Waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy recently recorded her poem Grandmother with Mohawk poet and producer Janet Rogers (find her incredible work here and here). We will be bringing this recording with us to share at the European Network in Aging Studies conference this spring. Listen here! Waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy is Anishinaabe of mixed ancestry from Lac Seul First Nation and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. She is a mother, an Anishinaabe language learner, and is actively engaged in learni

Aging Activisms researcher, Mehrangiz Monsef recently attended the International Indigenous Research Conference in Auckland, New Zealand. Mehrangiz shared some reflections on the conference in an earlier blog post, and has shared some more reflections below. This post, like the previous one, shows much resonance with our work and research here at Aging Activisms. "The best part about day two was hearing and learning from the Anishinaabekwe (Anishinaabemowin for: Indigenous W

Mehrangiz Monsef, one of the research assistants and collaborators at Aging Activisms, is in New Zealand this week, attending the International Indigenous Research Conference 2016. Mehrangiz is attending the conference and learning about intergenerational, community based, and Indigenous research around the world! So much resonance with and so many lessons for our work with Aging Activisms. Mehrangiz has shared some reflections with us: "Leading up to the arrival in New Zeala

So much to think about following the 2016 National Women's Studies Association Conference. Maddy, May and Melissa were grateful to gather with so many feminist thinkers and creators and grateful to the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk) on whose traditional and unceded territories we gathered as uninvited guests. We are sitting with the words of so many important thinkers and creators: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Audra Simpson, Chineya ​Oparah, Kim TallBear, Angela Davis, Chandra Mohan

Aging Activisms researcher, Mehrangiz Monsef recently attended the International Indigenous Research Conference in Auckland, New Zealand. See Mehrangiz's reflections here and here.

May Chazan, Maddy Macnab, and Melissa Baldwin attended and presented at the 2016 National Women's Studies Association Conference in the traditional and unceded territories of the Kanien’keha:ka (Montreal) on the theme of Decoloniality. May presented a paper titled "Complex Activist Herstories: Unsettling Linear Narratives of Aging as Decline," and Maddy and Melissa presented a paper on their radio show, titled "Audible resistance, subversive stories: Performing intergeneratio