Our first Gender Matters event this Winter 2024 Term will be a talk with Rose Ndengue on:

CAMEROONIAN FEMINIST NATIONALISM AND DECOLONIAL BLACK FEMINISM THOUGHT

Wed, Feb 28 at 12pm on Main Campus, Queen's University

Cameroonian scholar-activist, Rose Ndengue is a historian socio-politician who defines herself as a black feminist from the transatlantic space, straddling Africa, Europe and the Americas.

She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Glendon, York University, where she is developing a teaching program in African Studies centering on black feminist perspectives, from postcolonial and decolonial standpoints.

Her research focuses on gender and politics in Africa and the black diasporas, in colonial and post-colonial contexts, with a particular emphasis on African and Afrodescendant women's mobilizations in Cameroonian and European contexts. Her work (which is disseminated in academic journals, the media and blogs) contributes to the mainstreaming of Black Feminist Studies, from a pluridisciplinary and transnational perspective.

This is an in-person event: location details will be sent to those who register.

An interactive poetry workshop with a focus on migration and mobility. We encourage every guest to bring a poem, a picture, or a song to add to the discussion. This event includes an artist talk hosted by Paul Akpomuje (Doctoral Student, Queen’s University).

Thursday, January 25, 2024 | 5-8 pm
Pedal Works Café & Studios
1412 Princess Street, Kingston

Find out more at: revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com

Register for the event here!

Our third Gender Matters event this Fall will be a Roundtable discussion with three Pre-Doc Fellows from the Gender Studies Department.

Angela Stanley (MA 2014; PhD Candidate, Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University) completed a Masters in Critical Disability Studies at York University, writing a major research paper on Disability and Sexuality: Perceptions of Beauty, Sexuality and Desirability for Queer, Disabled Youth. Her doctoral research pays attention to the intersection of race/culture, queerness and disability in order to understand how people make sense of their intimate and sexual lives. She is Guyanese born and an avid fan of Star Trek. 

Kharoll-Ann Souffrant is a doctoral candidate in social work at the University of Ottawa. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in social work from McGill University. Her dissertation focuses on Black feminist activists and Black survivors' perspectives on the #MeToo movement in Quebec. Kharoll-Ann Souffrant is also the author of Le privilège de dénoncer - Justice pour toutes les victimes de violences sexuelles, a book that offers an intersectional perspective on the #MeToo movement. It was published in Quebec and Europe by Les éditions du remue-ménage. She has been named a 2020 United Nations Fellow for People of African Descent and is a columnist for several Quebec media outlets.

Soji Cole studied Theatre and Film at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, where he was also a teaching faculty for almost a decade before relocating to Canada. He was a Fulbright scholar in the School of Music, Theater and Dance at Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA. He is a winner of the African Theatre Association (AfTA) ‘Emerging Scholars’ Prize’, as well as a winner of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT) ‘New Scholars Prize’. He has also won the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Playwriting Prize, and the Nigeria Prize for Literature. He has been a finalist of the BBC World Playwriting competition, and the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature. His current research focus is on African Black Immigrants and Specters of Otherness, with particular focus on creating drama works on black African immigrants’ experience of racism.

This is an in-person event: location details will be sent to those who register.