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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please do everything you can to publicize this event. Copies of her book will be available at the lecture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Confessions of a Feminist Killjoy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Erin Wunker</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> (Acadia University) is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too! She brings memoir, literary criticism, pop culture, theory, and feminist thinking together
to introduce Sara Ahmed’s figure of the feminist killjoy as a lens through which to read the world.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Erin’s</b> brand new book <b><i>Notes from a Feminist Killjoy
</i>(2016) </b>has been named<b> Quill and Quire Fall 2016 Non-Fiction Preview Selection
</b>and<b> 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Fall 2016 Non-Fiction Preview Selection. </b>
She is Chair of Canadian Women in the Literary Arts (<a href="http://www.cwila.com">www.cwila.com</a>) and co-founder of Hook & Eye: Fast Feminism, Slow Academe (<a href="http://www.hookandeye.ca">www.hookandeye.ca</a>).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Thursday, November 3, 2:30 p.m. Room SJ1-3014<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>St. Jerome’s University. Free. Open to all.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sponsored by the St. Jerome’s University HeForShe Committee in support of the UN Women Solidarity Movement for Gender Equality. #HeForShe<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">St. Jerome’s is part of the University of Waterloo’s commitment to the United Nation’s HeForShe campaign:
<a href="http://www.HeForShe.org">www.HeForShe.org</a>, and I am SJU’s Faculty Advocate for the HeForShe Impact 10x10x10 initiative (<a href="http://www.heforshe.org/impact">http://www.heforshe.org/impact</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David Seljak<o:p></o:p></p>
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