Women and Gender Studies Institute
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, […]
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. […]
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.
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. […]