Upcoming Event - Golden Mind
In 2016, UTM Alumna Faduma Mohamed, produced her one-woman play OUGHTISM in d’bi young’s Watah Theatre. For one year thereafter, she carried a box from her play every single day to challenge the stigma around autism. Through this #OughtTheBox campaign, she has raised over $9,000 for racialized families/people on the spectrum. Donations benefited families in Toronto, Edmonton, and London, England and she was awarded the Yinnergy Good Samaritan Award for her work around autism awareness and autism fundraising.
Golden Mind: A Journey Through Love, Activism and the Realm of Autism is Mohamed’s sequel to OUGHTISM. It follows Tariq, a Black nonverbal autistic savant and his neuro-typical girlfriend, Reign, as they become activists against a biotechnological corporation that aims to “exterminate” autism.
Mohamed, a spoken word poet and storyteller, developed this play under the guidance of Professor Nicole Charles, as part of a 2018/19 independent study course in the Women and Gender Studies program at UTM. Expanding upon OUGHTISM, Golden Mind draws upon the intersectional, transnational and woman of colour feminist theories and methodologies she studied in this course to analyze the intersections and complexities among race, biomedicine, capitalism and autism in an increasingly neoliberal and technological age.
Please join us for a performance of Golden Mind, September 23rd from noon to 1:30pm in the MiST Theatre!
Presented by the Women and Gender Studies Feminist Lunch Series with the proud support of the Department of Historical Studies and the Office of the Vice-Principal and Dean at UTM.