Issue 1: TRANSFORM News Magazine

From theTRANSFORMTeam

Welcome toTRANSFORM's first News Magazine!

Welcome to the first issue of our TRANSFORM News Magazine and the beginning of a brand new transnational project focusing on engaging with young people to disrupt gender norms. Awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, our partnership draws together more than 40 co-investigators and collaborators, 16 universities (involving 19 centres, labs, studios, and institutes), 10 partner organizations and hundreds of young people including those at field sites inAfrica (Nigeria, Sierra Leone, SouthAfrica), LatinAmerica (Argentina, Mexico), and SouthAsia (India).

Gender inequalities and discrimination persist glaringly around the globe with gender-based violence standing out as one of the most widespread human rights violations.And as the world’s largest youth population ever, young people are key players in local and transnational work to address gender equality This need for urgent action is driving TRANSFORM: Engaging with Young People for Social Change TRANSFORM aims to support youth-led interventions to study how young people experience, envision, and enact gender transformation, using a variety of art forms (photography, film making and cellphilming, performance art, and textile production).

TRANSFORM’s participants will explore gender norms in relation to issues that matter most to them, including gender-based violence, climate justice, and 2SLGBTQIA+ activism). The TRANSFORM News Magazine will highlight key components of TRANSFORM: youth-at-thecentre, news from the centres, news from partner organizations, accounts of new researchers, knowledge mobilization, and of course ‘what’s coming?’Please feel free to circulate this amongst your networks!

From the TRANSFORM Co-directors: Claudia Mitchell, (McGill University), Relebohile Moletsane (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Shannon Walsh (University of British Columbia), and Lisa Starr (University of Lethbridge).

Aspecial thanks to the TRANSFORM research and administration team : Jen Thompson,Angela MacDonald, Emilia Vera Romero.

Youth Spotlight

Rising voices: EskasoniYouth lead the way

In May 2024, three youth leaders from the Eskasoni Mi'kmaq nation in Eastern Canada, Hannah Battiste, Jaylyn Morris, and Edmund Morris, traveled to Montreal to help adult researchers launch theTRANSFORM project at theTRANSFORM Gathering.

Hannah, Jaylyn, and Edmund were invited to share their perspectives as Indigenous youth in the current post-colonial landscape, drawing on their experiences as youth leaders in addressing gender equity and participants in several projects funded through Women and Gender

Equality Canada (WAGE) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.

The threeyouth researchers led a segment called "Youth at the centre:Aparticipatory workshop" where they shared their work and experiences. Edmund presented several cellphilms that addressed topics such as language preservation and supporting loved ones through challenges like addiction. Hannah talked about her poetry collection Out of darkness: A poetic journey through trauma published in 2022, and shared openly about her writing process. Jaylyn shared insights from the forthcoming publication A Mi’kmaw affirmation book based on the seven sacred teachings: love, honesty, respect, truth, courage, wisdom, and humility The presentation inspired the adult participants at the gathering to reflect on Youth-2-Youth spaces in the TRANSFORM project.

“I felt deeply inspired to continue the work I do, I immediately felt heard and accepted. I am normally shy, but seeing everyone engaged and genuinely interested eased my nerves. It was fulfilling to share not only my experience as a youth researcher, but most importantly to educate others on Indigenous ways of life and knowing.”

- Edmund Morris

Bauchi

youth recognized for powerful cellphilms

from the 12th McGill International Cellphilm Festival

The Bauchi State winners of the 12th McGill International Cellphilm Festival (ICF) were honoured in a lively celebration hosted in Bauchi by the Federation of Muslim Women’sAssociations in Nigeria (FOMWAN).The event included key figures from the Toro Local Government, such as representatives from the Chairman of the Primary Health Care DevelopmentAgency (PHCDA) and the Bauchi Commissioner of Health.

The winning cellphilms were created by talented local youth, aged 6 to 19 years old, as part of the Impact oriented dialogue for culturally safe adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Bauchi State, Nigeria project attached toTRANSFORM.

One of the winning cellphilms, titled Muryar mu Daya Ce (One Voice), features girls standing one by one in front of the camera, asking their parents and husbands to give them the space and time to express their needs so they can build a peaceful living environment.

Another winning cellphilm, Illar Shaye Shaye (Drug Abuse), discusses the impact of drug abuse on their community, particularly on youth, and explores potential strategies for addressing this issue through education and discipline.

