Ceta Ramkhalawansingh catalogues more than 50-year career of feminist activism: Toronto Star
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Published: January 19, 2022
After five decades in activism, city-building and community planning, ΟγΈΫΑωΊΟ²ΚΧΚΑΟ alumna Ceta Ramkhalawansingh has amassed an impressive collection of local history β and she is donating some of it to her alma mater.
So far, Ramkhalawansingh β who co-founded the first womenβs studies program at ΟγΈΫΑωΊΟ²ΚΧΚΑΟ in 1971 and was one of its first lecturers β has shipped off 30 cartons of records to the ΟγΈΫΑωΊΟ²ΚΧΚΑΟ Archives and 17 boxes of feminist-theory and Caribbean-studies books to the New College library, .
βMy big pandemic project has been trying to make that knowledge and information available and not lost,β Ramkhalawansingh told the Star.
Ceta Ramkhalawansingh (centre) at ΟγΈΫΑωΊΟ²ΚΧΚΑΟ in 1975 (photo by Robert Lansdale/ΟγΈΫΑωΊΟ²ΚΧΚΑΟ Archives)
In 2020, 50 years after creating the womenβs studies program, Ramkhalawansingh was celebrated for establishing the Ceta Ramkhalawansingh Scholarship to support students in the at ΟγΈΫΑωΊΟ²ΚΧΚΑΟ. She said at the time that she βnever really left ΟγΈΫΑωΊΟ²ΚΧΚΑΟβ and continues to give back to the community through her current project.
βIf I could make a contribution to increasing that knowledge,β she told the Star, βIβm more than happy to spend the time doing it.β