Imagining Black and Indigenous Futurities

Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day with Black & Indigenous scholars, activists, and artists. This virtual panel includes short presentations, a round-table discussion & Q&A.

March 8, 2023, from 11:00am to 1:00pm EST
This is an online event. Please register through EventBrite.

Co-sponsored by the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Council for Research in the Social Sciences, Social Justice Research Institute, and President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights. Equity, and Decolonization (PACHRED).

Learn more about our panelists below:

Lillian Allen is a professor of creative writing at OCAD University, an acclaimed foremother of dub poetry and performance, and a long-time arts activist.

Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy is Ojibwe from Lac Seul First Nation and Bawating Sault Ste. Marie, ON and is an Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Victoria.

Adele Thomas is a full-spectrum fertility doula who works with BIPOC families and aims to destigmatize plant medicines.

Etanda Arden is a Black, Dene and Anishinaabe emerging writer who is a member of Couchiching First Nation and has published with the Yellowhead Institute.

Juliane Okot Bitek is an Acholi poet, scholar, and Assistant Professor of Black Creative Writing at Queen’s University. Her book, 100 Days, is a poetic response to the 20th anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Kahsenniyo Williams Kick is a spoken word artist from the Mohawk Nation, Wolf Clan, at Six Nations. She works as a poet and activist for social change.