The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies in collaboration with Lakehead University’s Gender Equity Centre presents the annual Feminisms at the Lakehead! The in-person event is being held WEDNEDAY, APRIL 9 from 8:30am to 4pm at the Thunder Bay Lakehead campus in the Faculty Lounge (UC 1029G / directly under the Residence Cafeteria). Virtual attendance is also available!
Registration is required to attend. Please email [email protected] to register or to ask any questions.
Doors open at 8:30am for coffee, tea, and muffins; presentations will take place between 9am and 4pm. Vegetarian and non-vegetarian food options will be available
The focus of this year’s event is Global Feminist Networks and features three keynote speakers:
- Visiting Speaker: Suman Mondal | Queer activist at McMaster University whose work revolves around the social, political, and legal implications of LGBTQIA+ Indians in progressive regions of India. Recipient of the Lambda Scholarship Foundation Award & the prestigious Hooker Fellowship.
- Regional/Local Speaker: Dr. Eleanor Gittens | Professor, human rights activist, & Co-editor of the Canadian Framework for Collaborative Police Response on Sexual Violence
- National Speaker: Dr. El Jones | Poet, journalist, author, and abolitionist activist; Author of Live from the Afrikan Resistance!, and Abolitionist Intimacies; Co-host of the radio show Black Power Hour.
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