Transnational Solidarities: Forging Abolitionist Communities
Room 12-199 Boardroom (12th floor)
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University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West
Toronto ON M5S 1V6
Canada
The Social Justice Education Departmental Student Association (SJE DSA) warmly invites you to the SJE DSA 鈥淐olloquium Series 2026鈥, focused on the theme 鈥淭ransnational Solidarities: Forging Abolitionist Communities.鈥
This colloquium series hopes to foster an opportunity for scholars, students, and community members to gather, connect, and explore how individuals and communities navigate, and resist the shifting landscapes of migration, belonging, and carcerality across communities. In a moment marked by rising xenophobia, anti-immigration sentiments, and increasingly exclusionary political rhetoric around race, gender, sexuality, and migration this gathering ask, 鈥渉ow can we foster meaningful solidarities across borders, identities, communities, and institutions?鈥
Join us as we engage the intersections of queer theory, feminisms, migration, incarceration, and education, while collectively creating space to share, imagine, and express visions of transnational solidarity.
These sessions are all about showing up, having good conversations, and creating together!
Session 1 鈥 Gender and Sexuality
Date and Time: Thursday, January 29, 2026 / 6:30PM-8:30PM
Location: OISE Rm 12-199 (12th floor Boardroom) & Zoom
This session invites participants to express themselves creatively. Art supplies will be provided, or you are welcome to bring your own. Virtual participants are welcome to doodle along! Food and refreshments will be provided for in-person attendees.
Please contact oisesjedsa@studentorg.utoronto.ca if you have any questions.
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About the Speakers
Lore/tta LeMaster
Dr. Lore/tta LeMaster (she/they) is recently appointed Associate Professor of Queer Studies in the Department of Social Justice Education at OISE. Her research interests include: (1) trans and queer labor politics, (2) performance pedagogy, and (3) rhetorical constructions of cultural monstrosity. Dr. LeMaster has published 27 journal articles, 30 forum essays in academic journals, and 19 book chapters in addition to co-editing the award-winning Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography (Routledge, 2020) and authoring Pedagogies of the Enfleshed: Critical Communication Pedagogy, Otherwise (Bloomsbury, 2025). Dr. LeMaster in turn devotes significant time and energy to mentoring graduate students and junior faculty in all stages of academic publishing, including preparing initial submissions, navigating the peer review process, and developing effective revision strategies. Dr. LeMaster serves in numerous editorial capacities including as concurrent Editor-in-Chief of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking and as Interim Editor of Women鈥檚 Studies in Communication in addition to serving on editorial boards, as a consulting editor, and as an advisory board member for multiple academic journals.
Ozzy (Narisa) Vickers
Ozzy (Narisa) Vickers (they/them) is a PhD student in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, specializing in 2SLGBTQI+ and BIPOC histories. Their work is driven by a commitment to equity, aiming to contribute to queer and trans teaching and research. They have extensively explored queer and trans BIPOC educational practices and culture, with a deep understanding of queer, critical trans, critical race, decolonial, and Black feminist theory, which continuously inform their practices.
