The event, hosted by Steen Starr, brings together activists and academics to experiment with ideas & memories about feminism, the archive, and academia – where they converge, where they don’t, and how to build feminist futures everywhere. Featuring Leen Amarin is a Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian and newly Canadian author, creative, researcher, and human rights advocate. […]
Presented by TMU writing expert Meera Govindasamy, this workshop teaches participants to think critically about the colonial expectations of academic writing, while generating approaches to writing and digital activism that foreground social justice. Meera Govindasamy is an educator and activist writer and researcher from Toronto. She is presently the Academic Engagement Specialist in Toronto Metropolitan University’s Student […]
This event is a critical, anti-racist look at EDI policies in the academy. This event will bring Dr. Shana Almeida, Assistant Professor at TMU’s School of Professional Communication and author of the recently published Toronto the Good?: Negotiating Race in the Diverse City, and Leen Amarin and Tegan Hadisi, York University students/activists who have been […]
Co-curated by Nawang Kinkar & Marusya Bociurkiw and hosted at Glad Day Books, our 5th Laboratory of Feminist Memory offers our communities space to gather, reflect, and feel amidst a time of global conflicts. Since Russia’s re-invasion of Ukraine on February 24, women, LGBQ+, trans and non-binary Ukrainians have been particularly impacted. Feminists have always […]
“A question can be a journey” (2019) wrote Sara Ahmed in her feminist killjoys blog When we question the neoliberal university with complaint, where can it lead us? “To become a complainer is to become the location of a problem” (Ahmed 2021). Perhaps we complain among ourselves, or we don’t complain for fear of losing […]
Using moments from contemporary cultural production (films, TV shows, music, etc.), this panel thinks carefully about the ways in which madness and mental health are becoming reconstituted and co-opted in the present moment to fit with neoliberal and capitalist ways of being in the world. We will also attempt at crafting “strategies” to survive, strategies […]
BREAK THE BINARY and enter into Cyber-queer-utopia. This in-person event at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre was a celebration of the new virtual space showcasing the art of trans+ artists. Organized in collaboration with Transgender Expressions Haven, a not for profit organization building community for transgender artists in a celebration of their latest virtual exhibition […]
When Behrouz Boochani, Kurdish-Iranian human rights activist/journalist was in the Australian-run refugee detention camp in Manus Island, Papua New Guinea he used his smartphone to secretly write over 100 articles, a book – the award-winning “No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison” – and a film “Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time.” In […]
Artists, activists and poets will share stories that surround personal objects or ‘artifact’s, engaging with questions of archival erasure and resistance while also challenging notions of what a feminist archive is or is not.
This roundtable discussion brings together young scholars, filmmakers and artists, and curators using feminist/queer/decolonial approaches to think about their engagement with media archives, not only as a research method, but as a material, embodied site.