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2023-24 Events
![FLS - March 21](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/2024-03/FLS%20-%20March%2021.png.webp?itok=SnZ8dnjC)
Mar. 21, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Azul Baez: The Arts of Feminist Care Workshop - Register (*interactive workshop!)
![Feminist Lunch Series - Mar 7 poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/2024-03/International%20Womens%20Day%202024%20-%20Lunch%20Series%20Posters.png.webp?itok=bg-_ambj)
Mar. 7, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series x International Women's Day - Linda Silver Dranoff: Feminist Law & Policy - Register
![Dr. Nicole Spiegelaar poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/2024-02/Screenshot%202024-02-13%20at%201.54.51%20PM.png.webp?itok=1JGTL6Rp)
Feb. 29, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Dr. Nicole Spiegelaar: Feminist Environmental Care - Register
![Feminist Lunch Series poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/2024-01/Feb%2015%20-%20FSL.jpg.webp?itok=mT1CNHny)
Feb. 15, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Meghan Watson: Feminist Conversations in Mental Health, Wellness, and Care - Register
![The Pleasure Project](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/2023-11/Pleasure%20Project%20Party%20Poster.jpg.webp?itok=_Ra6X0c0)
Dec. 15, 9pm-2am, 967 College Street (The Society Clubhouse) - The Pleasure Project Launch Party: A Queer and Trans Research Lab Funded Project - Register
![The Pleasure Project](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/2023-11/Pleasure%20Project%20Square%20Graphic%20%281%29.png.webp?itok=bkYl2mxd)
![Asim Hussain event](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/2023-11/Asim%20Hussain%20-%20Nov.%2016.jpg.webp?itok=kYsP_9IR)
Nov. 16, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Asim Hussain (@studentAsim): Canadian author and creative producer
![Feminist Lunch Series poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/2023-10/Feminist%20Lunch%20Series%20-%20Oct%2019%20poster%20-%20final.jpg.webp?itok=g9iRgSnP)
Oct. 19, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series co-sponsored with the Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities - Shireen Hassim, Carlton University Professor and Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender & African Studies: "Reclaiming hope as radical lexicon: Some experiments from African feminist political campaigns"
![Feminist Lunch Series poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/2023-10/Feminist%20Lunch%20Series%20-%20Oct%203%20poster%20-%20final.jpg.webp?itok=IRZL_yrm)
Oct. 3, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - WGSS Open House and Welcome with Beverly Bain, Victoria Tahmesebi-Birgani, and Gary Lee Pelleteir
![Event poster for Afro-Latinidad in Literature and Visual Culture](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/2023-08/Afro-Latinidad%20poster.jpg.webp?itok=D0n0jrFx)
Oct. 3, 1pm - Collaborative Digital Research Space (CDRS), Maanjiwe nendamowinan, UTM - Afro-Latinidad in Literature and Visual Culture
2021-22 Events
![Olivia Espin Event Poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/Oliva%20Espin%20March%2029_2022.png.webp?itok=EVGjAeIR)
Mar. 29, 1pm - WGSS Feminist Lecture Series, in collaboration with the Peel Institute for Violence Prevention, Family Services of Peel - Olivia Espín: "Women Crossing Boundaries: A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality"
![International Women's Day Panel Poster March 8, 2022](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/international%20women%27s%20day%20March%208.jpg.webp?itok=JS1CNtON)
Mar. 8, 11am-1pm - WGSS Presents International Women's Day Panel: "Feminist Ethics of Care in a Time of Pandemic" - Speakers Mercy Lillian, Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani & Cornel Grey
![28.01.2022 Feminist Lunch poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/28.01.2022%20-%20Feminist%20Lunch%20Poster.jpg.webp?itok=YdMAfNsD)
Jan. 28, 12-2pm - Feminist Lunch: Digital Governmentality/l Affective Islamophobia among Hindu Nationalist and White Supremacist Groups on Twitter - Zeinab Farokhi
2020/21 Events
![ZOM-FAM](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/WGSSFLSeriesMackerelFinal_0.jpg.webp?itok=ow-5FrXo)
Mar. 2, 11:30am-1pm - Feminist Lunch Series: A Reading and Performance by Kama La Mackerel (based on their new book of poetry, ZOM- FAM)
