You are invited to join us for an interactive roundtable session on Thursday, July 8. AWE is bringing together Indigenous women entrepreneurs from across Alberta to share stories of their business ventures and discuss not only the economic contributions of Indigenous entrepreneurship, but also the challenges facing Indigenous women in their pursuit of success.

We are hoping this session will serve as a pulse check on the emerging needs of Indigenous women entrepreneurs. Join us for an open and honest conversation on how the ecosystem can better support Indigenous women entrepreneurs.

This event is open to ALL Indigenous women entrepreneurs based in Alberta.

This event will be hosted on Zoom. Registrants will be sent the zoom link shortly before the event.

Date and time

Some of the questions we will be addressing include:

1. What are the challenges today for African feminisms?

2. Are African feminisms more inclusive or exclusive? (whose interests, class, sexual orientation do they prioritise?)

3. What are the commonalities/differences between African feminisms and western feminisms?

4. Can African feminisms build a transnational alliance with western feminisms?

5. Can we have Pan-African framework for scholarship on women in Africa?

6. Are African female scholars and writers feminists ?

7. Is Feminism truly unAfrican, anti-men, divisive etc.?

8. Are transgender women part of the feminist’s struggles?

This event is presented in partnership with our friends at The New Republic.

Panelists include:

Heather Berg writes about sex, work, and social struggle. Her book Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. It tells a story of crafty workers, faltering managers, and shifting solidarities. Her second project, “Sex Workers Against Work,” is an intellectual history of the sex worker left. It engages anti-capitalist sex workers’ critiques of straight work, unpaid sex, and state violence and explores their experiments with alternatives. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University.

Sarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center Fellow and an independent journalist covering the politics of power, from the workplace to the streets. She is also the cohost, with Michelle Chen, of Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast, as well as a columnist at The Progressive and New Labor Forum. Her latest book, Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone, is a deeply-reported examination of why “doing what you love” is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.

Gabriel Winant is a historian of the social structures of inequality in modern American capitalism and an Assistant Professor of US History and the College at the University of Chicago. His book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Manufacturing and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America investigates the rise of the “service economy” in the aftermath of manufacturing and locates the origins of today’s social inequality in America’s postwar political economy. Using Pittsburgh as a case study, the book shows how deindustrialization triggered the ascent of the care economy and stamped it with the inequalities produced by the New Deal state’s hierarchies of race and gender.

Date and time