The Impossible Citizen: a Conversation on Race, Gender and Democracy

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The Impossible Citizen: A Conversation on Race, Gender and Democracy In 2014, Zunera Ishaq launched a court challenge against the federal ban Wednesday, November 18, 2015 on face veils at citizenship ceremonies. She would go on to win at the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal, with the federal government 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm vowing to appeal and stay the decisions every step of the way. OISE/UT, The Nexus lounge What does Canada v Ishaq show us about racialised women’s 252 Bloor St West, 12th floor access to justice, democracy, and services? Why have Muslim women become the sites of legal and political battles? How does the Light refreshments will be provided. heightened scrutiny of Ishaq’s clothing reflect other women’s struggles Registration is free, but space is limited. for meaningful participation in and critique of the law and democracy? Join the Canadian Association of Muslim Women in Law (CAMWL), LEAF, and the Department of Social Justice Education, OISE, for a discussion of these and other questions related to violence, religion, Please register today. equality, and democracy. MODERATOR Jasmine T. Akbarali is a partner with Lerners LLP, where she practices in the Appellate Advocacy Group. She specializes in appeals and litigation opinions in Amina Jamal is an Associate Professor a wide range of areas, including public law and of Sociology at Ryerson University. constitutional challenges. Recently, Jasmine Dr. Jamal studies women, gender, Islam was counsel to LEAF in the Ishaq case. and modernities in South Asia and Canada from a poststructuralist and transnational Muslim feminist location. Fathima Cader serves on the steering She has published on the politics committee of CAMWL. Currently a staff of Muslim women’s representation, lawyer at the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario, gendered Islamism and the ongoing she has previously taught at the University of discursive struggle of feminism and Windsor Faculty of Law. She recently served Islamism in Pakistan. on the case committee for LEAF’s proposed intervention in Ishaq v Canada. Sherene Razack is a full professor in the Department of Social Justice Education, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Tendisai Cromwell is a Toronto-based Education of the University of Toronto. filmmaker and the founder of New Narrative She is the author and editor of several Films. She has directed and produced books related to race and gender issues in documentaries that explore diaspora the law. Her most recent book investigates communities, identity, and faith. With a the deaths of Indigenous people held in background in digital journalism, she has police custody in Canada. produced radio segments for CBC’s The Current. She is also a published creative writer and poet. Disclaimer: Photographs taken at this public event will be used in LEAF print and online publications..

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