Global Friday Presents:
Co-sponsored with Inspiring Women Among Us (IWAU) and the Geoffrey R. Weller Library

Harsha Walia
Social Justice Activist and Journalist

ABSTRACT:  Harsha's talk will address mass displacements and migrations as forms of gender-based violence. She will also highlight the frontline voices of women of colour activists who are leading struggles to end displacement and deportations as a call to end violence against women. She will also discuss strategies to strengthen and expand our understandings of feminisms. How can feminism become a movement of expansive solidarities that centers on the experiences of women of colour, Indigenous women, poor women, single mothers, and trans women?

BIO: Harsha Walia is the cofounder of the migrant justice group No One Is Illegal and the progressive South Asian network Radical Desis. Harsha attended law school at UBC and currently works with women at the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre. She is also a member of the Februrary 14th Women's Memorial March Committee and part of the Defenders of the Land network. Harsha is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism and has made numerous presentations on race, gender, violence and poverty to the United Nations and across campuses in North America. Harsha has won the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives Power of Youth Award, the Westender's Best of the City in Activism Award, and been named "one of Canada's most brilliant and effective organizers" by Naomi Klein.

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