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Upcoming Short Course
March 2026

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Critical Race Theory, Decolonization, and Same-Gender Loving
with Dr. Wesley Crichlow, PhD

Save the Dates: Wednesday 11 - Saturday 14 March 2026. Online on Zoom

The IGDS in collaboration with visiting scholar Professor Wesley Crichlow, presents a dynamic short course exploring Critical Race Theory, decolonization, and same-gender loving perspectives. Grounded in a Black LGBTQ transdisciplinary approach, this course engages Critical Race Theory Intersectionality (CRTI), decolonial thought, epistemic justice, and socio-legal analysis to examine and challenge systems of heterocisnormativity, transmisogyny, patriarchy, ableism, and structural inequality. Participants will join an interactive learning space where theory meets lived realities, fostering critical dialogue on Black freedom, justice, and transformative social change.

Cost: TT$150.00
Registration form: https://forms.gle/a5m1F8G9SK7UXis39
Registration Deadline: 4 March, 2026

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Upcoming Online Symposium - Post-Indenture Feminism
November 2026

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Call for Submissions

Post-Indenture Feminisms: Mapping Consciousness,Challenge, and Change
Eds. Gabrielle Hosein and Lisa Outar

How has the history of Indian indentureship shaped feminist organizing across the world? Has it led to distinctive experiences, strategies, and challenges in sites of indenture as well as informed cross-ethnic, international, transoceanic, and diasporic feminist movements? Can post-indenture feminisms shed light on the legacies of indenture in contemporary praxes of solidarity?

Submissions can be in the form of scholarship, non-scholarly reflective essays, interviews, short fiction, poems, photography and painting, and photo essays. We welcome scholarly essays and interviews of 7000 words (including references); fiction, nonfiction, photo essays and creative reflections of 2000 to 5000 words; and submissions of poetry which include 2 to 3 poems.

Submission Deadlines and Symposium Dates:

  • May 30, 2026: Abstracts due
  • October 30, 2026: Full Essays Submitted
  • November 19 – 20, 2026: Post-Indenture Feminisms Symposium (Online)
  • February 2027: Submission of Full Manuscript

For more information, please email both
Gabrielle Hosein: gabrielle.hosein@sta.uwi.ed and Lisa Outar: leoutar@gmail.com

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