Star Sessions: a Constellatory Gathering of Care

Zoom Webinar

Please join us on February 11th at 7pm as we collectively explore alternative possibilities, speculative thinking and otherwise thought formations of landing into relation with each other and with our more than human kin. Registration link. 

Break the Bias: Domestic Violence in the Muslim Community

Instagram Live

Let’s talk about the biases we have as a Muslim community around violence against women & domestic violence this International Women’s Day. We’ve been posting and talking about the responses women and Nisa Homes receive like “Nisa Homes breaks up families” or “it’s a test, be patient” or “it’s better for the kids for you […]

Reimagining Disciplinarity when Radical Studies Converge

Zoom Webinar

Join us for a conversation with: Roderick Ferguson; William Robertson Coe Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University; Ann Cvetkovich Professor and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the Pauline Jewett Institute, Carleton University; Gayatri Gopinath; Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, NYU. Hosted by […]

Rehearsals for Living Book Launch

Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street (at St. Clair) 601 Christie Street (at St. Clair), Toronto, ON, Canada

Another Story Bookshop, Women & Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto and Scholar Strike Canada present: In-person Toronto Book Launch for Rehearsals for Living with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Hosted by Beverly Bain With music by DJ Murr from LAL. FREE!  PLEASE REGISTER HERE. Sponsored by Tkaronto CIRCLE Lab, Canada Research Chair in […]

Conversation with Grace M. Cho, the Author of Tastes Like War

Register to attend in-person. Register to attend virtually. Grace M. Cho is the author of Tastes Like War (Feminist Press, 2021), a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award in nonfiction and the winner of the 2022 Asian Pacific American Literature Award in adult nonfiction. She is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the College […]

COLLOQUIUM SERIES – Jafari Allen

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

Stuart Hall has already told us in his classic essay “Cultural Identity and Diaspora:”  “…all discourse is ‘placed’, and the heart has its reasons.” The concept “diaspora” leaves us reaching for something else. Here, we propose Black/queerpolis as a supplement. After the Atlantic revolutions and Maurice Bishop, after structural adjustment, after Reagan, Thatcher, AIDS, and crack (and […]