Examining Gender Based Violence Through the Lens of Indigenous Knowledges Using Story as a Method

Tuesday, December 6, 2022 - 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion (Centre) is pleased to invite you to its Equity and Inclusion Dialogue series for the 2022-2023 academic year. Online registration is now open for this event. View the flyer for event details. Limited seating available.

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Facilitator Bio:

Tasha Beeds, B.A., M.A.

Tasha Beeds is an Indigenous scholar of nêhiyaw, Scottish-Metis, and Caribbean ancestry from the Treaty 6 territories of Saskatchewan, specifically Mont Nebo situated between Mistawasis and Ahtahkakoop First Nations. She grew up in Mont Nebo & Shellbrook. Tasha activates from connected roles: as a mother, a kôhkom, a creative artist, poet, Water Walker, and a Midewiwin iskwêw from Minweyweywigaan Lodge out of Roseau River First Nations and Wiikwemkoong Unceded Reserve in Ontario. Her creative, academic, and grassroots work highlights and celebrates Indigeneity while promoting Indigenous nationhood and sovereignty, as well as care and protection of the land and waters based on carrying Indigenous Ancestral legacies forward for the generations to come. She asserts Indigenous intellectual bundles, legal orders, cultural legacies, and spiritual traditions have survived and will continue to flourish.

Tasha was the Ron Ianni Fellow at the University of Windsor for two years where she worked with the Indigenous Legal Orders Institute on many of the themes reflected in her life’s work. In 2022, year she was also the inaugural visiting Indigenous Scholar at the Ānako Indigenous Research Institute at Carleton University in Ottawa as well as an adjunct Professor for a unique partnership on land/water based education between Queen’s University in Kingston ON, and Kenjgewin Teg, an Anishinaabe based educational institute out of Mndoo Minising (Manitou Island) in Ontario.