The focus of the panel is collective care and care taking. Its different modes, people's motivations for being involved and staying involved and the various manifestations of care (support work, activism, different arts practices, food, parties, sub/Dom, etc). There are countless ways to enact care in our day-to-day lives; seeing the work we do as "care taking" can invigorate our practices and our routines.

Refreshments at 6pm
Discussion begins at 7pm

Your panelists:
Estelle Davis - Taking What We Need
Loree Erickson - Loree's Care Collective
Sedina Fiati
Akia Munga - Pieces to Pathways
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Sedina Fiati is a performer, producer, creator and activist for stage and screen. She is proudly queer, femme and of Trinidadian and Ghanaian descent. Sedina means a gift from God in Ewe and she helps to be that to the world. She has been caring for folks since the age of 11, when her nephew was born. More recently, she is a part of 2 care collectives. Sedina firmly believes we all need care, support, and love and hopes to continue to build new inclusive, anti ableist frameworks where we are all connected and supported.
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Akia Munga is a Black Queer 26 year old harm redux worker, discourse disruptor and Blacktavist. He has lived experience in being locationally displaced, substance use and intersectional trauma.

Akia most recently organized "We Grieve Thousands" a demonstration and protest regarding system oppression experienced by those living in poverty and the opioid crisis. Also was award the LGBT Youthline Award For "Outstanding Achievements in Social and Health Services" 2017

On top of working at the Overdose Prevention Site and as the acting secretary at Toronto's Harm Reduction Alliance (THRA), he also works as a client support worker at Pieces to Pathways and a harm reduction worker at Parkdale Queen West Community Health Center.
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Dr. Loree Erickson is a white, queer, femmegimp porn star academic. Based in Toronto, she is the creator of want, an internationally award-winning queercrip porn film, and a community organizer. She is currently a sessional instructor at Ryerson, OCAD, and U of T offering classes on sexuality studies, transformative justice, queer theory, gender studies, disability studies and pop culture. She is also the ELA postdoc fellow at Ryerson’s School of Disabilty Studies. She loves travelling to lecture, making queercrip porn, and facilitating workshops/lecturing on a variety of topics including collective care, disability justice/radical disability politics, and all things related to creating and cultivating cultures of resistance and transforming cultures of undesirability. She is also a fan of sun, sparkly things, and social justice.

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Please send a message if you have any accessibility needs, including interpretation, child care or an attendant.

Following the panel is a party, Grind'Her.

Support provided by Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art.

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