Launched in 2014, The Studio for Media Activism & Critical Thought at Toronto Metropolitan University is a laboratory for some of Canada’s most compelling media scholars, artists and activists. Mobilizing knowledge across the city, we organize an exciting yearly roster of symposia, yearly speakers’ series, workshops, and student/faculty research creation outputs.
The Studio works to blur the boundaries between media, art-making, activism, and theoretical/scholarly investigation. We are filmmakers, designers, scholars, media artists, students, and teachers in the areas of media studies, cultural studies, critical race/feminist/disability and queer theory, and arts-based social justice work. Outside of our annual event programming, we act as a hub for community-based research and the general promotion of social justice content for Canadian broadcast and cultural industries.
