaime Black is a Métis multidisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Through the mediums of photography, sculpture, print, and installation she addresses the complexities of history, gender, place, identity, and resistance under settler colonialism. In this artist talk she will be discussing the installations The REDress Project and Conversations with the Land. Followed by Q […]