The third and most heartwarming cellphilm was produced by a group of boys who roleplay a scenario in which they struggle with sharing and patience.The film concludes with the boys resolving their conflict through discussion and a hug.

These powerful films highlight the creativity and passion of Nigeria’s young cellphilmmakers.

Above all, the event showcased the dedication of Bauchi youth to collective action and social change.

Don’t miss out—watch all the winning cellphilms on the ICF website!

Highlights from theTRANSFORMYouth Consultation

In July andAugust 2023, theTRANSFORM partnership reached out to young people in Argentina, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and SouthAfrica as well as through Canadian university and research networks to inform the development of the partnership. The consultation request reached over 1,000 young people through various channels and media formats, as well as across several languages including Spanish, isiZulu, Hausa, Hindi, Odia, and Krio.

Here are some highlights of what young people said:

How do you want to be meaningfully engaged? Meaningful engagement means providing a range of accessible and non-judgemental in-person and virtual meeting spaces that help young people feel like they can participate meaningfully and have their voices heard.

"We prefer in-person meetings—it feels that we are doing serious business. We get to meet our technical partners and local supervisors face to face. This makes us very disciplined and attentive. It is easier for us to call the attention of the trainers in person than on Zoom."

–Young person, focus group in Bauchi, Nigeria

What gender issues matter most in your life? Young people said that while gender inequalities are improving, there is still more discussion that needs to happen about how to address and change harmful gender norms.

"The important thing about gender in my life is to have equity in my relationships, to raise my voice when I feel discriminated or when someone around me feels discriminated. Because there is still a lot to do to improve our tolerance, job opportunities, educational opportunities … to achieve a more balanced and happy society."

-Young person, survey across cities in Mexico &Argentina

What does climate justice look like for you? Many youth recognized the disproportionate effect of climate change on the more disadvantaged people in society, and acknowledged the impacts faced by minority groups, the elderly and people with disabilities. Some youth described feeling exasperated by tokenistic efforts by older generations.

"If you have a friend that is always asking you for your advice, but then they never take your advice … eventually, you’re like ‘Just don’t even ask me, I’m wasting my breath. It’s exhausting."

-Young Indigenous woman, focus group in Montreal, Canada

To learn more, check out the TRANSFORMYouth Consultation Briefing Paper

Voices from the Loom: Mexico and Canada intertwined

Miguel Sosme youth leader attached to TRANSFORM through Universidad NacionalAutónoma de México(UNAM) traveled toAlgonquinTerritory, Ottawa in August 2024 to represent Mexico at the Asinabka Festival, an Indigenous film festival.

Sosme produced the documentary film Voices from the Loom in the Nahuatl language and curated the handicraft exhibition The Colours of the Earth, which includes the work of various Mexican textile collectives.

As part of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Canada, the Mexican Embassy selected various cultural projects aimed at strengthening the bonds of friendship between the two nations, including theAsinabka Festival.The festival focused on the dissemination of the languages and aesthetic expressions of Canadian First Nations and other regions of the world, including the United States and New Zealand.

Sosme recently graduated from the doctoral program inAnthropoogy at UNAM and now serves as a cultural promoter. For Sosme, the invitation was an opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of his country's Indigenous textile art, the creators, supplies, techniques, transcendence, and cultural and historical contributions to universal art.

“The world is beginning to recognize our textile art. For the first time, a Canadian festival dedicated its main spaces and activities to our tradition and our culture, to our languages. Not only the spoken or written language, but also the weaving on the looms.”

- Miguel Sosme

Mexico's ambassador to Canada, Carlos Manuel Joaquín González, presided the screening of the documentary Voices from the Loom onAugust 7, 2024.The diplomat highlighted the importance of the Festival as an important space for dialogue and cultural exchange that honours Indigenous artistic practice.

Partner News

The TRANSFORM partnership currently involves 10 partner organizations, including national and international NGOs (Agenda, CODE, Equitas, Oxfam Canada, Plan Canada, Right to Play, Uthingo Network), policy groups (Women and Gender Equality Canada, UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean) and publishers (Berghahn Press).

Uthingo Network &TRANSFORM's first Youth Summit

Brian Sibeko-Ngidi and the team at Uthingo Network located in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa are already in high gear working with the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the University of Johannesburg to plan TRANSFORM’S first transnational youth summit. Participants will include youth from Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Mexico, and South Africa.

