How do we imagine recreational sports outs ide of the gender binary and the forms of toxic masculinity that often per meate these spaces? The Field of Dreamers Cooperative Softball Association and Sqwish recreational basketball drop in have been asking these questio ns for the last 5 years in Toronto. This panel will discuss the basics of creating queer and non-binary sports leagues\, the political work of recre ational sports\, and the need for municipalities to re-imagine adult recre ation post-pandemic.
\nModerator: Sam Toman
\nSam Toman is a l ocal writer and founder of the design collaboration TryCities. He's writte n for the Globe and Mail\, Macleans\, The Star\, The Economist and several less-flashy but more-fun publications. Working as Communications Officer in the Faculty of Environment he promotes equity and sustainability work b y some of the sharpest minds anywhere. To be honest\, he's not super happy with the Region these days. Follow him \;@MidtownKW \;where he pu nches up.
\nPanel: Craig Fortier\, LJ Robinson\, Amina Mohamed\, Min gus
\nCraig Fortier \;craig.fortier@uwaterloo.ca
is an Assi
stant Professor in Social Development Studies at Renison University Colleg
e. Craig is a Co-Commissioner with the Field of Dreamers Cooperative Softb
all Association and has played short-stop and centre field for the Humber
River Hustle\, Rouge River Blush\, and Credit River Care Bears. They are t
he author of Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Within\, Against\, a
nd Beyond Settler Colonialism as well as several articles on baseball hist
ory.
LJ Robinson is a designer and illustrator who has been creati ng communications for resistance in Kitchener-Waterloo and Toronto for the past 12 years. They never found a place in team sports as a kid but are n ow a founding member and Co-Commissioner of the Field of Dreamers Cooperat ive Softball Association.
\nAmina Mohamed is the Women&rsquo\;s Comm unity Program Coordinator at PASAN. She provides education\, advocacy\, pr ogramming and case management to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated wo men living with HIV. In addition she is a lead artist-facilitator with Con fluence Arts Collective. With Confluence\, Amina facilitates artistic crea tion programs in prisons and transitional residences. Amina is the co-foun der of sqwish\, a weekly queer drop-in basketball night.
\nMingus is a queer artist who spends his time between digital creation and community organization. In the recent past\, Mingus has co-organized Sqwish\, a wee kly drop-in basketball night centred around queer people\; cofounded Club Quarantine\, a virtual community space created to foster queer community d uring the pandemic\; co-organized community-funded cottage retreats for Bl ack queer folks throughout last summer\; and co-facilitated a Halloween ca ndy drive in partnership with Mutual Aid Parkdale to safely deliver candy to kids in response to COVID-19. Mingus is an advocate for marginalized pe ople in STEM\, most recently collaborating on an Input article about racis m within the Instagram filter community.
\nThis program is presented in partnership with Renison Unive rsity College.
\nPlease register on Eventbrite by clicking here. Registrants will receive a n e-mail 24 hours before the start of the program with an invitation to jo in.
\nHosted by: Nancy
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