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 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 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 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 & 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.
About Kim
Dr. Williams (she/her) 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, settler colonialism, 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, Region III.
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. Kim is currently working toward her Master of Social Work through Western New Mexico University.
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, Region III.
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. Kim is currently working toward her Master of Social Work through Western New Mexico University.
