By Rinaldo Walcott – Excerpt from On Property The Toronto Star – Sat., Feb. 6, 2021 In On Property, Rinaldo Walcott traces the history of abolition — and the present-day cry […]
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On January 17, prison abolition activists from across the country released Choosing Real Safety: A Historic Declaration to Divest from Policing and Prisons and Build Safer Communities for All. We […]
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Police Abolition/Black Revolt by Robyn Maynard ROBYN MAYNARD is a Black feminist abolitionist scholar-activist and author of the national bestseller Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the […]
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Huge Congratulations to Robyn Maynard!
Please join us in celebrating with Robyn Maynard, one of five winners of the Talent Award, one of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Impact awards, and the only University […]
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Congratulations Kehkashan Basu
Congratulations to Kehkashan Basu who was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30. She is the youngest person on the 2021 list in the area of Education. Kehkashan is in her […]
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Congratulations Ferdie Lopez
Ferdie was this year’s recipient of the Award for Scholarly Achievement in the Area of Gender-Based Violence. Each December 6th, the University of Toronto community marks the National Day of […]
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Fri., Oct. 16, 2020timer3 min. read Over the last several weeks, newspapers across Canada have researched and chronicled a breach of collegial governance concerning a hiring committee at the University of Toronto Law […]
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WGSI NEWSLETTER • ISSUE 12 • OCTOBER 2020
WELCOME BACK: Taking a moment to connect with, congratulate, and learn more about the folks who have fostered—and continue to foster—the WGSI community. Read more…
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Congratulations Dr. Nicole Charles
Nicole was one of 56 U of T researchers to receive a Connaught New Researcher Award. Dr. Charles’ project surrounds Barbados’s infamous position both as the world’s first Black slave […]