Black Research Network

News | Tuesday, June 7, 2022

#BlackonCampus Roots and the Radical Student-Led Organizing of the Black Liberation Collective- University of Toronto

In the spring of 2015, around 500 Black graduate and undergraduate students, staff and faculty came together on a Friday...

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Events | Monday, April 11, 2022

Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism

Presented by the Centre of Ethics, author and Wayne State University professor Samantha Noël will discuss her recent book, Tropical...

Caribbean History

News | Thursday, March 24, 2022

UTM prof’s debut book unpacks suspicion behind HPV vaccine in Barbados

In 2015, Nicole Charles headed to Barbados to unpack the reasons behind parents’ hesitancy toward the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine....

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Nicole Charles

Nicole Charles is an assistant professor in the department of historical studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her research focuses on women, gender and sexuality studies, including Caribbean feminisms and Black feminist health science studies. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach in her research, Charles questions issues of care, gendered and racialized risk, technoscience and coloniality in the Black Atlantic.

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News | Thursday, March 17, 2022

From resilience to resistance: Placing Black Canadian history at the forefront of academia

University of Toronto historian Funké Aladejebi is on a mission to place Black Canadian history at the forefront of academia....

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Events | Friday, March 04, 2022

WGS Research Seminar – Book Launch: “Suspicion” by Nicole Charles

Join the Women & Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) and guest panelists to celebrate the launch of the book, Suspicion, by...

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Suspicion and/as Radical (Care): Looking Closer at Vaccine Hesitancy in Postcolonial Barbados

Charles’ examines the caring work of human papillomavirus (HPV) delivery, looking closely into historical antithetical understandings and practices of care.