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Congratulations to Angie Fazekas

Congratulations to Angie Fazekas, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, Creative Becomings: Explicit Fanfiction, Reinventing Adolescence and Queer Relationality. Angie was supervised by Professor Dina Georgis with Patrick Keilty and Leslie Shade […]

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Statement from President Meric Gertler on the crisis in Iran

The following is a statement from University of Toronto President Meric Gertler regarding the crisis in Iran. This statement is also available on the office of the President’s website here. […]

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Remembering Kathryn P. Morgan (1943-2022)

Kathryn Pauly Morgan — Witty; Inquisitive; Someone you can talk to; Philosopher; Imaginative Kathryn Pauly Morgan, mother to Daniel Pauly, sister to John, Charles, Dave, and Mark Pauly, and daughter […]

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Congratulations to Cornel Grey! Joining the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Western University.

Congratulations to Cornel Grey, who has accepted an offer to join the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Western University. One of the exciting things about the position […]

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Congratulations Ferdie Lopez! Recipient of the 2022-2023 Ontario Graduate Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement!

Ferdie is a 4th year direct entry PhD student at WGSI. She was awarded the 2020 University of Toronto Outstanding Scholar in the Area of Gender-based Violence, the Edward Hallam […]

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Congratulations to Nicole Charles! 2022 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award

Congratulations to Nicole Charles, whose book, Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados  published by Duke University Press will share the 2022 Gordon K. and Sybil […]

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Post-Doctoral Fellow: Tatiana Klepikova

Tatiana Klepikova, a WGSI postdoc in 2019-2021, has just received a 1,5-million-euros grant from the German Volkswagen Foundation to start a research group on queer literatures and cultures under socialism. […]

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Work-Study Student: Natalya Motluk

WGSI thanks Natalya Motluk, who for the past two years has been a work-study student who has provided incredible support to the department, bringing her calm and social media skills […]

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Talking Sex: Engaging with the Pussy Palace Oral Histories

ASL interpretation provided  Click here to register. On September 15, 2000, five Toronto police raided the Pussy Palace, an exclusive bathhouse event for queer women and trans folk, laying several […]

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Decolonial Performance Praxis & Pedagogies of Transformation: An Interview with d’bi.young anitafrika

Join us in conversation with d’bi.young anitafrika. Following their keynote performance on Wednesday, d’bi.young anitafrika will talk about their work and life as a decolonial artist-scholar as well as their […]