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Date(s) - Wednesday, June 7, 2023
12:00 pm1:00 pm
Online event:https://trc57speakerseries.ca/speakers/carol-lynne-darcangelis/
Topic:
The Solidarity Encounter: Women, Activism, and Creating Non-Colonizing Relations
Political solidarity across difference is among the most crucial and challenging concerns of our time.
Join us in conversation with Carol Lynne D’Arcangelis as she shares aspects to a key problem: colonizing behaviours that result when white women’s self-interests take centre stage as they participate in activist work with Indigenous women and groups.
Carol Lynne will share a constructive framework for developing non-colonizing solidarity that can be applied in any context of unequal power. Her work provides an invaluable set of strategies for resisting the “solidarity impulse” and respecting boundaries between self and other.
Carol Lynne D’Arcangelis is an associate professor of gender studies at Memorial University, where she received a 2019 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Since 2005, she has been a white settler member of No More Silence, a Toronto-based grassroots network dedicated to raising awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people. She has published on Indigenous–non-Indigenous solidarity, white settler feminism, and decolonial feminism in journals that include Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal, Canadian Woman Studies, and the German journal Peripherie.
The series was initiated by the NLPS in response to its goal to fulfill the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Call to Action #57. This Call to Action asks all levels of government to provide education to public servants on the history of Indigenous peoples. Brought to you by The Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools (NLPS) and UBC Press, in collaboration with Vancouver Island Regional Library.
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