Now available:
Kim's new book on the Calgary Stampede.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: What the F*ck?
Chapter 2: Truck Nuts and Petro Cowboys Chapter 3: Who’s Greatest Together? Chapter 4: Colonial Redux: The Calgary Stampede’s “Imaginary Indians” Chapter 5: Sexcapades and Stampede Queens Conclusion: Now, What? |
More than a decade in the making, STAMPEDE: Misogyny, White Supremacy, and Settler Colonialism is the first-ever intersectional interrogation of the settler colonial roots of Canada's oldest and largest western heritage festival. Williams exposes the material realities and often negative consequences behind this much-beloved annual event, challenging readers to ask feminist questions about who benefits from it and who doesn’t. Using a variety of cultural material, from photography and print advertisements to poetry and social media, Williams explores how this popular event continues to influence life on the streets and in the bars and boardrooms of Canada’s fourth-largest city.
Available now! Order from Fernwood Publishers in Canada and Columbia University Press in the US. Early praise for STAMPEDE:
"An amazing example of how to analyze iconic Canadian culture and tradition in an accessible and engaging manner. This book reflect a vital call for Canadian scholars and students to continue to explore the role of settler colonialism and sexism that proliferate in the public and private spaces intended to foster Canadian nationalism. STAMPEDE is edgy, personal, and theoretical." —Victoria Kannen, Co-editor of The Spaces and Places of Canadian Popular Culture |
SpeakerKim is an engaging and dynamic speaker. Grounded in extensive teaching experience, her talks lead participants through interactive sessions that combine critical thinking with an intersectional feminist analysis.
She is adept at working with participants who embody a range of complex identities and who are at different levels of familiarity with social justice concepts. Kim is funny and compassionate while facilitating meaningful discussions to unlearn oppression and work toward equity and justice. Kim is able to speak to your group on the following topics:
Have other ideas? Get in touch! |
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Tour GuideAs featured on the Women's March Canada Podcast, Kim has taken her research on Calgary's consensual adult sex industry to the streets in an historical walking tour.
Booze, Broads & Brothels encourages participants to envision new ways of making sense of the old stories commonly told about Calgary’s past. Kim offers the tour by pay-what-you-can donation to Shift Calgary. |
Author
In her writing, Kim explores things that are missing, that have been disappeared and/or rendered invisible
in the stories we tell about ourselves. She challenges readers to ask how and why they think they know
what they know, and how they might unlearn it, or learn it differently.
Her book, Imagining Russia (2012), won the SUNY Press First Book Award in Women's Studies, and her research on the people, processes, and policies of evacuating family pets during the May 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire is currently featured on PreventionWeb, the website of the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Kim's most recent project on the hundred year-old Calgary Stampede explores the gendered, racialized, and settler colonial dynamics of Canada's oldest and largest annual rodeo and western heritage festival.
in the stories we tell about ourselves. She challenges readers to ask how and why they think they know
what they know, and how they might unlearn it, or learn it differently.
Her book, Imagining Russia (2012), won the SUNY Press First Book Award in Women's Studies, and her research on the people, processes, and policies of evacuating family pets during the May 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire is currently featured on PreventionWeb, the website of the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Kim's most recent project on the hundred year-old Calgary Stampede explores the gendered, racialized, and settler colonial dynamics of Canada's oldest and largest annual rodeo and western heritage festival.
Teacher
Whether Kim is giving a paper at a conference, leading folks on her walking tour, or teaching classes at Mount Royal University, where she directs the Women's and Gender Studies Program, she brings energy and humour to her work. Having taught university courses for over twenty years, she has a wealth of experience working with diverse groups of people to engage in honest and brave conversations about social justice. Kim is a 2021 winner of Mount Royal University's Distinguished Faculty Award.
About Kim
Kim (she/her) is an award-winning author, teacher, community activist, and engaging public speaker. She is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Women's and Gender Studies at Mount Royal University where she teaches courses on men and masculinities; intersectional feminist, critical race, and queer/trans 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.
Kim's career is characterized by excellence in scholarly teaching, leadership in service, and significant accomplishments in scholarship, all of which exist in dynamic relationship with each other and are in constant and robust advocacy of justice, equity, and inclusion. Her work with students is connected to and informed by her service across campus and in the broader community, and both are connected to the questions she seeks to answer in her research.
Having earned her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland, in the traditional territories of the Pamunkey and Piscataway, Kim is a white settler doing her best to live unsettled in Treaty 7 territory, on the hereditary homelands of the Niitsitapi (the Blackfoot Confederacy: Siksika, Piikani, Kainai), the Îyârhe Nakoda (Wesley, Chiniki, and Bearspaw) and TsuuT'ina Nations, and of the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
In her time off, Kim hangs out with her best girl, a mini mystery mutt named Cricket, with whom she plays agility, climbs mountains, and explores Calgary's off leash parks.
Kim's career is characterized by excellence in scholarly teaching, leadership in service, and significant accomplishments in scholarship, all of which exist in dynamic relationship with each other and are in constant and robust advocacy of justice, equity, and inclusion. Her work with students is connected to and informed by her service across campus and in the broader community, and both are connected to the questions she seeks to answer in her research.
Having earned her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland, in the traditional territories of the Pamunkey and Piscataway, Kim is a white settler doing her best to live unsettled in Treaty 7 territory, on the hereditary homelands of the Niitsitapi (the Blackfoot Confederacy: Siksika, Piikani, Kainai), the Îyârhe Nakoda (Wesley, Chiniki, and Bearspaw) and TsuuT'ina Nations, and of the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
In her time off, Kim hangs out with her best girl, a mini mystery mutt named Cricket, with whom she plays agility, climbs mountains, and explores Calgary's off leash parks.
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