Marusya Bociurkiw

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Full Name	Marusya Bociurkiw
Occupation	Blogger
Date Of Birth	May 25, 1958(1958-05-25)
Age	66
Birthplace	Edmonton
Country	Canada
Birth City	Alberta
Horoscope	Taurus

Marusya Bociurkiw Biography

Marusya Bociurkiw is one of the most popular and richest Blogger who was born on May 25, 1958 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Marusya Bociurkiw (born May 25 1958) is a Ukrainian Canadian film-maker, writer academic, activist, and scholar. She has written six books, which include the novel, short story collection, poetry collection collection, and memoir. Her critical and narrative writing has been published in numerous publications and collection. Bociurkiw has also co-directed and directed ten films and videos that have been shown at film festivals across several continents. Her work is part of those of collections at the National Gallery of Canada, the National Archives of Canada, as well as many libraries at universities. She co-founded or founded the media companies Emma Productions, Winds of Change Productions along with The Studio for Media Activism & Critical Thought. She is currently residing within Toronto, Ontario, Canada where she is an associate professor at the RTA School of Media Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto. She teaches classes on activism and social justice in media production, as well as gender, race and queer theories of digital and time-based media. She is also the Director of The Studio for Media Activism & Critical Thought at Ryerson University.

Bociurkiw is also a prestigious award-winning author as well as a media studies academic. Her critical and narrative writing has been published in collections and journals as Border/Lines, Fuse, Rites Magazine, The Journey Prize Anthology (McClelland Stewart), Dykewords (Women’s Press), Queer Looks (Routledge), Two Lands, New Vision (Coteau) and Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home (University of Toronto Press). In 1994, Bociurkiw released her debut book The Woman Who Loved Airports (Press Gang) an assortment of short stories. This was and a poetry collection entitled Halfway to the East (Lazara Press 1999). She graduated with the MA at the level of Social and Political Thought, at York University (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). Her academic and creative careers are always interspersed. As a teacher, she was she completed her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia (2005) and then working as an instructor in Ryerson University’s Radio and Television Arts (RTA) School of Media, Ryerson University (2007 to until the present) and she has written her debut novel The Children of Mary (Inanna 2006) and her award-winning memoir Comfort Food for Breakups (Arsenal 2007). She released her book of academic research, Feeling Canadian: Television Nationalism & Affect (Wilfrid Laurier University Press).

Bociurkiw’s most recent film—This is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights and the War in Ukraine—highlights the role of LGBT activists in the 2013 Euromaidan and 2014 Ukrainian revolution, which culminated in the expulsion of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. LGBT people in Ukraine had a lot to lose from the rise of Russian political influences there. As a result of the illegal occupation and annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014—bringing it under the Russian LGBT propaganda law—many LGBT Ukrainians from Crimea and Donetsk were forced to flee to safe houses in Kiev and Odessa. Though the law criminalizing same sex sexual activity under Soviet Union law was revoked when Ukraine achieved independence in 1991, there remains a high level of social censure. Political leaders in Ukraine, before and after Euromaidan, have been reluctant to pass anti-discrimination legislation, despite pressure to comply with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. After many delays, a law banning workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity was finally passed on November 12, 2015. Russian and religious influences continue to threaten the safety and social recognition of LGBT people in Ukraine. Bociurkiw’s film draws attention to this struggle and gives voice to the heroes of the Ukrainian LGBT rights movement.

Bociurkiw promotes feminist and anti-racist pedagogy and research through the Studio for Media Activism & Critical Thought, a research hub at Ryerson University that blurs the boundaries between media art, activism, and scholarly investigation. It organizes a yearly speakers’ series, symposia, student mentorship, and an online graduate journal. In 2015, the Studio’s Speaker Series—which is open to Ryerson students, faculty and the public—featured Indigenous Scholar, Dr. Raven Sinclair; media artist, Deanna Bowen; and anti-poverty activists Cathy Crowe. More recently, The Studio has organized the annual Laboratory for Feminist Memory, that celebrates and remediates the archive of Toronto second wave feminism – especially its intersectional, racialized and queer aspects., featuring such artists as Midi Onodera, Thirza Cuthand, and Zainub Verjee.

After finishing her studies at NSCAD She moved to Toronto and, in 1983, she and her colleagues created the documentary Our Choice, A Tape About Teenage Mothers (Women’s Media Alliance). Then, in 1984 she founded the feminist collective of video, Emma Productions, which produced numerous pieces that included The Story of No Small Change: The Story of the Eaton’s Strike (dir. Ruth Bishop & Marusya Bociurkiw 1985) and Bullets for a Revolution (dir. Marusya Bociurkiw 1988). These films were created and released in an environment of vibrant feminist media scene in the 1980’s Toronto. No Small Change The story of The Eaton’s Strike and Bociurkiw’s own film Playing with Fire (1986) were part of an exhibition that toured from 1989 to 1990 called Rebel Girls: A Survey of Canadian Feminist Videotapes 1974-1988. They were followed by a number of additional single-authored pieces which included Unspoken Territory, about the historical background of racial profiling in Canada and More recently, This is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights and the War in Ukraine (2015). The film features conversations with Ukrainians who are LGBT to examine the role queer activists played during the Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution and the Russian occupation which came after. The films of Bociurkiw have been shown at festivals across the continents.

Marusya Bociurkiw Net Worth

Marusya Bociurkiw is one of the richest Blogger from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marusya Bociurkiw 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As the creator of the feminist group Emma Productions, and as an out gay woman Bociurkiw was a prominent participant with her involvement in the Toronto as well as Vancouver feminist movements as well as peace in addition to LGBT social movements through in the 1990s, and the 2000s. The 1980s were when she participated with Women’s Action for Peace, International Women’s Day Coalition, the pro-choice movement Latin American solidarity movement, and Women for Economic Justice While living in Montreal she designed and taught the first class about LGBT film in Canada in Concordia University, with Thomas Waugh. She was one of the first women from Canada to venture into the male- dominated field that is media art and use films and videos to raise awareness about women’s labor and other issues.

Bociurkiw earned her Master in Fine Arts (1982) at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University. There, she was introduced to feminist art and the emerging area of art made through video. She was a student of Bruce Barber and Garry Neill Kennedy. She was a part of the what Barber calls “the gathering momentum of a feminist movement at NSCAD” Co-founded the women’s file at NSCAD Library that was later the inspiration for Toronto’s Women’s Art Resource Centre. She was on the board of directors for the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax which she was the curator of an exchange between Halifax and Toronto of activist performance art, titled “Performance As Resistance” (1985) that featured Dub-poets Lillian Allen and Clifton Joseph comedian Sheila Gostick and Halifax a group of a capella called Four The Moment.

Bociurkiw’s memoir, Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl, received Foreword Magazine’s INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award (2007), the Independent Publisher Book Awards (silver) for Best Autobiography/Memoir (2008); and was short-listed for the Golden Crown Literary Award, Lesbian Short Story Essay Collection, and the prestigious Kobzar Literary Award and the Lambda Literary Award (2008). Bociurkiw was the 2013 recipient of the Deans’ Scholarly, Research and Creative Activity Award at Ryerson University. Her short story, “A Girl, Waiting,” was short-listed for the 2015 CBC Creative Non-Fiction Award. The anthology Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home, which included her story”Bringing Back Memory” won a 2018 Kobzar Award. . Her memoir Food Was Her Country was shortlisted for a 2019 Lambda Award.

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