March 08, 2024

Politics.PERIOD.

Event Date: March 08, 2024

Event Location: 225 Architecture 2 building, University of Manitoba Fort Garry Campus

Event Time: 10:30 - 12:30 pm

A Panel on Menstrual Equity & Justice in Honour of International Women’s Day

The Centre for Human Rights Research alongside the University of Manitoba Women’s Centre were thrilled to host an event in honour of International Women’s Day.

Politics. PERIOD. included tabling from student groups and community organizations including:

KLINIC
Sexuality Education Resource Centre (SERC)
West Central Women’s Resource Centre
Rainbow Pride Centre
Campus Bookstore
Queer & Trans Graduate Student Group
Healthy U.

Dr. Jen Gunter opened the event, sharing a few words from her new book “Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation,” followed by a panel discussion entitled Politics.PERIOD. Panelists included:

Christine Cyr, Associate Vice-President (Indigenous) – Students, Community and Cultural Integration, University of Manitoba
Jelynn Dela Cruz, MLA Radisson
Victoria Romero, Research Assistant “Period Poverty and Equity, On Campus and Beyond”
Dr. Lisa Smith, Coordinator of the Menstrual Cycle Research Group at Douglas College.

Group of individuals together in front of artwork — Politics.PERIOD 2024

We were thrilled to collaborate with the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Architecture. This event was made possible by funding, in part, from the University of Manitoba Strategic Initiatives Support Fund.

An Event in Honour of Red Dress Day with Cambria Harris

May 2, 2024

Cambria Harris

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On Thursday, May 2nd, 2024, Indigenous Engagement and Communications, the Department of Indigenous Studies, the Margaret Laurence Endowment Fund (Women’s and Gender Studies) and the Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba were honoured to host Cambria Harris for an event in honour of the National MMIWG2S+ Awareness Day, or Red Dress Day.

The name ‘Red Dress Day’ is inspired by the work of Métis artist Jamie Black who began The REDress Project in 2010 to raises awareness about the thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ Peoples. It began as an art installation that hung hundreds of empty red dresses in public spaces to remind people of the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women and girls lost because of gender-based violence.

Solidarities + Connections with Palestine

Event Date: February 28, 2024

Event Location: Virtual

Event Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM CST

On February 28, 2024 the Centre for Human Rights Research was honoured to welcome in conversation:

Leah Gazan, MP for Winnipeg Centre
Alex Neve, University of Ottawa
Harold Shuster, Independent Jewish Voices — Winnipeg
Youcef Soufi, PhD, University of Toronto
Ethel Tungohan, PhD, York University

Resources

Read CHRR’s blog on Solidarities + Connections: https://chrr.info/solidarities-connections-with-palestine/

Miss the webinar? Check out our podcast of the conversation: https://chrr.info/resource/solidarities-connections-with-palestine-a-podcast/

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May 02, 2024

An Event in Honour of Red Dress Day with Cambria Harris

Event Date: May 02, 2024

Event Location: 108 St. John's College, University of Manitoba

Event Time: 12:30 pm

Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) provides information on the significance of National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ Peoples, or Red Dress Day. Read more here!

The event was free and open to the public and all members of the UM Community. For information on getting to the University of Manitoba, click here! Lunch was provided by Daily Bread Cafe, made possible by the financial support of the Margaret Laurence Endowment Fund.

In lieu of a registration fee, please consider donating to an Indigenous-led organization working with MMIWG2S+.

Resources

Watch a recording of Cambria Harris’s lecture.

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Care Activism in Canada: Migrant Domestic Workers, Dissident Friendships and Decolonial Care

March 19, 2024

Dr. Ethel Tungohan and Diwa Marcelino

Dr. Ethel Tungohan in conversation with Diwa Marcelino, Migrante Manitoba

In collaboration with the Global College – University of Winnipeg, the Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) at the University of Manitoba hosted Dr. Ethel Tungohan (York University) for a seminar titled Care Activism in Canada: Migrant Domestic Workers, Dissident Friendships and Decolonial Care. Dr. Tungohan was in conversation with Migrante Manitoba representative and community organizer Diwa Marcelino.

Ethel Tungohan is a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism and an Associate Professor of Politics at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her book, “Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Communities of Care, and Movement Building,”, won the National Women’s Studies Association First Book Prize. Her research looks at social movements, immigration policy, social and public policy, and Canadian and comparative politics.

Diwa Marcelino is a community organizer with Migrante Manitoba, a grassroots organization advancing the rights and welfare of overseas Filipinos within the framework of peoples’ struggle for democracy, justice & peace in the Philippines. Migrante Manitoba is a founding member of Health Care for All Manitoba, an alliance advocating for expanded public health care coverage to include all residents of Manitoba regardless of status. During the Freedom Convoy occupations in 2022, he became the national project manager for the Community Solidarity Project, a civil society response to rise of the politics of division and hate. He is also a founding member of Community Solidarity Manitoba. He is also the vice-chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a grassroots organization challenging corporate power and advocating for people, the planet and our democracy. He is also a steering committee member of KAIROS, an ecumenical organization promoting ecological justice and human rights.

