As part of Pride in Health, please join the Centre for Human Rights Research and the Queer & Trans Graduate Student Group on at 12 noon on Friday, Oct. 25th at the University of Manitoba Bannatyne Campus (Brodie Atrium) for dancing, singing, stand-up comedy, and an overall fabulous lunch hour featuring Special K, Vida Lamour, Orion Sbelt, and Skirt Browning.

Special thanks to Synonym Art Consultation for organizing this amazing lineup.

The term Two Spirit was gifted to Elder Myra Laramee in a dream. The gift of Two Spirit was introduced in 1990 at the third annual international LGBT Native American gathering in Winnipeg.

As part of Pride and Health 2024, this panel is being held on the land colonially called Winnipeg, where Two Spirit was gifted to Myra Laramee 34 years ago.

In honor of 2SLGBTQIA+ History Month Canada, please join the Centre for Human Rights Research and the Queer & Trans Graduate Student Group on Friday, Oct. 25th at the University of Manitoba Bannatyne Campus (Apotex – Room 071 in the basement) at 1:30pm. We are honored to host Two Spirit Elders Albert McLeod and Charlotte Nolin who will have a conversation about the history of Two Spirit and how that identity intersects with the health and healthcare needs of Two Spirit people. This panel, moderated by Community Health Sciences graduate student Danielle Hart, provides an opportunity for Two Spirit teachings to be shared, and centers the Two Spirit experience with healthcare, which is fraught with homophobia/transphobia in addition to racism.

If you can’t make it out in person, you can register to join us virtually here!

This event is funded by 2SLGBTQIA+ History Month Canada, the University of Manitoba Office of Equity Transformation.

The CHRR is pleased to support the 2SLGBTQ+ Histories Series at the University of Manitoba. Please join us on Friday, October 11, 2024 at 2:30pm for a lecture with Dr. Tom Hooper, Department of Equity Studies, York University who will be speaking on “Resisting Anti-Queer and Anti-Trans Hate: Lessons from 1970s Toronto”

In January 1978 anti-Queer and anti-Trans activist Anita Bryant brought her “Save Our Children” campaign to Toronto. The previous year Bryant had organized against a Miami-Dade, Florida ordinance that protected against discrimination based on sexual orientation. Bryant’s central argument was that this ordinance protected Queer and Trans people from discrimination in employment, including teachers and others who worked with children. The campaign to define Queer and Trans people as a threat to children worked, the Miami-Dade ordinance was repealed. Bryant was emboldened and embarked on a cross-continent campaign that also included a brief time Canada. Queer and Trans communities resisted these campaigns with various tactics. In this presentation I argue that studying our communities’ resistance to Anita Bryant could be useful as our communities rally to resist anti-Queer and anti-Trans hate today.

Watch a recording of the lecture here.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

This event is presented by the 2SLGBTQ+ Histories Series.We are thankful to the following units at the University of Manitoba for their support of Dr. Hooper’s lecture:

• Office of the Vice-Provost (Equity)
• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Graduate Studies
• Department of English, Film, Theatre, and Media
• Department of History
• Women’s and Gender Studies Program
• Institute for the Humanities
• The Centre for Human Rights Research
• UM Queer

In honour of the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit Plus People, the CHRR and Indigenous Engagement and Communications are honoured to host author and artist Dr. Sherry Farrell Racette for a kitchen table gathering. The event will begin with a light lunch at 12:00 noon in 543-544 UMSU University Centre, University of Manitoba – Fort Garry Campus, and presentation/beading from 12:30-2:00pm. 

Dr. Sherry Farrell Racette is an interdisciplinary scholar with an active arts and curatorial practice. Her work is grounded in story: stories of people, stories that objects tell, painting stories, telling stories and finding stories. She has done extensive work in archives and museum collections with an emphasis on retrieving women’s voices and recovering knowledge. Most recently she was cross-appointed to the Departments of Native Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Manitoba. Farrell Racette also had an extensive career in Saskatchewan education, working at SUNTEP Regina (GDI), First Nations University of Canada, and the University of Regina. She remains committed to experiential learning and Indigenous pedagogies.

This event is taking place in honour of the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People (MMIWG2S+). The commemoration of the National Day of Action on October 4th every year is owing to the decades-long activism of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC). We encourage those who have not already done so to learn more about NWAC, as well as the work of the National Inquiry into MMIWG2S+. You can learn more about the Inquiry’s Final Report and its 231 Calls to Justice at: https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/

In lieu of a registration fee, please consider making a donation to Indigenous organizations working with MMIWG2S+. 

In order to ensure we have enough food and beading supplies, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/GKAXjA01hV

For more information on getting to the University of Manitoba campus, please see: https://umanitoba.ca/about-um/our-campuses/getting-here. If you have any questions, please contact chrrman@umanitoba.ca.