Uthingo Network is a human rights organisation in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa, established in 2003 to create safe spaces for LGBTI+ individuals to socialise without fear of discrimination, stigmatisation, or violence. Over the years, Uthingo Network has evolved into a legally registered NGO with a unique focus on advocating for LGBTI+ rights, particularly in rural communities where support is often lacking.

As the only well-established LGBTI+ organisation that works in rural and township communities of KZN, Uthingo Network is

dedicated to bridging the gap in advocacy and resources that typically favours major urban areas.The organisation is committed to ensuring that LGBTI+ individuals in these underserved areas are not left behind.

Uthingo Network's holistic approach involves collaborating with families, schools, healthcare providers, and traditional, religious, and political leaders to advance LGBTI+ inclusion at policy and community levels.The organisation envisions an inclusive, equitable SouthAfrican society where LGBTI+ individuals can access their rights and live without the threat of stigma, discrimination, or violence, fostering a future where all are respected, valued, and empowered to live authentically.

CODE launches documentary film

Teachers taking action in Sierra Leone

New teachers play important roles as agents of gender-transformative social change. Produced through CODE’s Transforming Girls Education Project (TGEP) and launched in 2024, the documentary film Teaching taking action in Sierra Leone: Cellphilming for social change tells the story of how teachers from six teacher training institutes across Sierra Leone are using cellphilming as a tool for addressing gender issues in their colleges and communities.

Scenes from Teachers taking action documentary film [Credit: Screenshots from the film]

Narrated by CODE’s Gender Officer Ruby Boston-Griffiths, the film introduces cellphilming as a participatory approach to engagement in gender transformation and features pre-service teachers and teacher educators along with NGO community educators who are working with cellphilming for the first time. Teachers taking action showcases youth-produced cellphilms such as “She’s too young” tackling early marriage and the voices of young women and men about making change in their community Aspecial feature of the film is group discussions among new teachers and teacher educators about the profound personal shifts they experienced through cellphilming activities, from questioning gender roles that they have always taken for granted to ideas about how they might take up cellphilming in their teaching practice.

The documentary was filmed during cellphilm workshops that took place in Magburaka, Sierra Leone, in October 2022 andApril 2023. It was facilitated by TRANSFORM researchers from McGill University, Claudia Mitchell, Jen Thompson, and Lisa Starr, as well as McGill University doctoral students Nesa Bandarchian Rashti and Grace Skahan.

TGEP(2018-2024) was a five-year project working to address gender inequalities to help remove the barriers to girls’education and to improve the quality of education for both girls and boys in Sierra Leone.TGEPwas funded by GlobalAffairs Canada and implemented by CODE in partnership with theAssociation of Language and Literacy Educators (TALLE) and McGill University in Sierra Leone.

Click here to watch the film.

Centres, Labs, Studios & Institutes

The TRANSFORM Partnership features a unique network of university-based hubs focused on participatory visual and arts-based methodologies, community engagement, and social change.

Workshop on gender fluidity, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg

Letitia Smuts from the University of Johannesburg delivered a critical analysis of the contemporary challenges and opportunities in embracing gender diversity in African contexts onAugust 26, 2024. She emphasized the societal implications of rigid gender binaries and advocated for inclusive policies that recognize and support diverse gender identities. Her insights deeply resonated with the audience, highlighting the urgent need for progressive gender-related initiatives. Prince Eze fromAdmiralty University, Nigeria, explored the intersection of gender and development within theAfrican context. He discussed how gender fluidity influences social and economic structures, linking gender discourse with broader developmental goals and challenges inAfrican societies, thus enriching the seminar’s overall narrative.Allen Fidelis from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, examined the historical and cultural perspectives of gender fluidity in African societies. His presentation provided a comprehensive overview of how traditional beliefs and practices have shaped gender perceptions across the continent. Prof. Fidelis encouraged respect for cultural norms while

allowing for gradual shifts toward more inclusive understandings of gender.

The seminar successfully advanced dialogue on gender fluidity inAfrican contexts and providing a platform for critical discussions and understandings of gender fluidity.

The event was organized by the Department of Sociology and the SARCHI Chair in Social Change held byTRANSFORM co-investigatorAshwin Desai at the University of Johannesburg.

