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October 27, 2023 — WGSJ stands in solidarity with our colleagues at York University affiliated with the The School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Council and the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies Executive The School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Council and the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies Executive are resolute in our support of all...
August 9, 2023 — Matria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past by Tegan Zimmerman and published by University Press of Mississippi (click for News release (309 KB)). The book offers afeminist exploration of postcolonial Caribbean literature, analyzed within the framework of an imagined maternal space and time. Through close readings of the mother/daughter plots in contemporary Caribbean women’s historical fiction, such as Andrea Levy’s The Long Song,...
June 29, 2023 — ** We welcome Faculty Associations, Departments and Programs, and individuals to sign this open letter. Please share widely.** https://forms.gle/RnXcHQEGPeAMe1T46 Women’s and Gender Studies Association [et Recherches Féministes] (WGSA/RF) stands in solidarity with students, faculty, and the broader campus community of the University of Waterloo, especially those who were targeted in a hateful attack on June 28th. We are horrified and collectively...
November 7, 2022 — CUPE education workers' strike We stand in solidarity with the CUPE education workers in Ontario. We condemn the actions of the conservative government, led by Doug Ford and the Education Minister Stephen Lecce, who have passed the Keeping Students in Class 2022 Act. Instead of good faith bargaining, the government has invoked the notwithstanding clause, which prohibits workers’ right to...
October 31, 2022 — We have been watching the protests in Iran from afar, saddened by the murder of Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, outraged by the brutal actions that the morality police took because she was not wearing her hijab according to government standards, and feeling helpless as we look on, knowing she was not the first person to ensure such tyranny,...
June 30, 2022 — We are deeply saddened and outraged by the recent decision by US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade. We are in solidarity with our neighbours (to the south) in their actions and demands in response to this decision. We know that this will lead to more deaths, and that it will intensify already existing health disparities facing Black,...
May 2, 2022 — In the Maelstrom of History: A Conversation with Miriam by Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin (2022) is the story of Miriam Frankel (nee Grünglas), an elderly Jewish woman who, as a young teenager, suffered through the Holocaust and lost her entire family in Auschwitz, but managed to survive and eventually emigrate to Canada, where she is now a happy grandmother and matriarch of a large...
April 28, 2022 — Executive Council Spotlight: Rebekah Hutten, Communications Rebekah Hutten (she/her) is an academic editor and Ph.D. candidate in musicology & feminist studies at McGill University in Montréal. She has subject matter expertise in popular musicology, feminist philosophy, and Atlantic Canadian studies. Rebekah holds an M.A. in Musicology from the University of Ottawa and bachelor’s degrees in musicology and flute performance...
April 28, 2022 — Executive Council Spotlight: Corinne Mason, Membership Corinne L. Mason is a queer non-binary femme (They/She) white settler and Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Sociology at Brandon University. Their research program investigates how social justice concerns become ‘crises’ to be managed by institutions. She specializes in the areas of sexualized and gendered violence, 2SLGBTQIA+ in/exclusion, EDI, and...
April 27, 2022 — Grappling with Care: Femme Emotional Labour, Somatic Politics, and the Black Feminist Breathing Chorus Friday May 20, 2022 6:00pm – 7:30pm EST on zoom Professionally live captioned This talk will explore the proliferation of discourses of care – including self-care, collective care, and radical care – as well as critiques of those discourses, both of which have gained additional momentum...
April 9, 2022 — Please join the editors for their book launch of Creative Resilience and COVID-19: Figuring the Everyday in a Pandemic, edited by Irene Gammel and Jason Wang (Routledge). The launch will take place on April 14, 4-5 PM EDT. Register here! https://bit.ly/36tXz4Z.
March 6, 2022 — CFP: Unmasking Academia: Institutional inequities laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic, edited by Irene Shankar and Corinne L. Mason In March 2020, with infection cases surging nationwide, public health policies were introduced across Canada to curb the spread of COVID-19. Despite claims of the COVID-19 pandemic being a great equalizer, the pandemic has further entrenched existing inequities within...
February 23, 2022 — Spaces of Trust, Ethics of Care and Ungrading Praxis Mon, February 28, 2022. 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST. Register here. What is ungrading? What can it do? In this workshop, Dr. Ustundag will to explore the possibilities and limits of the “ungrading” praxis by provoking how moving away from the traditional grading practices can create spaces of trust and ethics...
February 23, 2022 — Le français suit WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES ET RECHERCHES FÉMINISTES (WGSRF) 2022 Undergraduate Student Essay Prize in Women's and Gender Studies This prize is open to all undergraduate students in Women’s and Gender Studies courses, between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021. For the purposes of this competition, “essay” is broadly defined in recognition of the fact that...
February 23, 2022 — Le français suit WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES ET RECHERCHES FÉMINISTES 2022 Graduate Student Essay Prize in Women’s and Gender Studies This prize is open to all graduate students in Women’s and Gender Studies graduate courses, Women’s and Gender Studies graduate programs, and Women’s and Gender Studies streams in Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs, between January 1, 2021 and December 31,...