Social Justice Days begins this Sunday, February 7th with
Street Clean-ups, Street Protests from 2 – 4pm
McGill University, Shatner Building (3480 McTavish), 4th floor clubs lounge
With all eyes on Vancouver at the start of the Olympic games this February, speakers reflect on the rise in state policing sparked by Olympic fervor in Canada, both in Montreal in 1976 and in the present. This panel looks at community-based resistance that rises to meet national security campaigns and the increasing criminalization of marginalized communities. What can we learn by linking rich histories of activism to present-day struggles?
Panel Featuring:
Patrizia Gentile, Ross Higgins, & Jenn Clamen
With an introduction and facilitation by qteam
This event is also the book launch of “The Canadian War on Queers,” by Patrizia Gentile and Gary Kinsman.
The book is a passionate, personalized account of a national security campaign that violated people’s civil rights and freedoms in an attempt to regulate their sexual practices. A path-breaking account of how the state used national security to wage war on its own people, this work offers ways of understanding, and resisting, contemporary ideological conflicts… “The Canadian War on Queers” will be available for purchase at this event.
SPEAKER BIOS:
- Patrizia Gentile is the co-author of The Canadian War on Queers (2009) and a professor in the department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Carleton University.
- Ross Higgins is a professor in the departments of Sociology and Anthropology and the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, and co-founder of the Archives gaies du Québec.
- Jenn Clamen is a professor at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia. She has been active in the sex worker rights movement for the last decade. She remains dedicated to fighting against systemic discrimination and criminalization for marginalized groups, through her teaching, and her activist work with sex workers across Canada and the globe.
Presentations will be made in English with whisper translation into French. This venue is wheelchair accessible. Childcare will be available – please notify 48 hours prior to the event if possible.
Presented by qteam. Contact: qteam@riseup.net
qteam is a working group of QPIRG McGill and a solidarity group of QPIRG Concordia.
www.qpirgmcgill.org – www.qpirgconcordia.org