Women and Gender Studies InstitutePlease join us to celebrate the launch of: “This Wound is a World” by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Ph.D. student, University of Alberta) Belcourt (Driftpile Cree Nation) is a Rhodes scholar, named one of the 6 Indigenous writers to watch by CBC Books in 2016. Belcourt’s worldings are as loving as they are necessary to this space/ […]
This groundbreaking collection brings together artists, scholars, and community members as they reflect on the contributions of LGBTQ Filipinos/as to Canadian culture and society. This launch will feature performances, reflections, and community dialogues focused on the role of art in pursuing social change. PERFORMANCES BY: Pantayo, Sofonda Cox, Vachina Dynasty, Ms. Nookie Galore (Patrick Salvani), and Sean […]
Afiya S. Zia, Sessional Lecturer at the Women & Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto. She is a feminist researcher-scholar and activist with a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies from the University of York, UK. She is author of ‘Sex Crime in the Islamic Context’, 1994 (ASR, Lahore). Afiya has edited a series of books, […]
Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America and Beyond Disobedient listening – or listening against – is a method to denaturalize tropes surrounding popular music and its study. Disobedient listening requires a phonographic approach, one that attends to where the sonic, visual, literary, and bodily intersect. Disobedient listening not only aims to uncover cultural truths or […]
Please join the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto for a two-day International Conference on “MENA Women: From Street Protest to Online Activism”, March 22nd and 23rd, 2018. Scholars, academics, researchers, feminist activists, gender rights advocates, public intellectuals, and new media activists will come together to discuss and examine how women in […]
Please join the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto for a two-day International Conference on “MENA Women: From Street Protest to Online Activism”, March 22nd and 23rd, 2018. Scholars, academics, researchers, feminist activists, gender rights advocates, public intellectuals, and new media activists will come together to discuss and examine how women in […]
Diasporic Feminisms Workshop Program Sponsors: Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto; Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga; Caribbean Studies, University of Toronto; Geography and Planning at Queen’s University and supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University; South Bank University, London, UK; Institute […]
The WGSI PhD Collaborative Students present their research.
