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Dorothy E. Smith 1926 – 2022
Dorothy E. Smith, the renowned sociological thinker, feminist critic, teacher, and mentor at the centre of a large international network of scholarship, died in the early hours of Friday, June 3 after a fall the
Read moreLets celebrate Pride by abolishing the Police! It’s the only way our communities can gain the liberation they deserve, By Gary Kinsman in ricochet
https://ricochet.media/en/3862/lets-celebrate-pride-by-abolishing-the-police
Read moreWhen is ending a blood ban not ending a blood ban? With Dr. OmiSoore Dryden and Christopher Karas. Introduced and moderated by Gary Kinsman
Saturday June 11, 2022, 2pm EDT On-Line Discussion: https://fb.me/e/3qgYiacds With Dr. OmiSoore Dryden and Christopher Karas. Introduced and moderated by Gary Kinsman Dr. OmiSoore Dryden, a Black queer femme, has conducted research on anti-Black racism/homophobia/transphobia
Read moreFragments of Memories/Learnings of/from Philip Corrigan (1942-2021)
By Gary Kinsman I did my graduate work at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) in Toronto. There were many influences on me there including Mary O’Brien, Ruth Roach Peason, and especially Dorothy
Read moreGary Kinsman speaking at Scholars Strike Canada, March 21, 2022.
Scholar Strike Canada 2022: Defund, Demilitarize and Abolish Police, Prisons, and All Forms of Carcerality will feature 12 teach-ins over March 21-22. Monday, March 21, 2022 12:00PM – 1:45PM EST https://www.scholarstrikecanada.ca/scholarstrike-2022-teachins Opening Teach-in “This Demands
Read moreNo Pride in Policing Coalition Submission to the House of Commons Justice Committee calling for the repeal of PCEPA and the de-criminalization of sex work.
Feb. 15, 2022. SUBMISSION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: REVIEW OF THE PROTECTION OF COMMUNITIES AND EXPLOITED PERSONS ACT Gary Kinsman and Jamie Magnusson, for the No Pride in
Read moreGary Kinsman, “No Return to ‘Normal’ LGBT Politics!” at:
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/no-return-to-normal-lgbt-politics
Read more“Fuck You 52!”: Some Notes Towards a Radical History of Toronto Pride 1981
By Gary Kinsman I am writing this on Indigenous land in the days after the graves of 215 Indigenous children were uncovered at the former Kamloops Indian Residential (Death Camp) School in BC. ‘Canada’ is
Read more“Beyond Apologies, Rights, and the Police: Against the Neoliberal Queer in Pandemic Times” by Gary Kinsman
in the session on “Against Neoliberal Conceptions of Bodies,” at the Great Transition, 2021, “Building Utopias,” Sunday, May 23, 9:30am. https://thegreattransition.net/ Beyond Apologies, Rights, and the Police: Against the Neoliberal Queer in Pandemic Times Gary
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