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 and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.
In Western culture including Western feminism, women of colour, women in post-colonial societies and indigenous women are often presented as abstract yet homogeneous (e.g. African women, Arab women, indigenous women, etc.), or as victims. They are regarded as the “other” women. They are rarely considered as real, material subjects, who are geographically, historically and culturally grounded. In this presentation, our featured speaker, Wei Djao, will examine the three descriptors of the other women – Silk, Steel, Sage – in order to foster a different way of understanding women outside of the dominant Western culture.
Wei Djao, a writer and educator, received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto. She taught sociology and Asian/Global Studies in Canada, the United States and Hong Kong. In addition to articles published in scholarly journals, she is the author of the following books: A Blossom Like No Other: Li Qingzhao (2010); Being Chinese: Voices from the Diaspora (2003); Inequality and Social Policy: the Sociology of Welfare (1982); and (co-authored) Choices and Chances: Sociology of Everyday Life (1986). Her forthcoming book is entitled A Humanist Path: Ancient Chinese Wisdom for Curious Walkers.
Wei was the interviewer, narrator, writer or researcher in the production of television documentaries about Asian Americans and Chinese Canadians: American Nurse (an award-winning program about the experiences of New York-born Chinese American veteran of the Vietnam War Lily Lee Adams); Another Day in America; Lily Goes Home; and Chinese Café in Rural Saskatchewan.
Wei enjoys doing botanical illustrations in watercolour.
Please RSVP on meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/zgtbgsyccfbcc/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
This meeting has been recorded:
Unedited Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1__HhCOpg1TtTM1JpbFAXuV_JE4yoIXXW/view?usp=sharing
Unedited Part 2:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YECa-Qlbo6kY_oaQrCYd2lPdvkELrV68/view?usp=sharing
We are working on an edited recording to be provided in the next few days.