PANEL 2: SELF-LOVE

In this panel we will be unpacking the self-love as a practice and a concept, the accessibility of self-love and the politics of who has access to self-love. We will also be addressing questions of the necessity of self-love as a practice. What is the difference between self-love and self care? Why is there such an urgent need for self-love and self-care? What are the economic, structural, social and emotional barriers that deny us access to self-care and self-love?  Is there a pedagogy around self-love? Do we help each other to partake in acts of self-love and self care? What are the emotional and political economies of self-love and self care? Where do we go from here?

ELISHA LIM

Elisha Lim is unusually happy to have been raised in an all-girls Catholic convent on a tropical island. It may have motivated Lim’s enthusiasm to celebrate and decorate queer people of colour, being surrounded by such an unapologetic and vivacious community. Lim also takes great pleasure in creatively portraying the beauty, dignity and power of being neither straight, nor white, nor cis-gendered. Lim has illustrated novels, wall calendars, books and magazines with this mission, including the Bitch Magazine acclaimed “Sissy Calendar”, The Illustrated Gentleman, and most notably – 100 Butches, a graphic novel of portraits and anecdotes about masculine queers. 100 Butches earns a lot of publicity from its introduction by New York Times bestselling author Alison Bechdel, and still accomplishes Lim’s covert plan, with a 90% quota of racialized models, and an unabashed dedication “to queers of colour.”

dom13 elisha lim on self-love

PANEL 2: SELF-LOVE

In this panel we will be unpacking the self-love as a practice and a concept, the accessibility of self-love and the politics of who has access to self-love. We will also be addressing questions of the necessity of self-love as a practice. What is the difference between self-love and self care? Why is there such an urgent need for self-love and self-care? What are the economic, structural, social and emotional barriers that deny us access to self-care and self-love?  Is there a pedagogy around self-love? Do we help each other to partake in acts of self-love and self care? What are the emotional and political economies of self-love and self care? Where do we go from here?

AUDIENCE RESPONSE TO THE PANELISTS' INSIGHTS.
First panelist: Suvadip Sinha
Second panelist: Elisha Lim
Third Panelist: Christiana Collison
Fourth Panelist: Bedour Alagraa

dom13 self-love question & answer period

PANEL 2: SELF-LOVE

In this panel we will be unpacking the self-love as a practice and a concept, the accessibility of self-love and the politics of who has access to self-love. We will also be addressing questions of the necessity of self-love as a practice. What is the difference between self-love and self care? Why is there such an urgent need for self-love and self-care? What are the economic, structural, social and emotional barriers that deny us access to self-care and self-love? Is there a pedagogy around self-love? Do we help each other to partake in acts of self-love and self care? What are the emotional and political economies of self-love and self care? Where do we go from here?

CHRISTIANA COLLISON

Christiana Collison is an unapologetic black anti-oppressionist who takes immense pleasure in subverting the andocentric whiteness of any space she comes into contact with—including her university. In her final year of undergraduate study at McGill University, she is currently completing an Honours degree in Women’s Studies with a joint minor concentration in Philosophy and Political Theory. For Christiana, subversion came in the form of a bi-weekly column she wrote in her school’s newspaper, The McGill Daily, titled, “Tyrone Speaks” in which she, uncensored, writes openly and honestly about herself as a black woman, feminist and militant. Occasionally writing for The McGill Daily and various other publications including The Urban Times, she—an aspiring and often self-proclaimed theorist—sees theory as her current weapon of choice and hopes to use theory as both a method and praxis for critically thinking through and making sense of (her own) oppression.

dom13 christiana collison on self-love

PANEL 2: SELF-LOVE

In this panel we will be unpacking the self-love as a practice and a concept, the accessibility of self-love and the politics of who has access to self-love. We will also be addressing questions of the necessity of self-love as a practice. What is the difference between self-love and self care? Why is there such an urgent need for self-love and self-care? What are the economic, structural, social and emotional barriers that deny us access to self-care and self-love? Is there a pedagogy around self-love? Do we help each other to partake in acts of self-love and self care? What are the emotional and political economies of self-love and self care? Where do we go from here?

BEDOUR ALAGRAA

Bedour Alagraa completed her BA at the University of Toronto in 2011, majoring in International Relations and Political Science. She recently completed her Masters in Race, Ethnicity, and Post-colonial studies at the London School of Economics under the guidance of distinguished cultural theorist and author Paul Gilroy. She recently returned from London, UK where she worked at the Institute of Race Relations while completing her dissertation on race and the humanitarian industrial reporting complex. She currently works as the Equity and Campaigns Organiser at the Ryerson Students’ Union where she supervises five equity service centers: The Racialised Students’ Collective, RyePRIDE, RyeACCESS, the Centre for Women and Trans People, and the Community Food Room.

dom13 bedour alagraa on self-love

PANEL 2: SELF-LOVE

In this panel we will be unpacking the self-love as a practice and a concept, the accessibility of self-love and the politics of who has access to self-love. We will also be addressing questions of the necessity of self-love as a practice. What is the difference between self-love and self care? Why is there such an urgent need for self-love and self-care? What are the economic, structural, social and emotional barriers that deny us access to self-care and self-love? Is there a pedagogy around self-love? Do we help each other to partake in acts of self-love and self care? What are the emotional and political economies of self-love and self care? Where do we go from here?

SUVADIP SINHA

Suvadip Sinha teaches courses on South Asian history, politics, and media at the Munk School of Global Affairs. He did his Ph.D. on modernity and material culture in Indian cinema from the Western University. He is currently looking for ghosts in love in Indian cinema and literatures.

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