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This talk attends to Native feminist theories of change. I see these as compelling theories of compelling change: they are authored by Indigenous feminists, they consider change and land materially, and they move within Indigenous understandings of power and place. I offer them to contest the colonial theories of change which over-determine what counts as […]
The theme of FOOT 2016, Staging Reality, speaks to the blending of reality and artifice: a blurring that has been receiving a great deal of academic attention in recent years, both in Canada and abroad. This blurring breaks down distinctions between the roles of audience, critic, artist, activist, and academic, as the opinions of "real people" […]
A graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of the West Indies, Robert A. Hill is Research Professor of History at UCLA and Editor in Chief of the multivolume edition of The Marcus Garvey & Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, a multi-volume long-term research project of the James S. Coleman African Studies […]
Feeling stressed about midterms, or relieved that they're finally over? Take a break with WGSSU and Deb Singh, a counselor and activist at the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape. Join us for a conversation with Deb Singh to begin imagining and sustaining a practice of self care. Deb has been working with survivors of sexual […]
Tracy Robinson, University of the West Indies, Social Justice Education - Loving Laws I and many others have been involved in strategic litigation in the English speaking Caribbean that challenges the constitutionality of laws criminalizing same-sex sex. Many of us rely heavily on reason, especially forms of legal reason, to question laws that criminalize same […]