Feminist mentorship:Acollaborative autoethnography with the Education for Gender Justice Lab

As scholars who call ourselves feminists, do feminist research, seek to build collaborative relationships between researchers, and try to get and give supportive guidance, engaging in feminist mentorship sounds obvious. But after several years of working with the concept of feminist mentorship, early career researchers and feminist scholars Catherine Vanner, a coapplicant on theTRANSFORM project, and SalsabelAlmanssori realized they didn’t fully understand feminist mentorship and how to realize it in practice. Informed by principles of collaboration and reflexivity, they established a collaborative autoethnography reflecting on the experience and definition of feminist mentorship with their RAs, all working with the Education for Gender Justice Lab at the University of Windsor in Canada. With RAs Kennedy Wonnacott,

Meenal Singh, and ValerieAlexander, they embarked on six months of discussions and data collection involving memoing, cellphilms, and carousel papers, culminating in a process of collaborative data analysis (pictured below). Emerging themes underscored feminist mentorship as a catalyst for social change through a process that addresses power dynamics but embodies resistance, emotion, grace, collaboration, and community, while recognizing these efforts exist in tension with the institutional constraints of the academic environment where our feminist mentorship takes place.After completing formal data analysis, they are excited to share their findings with other feminist scholars, while continuing to deepen the practice of feminist mentorship within their work together

New Researchers inAction

University of KwaZulu-Natal PhD candidate Nkonzo Mkhize presents at seminar "It takes a village"

Nkonzo Mkhize is a researcher and PhD candidate at the Centre for Visual Methodologies for Social Change (CVMSC) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). Nkonzo recently spoke at the CVMSCsponsored webinar, "It takes a village: Participatory visual methodologies to address the comprehensive sexuality needs of rural and urban learners and communities."

Mkhize's research focuses on education in rural and township communities, girlhood studies, queer studies, gender-based violence, sexual reproductive health and rights, and queerphobic violence, using participatory visual methodology

Within CVMSC, Mkhize's research explores how a community-based participatory approach with parents, learners, and teachers might be used to contextualize and support the meaningful implementation of comprehensive sexuality education in rural communities.

His qualitative PhD research uses participatory visual methodologies, working with queer learners to understand queerphobic violence in and around township schools and to develop queer learner-led strategies for addressing it.

The following poem, written by Mkhize, was inspired by the murders, killings, and general queerphobic violence towards people in SouthAfrica

I don’t want peace. I want Freedom.

I don’t want peace. I want Freedom. I have had peace, I have seen it, had it hold my hand, had it sleep right next to me and allowed it to swallow me whole, swallow my voice and cage me in its fog.

For the sake of peace, peace allowed him to walk in, to come in, in inside me, whenever he wanted to, whenever he wanted to have his way with me, peace allowed this.

For the sake of peace, I was no longer me, and in the sake of peace, peace was him. Peace turned me into the person I feared the most. Peace was what I feared the most, peace, but only peace allowed this.

I no longer want peace. I never wanted peace. I want Freedom. I would rather have war than peace, peace civilizes violence, normalises it, makes it acceptable, addible, attractive and sensual. peace has made war of our bodies. I want Freedom.

By Nkonzo Mkhize (2018)

Universidad NacionalAutónoma de México PhD student Brenda Ojinaga Zapata studies embroidery as political action in Mexico

Meet Brenda Ojinaga Zapata, a PhD Student in the Graduate Program in Political and Social Sciences at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Zapata's doctoral project looks at the embroidery of girls and young women as political action.

At the turn of the century in Mexico, different women began to gather to embroider in parks and public squares, taking embroidery out of the home and into the public space. Their embroidery invaded the daily lives of passersby, who encountered visual stories

about the violence against women, which was increasing day by day in our country.

Known as “collective of embroiderers” the women who make up these spaces weave in

Exhibition of an offering to women “Bordando Historias: ¡qué su voz y su recuerdo no se apague!” (Embroidering stories: May their voice and memory not be extinguished!) [Credit: Collective existimos porque resistimos (We exist because we resist). Morelos, Mexico Casona Spencer, Cuernavaca, October 28, 2023]

their textiles names, faces and stories that together, create a collective story in order to confront injustice. It opens the possibility of thinking of embroidery as a political practice that allows us to recover memories and create spaces of denunciation, as well as to understand the ways in which the singular experience is intertwined with that of other women, contributing to the organization of the common experience and turning the collective into a social relationship.

