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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion: Black Feminisms Across Borders
DESCRIPTION:Thursday, 8 October 2026 | 3:30 - 5:00 pm\n7th Floor Common Area, Kaneff Tower\nWith Professor Chantal Gibson (Simon Fraser University-Surrey) and Postdoctoral Fellow Denise Braz (York University).\nChaired by Professor Johanne Jean-Pierre (York University).\nThis roundtable discussion is part of Robarts’ “Welcome Day” series of events.\nAll are welcome!\nTo register, please email robarts@yorku.ca\n \n\n \nDenise Braz is an Afro-Brazilian scholar whose research focuses on race, gender, territory, memory, and Black political struggles across Latin America and the African Diaspora. She holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin, United States, and a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her research examines Black women’s political practices, Black Geographies, Black Ethnography, Black social movements, and the ways in which memory and territory shape Black struggles for survival and political transformation. Her work develops the concept of quilombistas to theorize how Black women carry, recreate, and transform political practices historically associated with the quilombo across territories and generations. As a postdoctoral researcher at York University, she examines how these forms of Black women’s political action can challenge dominant understandings of democracy and contribute to reimagining democracy from the experiences, methos, and knowledge produced by Black women. Her broader research interests include Black feminism, public policy, aging, racial democracy, and counter-colonial thought.\nChantal Gibson is an award-winning writer-artist-educator living on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. Working in the overlap between literary and visual art, her body of work confronts colonialism head-on, reimagining the voices silenced in the spaces and omissions left by cultural and institutional erasure.\nA self-styled ‘Historical In(ter)ventionist,’ Gibson’s altered texts, mixed media installations and graphic poetry bring a critical-care lens to the historical representation of Black womanhood across cultural media. Her acclaimed poetry collections How She Read (Caitlin 2019) and with/holding (Caitlin 2021) appear on curriculum reading lists across the country. Her visual art has been exhibited widely across Canada—including the ROM, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Confederation Gallery PEI, the MacKenzie Art Gallery, the Vancouver Museum of Anthropology, and the Senate of Canada.\nA 3M National Teaching Fellow, Gibson teaches in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at SFU and serves as the Faculty Advisor for Equity, Community and Care.\nJohanne Jean-Pierre is an Associate Professor who conducts research projects in the fields of education and child and youth studies, particularly with Black Canadian, Francophone minority, and immigrant communities. She currently works on projects pertaining to intergenerational storytelling, first-generation students’ pathways, and youth outreach through arts, specifically animated films. She is a member of the Empowering Next Generation Researchers in Perinatal and Child Health (ENRICH) Network.\n \n\n \n\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/research/robarts/events/black-feminisms-across-borders/
LOCATION:7th Floor Lounge, Kaneff Tower
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