Black Queer Feminist Organizing in the Black Radical Tradition in Toronto
- Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Building: Scott House
Room: Senior Common Room
The Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies is pleased to present Beverly Bain from University of Toronto Mississauga.
Black Queer Feminist Organizing in The Black Radical Tradition in Toronto.
Beverly Bain teaches in Women and Gender Studies in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She currently teaches and researches in the area of Caribbean and Black Diasporic sexualities, Black and Caribbean queer feminist organizing, sexual assault and violence against women. Bain is the author of “Fire, Passion and Politics: The Creation of Blockorama as Black Queer Diasporic Space in the Toronto Pride Festivities.” In We Still Demand: Defining Resistance in Sex ad Gender Struggles. Edited by Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman and L Pauline Rankin. UBC Press, 2017. Uncovering Conceptual Practices: Bringing into Lived Consciousness Feminist Activities on the Toronto Police Services Sexual Assault Audit” Canadian Women Studies (2010). Bain is currently working on a series of essays on Black radical feminist queer organizing in Toronto from the 80’s to the present.
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Posted on October 4, 2019