Join us for a vigil honouring the memory of those whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. If you are interested in sharing your story/speaking at this event, please email Pride Central at pride@lusu.ca.

Join us for a workshop with Kris Carlson on Consent and Healthy Relationships -- lunch will be provided!

This painting workshop will be taught by Robyn Kakegamic of Kakegamic Abstracts and we will be painting rainbow drippy lips in a pop-art style. Please note, this event requires registration!

Dear Reader: A Queer Retrospective will be an open mic style event where members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community will read letters to their younger selves or love letters to the queer community. We will be holding a writing workshop in the afternoon (12-2) in which a member of The Artery will provide writing prompts, guidance and inspiration for your letters. Even if you cannot make it to the workshop, you are still welcome to participate in the evening event! You are also welcome to submit something to be read on your behalf or anonymously. 

Dear Reader: A Queer Retrospective will be an open mic style event where members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community will read letters to their younger selves or love letters to the queer community. We will be holding a writing workshop in the afternoon (12-2) in which a member of The Artery will provide writing prompts, guidance and inspiration for your letters. Even if you cannot make it to the workshop, you are still welcome to participate in the evening event! You are also welcome to submit something to be read on your behalf or anonymously. 

The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies Feminist Dialogues Speaker Series presents "Reproductive Justice Revisited:
The History Impacts of the Decriminalization of Abortion in Canada".

Presenter: Dr. Jula Hughes (Dean and Professor, Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, Lakehead University)

Summary: We all know what happened: the decriminalization of abortion in 1969 didn’t accomplish much and it wasn’t until the Supreme Court of Canada declared the Criminal Code regime unconstitutional in the 1988 decision in Morgentaler that things changed for the better. The talk seeks to complicate the story by considering the impacts of these key moments in the legal history of abortion in Canada as they emerge from the historical record. I argue that important insights for the present and future of reproductive justice in Canada can be gleaned from revisiting this history as regards barriers to access and how they might be overcome. 

Poster available in Pdf here.

Poster available in Pdf here.

Poster content (for accessibility):

• Event: Take Back The Night (speaking out and rising up against sexual violence)
• Date: October 25th, 2022 (Tuesday)
• Location: Agora (Lakehead University, Thunder Bay campus)
• Time: 5:30pm (Community Tabling) and 6:00pm (Event Starts)
• If you are interested in sharing your story or volunteering, please contact the Gender Equity Centre at gec@lusu.ca by October 18, 2022.

Course Description: In the course Representing Disability, students will be introduced to the field of critical disability studies and its scholarly connection to intersectional feminist research. As an introduction to the field, students will be given the language to discuss disability (in all of its complex embodiments) and critically analyze the ways in which disability has been represented and/or misrepresented in popular media, art and visual culture, advertisement, medicine, museums, fashion, and politics. Through a number of different artistic and visual culture examples, we will discuss historical and contemporary representations of disability – both visible and invisible. We will look at activist movements that address inequality as it relates to physical, cognitive, neuro, and mental diversity, as well as socio-economic factors and other social determinates of access and health. A variety of representational forms will be discussed, such as film, sculpture, painting, performance, memoir, photography, and students will be given the opportunity to produce a small scale creative activist project. From this course, students will acquire a larger understanding of critical disability studies as an academic field and will be given the tools to actively and creatively approach social justice activism in their own lives.

No background or knowledge in disability studies required, this course is open to all types of online learners!

In WOME 3213: Gender, Bodies, and Sexuality, students will be taught a broad range of topics related to gender normativity, performativity, gender-bending, identity and agency, queer politics, disability, and the destabilization and subversion of oppressive power. From an intersectional feminist lens, this course will critically discuss themes of embodiment, power, subjectivity, performativity, and drag performance as they relate to social, scientific, and political constructions of the body. We will explore feminist written and creative responses to the personal, social, and global ways that bodies exist in all of its variety. Through online discussions, we will explore the critical fields of transgender studies, disability studies, decolonization and critical race studies, critical animal studies, and sexuality studies to convey perspectives and transform belief systems that reflect, relate, and diversify our own and shared embodied experiences.

(Instructor is Dr. Miranda Niittynen)