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“When Things Fall Apart: Conflict, Crisis, & Collective Healing in Activist Movements” with Kai Cheng Thom
DATE
Monday March 21, 2022
TIME
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
The Social Justice Institute Graduate Student Association Presents:
Kai Cheng Thom
“When Things Fall Apart: Conflict, Crisis, & Collective Healing in Activist Movements”
WHEN & WHERE March 21, 5:00-6:30pm Green Collage, The University of British Columbia
All events are free and open to the public.
In this time of intense global crisis, political unrest, and social polarization, for many activists and progressives, the greatest devastation has come from within our own communities: Moments in which our shared values have seemed to fail us. Conflicts that tear our relationships apart. The collapse of social networks that we relied upon to give us strength and meaning. In the midst of betrayal and despair, what can we do? How can Transformative Justice and the politics of love lead us back into right relationship with ourselves, others, and the work of making change? Join Kai Cheng Thom, mediator and healer, for an embodied dialogue on choosing love at the end of the world.
UBC’s Social Justice Institute’s Graduate Student Association invites you to a panel series on Abolition and Transformative Justice. This series was created to engage with the broader UBC community around anti-Black racism following recent instances of racial profiling on campus, and to consider how UBC must divest from policing and surveillance practices that are rooted in systemic racism. We hope that through this free speaker panel, reading group, and creative dialogue series, we can invite UBC students and faculty as well as communities from so-called Vancouver to learn about Abolition and bring these conversations into our communities so that we can end racial profiling on campus for good.
The event series is free and intends to help the UBC community-at-large gain tools to combat anti-Black racism on campus as we reflect on Canada’s histories of colonialism, surveillance, policing, and incarceration.
Accessibility: ASL interpretation has been booked for this online event, and a transcript can be made available. Please email ubcsocialjusticegsa@gmail.com for more info
Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, and community healer in Toronto. She is the author of the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir Metonymy Press), the poetry collection a place called No Homeland (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in 2018), and the children’s picture book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, illustrated by Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li. Her latest book is the essay collection I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes at the End of the World (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in 2020). Kai Cheng won the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers in 2017.
