Dr. Chun Resource Library
The Dr. Chun Resource Library exists as a space for community members and University of Toronto students to access factual, citical and alternative materials that facilitates resistance to oppression among and between diverse communities.
The library is committed to supporting marginal voices. In particular, those voices that have been traditionally left out of main stream political mobilizing are emphasized in our collection.
The library is committed to providing an anti-oppressive and harassment free space where community members and students can learn, organize and connect with one another.
The library is committed to being responsive and accountable to the community that supports it. It welcomes recommendations, volunteers and donations.
The library is supported by The Centre for Women and Trans People and the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG). The visions and interests of both organizations have been incoporated into the mission and collection policy of Dr. Chun Resource Library. These include a commitment to social, environmental, economic, human rights and anti-oppression issues.
Please visit the website library.opirguoft.org for more information.
Email us at:
or
*** What's Happening at The Library?! ***
Making and Doing Empowerment: A Zine-Making Workshop
With author of zines: "Dykes and their Hair" and "Upskirt: Dirty (un)feminist secrets", Teresa Chun-Wen Cheng
Wednesday November 25
3pm - 5:30pm
Zines can alter our sense of who we are and what is possible. Cheesy, self-help slogans and cliches don't always work for those who are queer, diasporic, racialized, trans, dis/abled, working class, survivors of violence. This hands-on workshop is about re-imagining and creating our own inspirational zine, full of what inspires us and keeps us going when times get rough.
We will create content for the radical inspirational zine and learn the basics of layout and design.
*This event is part of our events for 16 Days of Activism Against Gendered Violence
Dr. Chun Resource Library and Aboriginal Women & Women of Colour Group present: Words of Resistance
Tuesday December 1
4pm - 6pm: Vegan/Veggie Potluck
7pm: Words of Resistance Open Mic Poetry & Spoken Word
FREE & Everyone is welcome!
Come out and SPEAK OUT against oppression, with subjects right off our shelves!
THEMES for DEC 1 WORDS OF RESISTANCE: COLONIALISM and VALUING ABORIGINAL WOMEN
Poetry can be focused around either of these topics or their intersections of oppression and resistance.
Show up with your poetry on either of the themes and read! We will kick off the evening with a vegetarian potluck from 4:00pm - 6:00pm. Bring food, or join us to nibble on what everyone else brings! At 7:00pm, we will proceed with the open mic.
This event is free and open to everyone!
*This event is part of our events for 16 Days of Activism Against Gendered Violence
A little bit about Aboriginal Women & Women of Colour Group:
AWWOC hosts events and programs geared specifically for Aboriginal women and women of colour. The group encourages women to come socialize, watch movies, and agitate. The group meets every Tuesday from 4:00 to 6:00pm at the Centre for Women and Trans people and is always welcoming new members!
Voices Reading Circle presents:
Shyam Selvadurai
Join the Voices Reading Circle!
BREAKING BOUNDARIES & BINDINGS BOOK CLUB LAUNCH
Thursday, October 29
7pm
Dr. Chun Resource Library
@ The Centre for Women and Trans People at UofT
563 Spadina Avenue, Room 100 (North Borden Building)
Refreshments will be provided!
Featuring Reading & Discussion
Shyam Selvadurai (Author of Funny Boy)
This month the reading circle will be featuring the novel Funny Boy. Please bring along your thoughts and ideas to share and engage in this discussion with Shyam about his novel. Themes of the novel include: queer migrant issues, the experience of Diaspora, and struggles of class, ethnicity, and sexuality.
Get a 10% DISCOUNT on the book, as part of your membership to the reading circle at the Toronto Women’s Book Store.
