Wednesday, November 9, 2016
First Floor Lobby, Education Building: 3700 McTavish Street
Time: 3:15- 4:15pm
Come and meet the guest editors and authors.
Opening and welcome: Paige Isaac, First Peoples’ House and Member of the Provost’s Task Force on Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education
Recognizing the need for decolonizing perspectives and approaches, the guest editors of this Special Issue, Kirsten Lindquist, Kari-Dawn Wuttunee and Sarah Flicker, offer a boundary breaking collection. Alongside the fact that it is one of the first ever collections on Indigenous girlhoods, the Special Section is unique in several other ways. First of all, it is guest edited by an editorial team that includes two Indigenous young women, Kirsten and Kari-Dawn, both members of the National Indigenous Young Women’s Council (NIYWC), and as such, draws on the strength of an organization of Indigenous young women. It also highlights the significance of community alliances as represented by the contributions of Sarah of York University who has been working with Indigenous young people in Canada for more than a decade. The collection includes submissions on Indigenous girlhoods in Canada, South Africa and Mexico, acknowledging solidarity amongst Indigenous peoples globally, as recognized for example in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Copies of the journal will be available for purchase.
Donations will be collected for the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal.
For more information, contact Claudia Mitchell, James McGill Professor: claudia.mitchell@mcgill.ca or visit www.networks4change.ca
