Girls Authoring Decolonial Futures: Reimagining Literacies, Gender, and Activism from the Global South
Mosaïque Network event in collaboration with the Participatory Cultures Lab
Presenters: Monica Shank Lauwo (McGill University), Fatuma Mnubi (Aga Khan University, Tanzania), and Claudia Mitchell (McGill University)
Wednesday, June 10, 12-2 EDT. In-person: Participatory Cultures Lab: 2001 McGill College, Suite 930 Montreal
Online: on ZOOM.
This HYBRID event is an interactive exhibition and discussion that offer an invitation to listen closely to 10-12-year-old Tanzanian girls, by interacting with their multilingual books, drawings, and photovoice creations. Come learn how these young author-artists disrupt dominant narratives of girlhoods, interrogate community issues impacting their lives, and envision and enact alternative futures.
Join speakers Monica Shank Lauwo (McGill University), Fatuma Mnubi (Aga Khan University, Tanzania), and Claudia Mitchell (McGill University) for an exhibition, critical discussion, and lunch! Collection of girl-authored digital books available for online participants.
Monica Shank Lauwo is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. Her work engages children, teachers, and communities in participatory arts-based practices, exploring children’s multilingual authorship, critical literacies, and community changemaking. Her research interests include translanguaging, multiliteracies, gender, antiracism, identity, teacher education, and participatory visual methodologies, in Tanzania, Kenya, and Canada.
Fatuma Issa Mnubi is an experienced secondary school teacher with over ten years of teaching practice in Tanzania. She currently serves as a Research Assistant on the Stories of Lives and Literacies project and is pursuing a Master of Education (Tertiary Specialization) at Aga Khan University. Through participatory and visual research approaches, she supports girls in exploring their identities, languages, and educational aspirations.
Claudia Mitchell is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies with the Faculty of Education at McGill University. As the Director of the Participatory Cultures Lab and the PI of the SSHRC Partnership Project TRANSFORM: Engaging with Young People for Social Change, her work employs participatory visual methodologies to collaborate with young people towards gender transformation and social change.
