Link to Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-a-police-free-uoft-speaker-series-tickets-246659383857
Black, Indigenous, Mad/Disabled, and 2SLGBTQIA+ folks have been calling attention to police brutality and systemic racism in carceral systems for decades. This speaker series aims to be a set of initial community building events and political education sessions that will bring students, faculty, and community members together to facilitate discussion and critically consider the role of policing on campus, as well as trauma-informed alternatives. In doing so, we hope to create a network of people and groups who are interested in working towards a police-free UofT campus and provide space not only for students to learn from academics and community members, but also engage in critical dialogue with one another.
Professor Beverly Bain is a Black queer feminist, antiracism, anti-capitalist scholar. She teaches in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga Campus. She currently teaches and researches in the area of Caribbean and Black diasporic sexualities, Black and Caribbean queer feminist organizing, sexual assault and violence against women, gender, colonialism, transnationalism and anti-capitalism. Bain is currently working on a series of essays on Black radical feminist queer organizing in Toronto from the 80’s to the present. As an educator in the University classroom, Bain is committed to an “engaged pedagogical” approach to learning that encourages students to think critically, creatively and reflexively about their current context and the world.
