Unsettling Activisms: Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change
- Date: Saturday, October 27, 2018 - 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Building: Bagnani Hall
Unsettling Activisms: Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change, is more than a collection of writing, this anthology is a glimpse into a project that has entailed ongoing storytelling and relationship-building, poetry, life writing, orality, photography, performance, and research. “We have worked hard to weave together academic, activist, and artistic contributions,” says Dr. May Chazan, “to push the boundaries of what is typically included in a text of this kind, and to practice a meaningful, radical, and accountable intergenerationality along the way.” The book centres critical race perspectives, decolonial analysis, queer studies, and Indigenous knowledges, none of which are typically centred in conversations on activist aging.
Dr. Chazan, Canada Research Chair in Feminist and Gender Studies at Trent University, edited the book along with Trent graduate Melissa Baldwin, who was a student at the time of publishing, and past chair of the Grandmothers Advocacy Network (GRAN), Pat Evans. Contributors include Elder Shirley Ida Williams Pheasant, Professor Emeritus in Nishnaabemowin Language at Trent University; waaseyaa’sin christine sy, PhD in Indigenous Studies at Trent University; Jenn Cole, emerging critical Indigenous feminist scholar and new Trent faculty member; Trent graduates Melissa Baldwin, Maddy MacNab, Jesse Whattam and Ziysah von Bieberstein; and current Trent student, Keara Lightning.
The book is published by Women’s Press (Canadian Scholar Press). All royalties from books sales of Unsettling Activisms will be donated to the Sacred Water Circle, a local Indigenous-based group of water protectors.
The launch will feature performances by contributors Jenn Cole, Ziy von B, Niambi Leigh and Keara Lightning, as well as the Raging Grannies. Words of welcome will be offered by Elder Shirley Ida Williams Pheasant. Refreshments will be served, and discounted copies of the book will be available for sale. The event is supported, in part, by the Trent Centre for Aging & Society and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Trent University.
This is a free, accessible event open to all.
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Posted on October 16, 2018