Upcoming Events (2024-2025)

Oct 3, 11am–1pm, MN3230 (CDRS) - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Critical Approaches to Gender Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Gender and Housing Rights - Register

Mar. 21, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Azul Baez: The Arts of Feminist Care Workshop - Register (*interactive workshop!)

Mar. 7, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series x International Women's Day - Linda Silver Dranoff: Feminist Law & Policy - Register

Feb. 29, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Dr. Nicole Spiegelaar: Feminist Environmental Care - Register

Feb. 15, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Meghan Watson: Feminist Conversations in Mental Health, Wellness, and Care - Register

Dec. 15, 9pm-2am, 967 College Street (The Society Clubhouse) - The Pleasure Project Launch Party: A Queer and Trans Research Lab Funded Project - Register

Nov. 16, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Asim Hussain (@studentAsim): Canadian author and creative producer

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"

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

Oct. 3, 1pm - Collaborative Digital Research Space (CDRS), Maanjiwe nendamowinan, UTM - Afro-Latinidad in Literature and Visual Culture 

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" 

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 

Jan. 28, 12-2pm - Feminist Lunch: Digital Governmentality/l Affective Islamophobia among Hindu Nationalist and White Supremacist Groups on Twitter - Zeinab Farokhi 

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)

Nov. 16, 11:30am-12:30pm (online delivery) - WGS Feminist Lunch Series: Queer Crip Crossroads: Disability Activism in Toronto's LGBTQ community - Nicholas Hrynyk

Oct. 30, 12-1:30pm (online delivery) - WGS Feminist Lunch Series: Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances - Cynthia J. Cranford

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

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

Oct. 8, 12-1:30pm, MN3230 - WGS Feminist Lunch Series: Between Three Worlds - Akosua Adoma Owusu

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

Oct. 23, 2018 - Feminist Lunch Hour: Fleshy Politics  

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

Mar. 9, 12-2pm - Blackwood Gallery (KN 140) - Feminist Lunchtime Talks: Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present

Mar. 6, 4-6pm - Kaneff 137 - International Women's Day: Lecture by Sirma Bilge - Reception to follow with music, performances, and more

Jan. 10, 12-2pm - Blackwood Gallery (KN 140) - Feminist Lunchtime Talks: Indigenizing Institutions

Nov. 29, 12-2pm - Blackwood Gallery (KN 140) - Feminist Lunchtime Talks: Tea Time: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV

Sept 26, 4pm - Spigel Hall (DV 1102) - Public Talk & Reception: Critical Thinking as a Transnational Right

Mar. 27 - Panel Discussion: EH 300 F.: What Good is Feminism Today?

Mar. 9, 4-9pm - CC 1080 & CCT Atrium - International Women's Day: Vivek Shraya Reading & Women's Centre Art Show

Mar. 1 - 7:45-9:45pm - Upper Library, Massey College - Massey College Iranian Series - Panel Discussion: Going Public: Women in Contemporary Iran

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

Jan. 26, 9-11am - Spigel Hall - Feminist Lunch Hour - Syrus Marcus Ware: All that you Do Changes you: Art and Activism in Toronto

Nov. 28, 1-5pm - DV 1143 - WGS355: Wired Women Course: Student Online Campaigns

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

Mar. 3, 12pm - DV 3130 - Feminist Lunch Hour

Feb. 24, 6-8pm - Student Centre - Black Liberation: A Conversation with Jasiri X, Hip Hop Artist, Educator and Community Organizer 

Jan. 28, 12pm - Spigel Hall - Feminist Lunch Hour

Dec. 1, 1:30-2:30pm - IB Atrium - National Day of Rememberance and Action on Violence Against Women

Theatre Erindale Show: How to Make Love in a Canoe

Nov. 12, 12pm - Davis 3130 - Feminist Lunch Hour

Oct. 22, 12pm - Davis 3130 - Feminist Lunch Hour

Oct. 7 - Black + Queer + Human: A Conversation

 Sept 29, 12pm - Davis 3130 - Feminist Lunch Hour