Course Outline:
Week 1: Introduction to Navigating Grief in BIPOC Solidarity, as grounded in Michèle Pearson Clarke's "Rethinking how we hold space for grief and loss" TED talk, with an invitation to reflect and write about one's losses.
Week 2: Introduction to Navigating Collective Grief, with an invitation to reflect and write about one's losses.
Week 3: Introduction to Navigating Disenfranchised Grief, with an invitation to reflect and write about one's losses.
Week 4: Introduction to Navigating Movement Grief, with an invitation to reflect and write about one's losses.
Week 5: Introduction to Navigating Anticipatory Grief, with an invitation to reflect and write about one's losses.
Week 6: Introduction to Navigating (Dis)ability Grief, with an invitation to reflect and write about one's losses.
Week 7: Introduction to Navigating Carceral Grief, with an invitation to reflect and write about one's losses.
Week 8: Introduction to Grief as a Spiritual Practice, with an invitation to reflect and write about one's losses.
Week 9: Introduction to Navigating Climate Grief, with an invitation to reflect and write about one's losses.
About Krystal Kavita Jagoo
Krystal Kavita Jagoo holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Social Work degree. As a fat queer disabled Indo-Trinidadian woman and settler on Turtle Island, she remains intent on anti-oppressive practice as a social worker, especially given her field's insidious complicity with the problematic status quo. Jagoo taught "Justice and the Poor: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender" at Nipissing University, and continues to facilitate virtual writing workshops like Sustainable Resistance for BIPOC Folx. Jagoo's Inclusive Reproductive Justice essay was published in Volume 2 of the Reproductive Justice Briefing Book: A Primer on Reproductive Justice and Social Change. Her visual art, "University Ableism Bingo" was featured in "Pandemic: A Feminist Response," the zine "CRIP COLLAB" and the "Owning Our Stories" journal. Jagoo's essay, “A Slow Death in Academia” was published in Radical: An Unapologetic Anthology by Women & Gender Nonconforming Storytellers of Color in 2020, and presented at tapashta, SpringWorks’ Digital ShortWorks Showcase in 2022. Jagoo is passionate about equity, as can be seen from her hundreds of written works in digital publications. She has been awarded Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council grants to work on her memoir essay collection, entitled, "They Colonized Even My Tongue."
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Should you require any assistance with registration please reach out to Faith Rajasingham (Program Coordinator at Scarborough Arts) for support: faith@scarborougharts.com
