Join us at this fall’s Women’s and Gender Studies Student Lounge social event! Meeting the WGST student engagement team and other WGST students.
Thursday, October 27, 2022, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Thistle Complex Room 149 at Brock University
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A Virtual Conversation with Filmmaker Courtney Montour
Courtney Montour (Kanien’kehá:ka [Mohawk]) works in documentary film and digital media exploring issues of Indigenous identity. Her work includes the documentaries Sex Spirit Strength (2016) and Flat Rocks (2017) and episodes of the documentary series Mohawk Ironworkers (2016) and Skindigenous (2021). She co-created and coordinated McGill University’s Indigenous Field Studies course, held in Kahnawake, for eight years.
Montour will discuss her award-winning documentary film Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again (National Film Board of Canada, 2021, 34 min.). The film shares the powerful story of Mary Two-Axe Earley, who fought for more than two decades to challenge sex discrimination against First Nations women embedded in Canada’s Indian Act and became a key figure in Canada’s women’s rights movement.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm
The film will include have American Sign Language interpretation and be made available to registrants in advance.
This is an online event. Please register through EventBrite.
Co-cosponsored by Brock University Faculty of Humanities Dean’s Discretionary Fund; Department of Communication, Popular Culture, and Film; Department of History; Centre for Canadian Studies; Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies; Indigenous Studies; Office of the Vice Provost, Indigenous Engagement. Special thanks to Donna Cowan of the National Film Board for her assistance.
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Join us for “Consent Has Always Been Sexy: Indigenous Resurgence of Sex and Consent Education,” a presentation by Krysta Williams and Renee Monchalin of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network.
Monday, February 1, 2021, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Thistle Complex Room 257 at Brock University
Co-sponsored by the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies; Indigenous Education and the Tecumseh Centre for Aboriginal Research and Education at Brock University.
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Vivek Shraya in Conversation: What I’ve Learning in 10 Years
Join us as Vivek Shraya reflects on her journey and experience as a multidisciplinary trans, queer artist of colour since self-publishing her first book, God Loves Hair in 2010. Engage in a reading, discussion and Q&A!
Tuesday, December 1, 2020, from 5:00pm to 6:30pm
This in an online event. Please register though ExperienceBU
Presented by the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Human Rights and Equity Office, and Brock University Student Union.
Events, Online Events, Vivek Shraya
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Neither, Nor: How to Circumnavigate the Gender Binary in Seven Thousand Easy Steps
All are invited to this free virtual event with Ivan Coyote.
Thursday, November 5, 2020, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
This is an online event. For more information, please visit FirstOntarioPAC.ca or QueerEvents.ca
Presented by Creative Writing at Brock University, in partnership with the Brock University Faculty Association, Centre for Women and Gender Studies, Social Justice Research Institute, Human Rights and Equity Office, Women’s Campus Safety Grant, OutNiagara, and FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre.
Events, Online Events, Transgender Day of Remembrance
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All are welcome to this event marking 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence and National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence Against Women.
When is it safe to start writing about sexual violence? Téa Mutonji reflects on writing her novel, Shut Up You’re Pretty (2019).
How does #MeToo actively engage colonialism? Robyn Bourgeois discusses what it would take to decolonize #MeToo.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pond Inlet, J-Block Mackenzie Chown Complex at Brock University
Sponsored by the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Women’s Campus Safety Grant, and Human Rights and Equity Office.
Indigenous Rights Conference: Come Learn About Moving Forward Together by the Supporters of Haudenosaunee Right to Hunt
Saturday, November 16, 2019, 9:00am to 8:00pm
Marilyn L. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts
15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines, ON L2R 0B5
Sponsored by the Indigenous Solidarity Coalition, Student Justice Centre, Human Rights and Equity Office, and Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies.
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Why We Should All Be Activists: What Haudenosaunee Philosophy Can Teach Us About Our Responsibilities To The Earth
Join us for this presentation by Alicia Elliott, author of A Mind Spread Out On The Ground.
Tuesday, October 29, 2019, at 6:00pm
FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
250 St Paul St, St. Catharines, ON L2R 3M2
Students attend for free, community members pay-what-you-can.
Co-sponsored by the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Human Rights and Equity Office, Women’s Campus Safety Grant, President’s Advisory Committee on Human Eights, Equity, and Decolonization (PACHRED), Social Justice Research Institute, Department of English, Language, and Literature, and Creative Writing Program.
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Planet in Crisis Globally: Connecting the Dots Locally
You are invited to a series of informal conversations about the global climate crisis. We are seeking to encourage dialogue and exchange of ideas – no expertise necessary!
Tuesday, September 24 to Thursday, September 26, 2019
All conversations will take place in the Student Justice Centre, Thistle Complex Room 252A
Sponsored by the Human Rights and Equity Office.
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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:
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