An international Women\u2019s Day event hosted by Brock will celebrate Black and Indigenous women scholars, artists and activists while exploring their ideas for a better future.<\/p>\n
One of several International Women\u2019s Day events at the University, Imagining Black and Indigenous Futurities<\/a> will take place virtually Wednesday, March 8 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and will include short presentations, a roundtable discussion and a Q&A.<\/p>\n With online attendance open to everyone, event co-organizer and Associate Professor of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Margot Francis said the virtual gathering “offers a chance to take stock of contemporary debates within feminist movements and to reaffirm the University\u2019s commitment to addressing the under-representation of Black and Indigenous scholars in professorship.\u201d<\/p>\n Co-organizer Lyn Trudeau said the event will create space for Black and Indigenous women, who have both been affected historically, interpreted, and confined by settler colonialism.<\/p>\n \u201cNarratives that solidify and continue to perpetuate biases and negative stereotypes have been and are embedded in society by means that were not of our own making,\u201d said the Lecturer of Sociology and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies. \u201cI think, moving forward, it is imperative to hold space for these conversations that recreate and co-create our own narratives and stories as they pertain to our lived realities and our children\u2019s futures.\u201d<\/p>\n Assistant Professor of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies and event co-organizer Charlotte Henay said the gathering will welcome contributors from a variety of fields that extend beyond academia.<\/p>\n \u201cIt brings together thinkers and speakers whose work engages relationalities and co-conspiracies between Black and Indigenous Peoples, and who have thought deeply about how the construction of our identities, our struggles, and our futures are mutually imbricated.\u201d<\/p>\n Presenters include:<\/p>\n Francis hopes participants from across the Brock community and beyond will login to take part.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to move the work of Indigenous and Black scholars, artists and activists to the foreground and learn from the complex conversations between these communities while reflecting on how we might contribute to \u00a0alternative feminist futures,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n The event is co-sponsored by the Centre for Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, the Council for Research in the Social Sciences, the Social Justice Research Institute and the President\u2019s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity and Decolonization. It is open to all, however, participants must register on Eventbrite<\/a> to receive login details.<\/p>\n Additional International Women\u2019s Day-themed events at Brock include:<\/p>\n Robyn Bourgeois, Brock\u2019s Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement, will share her journey from trauma to triumph in an online talk<\/a> hosted by Brock’s Professional and Continuing Studies Monday, March 6.<\/p>\n An Innovation Social discussing the topic of \u201cInnovation in Women\u2019s Equity<\/a>\u201d on Tuesday, March 7 from 10 to 11 a.m. on level 300 of the Rankin Family Pavilion.<\/p>\n\n