More than a decade in the making, Kimberly A. Williams’ recent book, Stampede: Misogyny, White Supremacy, and Settler Colonialism (Fernwood 2021) is the first-ever intersectional feminist look at the settler colonial roots of Canada's oldest and largest western heritage festival. In this talk, Williams will expose some of the material realities behind, and often negative gender-based consequences of, this much-beloved annual event. Coinciding with and celebrating International Women’s Day (March 8), this presentation will challenge participants to ask feminist questions about how the Calgary Stampede influences life on the streets and in the bars and boardrooms of Canada’s fourth-largest city.

Bio:
Kimberly A. Williams (she/her) directs the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at MRU. She teaches in subject areas that include men and masculinities; intersectional feminist, critical race, and queer theories; the processes and politics of colonization/decolonization; transnational feminist movements; and global gender issues, including the global sex trade industry and health and health care policies and practices. Dr. Williams’ research interrogates the power dynamics of political projects that rely on settler colonial narratives for cohesion. She also offers a summer walking tour, Booze, Broads & Brothels, based on her research on Calgary’s historic sex industry. Learn more at http://www.kawilliamsphd.com.