Women and Gender Studies InstituteTitle: Fear and Loathing in Gringo Gulch: Gender, sexuality, and lifestyle migration Description: This talk begins with a discussion of the key political, theoretical, and methodological ideas that inform my book, Gringo Gulch: Sex, tourism, and social mobility in Costa Rica. Focusing on the experiences of sex tourists, sex workers, and state employees, the book considers how the […]
The Women & Gender Studies Institute and Caribbean Studies Program present: Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean. Peter Hudson and Naomi Klein in Conversation. Peter James Hudson is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies who works at the intersection of US history and African Diaspora and Caribbean cultural studies. Peter James […]
Decolonial Strategies for Anti-Islamophobia Education Dr. Jasmin Zine is a Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has developed international guidelines for educators and policy-makers on combating Islamophobia and discrimination against Muslims. Dr. Zine is affiliated with the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at U.C Berkeley and serves on the editorial board of the critical Muslim Studies […]
ANDREA J. RITCHIE author of INVISIBLE NO MORE Featuring a panel discussion with Andrea Ritchie; Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present; and Beverly Bain, Faculty in Women & Gender Studies-UTM Event Sponsors: Another Story Bookshop, WGS-UTM, WGSI, CW
Please 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 […]
