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Teach-Ins 2026

Queer and Trans Insurgencies in the Time of War, Imperialism, Policing and Militarization.

Teach-in #1:

Poetry Towards New Worlds

With Trish Salah, Linzey Corridon, and Arielle Twist.

Moderated by Ronald Cummings.

Thursday June 11, 6pm-7:30pm

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Trish
Trish Salah: Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the unceded homeland of the Mi’kmaq people, Trish Salah is a transsexual dyke of Lebanese/Irish heritage. She is the author of Wanting in Arabic which won a Lambda Literary Award, and of Lyric Sexology, Vol. 1. She is editor of the Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, and co-editor of special issues of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, on cultural production, and of Arc Poetry Magazine, featuring trans, Two-Spirit and non-binary writers. Salah lives and writes in Tkaronto, unceded territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit River, the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe and Wendat peoples, and is associate professor of Gender Studies at Queen’s University, in traditional, unceded Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory. No one is free until we all are free; free Palestine.
Linzey Corridon writer whose interests span the fields of Caribbean and diaspora studies, Black feminist studies, and queer theory. His book debut titled West of West Indian was awarded the 2025 Hamilton Literary Prize for poetry. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Linzey Corridon writer whose interests span the fields of Caribbean and diaspora studies, Black feminist studies, and queer theory. His book debut titled West of West Indian was awarded the 2025 Hamilton Literary Prize for poetry. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Arielle
Arielle Twist’s (George Gordon First Nation and Sipekne'katik First Nation, Cree) interdisciplinary practice blends poetics and visual modes of creation to explore the realities and legacy of Indigenous and Trans* life and grief. Exploring and experimenting through mediums such as textiles, painting, performance, literature and language, Twist is immersed in the legacy of Indigenous Trans matriarchy.
leen
Leen Amarin is a Jordanian, Lebanese and Palestinian poet, creative, writer, and researcher. Born and raised in Amman, Jordan, and now based in Tkaranto, she attempts to reconcile her identity as a migrant-settler through her creative practice and advocacy. For Leen, art is a sacred practice. It dwells in the threshold between old worlds dying and new worlds becoming. Her work moves through this space of possibility, tracing what has been severed and imagining what can be rebuilt. It is a practice of strategy, memory, mobilization, and resistance. Toni Cade Bambara said it best: “as a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people [her] job is to make the revolution irresistible.”
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Ronald Cummings is a Professor of Caribbean Literature and Black Diaspora Studies in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. His work focuses on questions of gender and sexuality and Black cultural resistance.he is the writer and editor of several books among them, Make the World New: The Poetry of Lillian Allen which was listed among CBC’s Best Canadian Poetry books of 2021.

Teach-in #2:

For Pride as Queer Insurgency and Abolition

With Gary Kinsman, Rinaldo Wallcot, and May Ela.

Moderated by Kusha Dadui.

Wednesday June 17th, 7pm, to 8:30pm

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gary
Gary Kinsman was a founder of the Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee in 1981 and is a member of NPPC and Q4P.
rinaldo
Rinaldo Walcott is a writer and scholar working on Black diaspora culture and politics and the author of On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition.
May Ela is a queer Palestinian lawyer involved in many community initiatives and is one of the co-founders of Indigenous Land Defence Across Borders, a coalition that organized a joint Palestinian-Indigenous delegation to Palestine in 2018.
kusha
Kusha Dadui came as a refugee from Iran 31 years ago. They are a Transmasculine Muslim person of color who has worked with the Trans community particularly refugee youth for over 20 years and is passionate about abolition.

Teach in #3

Policing, Borders, Militarization and Abolition

Harsha Walia, Andrea J. Ritchie, Stephanie Leitch.

Moderated by Beverly Bain

Friday 19th June 7:00-8:30pm EST

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Harsha Walia is a Canadian activist and writer based in Vancouver. She has been involved with No one is illegal. She is the author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism and Undoing Border Imperialism.
Andrea
Andrea J. Ritchie (she/her) is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor living in the U.S. who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating, and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people for the past three decades. Andrea is the author of Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies and Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Colour.
Stephanie
Stephanie Leitch is a queer Caribbean writer and activist. Her work has explored the social determinants of health, structural violence, racial and gender inequalities, xenophobia and police brutality. Prior to the COVID 19 pandemic, Stephanie organised and supported various protests in support of the 'Morvant 3' and local BLM efforts in Trinidad and Tobago
beverly
Beverly Bain is a Black queer radical revolutionary and activist scholar. She is the founder of Scholars Strike For Liberation and co-founder of No Pride in Policing Coalition