Past Event

Join us at the Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies on Thursday Oct 15, 1-2 pm, for another in a series of informal discussions that will accompany our more formal events.   In our October 1 discussion of the Scholar Strike Canada teach-ins, many people expressed concerns about the current state of the university and their positions within it as both faculty and students.  For this next event, we will follow up with further exploration of our lived experience of current systemic conditions in response to the question, “how does it feel?” – where the “it” could be defined variously as academia, racialized capital, the pandemic, and/or everyday life.

To receive the Zoom link for next Thursday’s event,  please register at:

No readings or preparation are required but since part of the goal of these sessions is to share practices of collective care, you might want to bring suggested readings or other resources.  At the discussion of the scholar strike, we discussed the notion of the “study group” and generated the following reading list:

Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The Undercommons:  Fugitive Planning and Black Study

Billy Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body; NDN Coping Strategies; This Wound Is a World

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

How We Get Free:  Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective 

Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism:  The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

Donna Murch,  Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (on the study group)

Robin Kelley, Freedom Dreams

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider

Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus (on the politics of refusal)

Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (on the politics of refusal)

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Spill;  M Archive; Dub (on stealing time from the university)

Christina Sharpe, In the Wake

Ashon Crawley, Pentecostal Breath;  The Lonely Letters

Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan, Gringo Love

Please also check the Institute’s website for further details about our other Feminist Futures events, including a workshop with social justice organizer Kimalee Philip (Oct 22); a book launch for Katie Bausch’s He Thinks He’s Down (Nov 5); and a workshop with Jennifer Nash, author of Black Feminism Reimagined (Nov 19).

We hope to “see” you next week or at one of our future events as we do what we can to stay connected in this time of pandemic.