Women and Gender Studies InstituteA panel and space to discuss what "butch" is, what it isn’t, and what it might be. Panelists—including people who do and don't identify as butch—will talk about female masculinity and trans masculinity, past and present. Facilitated by Michèle Pearson Clarke Panelists are Tee Fergus, Kathryn Payne, reese simpkins, and Dinah Thorpe Free entry Wheelchair […]
Robert Diaz (WGSI, University of Toronto) Robert Diaz is Assistant Professor in the Women & Gender Studies Institute. His research and community work focus on the intersections of postcolonial, queer, and Filipino/a diasporic Studies. Together with Marissa Largo and Fritz Pino, Diaz is co-editing Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos/as and Canadian Imaginaries(forthcoming in the Critical Insurgencies Series for Northwestern […]
After two successful runs in Toronto and Edmonton, the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics is pleased to co-sponsor a reading of Jill Connell’s The Supine Cobbler – a play about the experience of clinical abortion, set in the spirit of a Western. The reading will be at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre on 28 September, the Global […]
Sidewalk Salon: 1001 Street Chairs of Cairo is a book by Manar Moursi and David Puig, co-published by Onomatopee (Eindhoven) and Kotob Khan (Cairo) in 2015. The book is an intimate portrait of the capital of Egypt seen from its sidewalk street chairs and the thousands of people who occupy them. These far from perfect, used chairs, which […]
Rebecca Cook (Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Medicine and the Joint Centre for Bioethics, and Co-Director, International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Program, University of Toronto) Rebecca J. Cook, J.D., J.S.D., is Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Medicine and the Joint Centre for Bioethics, and Co-Director, International Reproductive and […]
Nat Hurley is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alberta. She is the co-editor, with Steven Bruhm, of Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children (U of Minnesota P, 2004) and editor of a special double issue of ESC: English Studies in Canada on Childhood and Its Discontents (38.3-4, 2012). Her book on the history of the […]
The event will feature a reading by Randa Jarrar and will be hosted by CBC journalist Pacinthe Mattar. Randa Jarrar’s stories grapple with love, loss, displacement, and survival in a collection that moves seamlessly between real- ism and fable, history and the present. With humor, irony, and boundless imagination, Jarrar brings to life a memorable […]
A gathering/workshop that will be held at York University (Founder Assembly Hall, Room FC152) that seeks to: Explore the similarities and difference in the migration histories, life trajectories, and experiences of (un)settlement and (un)belonging of different groups of Filipino im/migrants in the Unites States and Canada. Examine a range of community-engaged research projects across Canada. Panel of Speakers: […]
Students enrolled in WGS340H1F have organized this lecture. Featured Speakers: Reem Farah, Roshanak Jaberi, Lida Shanehchian, Doris Rajan.
“An accomplished motivational speaker and author of the graphic novel, Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War. Michel grew up amid the terror of the Great War of Africa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Much of his childhood was ravaged by the death and decay of a war that claimed the […]
