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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">VENUE
CHANGE - Due to the overwhelming interest in
attending Leanne's talk and our wish not to turn
anyone away, we are moving the location to the
OISE Auditorium, Ground Floor, Accessible Space,
252 Bloor Street West (St. George and Bloor).
ASL will be provided.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We
would appreciate your assistance in spreading
the word that the venue has been changed and
encourage attendance given we have changed the
location to accommodate more people.</span></b></p>
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style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Public
Event – International Women’s Day Lecture –
“Islands of Decolonial Love: Exploring Love on
Occupied Land” – Leanne Simpson</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none
windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">March 9 @ 6:00 pm</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> – <span
style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">8:00
pm</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Leanne
Betasamosake Simpson is “a gifted writer who
brings passion and commitment to her storytelling
and who has demonstrated an uncommon ability to
manage an impressive range of genres from
traditional storytelling to critical analysis,
from poetry to the spoken word, from literary and
social activism.” In 2014, Leanne was named the
inaugural RBC Charles Taylor Emerging writer by
Thomas King, and she was also nominated for a
National Magazine Award for her short story
“Treaties” published in Geist 90. In 2012, she won
Briarpatch Magazine’s Writing From the Margins
prize for short fiction. Leanne is the author of
three books; Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back, The
Gift Is in the Making and Islands of Decolonial
Love, and the editor of Lighting the Eighth Fire,
This Is An Honour Song (with Kiera Ladner) and The
Winter We Danced: Voice from the Past, the Future
and the Idle No More Movement (Kino-nda-niimi
collective). Leanne holds a PhD from the
University of Manitoba and has lectured at
universities across Canada. She is of Michi
Saagiig Nishnaabeg ancestry and a member of
Alderville First Nation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This
event is open to the public.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sponsors:
Women & Gender Studies Institute; WGSSU;
Principal’s Initiative Fund, New College; Adult
Education and Community Development Program;
Indigenous Education Network; Transformative
Learning Centre.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jo Saliba de
Chery</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Office
Assistant</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Women &
Gender Studies Institute (WGSI)<br>
40 Willcocks Street</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Wilson Hall,
New College</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">University of
Toronto</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Toronto, ON
M5S 1C6</span></p>
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href="tel:416-946-5800" value="+14169465800">416-946-5800</a></span></p>
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