Cassie Wong-Wylie (she/her)

MA Student

Email: cassiopeia.wongwylie@mail.utoronto.ca

Website:

Areas of Interest

• Textile work
• Feminized labour
• Revolutionary praxis
• Critical making
• Situated knowledge

Biography

Cassie is a mixed-race scholar and textile artist. Cassie comes to the 2026 WGSI Master’s cohort with a background in political science and judicial studies, having completed a Bachelor of Arts at McMaster University in 2025. Her research explores the significance of textile and clothing making as a process of identification and reflexivity, questioning how the slow practice of independent clothing production can challenge settler-colonial systems to deconstruct gender and foster cultural resistance. This work engages with critical making studies, situated knowledges, gendered labour, and intimacies, among other areas.

Program: MA 2025

Education

BA, McMaster University (2025)

Master’s Research Paper

Supervisor: Dr. Judith Taylor

My experience as a third-generation, mixed Chinese woman of colour, my passion for self-taught sewing, and my academic background have led me to explore the following research question: How can the self-initiated, slow practice of clothing production challenge settler-colonial ideologies, deconstruct gender stereotypes, and foster cultural resistance, particularly in the context of hyper-productive capitalism?

Presentations

Made in China, 48th year of YWCA Hamilton’s Women of Distinction Award event Fashion Show. March 7, 2024

Made in China, McMaster Joy and Resistence: A Student Showcase, March 25, 2025

Honours and Awards