Building a Culture and Practice of Community Care on Campus

You are invited to our first Transformation Café event of the year, Practice of Community Care on Campus, on January 29th at 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm. Featuring disability justice scholar and care collective organizer, Dr. Loree Erickson, and collective care artist–researcher and TMU ComCult alum, L. Morris, this conversation and workshop will take up how we care for one another in university.

This session will animate Loree’s long-standing and revolutionary work with care collectives and L’s practices of collective care, mutual aid, and harm reduction. We will open with a conversation between Loree and L on collective care, mutual aid, and abolition. We will then have small group discussions and maker circles where participants will reflect on their own care practices and networks, consider tensions between state-supported care and community-led care, and imagine concrete ways to build and sustain care on campus. We will engage these topics through conversation and collage.

This on campus lunch time event is free and open to the public. Lunch and ASL interpretation will be provided. We ask that those coming in person wear a face mask when not eating. Surgical masks will be available.

When: Thursday, January 29th

Time: 12PM - 1:30 PM - Doors and lunch at 11:30 AM

Where: 288 Church Street, (DCC building), room 707/709

Access: ASL interpretation. This is a mask-mandatory event. Please wear a mask when not eating and we will have surgical masks available. Folks will be available to support collage making. For questions about access please email eliza.chandler@torontomu.ca

Registration: This event is free and open to the public. To register for in-person or online attendance, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1980670128673?aff=oddtdtcreator (external link)