Women and Gender Studies InstituteKehkashan Basu, a winner of the Children’s Peace Prize and founder of Green Hope, attended the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Merida, Mexico to conduct a Peace Lab workshop for the youth attending. She travelled to […]
Gwen Benaway has been nominated as one of the finalists for the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. The Governor General’s Literary Awards are one of Canada’s oldest and most […]
The WGSI Study Sessions are open to all WGSI MA and PhD students. These WGSI Study Sessions are meant to be a safe and accessible space for cohort members (at […]
I am a first-year PhD student at the Women & Gender Studies Institute. My main areas of interest are aesthetics, race studies, and feminist philosophy. My current work is on the […]
An autistic man fights against a biotech company touting a cure for autism and falls in love with his neurotypical neighbour in a new play by poet and playwright Faduma Mohamed. […]
Professor Trimble’s first book, Undead Ends: Stories of Apocalypse, was published by Rutgers in May. The first launch was held on Friday, September 13 at TYPE books in the Junction […]
Congratulations to Professor Shauna Sweeney, who has just been named as one of the Connaught New Researcher Awardees this year!!
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 4:00pm – 6:00pm WGSI Lounge, New College, 40 Willcocks Street This talk explores options for navigating a meaningful career as a ‘scholar activist’ trained in Women […]
As the first in her family to attend college or university, Gwen Benaway struggled with feeling a sense of belonging in higher education. “I didn’t have the financial or social […]
We are thrilled to welcome Debby Wilson Danard and Nikoli Attai, who were recently chosen as two of 8 recipients of the 2019-2021 University of Toronto Provostial Postdoctoral Fellows Programme for […]