{"id":64216,"date":"2020-02-25T10:43:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=64216"},"modified":"2020-02-25T14:20:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T19:20:19","slug":"upcoming-talk-reflects-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/02\/upcoming-talk-reflects-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming talk reflects on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Canadian Studies is hosting a talk on colonial history and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls on Thursday, Feb. 27.<\/p>\n<p>Robyn Bourgeois, Assistant Professor with the Centre for Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, will be speaking on Indigenous women\u2019s political anti-violence leadership in Canada since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Bourgeois, who testified as an experiential and expert witness on sexual exploitation and human trafficking at the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIAS people, will share her personal experiences and research.<\/p>\n<p>Her talk will also consider ways Brock University\u2019s Decolonial Reading Circle is attempting to disrupt the established colonial, social and political patterns.<\/p>\n<p>Bourgeois is a mixed-race Cree woman and has been involved in anti-violence activism from grassroots to national and international levels for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>This free public talk will be held from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Dr. Charles A. Sankey Chamber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Canadian Studies is hosting a talk on colonial history and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls on Thursday, Feb. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7,37,6833,4,38],"tags":[192,506,7313,6583,30,4226,6056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64222,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64216\/revisions\/64222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}