Assistant Professor Dr. Robyn Bourgeois is hosting a monthly Decolonial Reading Circle from September to April to discuss the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people. Students are strongly encouraged to attend upcoming information sessions. The Decolonial Reading Circle is open to all Brock students, staff and faculty and community members.

INFO SESSION A – Thursday, September 19, 2019, from 12:30pm to 1:30pm
INFO SESSION B – Thursday, September 26, 2019, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Both sessions will be held in Brock University’s Student Justice Centre, Thistle Complex Room 252A

Sponsored by the Student Justice Centre.

Learn more about the facilitator, Dr. Robyn Bourgeois, below:

Dr. Robyn Bourgeois (Laughing Otter Caring Woman) is a mixed-race nehiyaw iskwew (Cree woman) whose Cree family comes from Treaty Eight (Lesser Slave Lake) territory. She was born and raised in Syilx and Splats’in territories of British Columbia and is connected through her three children to the Six Nations of the Grand River. She is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies at Brock, where her scholarly work focuses on Indigenous feminisms, violence against Indigenous women and girls, and Indigenous women’s political activism and leadership. In addition to being an academic, Dr. Bourgeois is also as activist, author, and artist.

As someone who nearly became one of Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), she has devoted her activist and academic attention to ending violence against Indigenous women and girls. In 2018, she testified as an experiential and expert witness on sexual exploitation and human trafficking at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 25LGBTQlIA people.