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Hear from feminist leaders how Budget 2022 stacks up to the needs in their communities. COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted women, particularly Black, Indigenous and racialized women, women living with disabilities and 2SLGBTQ+ people. The government committed to an intersectional feminist recovery and that requires resources. This event will bring together feminist leaders to provide their analysis of Federal Budget 2022.

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Écoutez les dirigeantes féministes expliquer comment le budget de 2022 répond aux besoins de leurs collectivités. La COVID-19 a touché de façon disproportionnée les femmes, en particulier les femmes noires, autochtones et racialisées, les femmes handicapées et les personnes 2SLGBTQ+. Le gouvernement s’est engagé à une reprise féministe intersectionnelle et cela nécessite des ressources. Cet événement réunira des dirigeantes féministes pour présenter leur analyse du budget fédéral de 2022.

About this event

In this webinar event, Feminism, Gender Justice and Resistance in Early Childhood Education, our panelists will address gender issues in Early Childhood Education and feminist theories and solutions that situate such issues.

Drawing on a range of feminisms, the panelists will explore rethinking gender binaries in relation to emerging and persistent transgender identities, intersectionality and power of BIPOC collectives, feminist tales of teaching and resistance in Reggio Emilia, Italy and rewriting gender into European early childhood philosophies.

The conversation with Alexandra Gunn, An Intersectional/ity Collective, Beatrice Vittoria Balfour and Jayne Osgood will be moderated by Rachel Langford and Janice Kroeger and will include a Q & A conversation amongst panelists at the end of the 90-minute panel. A 30-minute informal “salon” conversation session with the audience will follow the formal program.

Speakers

Alexandra C. Gunn (Alex)

Dr. Alexandra C. Gunn (Alex) is a former early childhood teacher who teaches and researches at the University of Otago in Dunedin | Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, New Zealand. Gunn is a founding member of the Social Justice and Inclusive Educational Research Network, a member of European Early Childhood Education Research Association, and other national and international organizations.

An Intersectional/ity Collective

This intersectional/ity collective is made up of early childhood scholars from across the globe that represent a range of positionalities. The essence of the collective is to disrupt individualism, hierarchies, and identity silos. Through aesthetic, multimodal expressions and theory interludes, the collective attempts to capture the brilliance of Black feminist intersectionalities (Crenshaw, 1989) in addition to Patricia Hill Collin’s (2017) call for “political solidarity among people of color” (47:40-42). As intersectional beings, they share their lived experiences in relation to each-other, the Land, and spirit, providing windows into how they’ve waded through systemic and everyday oppressions of colonial, anti-Black, and gendered violence, white supremacy, and being constructed by others’ attempts at putting our-selves into boxes. They also share the joys, strengths, solidarities, and wisdoms that emanate from their intersectional ways of knowing and being. Throughout their presentations and in their ongoing wanderings, they offer provocations for (re)imagining childhoods intersectionally.

Beatrice Vittoria Balfour

Dr. Beatrice Vittoria Balfour is a school leader, teacher and researcher with a passion for social justice. Holding dual-citizenship, Beatrice grew up in Italy and went to the U.S. to attend U.C. Berkeley and teach at a local school. Beatrice’s passion for progressive pedagogies and social justice, particularly her interest in how education can be as equal as possible, led her to obtain a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Cambridge.

Jayne Osgood

Dr Jayne Osgood is Professor of Education (Early Years & Gender) based at the Centre for Education Research & Scholarship, Middlesex University, London (UK). Her present methodologies and research practices are framed by feminist new materialism. Through her work she seeks to foreground a concern with social justice through critical engagements with early childhood policy, curricular frameworks and pedagogical approaches. Through her work she seeks to extend understandings of the workforce, families, ‘the child’ and ‘childhood’ in early years contexts.

Rachel Langford, Co-Moderator

Dr. Rachel Langford is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies at Ryerson University, Ontario, Canada. From 2006 to 2016 she served as the director of the School. Her books include Caring for children: social movements and public policy in Canada (co-editor, UBC Press) and Theorizing feminist ethics of care in early childhood practice: Possibilities and dangers (editor, Bloomsbury Academic Press). An upcoming book (co-editor, Bloomsbury Academic Press) focuses on how feminist theories can provide new insights into the work, lived experiences and agency of early childhood educators in diverse contexts.

Janice Kroeger, Co-Moderator

Dr. Janice Kroeger has published numerous articles and book and handbook chapters about childhood education, social-emotional belonging in communities, teacher education, anti-bias curriculum, lgbtqi inclusion, and sustainable futures. Kroeger’s noteworthy publications relate to social justice and home-school-community partnerships, with numerous pieces related to the needs of lgbtqi parents or students, African American mothers and sons, and refugee Hmong American families and their student’s teachers.

The 90-minute program includes time for moderated discussion and an audience Q & A. Additionally, a 30-minute informal “salon” conversation session with the audience will follow the formal program.

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Canada's Feminist Response and Recovery Summit

COVID-19 is the most serious public health crisis Canada has ever faced. It has laid bare fundamental gaps in our society and disproportionately impacted those who were already marginalized, vulnerable or struggling. Women have been on the front lines of this crisis, facing steep job losses and taking on more unpaid work. Women also represent the majority of essential workers on the front lines of the fight against COVID.

The Canada’s Feminist Response and Recovery Summit will bring together politicians, experts, feminist leaders and those with lived experience to examine how COVID-19 is impacting the lives of women in Canada. It will focus on the steps that governments, civil society and all Canadians can take to ensure an inclusive recovery by advancing gender equality.

Over two days, you will learn about key issues facing women impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, including Black and racialized women, Indigenous women; women with disabilities; LGBTQ2 individuals; senior women; women in rural and remote areas; immigrant and newcomer women; and young women. The online summit will look at issues faced by women’s and equality-seeking organizations.

Registration

Registration deadline is Thursday, March 4, 2021.

Registration is limited to 1000 participants. 

You will be sent a registration confirmation once you have registered.  A follow-up email will be sent to you with meeting credentials prior to the event. Please contact us if you do not receive the auto-confirmation and/or meeting credentials.

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Through presentations and interactive sessions, you will:

• Learn and discuss how COVID-19 and related public health measures are impacting women and the women’s and equality-seeking sectors.
• Be part of engaging discussions on the role of child care, good jobs, and other initiatives in Canada’s inclusive recovery.
• Examine how, done right, our response and recovery can help advance gender equality and grow the economy over the long term.

Program at a Glance

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Over two days, participants to Canada’s Feminist Response and Recovery Summit will examine key issues facing women affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The program consists of both plenary and breakout sessions. Please pre-register for breakout sessions through the registration form.