Congratulations to our outgoing MA class who have recently submitted their research! We are so proud of all the work they have accomplished.
Mika Castro
Supervisor: Dina Georgis
Project Title: “Cats, K-Pop, and Other Fantastical Stories: Stories of Filipino Migrants in Winnipeg’s Museums and Beyond”
Advice for our Incoming Class: Make friends within your cohort and get hotdogs with them as often as you can (preferably from Mama’s Best). Friends and hotdogs will fuel your brains generously throughout the term.
Neel Desai
Supervisor: Jordache Ellapen
Project Title: how “to care” for boys in the classroom: examining the pedagogies of love, praxis of caring masculinity, & the feminist possibilities of play in Taare Zameen Par (2007)
Advice for our Incoming Class: If you ever have trouble writing or coming up with ideas in your head, try writing with your heart instead, and watch the magic manifest. 🙂
Heng (Simone) Wang
Supervisor: Shana Ye
Project Title: Tranny Trickery: Consent, Negativity, and Trans-Intersex Corporeality
Advice for our Incoming Class: Taking advantage of the graduate seminars to connect with your cohort and other peers with similar interests, and taking the chance of some flexible course assignments to develop your research projects and master research paper!
Catherine Kyakuhaire
Supervisor: Marieme Lo
Project Title: Single Motherhood and the Dilemma of Public Housing in Ontario
Advice for our Incoming Class: Congratulations to all the incoming master’s students. One piece of advice to you is, please be kind to yourselves it gets tough juggling between your course load and teaching time is everything please manage it well. Congratulation once again I wish all the best on your new journey.
Ecenur Levon Karakoyun
Supervisor: Robert Diaz
Project Title: Opaque Readings of Trans-Queerness and Wayward State Imaginaries: Re-configuring the Projects of Nationalist Homogeneity, Spatiality, and Aesthetics of Belonging in Turkey
Advice for our Incoming Class: Throughout my writing process, I found that sitting with moments of confusion and uncertainty can offer important reminders of what excites you about your project. While it’s easier said than done, I’ve understood that approaching writing blocks and hesitations with curiosity—rather than rushing to “resolve” them—allowed me to write my MRP in ways that resonated with me.