A Dialogue on NGO-Academic Collaborations: Pitfalls and Promising Steps Forward

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

EFECT (Experiments in Feminist Ethical Collaborative Tools & Techniques) is a funded, Canadian project uniting community-based anti-violence organizations and feminist academics. Synthesizing our knowledges, we unpack and alter both systemic and cultural practice that reify barriers that prohibit the success of diverse women and women-identified people in digital spaces. Our unique project targets the need for tangible change in ethical and communication practices, and offers hands-on techniques that build crucial anti-oppressive, feminist and digital literacies. In this roundtable, and via active audience engagement, we will engage in in frank dialogue regarding our internal collaborative struggles and successes in this work.

Sub Unit

• General Conference / SUBTHEME THREE: The future of the universities, schools, and knowledge production: maroon spaces, insurgent practices, and the future of the disciplines and the interdisciplines?

Moderator

• T.L. Cowan, University of Toronto

Presenters

• Carrie Rentschler, McGill University

• Prateeksha Singh, mpathy Designs

• Wendy Francis Oliveira De Souza, METRAC