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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Join webinar here.  Title: "Chloe Cooley: Enslavement in Ontario, Settler Colonialism, Objectification, and Resistance." Afua Cooper is an award-winning scholar, artist and activist whose research on slavery, abolition, freedom, Black education, and women studies across Canada has made her a leading figure in African Canadian studies. Her book, The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story […]

Join Zoom Webinar here Title: Visualizing Colonial Violence with Indigenous Feminisms, Chemicals and Seed Beads  Kristen Bos is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Science and Technology Studies in the Historical Studies Department at the University of Toronto Mississauga, with a graduate appointment in Women and Gender Studies Institute. Professor Bos is the Co-Director of the Technoscience […]

Keynote Talk: Dr. Ciann Wilson (Wilfred Laurier University) “The Diary of an Emerging Black Scholar”  Performance: SExT (Sex Education by Theatre) Student and Community Youth Presentations Register here.  For Questions/Information Contact Vibhuti Kacholia at vibhuti.kacholia@mail.utoronto.ca.

The Women & Gender Studies Institute and the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, invite you to a community roundtable on “Anti-Asian Racism and Intersectional Violence” We are organizing this event in light of the recent shootings in Atlanta and the rise of anti-Asian racism during COVID. While the presence of anti-Asian sentiments may seem […]