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Nilima Rai

Nilima Rai

Nilima Rai

PhD Student

Gender Studies

Supervisor: Reena Kukreja
Research interests: The migration of people has remained a permanent and integral part of societies and she is intrigued by this complex and multidimensional phenomenon, with changing forms and patterns over time. So, her areas of interest for both academic and professional career is in the with the issues of migration, marriage-migration, social justice, women's rights, inclusion, etc. Similarly, with her prior academic and research experiences she is also interested to work on the cross-cutting issues of conflict, disaster, and gender.

Nilima Rai is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Gender Studies, at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She holds a Master's degree in Development Studies: gender, human rights, and conflict studies from Social Justice Perspectives from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University,  the Netherlands. She also completed a Master's in Conflict, Peace, and Development Studies from Tribhuvan University, Nepal and University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka.

Melanie Murdock

Melanie Murdock

Melanie Murdock

PhD Student

Gender Studies

Supervisor: Karen Lawford
Research interests: Midwifery, reproductive health care and childbearing, reproductive rights, gender and social justice, queer theory, feminist theory

I am passionate about exploring how gender and sexual diversity impact the provision of reproductive health care and the freedom to exercise reproductive rights. With a Bachelor of Health Sciences in Midwifery and a Masters of Gender and Social Justice, my previous research examined how midwives provide inclusive care to 2SLGBTQIA+ families. I am looking forward to continuing such research as a PhD student here at Queen's!

[CLOSED] Teaching opportunities in Gender Studies, Fall 2023

The Department of Gender Studies invites applications from suitably qualified candidates interested in teaching the course listed below.

  • GNDS 120-002/3.0 Women, Gender, Difference (Fall 2023)

Applications should be submitted to https://redcap.link/gndsfall2023 by 4:30 pm EST on Thursday, June 15, 2023.

Position posting for Teaching Fellows (current graduate students at Queen's University)

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Employment, Teaching, and Research opportunities

trick not telos:

Date

Friday March 31, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Location

Agnes Etherington Art Centre
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Come Through! Come Out!

Trick Not Telos:  On Repetition, Revision, Bibliography, Translation, and Bookmaking with Liz Ikiriko, Katherine McKittrick and Kristin Moriah

Where: Etherington House, 36 University Avenue, Queen’s University

Why: Join us for a celebration of the limited-edition boxset, Trick Not Telos, designed and curated by Cristian Ordóñez, Liz Ikiriko, and Katherine McKittrick and printed by The Gas Company. The project began as a fast and modest reimagining of McKittrick’s “Plantation Futures,” and unravelled into five revised texts in EN and FR (translated by Lyse Hébert), that were reimagined as sites of careful reading and re-reading.

Please join us for a conversation about bookmaking and bibliography, black studies and repetition, translation and revision.

Light snacks and drinks will be in the house!

Register here: bit.ly/trick-not-telos

Madan Sara: Screening + Discussion

Date

Thursday March 30, 2023
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location

The Screening Room, 120 Princess Street, Kingston

MADAN SARA: Screening and Meet the Director!

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This event is free. Please register:>> bit.ly/madan-sara
 

Film screening at 3pm, then discussion at 4pm!

Panel discussion will be with with director Etant Dupain; PhD candidate (Toronto Metropolitan University), researcher and dance artist Emilie Jabouin; researcher, artist and women’s right activist Nadine Mondestin, and Dr. Bianca Beauchemin postdoctoral fellow (Queen’s University) and scholar of Black diasporic feminisms and the Haitian Revolution.

The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) demonstrated to the world the freedom-making possibilities of the Black Radical Tradition, and in turn, galvanized the entire Black diaspora to fight against colonialism and enslavement.

However, contemporary discourses of Haiti do not echo these past exploits, as dominant narratives of Haiti persistently obscure the self-determination and resilience of everyday Haitian peoples.

Countering these deceptive mainstream narratives, Etant Dupain’s documentary film Madan Sara highlights the strength and discipline of Haitian market women who continuously fight not only for their families, but also for their nation writ large.

About the Participants:

 

Etant

Etant Dupain is a journalist, filmmaker, and community organizer. For over a decade, he has worked as a producer on documentaries and for international news media outlets including Al Jazeera, TeleSur, BBC, CNN, Netflix, PBS, and Vice. Etant founded an alternative media project in Haiti to enable citizen journalists to provide access to information in Haitian Creole for and about internally-displaced people, aid accountability, and politics. Now, moved by the strength of his mother and the women known as the Madan Sara who make Haiti’s economy run, he’s making his first personal film.  
Emilie

Emilie Jabouin (Zila for stage), is a curious intuitive dance artist and researcher who uses her story-telling abilities for collective liberation, and engages in performance and research projects that focus on social transformation, reparations and collective healing. Emilie's research focuses on black women's histories and everyday lives, while her dancing, drumming and singing influenced from Kilti Ayisyèn [Haitian folk culture] are meant to share these stories for people to feel free and transcend this current world. Her creative consulting through her company, Emirj [Emerge] Projects (www.emirj.ca) guides creatives to manifest the full potential of their creativity.  

 

 

Nadine

Nadine Mondestin is translator, editor and independent scholar in the performing arts, humanities, and social sciences. Her primary focus is African diasporic expressive cultures (in particular dance and movement) and their intersections with the knowledge commons, social justice, and heterodox economics. https://tap.bio/@proteanintl 
Bianca

Dr. Bianca Beauchemin is the 2022-2023 recipient of the postdoctoral fellowship in Black Feminist Thought at Queen’s University. She was also awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral fellowship while completing her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Gender Studies. After this fellowship year, she will begin her appointment as an Assistant Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University. She has published a book review of Brittney C. Cooper’s Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. In her doctoral manuscript Arousing Freedoms: Re-Imagining the Haitian Revolution through Sensuous Marronage, she re-narrates the Haitian Revolution through Black feminist and Black queer epistemologies and methodologies. Disrupting the authority of the colonial archive and of prevalent masculinist framings of insurgency discourses, she explores the ways in which embodiment, labor, sensuousness, spirituality, marronage, resistance and alternative sexualities and genders, re-imagine the edicts of freedom and Black liberation.  

 

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