EDI Speaker Series
Author and screenwriter Catherine Hernandez offers an in-depth talk about embodied allyship. In connection with the themes in her dystopian novel Crosshairs, she will lead a series of exercises and reflections that guide the audience from passive performative allyship to creating true change in our everyday actions. Be prepared to move, breathe and be challenged.
We warmly invite community participation in this workshop. This is a safe, inclusive, virtual space to learn, discuss and ask questions. Registration is not required.
About Catherine Hernandez
Catherine Hernandez (she/her) is an award-winning author and screenwriter. She is a proud queer woman who is of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese and Indian descent and married into the Navajo Nation. Her first novel, Scarborough, won the Jim Wong-Chu Award for the unpublished manuscript; was a finalist for the Toronto Book Awards, the Evergreen Forest of Reading Award, the Edmund White Award, and the Trillium Book Award; and was longlisted for Canada Reads. She has written the critically acclaimed plays Singkil, The Femme Playlist and Eating with Lola and the children’s books M Is for Mustache: A Pride ABC Book and I Promise. She recently wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Scarborough, produced by Compy Films with support from Telefilm Canada and Reel Asian Film Festival. The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival and was picked up for distribution by levelFILM. She is the creator of Audible Original’s audio sketch comedy series Imminent Disaster. Her second novel, Crosshairs, published simultaneously in Canada and the US and the UK, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award and made the CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction, NOW Magazine’s 10 Best Books, Indigo Best Book, Audible Best Audiobooks and NBC 20 Best LGBTQ Books list of 2020. Her third children’s book, Where Do Your Feelings Live? which is a guide for kids living through these scary times, has been commissioned by HarperCollins Canada and will be published in winter 2022. Her third novel, PSW, about the unlikely friendship between a caregiver and her elderly client, will be published in winter 2023 by HarperCollins Canada.
Hosted by the EDI Committee
Co-chairs: Lindsay Wong, Taylor Brown-Evans
Faculty and Staff Members: Tania De Rozario, Maureen Medved, Alix Ohlin, Christine Palka
Student Representatives: Meagan Black, Roshni Riar, Gabrielle Rutman
