Creating Space: Precarious Status Women Leading Local Pandemic Responses
Join us for a virtual symposium celebrating the creative and collaborative work of Creating Space:聽 Precarious Status Women Leading Local Pandemic Responses. This two-year collaboration was led by 14 community partner organizations with our Artistic Manager and three co-PIs, and was supported by two聽 project managers, eight 91亚色 researchers, a team of students and interns, and six organized research聽units (ORUs) at 91亚色.
The project was designed to support and augment the work of community organizations representing聽 women who live with insecure citizenship and/or job status, speci铿乧ally female temporary foreign聽 workers, asylum seekers, Indigenous and racialized persons, undocumented frontline workers and聽 disabled persons. Together, we explored ways to envision and enact economic, physical, and community聽 well-being; inform inclusive policies; and address systemic challenges such as gender-based violence and labour rights.
The symposium will feature highlights of the Creating Space Digital Archive, a diverse collection of聽artistic audio and visual expressions of the project鈥檚 examination of the question, 鈥淗ow do we build聽 collective power in the context of assigned precariousness during COVID-19?" Narratives and change聽 strategies are expressed in audio-recordings with animation, dance workshop and performance, original聽 playscript and theatrical production, graphic visualization, music video, documentation of a Carnival, and visual art.
Together, we will celebrate collective achievements, share policy consultation outcomes, and showcase experiences and visions for just responses and transformation.
If you have any questions, please email us at creatingspace@yorku.ca.
Contributing Community Organizations聽
ACORN Canada
BC Employment Standards Coalition
Black Nurses Group
Canadian Caribbean Art Stars Inc.
Feminist Alliance for International Action Canada
KasheDance
Migrant Resource Centre Canada
Nail Salon Workers Project, Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre
PEACH
PerSIStence Theatre
Work Safe Twerk Safe
Participating Community Organizations聽
Global Legal Action Network
Indigenous Friendship Association
Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres
Co-Directors
Angele Alook (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies)
Elaine Coburn (Director, Centre for Feminist Research; International Studies at Glendon College)
Deborah McGregor (former Director, Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages; Canada Research Chair in聽 Indigenous Environmental Justice;聽 Faculty of Environmental and Urban聽 Change/Osgoode Hall Law School)
Gertrude Mianda (former Director, Harriet Tubman Institute; Gender and Women's Studies at Glendon College)
Project Managers
Myrtle Sodhi, Artistic Research Manager
Ti铿any Pollock, Finance Manager
Hajer Mirwali, Communications Manager
Co-Principal Investigators
Luann Good Gingrich (former Director, Global Labour Research Centre; Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies)
Heidi Matthews (former co-Director, Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security;聽 Osgoode Hall Law School)
Yu-Zhi Joel Ong (former Director, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Art and Technology; Faculty of Arts, Media,聽 Performance & Design)
Collaborators
Ethel Tungohan (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies)
Pat Armstrong (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies)
Natasha Dixon (M.A.)
Tuulia Law (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies)
91亚色 Organized Research Units
Centre for Feminist Research
Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages
Global Labour Research Centre
Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security
Harriet Tubman Institute
Sensorium: Centre for Digital Art and Technology
91亚色 acknowledges the 铿乶ancial support of Women and Gender Equality Canada
