Love and Liberation: Blueprints for a BIPOC Future with Keynote Robyn Maynard

Love and Liberation: Blueprints for a BIPOC Future with Keynote Robyn Maynard   

Saturday, May 1 | 12pm-7pm 

Love and Liberation is a series of workshops and discussions that centre BIPOC student experiences as we develop concrete strategies for change within and between our communities. The Conference will bring together community leaders, activists, and those engaged in practices of liberation who will invite BIPOC students to deconstruct current realities while providing tools and resources for building an anti-racist future.  

Participants will have the opportunity to choose from 10 interactive online dialogues that explore various themes including cultivating food justice, navigating racialized trauma, building Black and Indigenous solidarity, celebrating Black love, engaging in transformative justice and more.    

Following the workshops, we welcome participants to engage in a wellness session led by anti-racist educator Selam Debs, who will guide us in a practice to embody movement and center our well-being as we engage in this work of decolonization.  

Keynote | Looking Back to Look Forward: Beyond Police and Policing with Robyn Maynard   

Robyn Maynard will speak about research from her award-winning book Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present, tracing the legacy of racialized and gendered surveillance and punishment from the slave ships to the prison, the migrant detention centre and the classroom. She will forward a vision for Black feminist liberation and abolitionist futures. 

Event Schedule (EDT):   

·         12pm-5pm – Conference Sessions and Debrief/Wellness Session  

·         6pm-7pm – Keynote by Robyn Maynard  

Register here: Open to Guelph, Laurier and UTSC Students who self-identify as Black, Indigenous or a Person of Colour.

The first 100 students to register will receive a conference swag pack!   

Register here: Open to All Guelph, Laurier and UTSC students, staff and faculty; Offered in collaboration with Guelph Black Heritage Society.