Denise Ferreira da Silva

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Denise Ferreira da Silva is a philosopher and academic based in Vancouver, Canada. Her writing and artistic practice address race, colonialism, and ethics by attending to the centrality of violence in the metaphysical and ontoepistemological dimensions of modern thought. She is a professor and director of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia.

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artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.