Sun Aug 16 – [Online] Life, Death, Autism and Comedy

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm but you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.

This Sunday our featured presentation will be a TED talk available on YouTube (about 18 minutes long) by Hannah Gadsby, a lesbian comedian from Australia who gained world attention with her Netflix special, Nanette. Reflecting on the purpose of her humour, she said, ‘I have built a career out of self-deprecating humour, and I don’t want to do that anymore. Because do you understand what self-deprecation means when it comes from somebody who already exists in the margins? It’s not humility. It’s humiliation.’ Helen Lenskyj, a Toronto Oasis participant and past speaker on several occasions, will introduce the video and moderate the discussion. Helen is Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, where she taught sociology.

Please RSVP on meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/ffpjvrybclbvb/

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!