Every year the Equity Studies Students' Union (ESSU) hosts Decolonizing Our Minds with the aim of creating a space where Equity Studies students and members of the community can identify and interrogate the ways in which different marginalized groups practice resistance. This year, ESSU has reflected critically on the conference’s former name and we have decided to change the name to Stories of Resistance.
This year, we want to engage you in exploring the intersections of resistance and oppression with a special focus on conceptualizing the future in its most dynamic form which is art.
schedule:
12:45 // Opening Remarks
1:00 // Spoken Word Performance by Zeinab Aidid
1:20 // Panel Discussion on Futurity
2:35 // Break
3:00 // Breakaway sessions (you will have the oppurtunity to take part in one of five breakaway session that will run simultaneously
- Gender Poo: Exploring Gender Through Art with Coco Riot
- Food Justice & Equity workshop with Balck Farmers and Food Growers Collective
- Spoken word workshop with Zeinab Aidid
- Zine making with benjamin lee hicks
4:30 // First Story Toronto presentation
5:30 // Keynote speech by George Elliott Clarke
6:30 // Ending Remarks
7:00 // Doors open for Stories of Resistance's first Open Mic Night and reception
this is a free event // lunch and refreshments provided // all-gender washrooms available // all bodies welcome
please contact [email protected] if you have any questions or any specific accessibility concerns, including asl.
Shout out to some of our supporters :
Hart House, Centre for Community Partnerships, New College, New College Student Council, Women & Gender Studies Students Union