Cellphilm workshop with UNAM grad students

InAugust 2024,TRANSFORM co-investigators Dr. Joshua Scwab-Cartas (NSCAD) and Dr Graciela Martínez Zalce (UNAM) teamed up to offer a virtual cellphilm worshop in Spanish for graduate students at UNAM. Josh and Graciela reflected on the workshop.

Dr. Graciela Mtz-Zalce asked if I would be interested in hosting a cellphilm workshop late summer for her grad students, which I was honored to do. I was immediately welcomed by Graciela and her students, who enthusiastically shared their fascinating research based on Indigenous textile traditions and gender, so with that in mind we collectively decided that gender + textiles would be the focus/prompt of the cellphilms.

So far we have only screened one cellphilm, which was created by MiguelAngel Sosme Campos, which focused on the creation of an embroidered piece that he created and masterfully paired with a traditional son Jarocho (a regional style of ballad from the state of Veracruz). Not only was the imagery captivating, but the discussion that followed was equally generative, which only further spurred excitement within the group. We are planning to screen all the cellphilms in the next few weeks to reflect and discuss further the process and the content of each cellphilm.

- Joshua Schwab-Cartas, NSCAD

Since we were already considering that our contribution to the Project should be a crossover between textile work and gender, I asked Josh to facilitate a cellphilm workshop.

We thought that starting to collectively ponder about the result and products borne out of the project, it would help us establish a relationship built from our intertwined stories.

We already have some contributions, and we decided to save the process in a drive to document our progress as a collective.

The following individuals participated:

Alberto López-Gómez.Textile artist and cultural promoter who has represented Mexico in multiple international forums. He represents the Kuxul Pok’collective. In addition, he is a

member of the Original project committee of the Secretariat of Culture.

Araceli Ramírez.Textile artist, embroiderer, and cultural promoter.Administrator of the Yolotl Textilero collective in Larráinzar, Chiapas.

Brenda Ojinaga. PhD student in Political and Social Sciences at UNAM, specialist in textiles. Her research focuses on urban feminist embroidery collectives.

Graciela Martínez-Zalce. Facilitator

Hilan Cruz. Anthropology undergraduate student at ENAH and cultural promoter of the Yolcentle textile collective, from the Sierra of Puebla. Member of the Original project committee of the Secretariat of Culture.

Miguel Ángel Sosme. PhD inAnthropology from UNAM, cultural promoter, and author of books on textile communities in the Sierra of Zongolica, Veracruz. Member of the Original project committee of the Secretariat of Culture.

Tsanda Nieto. Bachelor's degree in Hispanic Literature, adjunct professor in the Hispanic LiteratureThesis Seminar Art History specialty student, all at UNAM.

- Dr. Dra. Graciela Martínez-Zalce S, UNAM

Knowledge Mobilization

New ethical guidance note from Oxfam

This guide note builds on Oxfam’s existing resources on research ethics and safeguarding policies, to provide an overview of ethical considerations specific to adolescent participation in research, monitoring, and evaluation activities. The document will prepare research teams to center the best interests of the child in the study design, risk and safety planning, data collection, and at all other key decisionmaking points.

Read the guide note in Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese here.

"Living our Languages" by Josh Schwab-Cartas

“Painting a drum can be a medium to support both language and cultural reclamation, while honoring the distinctiveness of each nation’s language and traditions” writes TRANSFORM coinvestigator and mixed race Zapotec scholar Joshua Schwab-Cartas from the Nova Scotia College ofArt and Design (NSCAD).

The article "Living our Languages" showcases an exhibition of hand-painted drums in NSCAD’s newTreaty Space Gallery that brought together Indigenous students, staff, and faculty at NSCAD University in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Through the painting of drums, this work honors and explores Indigenous artistic practices, community building, and language across different Indigenous nations and communities, including Schwab-Cartas’Isthmus Binniza (Zapotec) community in Ranchu Gubiña in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Voices of Mexico is an English-language magazine published by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Center for Research on NorthAmerica (CISAN), directed by TRANSFORM co-investigator Graciela Martinez-Zalce Sánchez. Issue 123 (Summer 2024) was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Canada.

Click here to read the article

New publication: Re-visioning Cellphilming Methodology

Re-visioning Cellphiming Methodology edited by Claudia Mitchell, Hani Sadati, Lisa Starr, and Shannon Roy delves into the use of cellphilming as a participatory visual methodology in artsbased research and teaching. Bringing together diverse international researchers, the book advances critical perspectives and re-visions the co-production of knowledge through cellphilming.

