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:
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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 pioneering past. Kim offers the tour by pay-what-you-can donation to Shift Calgary. |
Author
Kim's writing explores the construction of knowledge by asking how things
that seem totally "normal" and "natural" got to be that way, and how they might have been different. She advocates social justice by making visible the invisible, the disappeared, and the erased. Her book, Imagining Russia (2012),
won the SUNY Press First Book Award in Women's Studies. Most recently, Kim completed a research project
examining the people, processes, and policies of evacuating family pets during the Fort McMurray, AB wildfire in May 2016.
Her current book project, currently under contract with Fernwood Publishers, explores the gendered, racialized,
and settler colonial dynamics of the annual Calgary Stampede.
that seem totally "normal" and "natural" got to be that way, and how they might have been different. She advocates social justice by making visible the invisible, the disappeared, and the erased. Her book, Imagining Russia (2012),
won the SUNY Press First Book Award in Women's Studies. Most recently, Kim completed a research project
examining the people, processes, and policies of evacuating family pets during the Fort McMurray, AB wildfire in May 2016.
Her current book project, currently under contract with Fernwood Publishers, explores the gendered, racialized,
and settler colonial dynamics of the annual Calgary Stampede.
Teacher
Whether Kim is giving a paper at a conference, leading folks on her walking tour, or teaching classes at Mount Royal University, 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 conversations about social justice.
About Kim
Dr. Williams is an award-winning author, teacher, community activist, and engaging public speaker. She is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Women's & Gender Studies at Mount Royal University where she teaches courses on men and masculinities, feminist, critical race, and queer theories, and global gender issues, including the transnational sex industry, globalization, and health and health care policies and practices.
Having earned her PhD in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland, in the traditional territories of the Pamunkey and Piscataway, Kim is a white settler trying to live unsettled in Treaty 7 territory, on the hereditary homelands of the Niitsitapi (the Blackfoot Confederacy: Siksika, Piikani, Kainai), the Îyârhe Nakoda, and Tsuut'ina Nations, and of the Métis Nation of Alberta. As a white settler living in these lands, Kim acknowledges the treaty relations that have not been honoured by her ancestors and works daily to restore active Indigenous presence and good relations in a city now known as Calgary, where the Elbow River meets the Bow.
In her time off campus, 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.
Having earned her PhD in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland, in the traditional territories of the Pamunkey and Piscataway, Kim is a white settler trying to live unsettled in Treaty 7 territory, on the hereditary homelands of the Niitsitapi (the Blackfoot Confederacy: Siksika, Piikani, Kainai), the Îyârhe Nakoda, and Tsuut'ina Nations, and of the Métis Nation of Alberta. As a white settler living in these lands, Kim acknowledges the treaty relations that have not been honoured by her ancestors and works daily to restore active Indigenous presence and good relations in a city now known as Calgary, where the Elbow River meets the Bow.
In her time off campus, 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.
