We are honoured to welcome Professor Emerita M. Jacqui Alexander
(Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto and The Tobago Centre)
to Speaking to Power Conference 2020!
Thursday, October 15 Opening Address
An Interview with Prof. Emerita M. Jacqui Alexander
Professor Emerita M. Jacqui Alexander is a writer, teacher, creator, and founding director of the Tobago Center. She is a devotee of the ancient African (diasporic) spiritual systems of Orisa/Ifa, and a student of yoga and Vipassana mediation, having received sacred teachings in Nigeria, the Kongo, India, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, and New York.
Her work has centered on an expansive vision of social justice that is based in a commitment to freedom for all and to healing from the legacies of imperialism, colonialism, and enslavement, particularly among populations dispossessed by the logics of capital and the pathologizing narratives of heterosexuality, gender and nationalism.
She is also author of Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred. She is Professor Emerita at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.