OR
Borrow Funny Boy from the Dr. Chun Resource Library; other U of T libraries, including Robarts, Thomas Fisher Rare Book, Victoria College library, University College library, Trinity College library & the St. Michael’s College library or from the Toronto Public Libraries
For more information and to sign up contact Sumaya at sumaya.a.ahmed@gmail.com or contact womens.centre@utoronto.ca
About Funny Boy
In this remarkable debut novel, a boy's bittersweet passage to maturity and sexual awakening is set against the escalating politcal tensions in Sri Lanka, during the seven years leading up to the 1983 riots. Arjie Chelvaratnam is a Tamil boy growing up in an extended family in Colombo. It is through his eyes that the story unfolds and we meet a delightful, sometimes eccentric cast of characters. Arjie's journey from the luminous simplicity of childhood days into the more intricately shaded world of adults - with its secrets, its injustices, and its capacity for violence - is a memorable one, as time and time again the true longings of the human heart are held against the way things are.
Words of Resistance: Poetry & Spoken Word Series
*Words of Resistance spits fire from Arbor Room for this special disOrienatation performance night!
Thursday September 17, 6pm
Location: Arbor Room @ Hart House (7 Hart House Circle)
FREE Iftar Meal at sundown, sponsored by Graduate Students' Union
Had lips tied? Rights denied?
Seen silence amplified?
They may draw boundaries on my home, my neighborhood, my people and me
But they will never, ever stop me from speaking out.
They will never take away my
WORDS OF RESISTANCE
Come to listen, to speak and to share.
Open mike, short plays, spoken word and performances.
Featured Artists include:
Nomanzland
Unknown Mizery
Anu Radha Verma
Gitanjali Lena
Kenji Tokawa
Amai Kuda
Jorge Vallejos
Jean-Marc Daga
Rosina Kazi
*This event is part of disOrientation 2009
Voices Book Club presents:
Reading and Discussion with Farzana Doctor, author of the novel Stealing Nasreen. Farzana will be reading discussing themes of writing, queer issues and immigrant and diaspora issues.
Thursday February 12, 5-7 pm
Refreshments will be provided!
Dr. Chun Resource Library's DIY Workshop Series: Making Paper
Stop by and join us in making some paper, do-it-yourself style!
Thursday, November 6th from 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Volunteer in the library!
Check our Volunteer webpage for more information about how to become a volunteer.
Add the Dr. Chun Resource Library group on Facebook!
The library is committed to supporting marginal voices. In particular, those voices that have been traditionally left out of main stream political mobilizing are emphasized in our collection.
The library is committed to providing an anti-oppressive and harassment free space where community members and students can learn, organize and connect with one another.
The library is committed to being responsive and accountable to the community that supports it. It welcomes recommendations, volunteers and donations.
The library is supported by The Centre for Women and Trans People and the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG). The visions and interests of both organizations have been incoporated into the mission and collection policy of Dr. Chun Resource Library. These include a commitment to social, environmental, economic, human rights and anti-oppression issues.
Please visit the website library.opirguoft.org for more information.
Email us at:
or
*** What's Happening at The Library?! ***
Making and Doing Empowerment: A Zine-Making Workshop
With author of zines: "Dykes and their Hair" and "Upskirt: Dirty (un)feminist secrets", Teresa Chun-Wen Cheng
Wednesday November 25
3pm - 5:30pm
Zines can alter our sense of who we are and what is possible. Cheesy, self-help slogans and cliches don't always work for those who are queer, diasporic, racialized, trans, dis/abled, working class, survivors of violence. This hands-on workshop is about re-imagining and creating our own inspirational zine, full of what inspires us and keeps us going when times get rough.
We will create content for the radical inspirational zine and learn the basics of layout and design.
*This event is part of our events for 16 Days of Activism Against Gendered Violence
Dr. Chun Resource Library and Aboriginal Women & Women of Colour Group present: Words of Resistance
Tuesday December 1
4pm - 6pm: Vegan/Veggie Potluck
7pm: Words of Resistance Open Mic Poetry & Spoken Word
FREE & Everyone is welcome!
Come out and SPEAK OUT against oppression, with subjects right off our shelves!
THEMES for DEC 1 WORDS OF RESISTANCE: COLONIALISM and VALUING ABORIGINAL WOMEN
Poetry can be focused around either of these topics or their intersections of oppression and resistance.
