This Dis-Orientation Week event is a 2-hour comprehensive and interactive workshop with Shanese Steele on the nuances of colonialism and whiteness in both a historical and contemporary context.

When: Thursday, September 14th from 4pm to 6pm
Where: On Zoom (register by clicking here)

Participants will learn how to recognize both forms of oppressions within not only structures and systems, but also within themselves.

Through thought-provoking activities and practical actionable items, attendees will leave the facilitation with the tools to start their own journeys of dismantling their internal settler colonialism and how to challenge the institutions that uphold it.

About Shanese Steele

Shanese Anne Indoowaaboo Steele is an Afro-Indigenous femme living and working on the traditional territories of the Missauagek and Potwatomi people. Being Métis Anishinaabe Kwe and a Black person of Trinidadian and Grenadian descent she understands the complexities of the diasporic experiences of visitors to these lands in relationship to the original inhabitants. Her work includes both traditional knowledge from her Métis Anishinaabe ancestors and community as well as that of her Black ancestry. Shanese’s work is about building bridges between Black and Indigenous peoples living on Turtle Island and Globally, Supporting LGBTQAI2S+ community, advocating for victims of intimate partner and violence and creating space and opportunities for all marginalized communities. All of her work comes from a decolonial, Queer, feminist and pro-Black framework.