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WGST 470/HSRV 470: Activism and Social Movement Making (Rev. C1/C1) Report a Broken Link

This course serves as a tool kit for activism and is founded on the histories, stories, knowledge, and strategies of activists and social movements in Canada and the United States since the mid-twentieth century. Based on the Community Service Learning model, you will learn by engaging in advocacy and activism: by planning your own activist / advocacy project, and by implementing your activist project and reporting on your experiences.

Unit 1

Hayes, K. (2016, November 17). Love notes from the margins: How we’ll survive these times. Truthout. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38422-love-notes-from-the-margins-how-we-ll-survive-these-times
Wilson, A. (2008). N’tacimowin inna nah’: Out coming in stories. Canadian Woman Studies, 26(3–4), 193–199.
Betasamosake Simpson, L. (2014, November 29). Indict the system: Indigenous & Black resistance. Briarpatch Magazine. https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/indict-the-system
Adu-Poku, N. (2016, April 18). “We continue to be magical”: Roundtable on building and sustaining the Black liberation movement. Briarpatch Magazine. https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/we-continue-to-be-magical
Choudry, A. (2016, August 16). The intellectual labour of social movements. Briarpatch Magazine. http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/the-intellectual-labour-of-social-movements

Unit 2

DeGagné, A. (2018). On anger and its uses for activism. In J. Brodie (Ed.), Contemporary inequalities and social justice in Canada (pp. 142–63). University of Toronto Press.

Unit 3

Assignment 2

Films
Arnaquq-Baril, A. (Director). (2016). Angry Inuk [Film]. National Film Board of Canada.
Newnham, N., & LeBrecht, J. (Directors). (2020). Crip camp: A disability revolution [Film]. Netflix.

            Note: A subscription to Netflix is required to watch this film.
Barton, S. (Director). (2017). Defiant lives [Film]. Screen Australia.

            Note: A subscription to Disability Busters is required to watch this film.
Tremblay, E. (Director). (2014). In the turn [Film]. Homespun Pictures.
Toledano, M., Vinal, S., & López, F. (Directors). (2019). Invasion [Film]. UnistotenCamp.
Shum, M. (Director). (2015). Ninth floor [Film]. National Film Board of Canada.
Pike, P. (Director). (2019). Our dance of revolution [Film]. Roaring River Films.

            Note: This film is available for rent through Cinema Politica.
Hubbard, J. (Director). (2012). United in anger: A history of ACT UP [Film]. New York State Council on the Arts.

            Note: This film is available for rent or purchase through YouTube, Amazon, Apple TV, and several other distribution companies.
Books
Diverlus, R., Hudson, S., & Ware, S. M. (Eds.). (2020). Until we are free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada. University of Regina Press.
Hogan, K. (2016). The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability. Duke University Press
Irving, D., & Raj, R. (Eds.). (2014). Trans activism in Canada: A reader. Canadian Scholars.
The Kino-nda-niimi Collective (Eds.). (2014). The winter we danced: Voices from the past, the future, and the Idle No More Movement. ARP Books.
Piepzna-Samarasinha, L. L. (2018). Care work: Dreaming disability justice. Arsenal Pulp Press.
Wells, K. (2020). The Abortion Caravan: When women shut down government in the battle for the right to choose. Second Story Press.