Show up with your poetry on either of the themes and read! We will kick off the evening with a vegetarian potluck from 4:00pm - 6:00pm. Bring food, or join us to nibble on what everyone else brings! At 7:00pm, we will proceed with the open mic.
This event is free and open to everyone!
*This event is part of our events for 16 Days of Activism Against Gendered Violence
A little bit about Aboriginal Women & Women of Colour Group:
AWWOC hosts events and programs geared specifically for Aboriginal women and women of colour. The group encourages women to come socialize, watch movies, and agitate. The group meets every Tuesday from 4:00 to 6:00pm at the Centre for Women and Trans people and is always welcoming new members!
Voices Reading Circle presents:
Shyam Selvadurai
Join the Voices Reading Circle!
BREAKING BOUNDARIES & BINDINGS BOOK CLUB LAUNCH
Thursday, October 29
7pm
Dr. Chun Resource Library
@ The Centre for Women and Trans People at UofT
563 Spadina Avenue, Room 100 (North Borden Building)
Refreshments will be provided!
Featuring Reading & Discussion
Shyam Selvadurai (Author of Funny Boy)
This month the reading circle will be featuring the novel Funny Boy. Please bring along your thoughts and ideas to share and engage in this discussion with Shyam about his novel. Themes of the novel include: queer migrant issues, the experience of Diaspora, and struggles of class, ethnicity, and sexuality.
Get a 10% DISCOUNT on the book, as part of your membership to the reading circle at the Toronto Women’s Book Store.
OR
Borrow Funny Boy from the Dr. Chun Resource Library; other U of T libraries, including Robarts, Thomas Fisher Rare Book, Victoria College library, University College library, Trinity College library & the St. Michael’s College library or from the Toronto Public Libraries
For more information and to sign up contact Sumaya at sumaya.a.ahmed@gmail.com or contact womens.centre@utoronto.ca
About Funny Boy
In this remarkable debut novel, a boy's bittersweet passage to maturity and sexual awakening is set against the escalating politcal tensions in Sri Lanka, during the seven years leading up to the 1983 riots. Arjie Chelvaratnam is a Tamil boy growing up in an extended family in Colombo. It is through his eyes that the story unfolds and we meet a delightful, sometimes eccentric cast of characters. Arjie's journey from the luminous simplicity of childhood days into the more intricately shaded world of adults - with its secrets, its injustices, and its capacity for violence - is a memorable one, as time and time again the true longings of the human heart are held against the way things are.
Words of Resistance: Poetry & Spoken Word Series
*Words of Resistance spits fire from Arbor Room for this special disOrienatation performance night!
Thursday September 17, 6pm
Location: Arbor Room @ Hart House (7 Hart House Circle)
FREE Iftar Meal at sundown, sponsored by Graduate Students' Union
Had lips tied? Rights denied?
Seen silence amplified?
They may draw boundaries on my home, my neighborhood, my people and me
But they will never, ever stop me from speaking out.
They will never take away my
WORDS OF RESISTANCE
Come to listen, to speak and to share.
Open mike, short plays, spoken word and performances.
Featured Artists include:
Nomanzland
Unknown Mizery
Anu Radha Verma
Gitanjali Lena
Kenji Tokawa
Amai Kuda
Jorge Vallejos
Jean-Marc Daga
Rosina Kazi
*This event is part of disOrientation 2009
Voices Book Club presents:
Reading and Discussion with Farzana Doctor, author of the novel Stealing Nasreen. Farzana will be reading discussing themes of writing, queer issues and immigrant and diaspora issues.
Thursday February 12, 5-7 pm
Refreshments will be provided!
Dr. Chun Resource Library's DIY Workshop Series: Making Paper
Stop by and join us in making some paper, do-it-yourself style!
Thursday, November 6th from 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Volunteer in the library!
Check our Volunteer webpage for more information about how to become a volunteer.
Add the Dr. Chun Resource Library group on Facebook!