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Wednesday, June 23, 2021 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Social Justice Wednesdays - Virtual Talk with Dr. Kim Hong Nguyen

Dr. Kim Hong Nguyen (Communication Arts) presents Mean Girl Feminism: White Feminist Outrage and Salvation

From the Bitch Manifesto to the movie Mean Girls and the popularity of the mean girl trope, the right to be mean is the new frontier for white feminist discontent. My work explores how feminism points to gender as if it is resistance in and of itself. Feminist discourses have positioned the white heterosexual mean girl/woman as both the primary problem to patriarchy and the antidote without whom patriarchy cannot be remade. I argue that the white mean girl feminist is the idealistic figure of complaint and the white hetero-patriarchal mark of bourgeois feminist maturity. In this presentation, I will share a brief overview of this book project.

Thursday, October 19, 2023 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

The Urgency of Social Justice Speaker Series part 1

Laura Mae Lindo: Uncovering the Racial Contract: A Story of Bill 67 in Ontario

In December 2021, Bill 67, the Racial Equity in the Education System Act, was tabled to ensure educators in Ontario were provided with the tools that they need to uphold their legal obligation as laid out through Ontario's Education Act: to build inclusive classrooms. While tabling the Bill was a response to community advocacy demanding that schools become anti-racist spaces - spaces that encourage and support racial equity qua praxis - what ensued raised questions as to the role, purpose, and vision not only for education in Ontario but also for the type of advocacy expected from public officials. This is that story. 


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