History & Community Engagement at McMaster U, Settler, Parent, Feminist

Joined March 2013
I’m deeply grateful to my friends and colleagues for nominating me for a YWCA Hamilton Women of Distinction Award. I’ve been nominated in the Education and Training and Lifetime Achievement categories. #WODHamiltonHalton
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🎉Kick off your @supercrawl weekend with us! Join McMaster’s Office of Community Engagement for a pop-up of workshops, activities & community connections in downtown #HamOnt. Sept 12, 3–5:30PM @ One James North. ✨ RSVP & learn more: bit.ly/4mo8RJL
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📣 Only two days left to vote in the AHA Elections! Hear Sherene Seikaly, our candidate for Vice President of the professional Division explain how & why the democratization of AHA is about Palestine, queer liberation, black liberation, class politics, and protecting immigrants.
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.@McMasterU is harboring hate. Profs take $$ from an anti-trans hate org -- and they know it. Read and share this important piece from @theSpec in #HamOnt: archive.ph/ievJG @HCCI1 @EquityNetworkD @swaphamilton
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Karen Balcom retweeted
📢 Meet the 2025 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award winners — including two winners from @mcmasteru! 🎉 Join @researchimpact's FREE webinar on June 26 to learn about their award-winning projects, which drive real-world impact. Register: lu.ma/tqclq7z2
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Indigenous scholars & practitioners reflect on the C2UExpo theme, "Partners in Place." Grounded in the values of relationality reciprocity & respect for land & community. @MacEwanResearch @McMasterU @KarenBalcom @ajesusjoseph #C2UExpo #McMasterOCE
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Historian here you could call it happy tariff day or happy Great Depression day or you could call it late stage rapacious capitalism
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If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
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We're excited to announce that @SWAPHamilton was accepted into the @McMasterU's Community Engaged Research Days this month, March 27-28! 💕 @McMasterOCE @McMasteResearch #HamOnt – at Hamilton, Ontario
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The next Canadian Prime Minister should appoint Justin Trudeau as Ambassador to the United States.
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You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.
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