{"id":363898,"date":"2024-02-02T14:44:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/?page_id=363898"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:15:50","slug":"gsws-annual-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/experience\/gsws-annual-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"GSWS Annual Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The Annual Lecture of the School of Gender, Sexuality &amp; Women's Studies provides thought provoking conversations on important topics. Meet renowned leaders in the field and network with fellow faculty, staff and students. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading text-uppercase h5\">Quick Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list list-unstyled\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/faculty-research\/our-research\/\">Our Research<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/researchcommons.yorku.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Research Commons<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.laps.yorku.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Find a Prof<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/about\/careers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Join Us<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group grey-bg-block has-very-light-gray-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading h3\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI): The Good, The Bad &amp; The Performative<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full img-thumbnail rounded-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2024\/02\/Panel-Discussion.png\" alt=\"Image of a microphone with attendees in the background \" class=\"wp-image-363906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2024\/02\/Panel-Discussion.png 550w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2024\/02\/Panel-Discussion-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2024\/02\/Panel-Discussion-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<p><strong>When<\/strong>: Thursday, October 10, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The School of Gender, Sexuality and Women\u2019s Studies<\/strong> invites you to join our <strong>Annual Lecture&nbsp;<\/strong>event featuring a roundtable on the possibilities and limitations of institutionalized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The roundtable will explore various fields such as higher education, broadcasting, news organizations and politics and the ways in which racialized and other marginalized people with progressive politics are initially welcomed in spaces of power, becoming symbols (or tokens) of progress in achieving \u201cdiversity and inclusion,\u201d only to then be gaslighted, vilified or face reprisals for espousing their views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Lecture will be moderated and hosted by Dr. Bianca Beauchemin and Dr. Nadia Hasan, Assistant Professors from the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women\u2019s Studies at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sponsored by:<\/strong> Faculty of LA&amp;PS, VPRI, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York Centre for Asian Research, The Harriet Tubman Institute, Founders College, The Black Canadian Studies Certificate, Centre for Feminist Research, IRDL, YUFA Race Equity Caucus, and the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women\u2019s Studies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured Speakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading h6 text-uppercase text-primary\">Ginella Massa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2024\/02\/SPEAKER-PHOTO_Ginella-Massa.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-363909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2024\/02\/SPEAKER-PHOTO_Ginella-Massa.png 538w, 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2024\/02\/Desmond-Cole.png 538w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2024\/02\/Desmond-Cole-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Desmond&nbsp;Cole<\/strong>&nbsp;is a journalist, activist and author based in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading h6 text-uppercase text-primary\">Dr. Nadiya Ali<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2024\/02\/SPEAKER-PHOTO_Dr.-Nadiya-Ali.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-363911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2024\/02\/SPEAKER-PHOTO_Dr.-Nadiya-Ali.png 538w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2024\/02\/SPEAKER-PHOTO_Dr.-Nadiya-Ali-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nadiya Ali<\/strong> is a Black Muslim Immigrant\/Arrivant woman of East African descent who works and lives in the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee and six nations peoples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading h6 text-uppercase text-primary\">Somar Abuaziza<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2024\/02\/SPEAKER-PHOTO_Somar-Abuaziza.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-363913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2024\/02\/SPEAKER-PHOTO_Somar-Abuaziza.png 538w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2024\/02\/SPEAKER-PHOTO_Somar-Abuaziza-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Somar Abuaziza<\/strong> is President of the Palestine Solidarity Collective (PSC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" 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class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p><strong>Ways of Witnessing Black Motherhood: Spectacles of Suffering, Mortal Rebellions, and the Tyranny of Love with Jan-Therese Mendes, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Mendes is a Black feminist media studies scholar whose research interrogates how affects are machinated against Black and Black Muslim bodies and desires within Northern welfare nations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/2022\/02\/28\/gsws-2022-annual-lecture\/\">this presentation<\/a>, Dr. Mendes speaks to the ways the Black maternal is publicly disciplined in the wake of her distress and held criminally accountable even from the unreachable place of death.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-15 kt-pane363898_1d16a9-6e\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">2021 | Dr. Jill Andrew<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p><strong>And Still We Rise: Womxn Opposing Oppression &amp; Proposing Change<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Dr. Jill Andrew (MPP Toronto-St. Paul\u2019s, Ontario NDP Critic for Culture and Women\u2019s Issues) was the featured speaker for the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women\u2019s Studies\u2019 Annual Lecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Womxn have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. 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