The Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies invites students to explore how intersecting ideas about gender, colonialism, race, class, sexuality and the body shape experience, ideology, institutions, and culture at Social Sciences Day, Fall 2024. In this presentation on issues in Women’s and Gender Studies, students will develop a critical awareness of gendered violence, activism, and resistance through Indigenous Feminisms and queer/trans perspectives through two lectures by Associate Professor Dr. Margot Francis and Assistant Professor Dr. Lyn Trudeau.
Margot Francis‘ lecture will explore why trans and queer lives are now up for debate everywhere from the US presidential election, to provincial politics and local school boards in Canada. It poses the questions: how does this media, and political and legislative violence impact the everyday realities of queer and trans people, and how are we fighting back?
The Anishinaabe Peoples embrace the concept Seven Forward Seven Back. In Lyn Trudeau‘s lecture, feminisms will be explored through this lens; alongside, the emergence of art, activism, and other-than human relations as it pertains to Indigenous Feminisms.
Thursday, December 5, 2024, from 10:30am to 1:00pm
Goodman School of Business Room 408 at Brock University
This presentation is part of a larger event and is designed to give high school students the chance to experience a typical university lecture/class for programs in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Sessions are assigned and only available to classes and schools registered for the event. For more information on Social Sciences Day, contact the Faculty of Social Sciences.
