Women and Gender Studies Institute
Thesis Blurb/abstract: My dissertation was an interdisciplinary study into unheard narratives of the 1947 Partition of India as they inform legacies of trauma, violence, and displacement for South Asian diasporic […]
Ceta Ramkhalawansingh (centre) leading a women’s studies class at U of T in 1975.
Photo credit: University of Toronto Archives/ Robert Lansdale.
Emancipation Day commemorates the abolition of slavery across the British Empire on Aug. 1. On that historic day in 1834, the Slavery Abolition Act came into effect, freeing more than […]
Binta is the recipient of a SSHRC award from 2021-2024 for her proposed dissertation of “The Sacrificial Realities of Climate Change- Interrogating Intersectional Vulnerabilities, Resilience and Agency in the Sahel”. […]
Margrit Eichler, Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, passed away in Toronto on July 8, 2021. Born in Berlin, Germany, 28 September 1942, Margrit attended the University of Goettingen (1962-65), and the Free […]
For U of T student Ryan Persadie every day is a performance, even when he’s not wearing a wig as his persona, Tifa Wine. Watch video here.
ISLAMOPHOBIA BY WAFAA HASAN June 29, 2021 – Since this piece was written the Canadian government officially named the U.S. right wing militia group Three Percenters a terrorist entity. On the […]
Congratulations to the recipients of the City of Toronto Scholarships in Women and Gender Studies. Mackenzie Stephenson is the 35th recipient of the undergraduate scholarship and Alexandra Maris is the […]
WGSI is pleased to announce and congratulate Sam Sanchinel who is this year’s recipient of the Margrit Eichler Student Leadership Award!! Sam’s work this year has been really important in […]