In this addition to the Voices from the Margins of a Crisis series, Joseph Kalisa (Executive Director, OPROMAMER and Umulisa Rurangwa Nelly, Student University of Rwanda) examines the consequences of COVID-19 for individuals in Rwanda already facing stigma and discrimination for psychosocial disorders.
Monday, January 18, 2021 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ET
In this session, participants will learn about how white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and state violence have come to shape both gender-based violence and the gender-based violence sector in Canada. Join us as panelists discuss why violence against Black women and children must be understood within this broader context, and how this awareness is essential for informing accountability within the gender-based violence sector.
Register at: http://www.vawlearningnetwork.ca/knowledge-exchanges/ke10/index.html
“While some may see these two realities as being separate, they are not – activism and self-care are intersectional,” writes Dobijoki Emanuela, in the latest addition to the Voices from the Margins of a Crisis series.
The Learning Network invites you to the Virtual Forum, Looking Within: Anti-Black Racism and the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Sector in Canada. This Forum brings together the voices and insights of Black activists, advocates, academics, artists, and service providers from across Canada for a series of dialogues about complicity and accountability in the GBV sector on issues of anti-Black racism.
Through a series of virtual panel discussions, participants will be invited to “look within” the systems, organizational practices, and ideologies they take part in. Each session explores various dimensions of anti-Black racism, with discussions aimed at informing transformative, strengths-based, practical changes within the GBV sector.
Registration and details available at http://www.vawlearningnetwork.ca/knowledge-exchanges/ke10/index.html
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Academic and research partners are encouraged to attend Western Research’s Knowledge Exchange School, held virtually, with sessions on December 2, 9, and 16.
Attendees will learn about knowledge exchange, developing innovative and robust knowledge exchange plans for grants, writing a compelling background section, engaging policy-makers in research, measuring scholarly impact and sharing research using GIS and The Conversation.
Full session descriptions: https://www.uwo.ca/research/services/kex/KEx-School-2020-Overview.pdf
Registration (per session): https://www.uwo.ca/research/services/kex/knowledge_exchange_school.html
