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. […]
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 […]
Social Justice in Art and Media: The Power of the Platform Amanda Parris – Artist, Educator, Playwright, Writer and Scholar HOST: EXHIBITIONISTS and MARVIN’S ROOM, CBC CO-FOUNDER: the alternative education organization Lost Lyrics CREATOR: The Ride or Die Project, inspired by women supporting loved ones who are incarcerated CONTRIBUTOR: Rhymes to Re-Education, a Hip Hop education resource guide ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Wombmanifesto, the first celebration of women […]
Want to talk about feminism? “Talking Back” (a title borrowed from the one-and-only bell hooks) is an intersectional feminist discussion group that will incorporate current events, pop culture, and whatever is on the mind of whoever turns up that day. It is a casual, non-academic space to ask questions, make connections and be heard. We […]
Professor Phanuel Antwi, Department of English, University of British Columbia "On Labour, Embodiment, and Debt in the Academy" The point of this talk is to essay – in the old-fashioned sense of "try" – out an argument that grapples with the deteriorating effects that the neoliberal university, in its current state of extreme precarity, has on […]
The goal of the symposium is to bring together community youth (ages 16-30 who are part of a youth group/organization, not attending University, or would like to get connected with people of similar passions) and university students to share their research and artistic pieces on youth sexual health. In the current political climate, this year's […]
Hosted by the Women & Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto Co-convened by Karyn Recollet and Melissa Nesrallah Winnipeg - based Métis multidisciplinary artist Jaime Black will be an artist in residency at the University of Toronto, hosted by the Women & Gender Studies Institute (WGSI). Jaime addresses the complexities of history, gender, place, identity, […]
The goal of the symposium is to bring together community youth (ages 16-30 who are part of a youth group/organization, not attending University, or would like to get connected with people of similar passions) and university students to share their research and artistic pieces on youth sexual health. In the current political climate, this year's […]
Opening Gathering/Reception for Jaime Black's Artist Residency: We Are The Land. Featuring: Welcoming remarks, Artist Talk with Jamie Black, performance by Tahnee Bennet, Silent Auction, Indigenous artisans/vendors, food from Tea & Bannock, and more This event is free, open to the public and accessible. There will be a designated children`s art table at each event. ASL […]
Highway of Tears" is about the missing or murdered women along a 724 kilometer stretch of highway in northern British Columbia. None of the 18 cold-cases since the 1960's had been solved, until project E-Pana (a special division of the RCMP) managed to link DNA to Portland drifter, Bobby Jack Fowler with the 1974 murder […]
In the TV series "Mohawk Girls," four twenty-something Mohawk women are trying to find their place in the world. And, of course, trying to find love. But in a small world where you or your friends have dated everyone on the rez, or the hot new guy turns out to be your cousin, it ain’t […]
Jaime Black is a Métis multidisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Through the mediums of photography, sculpture, print, and installation she addresses the complexities of history, gender, place, identity, and resistance under settler colonialism. In this artist talk she will be discussing the installations The REDress Project and Conversations with the Land. Followed by Q […]
This panel offers a discussion of cultural productions meaningful to the exercise of decolonial futures. We explore forms of ‘urban glyphing’ as ways to speak about kinstilatory relations of Indigenous cultural producers and expressions of decolonial love. Invited artists and activists will share their rematriative processes of mapping decolonial love in our cities through their […]
Join us for a film screening of Migrant Dreams, a locally produced documentary that tells the untold story of migrant agricultural workers who are struggling under Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Screening will be followed with a panel discussion to discuss the relationship between migration, labour, and Indigenous land.
Where: Meeting in front of Wilson Hall, New College, 40 Willcocks Street What: Guided walking tour of Jaime’s various activation site concluding at First Nations House, to experience Conversations with the Land.
This workshop invites community members, activists, organizers, and those interested in the potentials of mapping- to turn our intentions towards the land and be generative about how we are in love with our futures. What does it mean, perhaps to map kinstillatory futures? Special Guests: Karyn Recollet, Jaime Black, Maika Harper, Nazbah Tom, and Jenny […]
Jaime Black and the graduate students in Indigenous Decolonial Aesthetics WGSI 1025 will be showcasing a new piece of performance art. More details to come! (This performance is located outdoors) This event is free, open to the public and accessible. There will be a designated children`s art table. ASL services will be provided.
THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED Professor Rinaldo Walcott, Director of Women and Gender Studies Institute and Associate Professor (OISE), University of Toronto University of Toronto Black Movements: Lampedusa, Black Lives Matter and Reorienting Freedom This paper works with a doubled notion of movement to link Black migrations and Black contemporary political movements. In the paper, I […]
Closing Gathering/Reception for Jaime Black's Artist Residency: We Are The Land. (Featuring: Provocations & responses to the past week’s events, Silent Auction, Indigenous artisans/vendors, food from Tea & Bannock, and more) This event is free, open to the public and accessible. There will be a designated children`s art table. ASL services will be provided.
RED AFRICA: Contemporary Artists' Response to The Legacy of Cultural Relationships between Africa, The Soviet Union, and related countries during the Cold War A Lecture by Mark Nash To be immediately followed by a book launch of Red Africa: Affective Communities in the Cold War (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2016) in Innis Cafe BIO Mark Nash […]
You are cordially invited to attend this rare opportunity to hear world-renowned artist/filmmaker Isaac Julien discuss his body of work and his recent installation Isaac Julien: Other Destinies, currently on exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum. Known for his poetic and visually encompassing narratives, Julien’s oeuvre addresses issues of globalization, mobilities, and displacement within a geopolitical aesthetic […]
Please join us for a public lecture with: Robin D.G. Kelley Professor Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History , UCLA Author of Hammer and Hoe; Race Rebels; Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America; Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination; Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; Africa Speaks, America Answers!: Modern […]