This seminar is a part of our annual Critical Conversations seminar series. This year, the seminar series focused on the CHRR’s research theme Reproductive and Bodily Justice and explored histories of the body, reproduction, and care in Canada and beyond.

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"The Crying Need For Indian Foster Homes": Indigenous Women Challenge State Child Welfare Practices With Sarah Nickel, PhD.

March 12, 2024

Dr. Sarah Nickel

Image from 1980 of the Indigenous Child Caravan

The Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) hosted a seminar titled “The crying need for Indian foster homes”: Indigenous Women Challenge State Child Welfare Practices with Dr. Sarah Nickel (UAlberta) on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at 2:30 pm in 543-544 UMSU University Centre.

Sarah Nickel is Tk’emlúpsemc, French Canadian, and Ukrainian, and an associate professor of History at the University of Alberta. Her work focuses on twentieth century Indigenous politics and the gendered nature of political work drawing on community- engaged methodologies. Her first book, Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs was published in 2019 with UBC Press and won the Canadian Historical Association’s prize for Best Book in Indigenous History in 2020. Sarah’s second monograph, Active Women: Indigenous Women’s Social and Political Work in Kanata’s West will be published with the University of Toronto Press in late 2024.

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February 05, 2024

Methods + Mediums: A Workshop on Open Access Publishing and Open Scholarship

Event Date: February 05, 2024

Event Location: 307 Tier Building, University of Manitoba

Event Time: 2:30 – 4:00pm

CHRR’s Methods + Mediums in Human Rights Workshop Series returns! Join the CHRR to learn about the benefits and logistics involved in publishing open access, and the world of open scholarship. We look forward to welcoming, and learning from:

What is Open Scholarship and what does it mean to publish open access? with Victoria Ho, University of Manitoba Libraries and John Bryans, University of Manitoba Libraries
What do publishers look for in Open Access work? with David Larsen, University of Manitoba Press.

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January 26, 2024

Period Poverty and Equity: Button Making Workshop

Event Date: January 26, 2024

Event Location: 108 St. John’s College, University of Manitoba

Time: 2:00-5:00pm

“The Period Poverty and Equity, On Campus and Beyond” research team and the Centre for Human Rights Research (University of Manitoba) welcomed more than 30 community members to a Button-making Workshop for menstrual justice.

The workshop featured Ariel Gordon (she/her), a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer, editor, and enthusiast. Ariel is the co-editor, with Rosanna Deerchild and Tanis MacDonald, of the anthology GUSH: menstrual manifestos for our age (Fontenac House, 2018). In GUSH, more than 100 women and nonbinary writers from Canada and around the world take apart the bloody instruction of menstruation: its cultures, its lessons, its equipment, and its lexicon. Co-edited byRosanna Deerchild, Ariel Gordon, and Tanis MacDonald, GUSH offers menstrual manifestos for our time that question the cultural value and social language of monthly blood loss, with rage, humour, ferocity, and grief, and propose that the ‘menstrual moment’ is as individualized, subjective, personal, political, and vital as the ‘feminist click’. With work from emerging and established writers in poetry, cartoons, flash fiction, personal essays, lyric confessions, and experimental forms, this anthology features the voices of Indigenous writers, writers of colour, writers with disabilities, rural writers and urban writers, representing four generations of menstruators: writers who call down their bloodiest muses. Including work by Yvette Nolan, Mini Aodla Freeman, Sheri-D Wilson, Sonnet L’Abbe, Pamela Mordecai, Susan Holbrook, and many more.

Gush: Menstrual manifestos for our times book cover

Ariel, alongside ArtsJunktion, supported participants as they created buttons for menstrual justice.

Resources

Learn more about the event from this article by Kyra Campbell in The Manitoban: https://themanitoban.com/2024/01/shortfalls-in-menstrual-equity-at-u-of-m-audit-reveals/46680/

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Innocents Behind Bars: Systemic Racism and Wrongful Convictions

November 28, 2023

Kara Sievewright

This large image (primarily in blues and orange) features text and graphics capturing a panel event “Innocents Behind Bars: Systemic Racism and Wrongful Convictions” from November 2023. There are prison bars and the flow of rivers (found in both Winnipeg and Chicago) and the beginning of vegetation. There are images of the speakers, including the Elder who opened the event and the facilitator. The and text on the image (some of which are quotes and others paraphrases) highlighting how the justice systems perpetuate injustice and systemic racism, and encourages the audience to challenge these systems of oppression.

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Centre for Human Rights Research (University of Manitoba), and the Faculty of Law (University of Manitoba) co-organized and sponsored a public event on November 28, 2023 “Innocents Behind Bars: Systemic Racism and Wrongful Convictions.” There were over 125 people in attendance, as well as 25 people joining online.

The panel brought together leaders of the police torture justice/reparations movement in Chicago, into conversation with those working on demanding justice for Indigenous and racialized peoples wrongly imprisoned here in Canada.This event is inspired by the July 2023 release of Allan Woodhouse and Brian Anderson who were wrongfully imprisoned for a murder they did not commit and spent almost fifty years fighting to clear their names. Brian Anderson and members of his family were in attendance and Allan Woodhouse was able to join virtually.

Artist Kara Sievewright, Maker of Nets captured highlights of the event with a graphic recording.

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