Unsettling Activisms

May Chazan is a Canada Research Chair in Gender and Feminist Studies, and a faculty member in Gender and Women’s Studies at Trent University.Melissa Baldwin is a graduate student at the Frost Centre for Canadian and Indigenous Studies at Trent University.Pat Evans is a recent co-chair of the Grandmothers Advocacy Network (GRAN).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Amplifying Activisms—May ChazanPART I: PLURALIZINGPoem I: Grandmother—waaseyaa’sin christine syIntroduction to Part I: Pluralizing—Carole RoyChapter 1: Activisms across Women’s Lives: Rethinking the Politics of (Grand)Mothering—May Chazan, Jesse Whattam, and Melissa BaldwinReflection 1: “Climbing into My Granny Pants”: Reflections from a Grandmother Activist—Peggy EdwardsChapter 2: Activist Aging: The Tactical Theatrics of RECAA—Kim Sawchuk and Constance LafontaineReflection 2: Change and Continuity: Activisms across Time and Place—Sadeqa SiddiquiPART II: PERSISTINGPoem II: Firekeeper—Keara LightningIntroduction to Part II: Persisting—waaseyaa’sin christine syChapter 3: “That’s my Bridge”: Water Protector, Knowledge Holder, Language Teacher—Elder Shirley Ida Williams PheasantReflection 3: “And Then We Let Them Go, and We Have Their Backs”— Monique MojicaChapter 4: Settler Solidarities and the Limits of Granny Activism—May ChazanReflection 4: Learning to Listen: Half a Century of Walking with First Peoples—Jean KoningPART III: EMBODYINGPoem III: This Mouth—Niambi LeighIntroduction to Part III: Embodying—Sally ChiversChapter 5: Strengthening Our Activisms by Creating Intersectional Space for the Personal, Professional, Disability, and Aging—Nadine Changfoot, Mary Anne Ansley, and Andrea DodsworthReflection 5: Words, Work, and Wonder: Poeting toward Mid-life—Ziy von BChapter 6: The Raging Grannies versus the Sexperts: Performing Humour to Resist Compulsory (Hetero)Sexuality—Marlene Goldman, May Chazan, and Melissa BaldwinReflection 6: (In)Visible: Photographing Older Women—Ruth Steinberg and Maureen MurphyPART IV: REMEMBERINGPoem IV: Lip Point for Bearded Women—waaseyaa’sin christine syIntroduction to Part IV: Remembering—Laura MadokoroChapter 7: Activist Archiving and the Feminist Movement in Mexico: Collecting Art and Ephemera as Political Practice—Gabriela Aceves SepúlvedaReflection 7: Activist Aging on and off the Airwaves: Reflections on the Community Radio Show Aging Radically—Melissa Baldwin and Maddy MacnabChapter 8: Intergenerational Interventions: Archiving the Grandmothers Advocacy Network—Pat Evans, Sharon Swanson, May Chazan, and Melissa BaldwinReflection 8: Following Nan to the Kiji Sibi—Jenn ColeClosing: Activist Theirstories and the Future of Aging Activisms—May Chazan, Melissa Baldwin, and Pat EvansContributor Biographies