Toronto Women's Bookstore
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416-922-8744

1. Lesbianas Latinoamericanas, Saturday, January 29
2. Jane Sapp in Toronto, Saturday, February 5
3. Indigenous Women’s Fair Trade Weaving Cooperatives Tour from Chiapas, Mexico, Wednesday, February 9
4. Ranjana Khanna Lecture, Friday February 25
5. Booklaunch: Who Da Man? Black Masculinities and Sporting Cultures by Gamal Abdel-Shehid, Thursday, March 3
6. February and March Courses @ TWB.

A Note about Dionne Brand’s launch tomorrow night: There are NO MORE advanced tickets! There will be a small number of tickets sold at the door tomorrow night. Once those tickets are gone we will have a rush line. If you’re in the rush line you may be able to get in around 9pm, but admittance is not assured.

1. Lesbianas Latinoamericanos
An Evening with Juanita Ramos, editor of Compañeras: Latina Lesbians and Tatiana de la tierra, author of chapbooks Porcupine Love & Other Tales from my Papaya and Píntame una mujer peligrosa/Paint Me a Dangerous Woman
Saturday January 29 @ 6 p.m.
Toronto Women's Bookstore, 73 Harbord St
Free event, wheelchair accessible, all are welcome to attend
Co-sponsored by Latin American Coalition Against Racism (LACAR)

2. Jane Sapp in Toronto, hosting an afternoon workshop and an evening performance.
Jane Sapp is a songwriter, educator and performer. Her music reflects the blues and gospel sounds of her Georgia youth and is deeply rooted in the spiritual and historical experiences of the African American world. She will offer a hands-on singing workshop for anyone interested in the connection between music and social change, particularly those who identify with and work within communities marginalized by racism and poverty.
Saturday February 5, 2005
1pm to 4pm Singing Workshop
Fee: $15, $10 students, $5 unwaged.
Payment is required for registration.
Register for this workshop by calling Toronto Women’s Bookstore at 416.922.8744.

Following the workshop there will be an evening event, a musical performance with Jane Sapp including her thoughts on education, the arts and social change. There will be performances by participants from the earlier workshop, and Pueblo Unido, a group of young artists of colour who address issues related to oppression & global politics.
Saturday February 5, 2005
6pm to 8pm Performance: We’ve All Got Stories to Tell
Admission: Pay What You Can
Children Welcome
Location of both events: Cecil Street Community Centre
58 Cecil St (south west of Spadina & College)
THESE EVENTS ARE WHEELCHAIR ACCESIBLE. ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

3. Toronto Women’s Bookstore Presents:
Indigenous Women’s Fair Trade Weaving Cooperatives Tour from Chiapas, Mexico
Wednesday, February 9th, at 7.30pm
Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord Street
Free event, all are welcome, wheelchair accessible

Indigenous women’s fair trade weaving cooperatives are a tool for resistance, empowerment, and the maintenance of autonomy for women and Indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico. Cooperatives provide education, skills enhancement, and economic autonomy for women, while sustaining the traditional art of weaving. They also provide an income alternative for Indigenous communities, enabling them to maintain political, social, and economic autonomy, as well as resist trade and development initiatives like NAFTA and the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP). Indigenous women’s grassroots cooperative Jolom Mayaetik and non-governmental organization K’inal Antzetik, based in San Christóbal, Chiapas, work closely for the success of the cooperative, its members, and their communities. Representatives from each will visit Toronto to share their work and the context of their daily lives in Chiapas. Fair trade weavings will be available for purchase. English translation will be provided.

4. Ranjana Khanna lecture
February 25th
The Toronto Women’s Bookstore and the Canada Research Chair of Social Justice and Cultural Studies, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, OISE/UT
Present a lecture with Ranjana Khanna
Asylum and Disposabilit
y Friday, February 25th, 6pm
University College, University of Toronto
1 King’s College Circle Room 179
Free admission

Ranjana Khanna will talk from her new book project on the subject of asylum in which she explores the changing use of the term and the places it designates. These include places of refuge to places of worship, and homes for the insane with specific architectural design to holding facilities for asylum seekers waiting to be processed. By considering the various forms of dehumanization associated with asylums, the book will trace the implications of the return of asylum today. How does asylum signify differently from exile? What different concepts of belonging are associated with it? What are the implications of hospitality, sanity, and the human in relation to asylum? The talk will focus specifically on the notion of disposability in relation to asylum. Khanna proposes that the terms asylum and disposability will be important grounds through which to re-think feminist politics.

Ranjana Khanna works on Anglo- and Francophone Postcolonial theory and literature, Psychoanalysis, and Feminist theory. She has published on transnational feminism, psychoanalysis, autobiography, postcolonial agency, multiculturalism in an international context, postcolonial Joyce, Area Studies and Women's Studies, and Algerian film. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2003) and has recently completed a book manuscript tentatively entitled Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the Present (forthcoming Stanford University Press.) Her current book manuscript in progress is called: Asylum: The Concept and the Practice.

5. The Toronto Women's Bookstore and Canadian Scholar's Press are pleased to present the Canadian book launch for:
Who Da Man? Black Masculinities and Sporting Cultures by Gamal Abdel-Shehid
Book Launch Thursday, March 3rd, 2005 7pm
Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord Street (at Spadina)
Free admission! All are welcome to attend.

Who Da Man offers a highly original approach to Black masculinities and sport in Canada. This book will be especially exciting for those interested in decolonization, culture, and the intersection of identity, sport, and politics. Who Da Man attempts to account for the ways that Black Diasporic identifications intersect with the dominant misogyny and homophobia in contemporary men's sporting cultures. Who Da Man offers a feminist and queer reading of Black masculinity, and suggests that thinking about Black sporting masculinities means paying attention to the ways that these larger discourses of racism, exclusion, and Diaspora shape Black masculinities. Moreover, the book asks to what extent homophobia and misogyny within men's sporting cultures influence contemporary understandings of Black masculinity.

Gamal Abdel-Shehid is Assistant Professor at York University in the School of Kinesiology & Health Science. His teaching and research focus include cultural studies, sport and leisure; and popular culture in the Black Diaspora.

6. It’s not too late to sign up for the February Money 101 for Women course!
Plus TWO Amazing Courses begin in March at TWB!
Mondays in Februrary: Money 101 For Women with Amanda Mills
Monday February 7, 14, 21 and 28. 6:30pm to 9pm. $52 (No Refunds)

Mondays in March: Getting’ Knitty With It with Jae Steele.
For the beginner, lapsed, and wee-bit-beyond-beginner knitters Monday March 7, 14, 21 and 28 $52 (No refunds)

Tuesdays in March: 8 week course: Writing the Short Story with Tamai Kobayashi An introduction to the craft of constructing the short story (with some curious digressions). For beginners, beginners at heart or just the plain stuck and confused. All participants must come to the first session with a completed short story, which will be workshopped.Tuesdays in March and April: March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 and April 5, 12, 19. $100 (No Refunds)

Payment in full must be received to register in any of the 3 upcoming courses. Call the store with a credit card number, or drop by with payment! Please visit our website for full course descriptions and instructors’ bios.