BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.6//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191127T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191127T183000 DTSTAMP:20191113T204847Z URL:http://sds.utoronto.ca/events/queer-creole-contested-caribbean-archive s-reimagined/ SUMMARY:Queer\, Creole\, Contested: Caribbean Archives Reimagined DESCRIPTION:GENEROUSLY CO-SPONSORED BY Caribbean Studies - University of To ronto\n\nLocation: University College\, University of Toronto\, Room 253\n \nFor the next iteration of the Sex Salon panel series\, we are excited an d fortunate to present "Queer\, Creole\, Contested: Caribbean Archives Rei magined" with Mónica Espaillat Lizardo (PhD candidate in History\, Univer sity of Toronto)\, Kayla Carter (Founder and Executive Director of The Bla ck Artist Market Toronto)\, and Brianna Roye (Independent Photographer and Artist).\n\nIn this panel\, space is opened to reimagine ideas of legitim ate histories\, legitimate archives\, and legitimate knowledge production within the Caribbean (to queer the Caribbean). Focusing particularly on th e idea of alternative archives\, this panel will be chaired by Mónica Esp aillat Lizardo (History\, University of Toronto)\, who will present their doctoral work in progress that posits alternative queer archives of Domini can belonging (oral/performance/visual) and contests the formal state-spon sored archives that silence/erase the lives of Black and queer Dominicans. Lizardo will speak in conversation with Kayla Carter and Brianna Roye\, t wo Afro-Caribbean Canadian artists\, to reflect on queer Caribbean archive s from theory to praxis.\n\nAbout the panelists:\n\nMONICA is a direct-ent ry PhD Candidate at the Department of History and the Mark S. Bonham Centr e for Sexual Diversity Studies. As an Afro-Latinx immigrant and having liv ed in America illegally\, her intellectual pursuits are motivated by mater ial ethical political considerations. Her work as an educator is motivated by her desire to create accessible (un)learning spaces\, particularly for students who exist on the margins of the education system. She believes t hat by changing the narratives through which we educate ourselves and futu re generations we can also alter the systems of exclusion that manifest vi olently on the lives of marginalized communities.\n\nKAYLA CARTER is a mul tidisciplinary artist\, educator\, and healer. She is a Tkaronto-based Bla ck\, disabled\, chronically ill\, femme survivor of Jamaican\, Cuban\, and Maroon ancestry and believes that her existence is not accidental\, but d eliberate. With a Masters in Health Studies\, her research was on the epig enetics of ancestral trauma. Kayla has been an equity and diversity facili tator and consultant for over 10 years. Her work focuses on ancestral and intergenerational trauma\, race\, gender\, sexuality\, disability justice\ , reproductive justice and what it means to be unabashedly human.\n\nStart ing her career as an artist at the ripe age of 15\, Kayla has performed to sold-out audiences. By using art as a means of symbiotic healing for hers elf and her audiences\, her work has been described as “disarming beauti ful and transformative”. Through her work as a healer and intuitive reik i practitioner\, Kayla works with clients to work through mental health\, self-care\, self-love\, ancestral and intergenerational trauma\, sustainab le forms of healing\, and radical reproductive justice/healing. She is cur rently working towards becoming a birth doula for underserved communities. \n\nKayla is the Founder and Executive director of The Black Artist Market Toronto an artist market that is dedicated to carving out spaces for Blac k Artists to share and sell their art free from tokenization and with the support of their community. As the force behind her podcast\, The Clearing by K\, Kayla unpacks and demonstrates the ways storytelling is a powerful medium of healing by interviewing artists\, healers\, creatives and those who have something to say. She would like to thank her ancestors and remi nd them that their work was not in vain. She would also like to acknowledg e and express gratitude to the Mississaugas of the Credit River and uncede d Three Fires Confederacy Territories\, as the land where she is currently a settler.\n\nBRIANNA ROYE is a Jamaican-Canadian photographer from Toron to\, Ontario\, who identifies as a queer androgynous woman. She has worked for a number of music &\; art festivals\, including Manifesto and Afro punk. She has exhibited her work in several shows\, and primarily focuses on capturing Black and other POC in her community.\n\n \;\n\nDue to th e UC Revitalization Project Construction\, there will be no wheelchair-acc essible entrance to University College until further notice. Since the UC Quad is a high-traffic construction area during the project\, the entry mu st be restricted as a safety precaution. We hope to have accessible entran ce re-opened as soon as possible. If you plan to attend Sex Salon and need accessibility assistance\, please notify the event organizers at sds.sexs alon@gmail.com to arrange an escort through the construction zone. For inf ormation on all construction-related closures and a list of available entr ances\, please visit: https://www.uc.utoronto.ca/uc-under-construction.\n\ nExtreme gratitude goes to the Caribbean Studies Program at University Col lege for sponsoring this event.\n\nPoster image description: a group of fi ve to seven people are on a truck/parade float surrounded by balloons of d ifferent colours that make up a rainbow. One of them is carrying a flag th at appears to be the combination of the Dominican Republic's flag and the Pride flag.\n\nImage courtesy of Mónica Espaillat Lizardo ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/sexsal on-queer-creole-contested-resize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR