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 The campaign to define Queer and Trans people as a threat to children worked, the Miami-Dade ordinance was repealed.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.

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

Resources

Resisting Anti-Queer and Anti-Trans Hate: Lessons from 1970s Toronto with Dr. Tom Hooper – Video Recording

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.

Resources

A Resource Guide on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and Gender Diverse People in Canada

On Thursday, October 24- Friday, October 25, 2024, the Queer & Trans Graduate Student Group and the Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba are thrilled to host Pride in Health 2024 — a two-day conference that seeks to provide a space for 2SLGBTQIA+ students and researchers to present their work.

Our Day 2 Agenda is available now (subject to change). Register now to join us at Pride in Health.

On Thursday, October 3rd, the Decolonizing Lens presents a film screening of Kanàtenhs — When the Pine Needles Fall – a film by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel.

The event will include a film screening and discussion of Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel’s award-winning documentary. Kanien’kehaka artist and activist Ellen Gabriel became the first Indigenous artist to win the Grand Prix of the Conseils des arts de Montréal for this work in April 2024. The film recounts the 1990 “Mohawk Crisis’ (the siege of Kanehsatà:ke) from the perspective of Indigenous women land defenders.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and CHRR Affiliates Dr. Niigaan Sinclair and Dr. Sean Carleton.

The event is co-sponsored by Decolonizing Lens, WAG-Qaumajuq, the Margaret Laurence Endowment Fund (Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Manitoba), the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, and the Centre for Human Rights Research.

Free and open to all. No registration is required.

Please join the University of Manitoba’s UNAI Hub for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 for its Last Drop Speakers’ Series. On October 21, 2024 at 11:30am, Dr. Donghoon Lee, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba will present on “Forecasting for Disaster Resilience and Food Security.”

Register now at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0s2qvfzGSl6iPvVMP9NOEg

For more on water sustainability issues including drinking water and sanitation, water governance, and international climate issues, check out previous speakers for the Last Drop at: https://www.youtube.com/@officeofsustainability/playlists

Join us for a special evening with Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel and Sean Carleton as they discuss their new book, When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance (Between the Lines). The event will be hosted by CHRR Research Affiliate Dr. Kiera Ladner.

There have been many things written about Canada’s violent siege of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke in the summer of 1990, but When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance is the first book from the perspective of Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, who was the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) spokesperson during the siege. When the Pine Needles Fall, written in a conversational style by Gabriel with historian Sean Carleton, offers an intimate look at Gabriel’s life leading up to the 1990 siege, her experiences as spokesperson for her community, and her work since then as an Indigenous land defender, human rights activist, and feminist leader. Gabriel’s hopes for a decolonial future make clear why protecting Indigenous homelands is vital not only for the survival of Indigenous peoples, but for all who live on this planet.

Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel is a Kanien’kehá:ka, Wakeniáhton (Turtle Clan), artist, documentarian, and Indigenous human rights and environmental rights activist living in Kanehsatà:ke Kanien’kehá:ka Homelands.

Sean Carleton is a settler historian and professor of history and Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty 1 Territory.

Host Kiera Ladner is the Canada Research Chair in Miyo We’citowin, Indigenous Governance & Digital Sovereignties and a Distinguished Professor of Indigenous Politics and Canadian Politics at the University of Manitoba.

No registration is necessary. This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream.

Co-presented by Between the Lines, the Centre for Human Rights Research, and the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Resources

An Evening with Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel & Sean Carleton (When the Pine Needles Fall) – Video Recording

Join the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture and the Centre for Human Rights Research on Friday, October 4th for a creative writing workshop exploring traditional stories with Anishinaabe-Ukrainian writer Patty Krawec.

Traditional stories contain a wealth of information about how to relate to each other and the world around us, and they evolve over time to address the needs of particular communities or times. In this creative writing workshop participants will take a traditional story from their own community and rewrite it in part or in whole to highlight its relevance to contemporary needs. We will have time for talking about our traditional stories and the issues that concern us, writing, and then sharing what we’ve come up with.

Participants are asked to bring something to write with (ex. a notebook or a computer) and a story they are familiar with. 

Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and co-hosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast. She is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation which challenges settlers to pay their rent for living on Indigenous land and then disburses those funds to Indigenous people, meeting immediate survival needs as well as supporting the organizing and community building needed to address the structural issues that create those needs. 

To ensure we have enough space, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/zS7E9z6uib.

For 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.

In collaboration with the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, please join us on Friday, October 4th for a discussion with Anishinaabe-Ukrainian writer Patty Krawec on her book, Becoming Kin.

Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and co-hosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast. She is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation which challenges settlers to pay their rent for living on Indigenous land and then disburses those funds to Indigenous people, meeting immediate survival needs as well as supporting the organizing and community building needed to address the structural issues that create those needs. With a background in social work, Patty focused on supporting victims of sexual and gendered violence as well as child abuse. She is a strong believer in the power of collective organizing, and was an active union member throughout her career as a social worker. 

Her current work and writing focuses on how Anishinaabe belonging and thought can inform faith and social justice practices and has been published in Sojourners, Rampant Magazine, Midnight Sun, Yellowhead Institute, Indiginews, Religion News Service, and Broadview. Her first book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future was published in 2022 by Broadleaf Books. Her second book about the ways that subaltern writing and storytelling can help us reimagine that future will be published in the fall of 2025. She lives on Twitter as @gindaanis and you can find her online at daanis.ca 

No registration is necessary.

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.

Resources

Becoming Kin: A Discussion with Patty Krawec – Video Recording

On Thursday, October 24- Friday, October 25, 2024, the Queer & Trans Graduate Student Group and the Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba are thrilled to host Pride in Health 2024 — a two-day conference that seeks to provide a space for 2SLGBTQIA+ students and researchers to present their work.

Our Day 1 Agenda is now available (subject to change), Register now to join us at Pride in Health.

On Tuesday, August 27th and Wednesday, August 28th, 2024, the Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba and the Winnipeg School Division will welcome elementary, middle, and secondary educators to the “Putting the Knowing and Teaching of Canada’s Past in the Hot Seat” workshop. 

The free two-day workshop, held at the University of Manitoba and Wolseley School, will facilitate discussions of how we might best teach and learn Canadian history in a way that acknowledges Indigenous histories and ongoing histories of colonialism. This will include presentations from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and scholar of education, curriculum, and pedagogy, Dr. Lindsay Gibson.

Programs for each day of the workshop will be emailed closer to the dates.

Registration is now closed.

This workshop is made possible by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada: Knowledge Synthesis Grant. For more information on the project, check out our web page.