Many of the chapters in this collection stem from a virtual international symposium, ReVisioning Cellphilming Methodology: An International Dialogue hosted by the Participatory Cultures Lab at McGill University in June 2022.Aspecial feature of that event was the engagement of researchers, practitioners, and international NGOs.

In many ways that symposium sits as the birthplace of TRANSFORM with 14 of the authors as co-investigators, collaborators, or doctoral students attached to TRANSFORM, along with four international organizations: CODE, Plan Canada, Oxfam Canada, and Equitas all represented at the event and in the book. Many of TRANSFORM’s focus countries were also represented through youth-focused research in Nigeria, Mali, India, and SouthAfrica.

Reference: Mitchell, C., Sadati, S. M. H., Starr, L. J., & Roy, S. (2024). Re-visioning Cellphilming Methodology. Springer.

Guide:TheTrial of Promising Practices for Indigenous Youth-led Social Change

Drawing on 10 years of youth-led, community-based research, The Trail is a comprehensive resource of promising practices for engaging with young Indigenous peoples to address sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in their communities through arts-based methods.

The Trail is a guide, designed for individuals and groups who are navigating the complexity of youth-centred spaces, where young people are supported to address specific issues, like SGBV as well as other forms of violence in their lives and communities. The Trail demonstrates what youth-led work looks like in practice and the roles adults can play as allies in youthled work.

All of the promising practices can be adapted to different contexts using the guiding principles, key features, tips, and real-world spotlights of the practices in action.

The Trail of Promising Practices comes from the work of Indigenous girls and young women, in all their diversity, together with their adult supporters in Eskasoni Mi'kmaw Nation (Unama'ki, Nova Scotia), Rankin Inlet (Kangiqliniq, ᑲᖏᕿᓂᖅ, Nunavut) &Treaty 6 (the Homeland of the Métis, Saskatchewan) who have been part of the Networks4Change, More Than Words and Pathways2Equity projects.

Stay tuned for the launch of The Trail at https://issuu.com/morethanwordsmedia or contact Project Coordinator Leann Brown (leann.brown@mcgill.ca) to be amongst the first to receive the electronic guide in your inbox. Coming Soon

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TRANSFORM Learning Series

TRANSFORM’S learning agenda includes a range of webinars, book launches and master classes addressing a diverse range of topics and issues. Join us for the following events September-December, 2024. Note: Times and date might need to be adjusted, so keep an eye out on our social media and our website!

Virtual Book launch:

Re-visioning Cellphilming Methodology

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

9:00-10:30 am EDT

Register on Zoom

Webinar:

A Dialogue on Youth Leadership in Research

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

9:00-11:00 am EDT

Register on Zoom

Webinar:

Gender-Transformation: The politics and practices of disrupting gender norms

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

9:00-11:00 am EST

Hear from an international line-up of researchers and NGO practitioners using cellphilms in their work, all of whom contributed to Re-Visioning Cellphilming Methodology, edited by Claudia Mitchell, Hani Sadati, Lisa Starr & Shannon Roy

Join youth from several fieldsites along with TRANSFORM researchers Relebohile Moletsane (UKZN), Naomi Nichols (Trent), Jayne Malenfant (McGill).

Catherine Vanner (University of Windsor) brings together an international panel of researchers working with gender transformation as a with radical frameworks for addressing gender equality. Panelists will be looking across issues such as climate justice, queer activism, and gender based violence.

Register on Zoom

Virtual Book launch:

Where Am I in the Picture? Research

Positionality in Rural Studies

Monday, November 18, 2024

9:00-10:30 am EST

Register on Zoom

UPCOMING!!!

Join Katarina Giritli-Nygren (University of Mid-Sweden), Relebohile Moletsane (UKZN), and Claudia Mitchell (McGill University) in conversation with contributors across Sweden, SouthAfrica, and Canada, all addressing reflexive methods for interrogating rural spaces.

Now that theTRANSFORM New Magazine has been launched, be ready for special topics: Full coverage of the First TransformYouth Summit Emma Harden-Wolfson from McGill University talks about weaving gender transformation and participatory visual methodologies into a graduate level Education and Development course

NewTRANSFORM publications and toolkits!

TRANSFORM Partners

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