Book Signing of Child  Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War by Michel Chikwanine

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

“An accomplished motivational speaker and author of the graphic novel, Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War. Michel grew up amid the terror of the Great War of Africa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Much of his childhood was ravaged by the death and decay of a war that claimed the […]

Afro-Pessimism and the Ruse of Analogy

280N York Lanes, York University South 674 Ross Building, York University, Toronto

The Department of Political Science invites you to a plenary talk by: Frank B. Wilderson, III Plenary Talk 5:30 - 7:30 pm Workshop 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Registration is required for the Workshop only The talk: The expanding field of Afro-Pessimism elaborates a paradigmatic critique of the Human that reckons civil society’s perverse and parasitic […]

FREE Screening of Re:Orientations by Richard Fung

OCAD University 100 McCaul St., Auditorium, Room 190, Toronto, ON, Canada

*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 […]

Thinking with the Trouble: Human-Fish Relations, Reciprocity and the Petro-state in Treaty Six Territory, Alberta

Sid Smith Building 100 St. George Street, Room S5017A, Toronto

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 […]

WGS Research Seminar

TBD

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.

Bordering Injustice: How Should We Respond To Trump’s Ban

Moot Court (Room 1250), Faculty of Law 78 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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, […]

WGS Research Seminar

Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 100A Toronto, Canada

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. […]

Screening of Anatomy of Violence by Deepa Mehta

Innis Theatre 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto

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.

Black Women (transgender and cisgender): The Violent “And”

Wilson Hall Room 2053 40 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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. […]

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 […]