![Queer Crip Poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/Queer%20Crip%20Crossroads_%20Disability%20Activism%20in%20Torontos%20LGBTQ%20community%20Poster.jpg.webp?itok=Xjf8LvWv)
Nov. 16, 11:30am-12:30pm (online delivery) - WGS Feminist Lunch Series: Queer Crip Crossroads: Disability Activism in Toronto's LGBTQ community - Nicholas Hrynyk
![](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/Home%20Care%20Fault%20Lines%20-%20WGS%20Event%20Poster%20Oct%2030%2C%202020.jpg.webp?itok=2HsydDne)
Oct. 30, 12-1:30pm (online delivery) - WGS Feminist Lunch Series: Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances - Cynthia J. Cranford
2019-20 Events
![26.11.2019 Feminist Lunch Hour poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/26.11.2019%20Feminist%20Lunch%20Poster%20-%202.jpg.webp?itok=AOTtzM4m)
Nov. 26, 12-1:30pm, MN3230 - WGS Feminist Lunch Series: "Meh Just Realize I's Ah Coolie Bai": Indo-Caribbean Masculinities, Chutney Erotics, and Qoolie Potentials - Ryan Persadie
![Decolonizing the Archives poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/21.11.2019%20Feminist%20Lunch%20Poster%20-%20web.jpg.webp?itok=RdMnGxJI)
Nov. 21, 11:45am-1:30pm, MiST Theatre - WGS Feminist Lunch Series: Decolonizing the Archives: Resistance, Refusal, and Re-imaginings - Abdi Osman and Naneen Minai with Joan Simalchik
![Between Three Worlds](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/October%20Feminist%20Lunch%20-%20Akosua%20Adoma%20%282%29_0.jpg.webp?itok=4VbeRDK7)
Oct. 8, 12-1:30pm, MN3230 - WGS Feminist Lunch Series: Between Three Worlds - Akosua Adoma Owusu
![Golden Mind](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/September%2023%20Poster%20-%20Golden%20Mind%20%282%29.jpg.webp?itok=_r6ZdqVt)
Sept. 23, 12-1:30pm, MiST Theatre (UTM) - Reception at 11:30am - WGS Feminist Lunch Series: Golden Mind: A Journey Through Love, Activism and the Realm of Autism - Faduma Mohamed
2018-19 Events
![Feminist Lunch Hour - Fleshy Politics Poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/Feminist%20Lunch%20Oct%202018%20Nicole%20Charles.jpg.webp?itok=oHciRK_T)
Oct. 23, 2018 - Feminist Lunch Hour: Fleshy Politics
2017-18 Events
![Event Poster - MENA Conference](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/MENAwomenConferenceFinal.jpg.webp?itok=vzPJIU_e)
International Conference on Middle East & North Africa (MENA):
From Street Protest to Online Activism
Mar. 22, 9am-6pm - William Doo Auditorium, UTSG
Mar. 23, 9am-6pm - Council Chambers, UTM
![Event Poster - Policing Black Lives](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/shared/Policing%20Black%20Lives.jpg.webp?itok=KQ2kVjmy)
Mar. 9, 12-2pm - Blackwood Gallery (KN 140) - Feminist Lunchtime Talks: Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present
![IWD 2018 event poster - Sirma Bilge](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/shared/IWD%202018%20-%20Sirma%20Bilge%20event.pdf.jpg.webp?itok=5Q1_oFW9)
Mar. 6, 4-6pm - Kaneff 137 - International Women's Day: Lecture by Sirma Bilge - Reception to follow with music, performances, and more
![poster - Feminist Lunchtime Talk - Jan 10, 2018, 12-2pm, KN 140 - Indigenizing Institutions](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/shared/Fem%20Lunch%20Indigenizing%20Institutions_.jpg.webp?itok=k8SEdrOk)
Jan. 10, 12-2pm - Blackwood Gallery (KN 140) - Feminist Lunchtime Talks: Indigenizing Institutions
![Nov. 29, 12-2pm, Blackwood Gallery](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/HIV%20Talk%20-%20November%2029.jpg.webp?itok=CHCUtG5s)
Nov. 29, 12-2pm - Blackwood Gallery (KN 140) - Feminist Lunchtime Talks: Tea Time: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV
![Photo of Event Poster for Homa Hoodfar public talk on September 26th at 4pm in Spigel Hall](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/Homa%20Hoodfar%20-%20Sept.%2026%2C%202017%20.jpg.webp?itok=HqyVuWvW)
Sept 26, 4pm - Spigel Hall (DV 1102) - Public Talk & Reception: Critical Thinking as a Transnational Right
2016-17 Events
![What Good is Feminism Today?". This talk will be feauturing Dr. Simalchik, Dr. Bain, Dr. Lord and UTM Feminists. Please come join us on Monday March 27th in EH 300 F from 1-3pm to learn more. Refreshments will be provided!](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/WGS%20Final.jpg.webp?itok=TzzNAtnU)
Mar. 27 - Panel Discussion: EH 300 F.: What Good is Feminism Today?
![poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/international%20women%27s%20day%20-%20poster%20%28web%20size%29.jpg.webp?itok=Zu7kVdgX)
Mar. 9, 4-9pm - CC 1080 & CCT Atrium - International Women's Day: Vivek Shraya Reading & Women's Centre Art Show
![poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/SeminarSeries-Winter2017-Going%20Public.jpg.webp?itok=IKP_Mll4)
Mar. 1 - 7:45-9:45pm - Upper Library, Massey College - Massey College Iranian Series - Panel Discussion: Going Public: Women in Contemporary Iran
![poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/shared/WGS%20FemLunch%20Poster%20-%20Victoria%20-%20Women%20in%20the%20Middle%20East%20-%2015.02.2017.jpg.webp?itok=YiSX3Hfu)
Feb. 15, 12-1:30pm - DV 3130, Council Chambers - Feminist Lunch Hour - Dr. Victoria Tahmasebi: Women in the Middle East: from Street Protests to Virtual Networking
![poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/shared/Syrus%20copy8.5x11final.jpg.webp?itok=vuAeZTTv)
Jan. 26, 9-11am - Spigel Hall - Feminist Lunch Hour - Syrus Marcus Ware: All that you Do Changes you: Art and Activism in Toronto
![poster](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/WGS%20Poster%20Final%20Copy.jpg.webp?itok=3vLsDK3n)
Nov. 28, 1-5pm - DV 1143 - WGS355: Wired Women Course: Student Online Campaigns
![fem lunch hour - lord](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/images/FemLunchHour%20EDIT_0.JPG.webp?itok=OQew4MqL)
Nov. 24 - 12-1:30pm - DV 3130 Council Chambers - Feminist Lunch Hour - Professor R. Cassandra Lord: Sensations of Moving Across Space and Time: Black Queer Diasporic Desire 'On Da Road'
Oct. 6, 12pm - DV Spigel Hall - Feminist Lunch Hour - Professor Hae Yeon Choo: Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor and Migrant Rights in South Korea
2015-16 Events
![Poster of Feminist Lunch Hour with Denise Booth](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/FeministLunchHour_Mar3_DeniseBooth_0.jpg.webp?itok=bQ3YJq0l)
Mar. 3, 12pm - DV 3130 - Feminist Lunch Hour
![A Conversation with Jasiri X, hip hop artist](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/shared/Jasiri%20X%20event%20poster_website.jpg.webp?itok=s9YYNvwf)
Feb. 24, 6-8pm - Student Centre - Black Liberation: A Conversation with Jasiri X, Hip Hop Artist, Educator and Community Organizer
![Salina Abji](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/FeministLunchHour_Jan28_SalinaAbji.jpg.webp?itok=Kl51oHol)
Jan. 28, 12pm - Spigel Hall - Feminist Lunch Hour
![Memorial](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/shared/documents/Dec%20%201st%20Memorial%20Poster_2.jpg.webp?itok=Ly2kzBEI)
Dec. 1, 1:30-2:30pm - IB Atrium - National Day of Rememberance and Action on Violence Against Women
![Theatre](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/full_width_m/public/shared/documents/WGS%20event.jpg.webp?itok=cHdFkgh7)
Theatre Erindale Show: How to Make Love in a Canoe
![Understanding Intersectionality in Compton and South Los Angeles](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/images/femlunch%20Lunch%20Nov%202015.jpg.webp?itok=-UmyQRGv)
Nov. 12, 12pm - Davis 3130 - Feminist Lunch Hour
![Feminist Lunch Hour](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/images/FeministLunchHour_Oct22_FarrahKhan.jpg.webp?itok=FpFOu0LU)
Oct. 22, 12pm - Davis 3130 - Feminist Lunch Hour
![Black+Queer](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/images/Black%20and%20Queer_0.jpg.webp?itok=uVFn4Ww8)
Oct. 7 - Black + Queer + Human: A Conversation
![Feminist Lunch Hour](/women-studies/sites/files/women-studies/styles/portrait/public/shared/images/Feminist%20Lunch%20Hour%20Sept29%202015.jpg.webp?itok=N6Z-7-i5)
Sept 29, 12pm - Davis 3130 - Feminist Lunch Hour