This year’s Laurent Larouche Lecture at the University of Sudbury will explore deeper questions of how and why we respond to crises – acute and chronic, local and global. What does it mean to respond
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Homonationalism and Transnational Sexual Politics
The Sex Salon Speaker Series, University College, The University of Toronto Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies SEX SALON presents Homonationalism and Transnational Sexual Politics Chair: Evan Vipond Homonationalism, the Neo-Liberal Queer
Read moreNo Pride in Gentrification
Tuesday, 22 September 2015 Proposed LGBT-focused Sport and Recreation Centre The 519 Community Centre, in partnership with private donors and with the support of the City of Toronto, is pushing to turn Moss Park and
Read moreBook Launch for Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging.
Friday, October 16 8pm At Buddies In Bad Times Theatre 12 Alexander Street, Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1B4 Glad Day Bookshop presents the Book Launch for OmiSoore H. Dryden and Suzanne Lenon’s edited collection, Disrupting Queer
Read moreWE DEMAND AN APOLOGY FOR THE PURGE CAMPAIGNS AGAINST LESBIANS AND GAY MEN
Media Package from the WE DEMAND AN APOLOGY NETWORK Contents: The WE DEMAND AN APOLOGY NETWORK Statement Support Statements from those directly affected by the national security purge campaigns. Brenda Barnes Christine Frank Letourneau Paul-Emile
Read moreFrom the Archives — Different Rainbows, ‘Third World’ ‘Queer’ Liberation
— By Gary Kinsman I recently came across this book review I wrote in 2002 for Against the Current. While there are aspects I would change if I were writing it today it engages with
Read moreBuilding Self-Organization and Revolutionary Capacities
I recently came across this. I helped to write this as a member of the Sudbury NSG Branch at the time. I would no longer use the term socialist to describe radical social transformation given
Read moreTroubling Policing and ‘community policing.’
Troubling the Police as a Social Institution and the Problems with ‘Community Policing.’ By Gary Kinsman This is based on my notes for a brief presentation at a critical discussion of policing in Sudbury on
Read moreAnother Politics by Chris Dixon – Some Comments and Suggestions
Chris Dixon, Another Politics, Talking Across Today’s Transformative Social Movements Oakland, University of California Press, 2014 For information on how to order this book go to: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520279025 I write these brief reflections on this
Read moreFrom My Archives — Don’t Get Me to the Church on Time: Ending Social Discrimination Against Same-Sex and other Relationships
Summary of Brief to the Justice and Human Rights Committee Review on questions relating to Same-sex Marriage, 2002. Dr. Gary Kinsman, Sociology Department, Laurentian University. 1). The long history of systematic legal and social discrimination
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