Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora

Online via Zoom

Join zoom here . Its open access edition is freely available to read and download here. The city of Toronto possesses one of the largest and oldest Guyanese diasporas outside of Guyana. Join us for a conversation exploring the Guyanese-Canadian narratives of migration and the role of art in telling women’s migration stories featured in […]

The Sex Salon – “Touching Death: Theorizing Black Queer Afterlife in Times of COVID-19”

This panel brings together Black queer scholars to meditate on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our communities. The coronavirus, and the attendant public health safety measures that have been enacted in its wake, have revived public discourses regarding risk, vulnerability, (im)mobility, and health. We know, all too well, the ways that queer folks […]

How shall we organize to live? Transnational Black Radicalism

We live in challenging, some might say unprecedented political and economic times: unparalleled concentrations of wealth in fewer and fewer hands facilitated by authoritarianism and rising fascism as “ordinary people” clamor for change. This panel draws on Caribbean and Black radical traditions in order to explore our political moment and how we think and organize […]

WGS Research Seminar – Dr. Bedour Alagraa

Zoom Webinar

Watch webinar recording here. Title: The Interminable Catastrophe Dr. Bedour Alagraa is Assistant Professor of Political and Social Thought in the Department of African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Alagraa received her PhD from the department of Africana Studies at Brown University in the Spring of 2019, and […]

WGS Research Seminar – Dr. E. Tendayi Achiume

Zoom Register here https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XbW_KDdtRtaE6C5s_Ok-qQ

Join webinar here. Title:  Racial Borders Tendayi Achiume is Professor of Law at the at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, and a research associate of the African Center for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. She is also the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of […]

Another Story Book Launch: On Property with Rinaldo Walcott

Join the virtual book launch for Rinaldo Walcott's ON PROPERTY on Thursday, February 25th at 7 PM EST. Rinaldo Walcott will be joined in conversation by Beverly Bain and Idil Abdillahi. Tune in live for a discussion, reading, and a Q&A. You could win a copy of the book! The event will be streamed on […]

Activism Then and Now: A Cross-Generational Conversation

Webinar

Register here. This virtual International Women’s Day event brings together three passionate community-based activists in conversation to explore being antiracism feminist activists. Funded by the Women’s and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) Community Knowledge Alliance Fund, and hosted by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Dept. Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough. Speakers: Beverly […]

WGSS Feminist Lunch Series – Kama La Mackerel

Zoom

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Kama La Mackerel who will read from their new book ZOM-FAM (2020, Metonymy Press). Register here. Kama La Mackerel is a Montreal-based Mauritian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, educator, writer, community-arts facilitator and literary translator who works within and across performance, photography, installations, textiles, digital art and literature. Kama’s […]