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Bordering Injustice: How Should We Respond To Trump’s Ban

Please join us on Friday, February 10, 2017 from 4-6pm for an emergency town hall forum to address urgent questions regarding the US Executive Order (the so-called ‘Muslim Ban’) and […]

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Huda Hassan on the Current

On January 15, 2017, Huda Hassan was on the Current talking about her amazing initiative reaching out to Black women to help with graduate school applications, as part of a […]

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WGSI Doctoral Student Huda Hassan Assists Black Women Applying to Graduate School

Doctoral student offering free help to black women applying to graduate school in a bid to change the balance of power.  Hudan Hassan said her effort to help black women […]

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Pedagogies for Water Justice Around the Great Lakes

Paul Baines (Great Lakes Commons) and I co-hosted a video campfire in late November, 2016 on teaching about water and social justice  around the Great Lakes. Attached here is the […]

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Feminist Lunch Hour Series Which Featured R. Cassandra Lord in UTM Research News

Race, Space and Sexuality: Historical Studies prof explores belonging and identity through the lens of Pelau MasQUEERade – It was standing room only at the latest Feminist Lunch Hour series, […]

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Dr. Bonnie McElhinny Receives the June Larkin Award

Dr. Bonnie McElhinny has been selected for the June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development for 2017-18 for her project “Something in the Water:  Watershed Pedagogies and Teachings about Water in […]

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Innovative research by Robert Diaz published in the October 2016 issue of Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS).

In his article “Queer Unsettlements: Diasporic Filipinos in Canada’s World Pride,” Robert Diaz examines the theoretical possibilities of queering Filipino Canadian migration research. He revisits two events that occurred during […]

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Letter from U of T faculty regarding transphobic and anti-Black hate speech and threats

We, the undersigned faculty and members of the University of Toronto, condemn recent on-campus and online incidents of transphobic and anti-black hate speech and threats at the university.  Hate speech […]

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WGS 435 – Transnational Feminism and Digital Media – Podcast Series

Natalie Kouri-Towe had WGSI students produce a podcast series in the Transnational Feminism and Digital Media class over the summer.  It was a class project where students did all the […]

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Something in the Water: Stories and Social Change by Professor Bonnie McElhinny

Vol. 1, Issue 5 – Great Lakes Connection monthly newsletter – IJC – September 2016 features an article on Professor McElhinny’s work with Lake Ontario Waterkeepers. Fishing. Family. Healing. Danger. These and […]