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WGSI Doctoral Student Huda Hassan Assists Black Women Applying to Graduate School

Doctoral student offering free help to black women applying to graduate school in a bid to change the balance of power.  Hudan Hassan said her effort to help black women […]

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Pedagogies for Water Justice Around the Great Lakes

Paul Baines (Great Lakes Commons) and I co-hosted a video campfire in late November, 2016 on teaching about water and social justice  around the Great Lakes. Attached here is the […]

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Feminist Lunch Hour Series Which Featured R. Cassandra Lord in UTM Research News

Race, Space and Sexuality: Historical Studies prof explores belonging and identity through the lens of Pelau MasQUEERade – It was standing room only at the latest Feminist Lunch Hour series, […]

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Dr. Bonnie McElhinny Receives the June Larkin Award

Dr. Bonnie McElhinny has been selected for the June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development for 2017-18 for her project “Something in the Water:  Watershed Pedagogies and Teachings about Water in […]

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Innovative research by Robert Diaz published in the October 2016 issue of Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS).

In his article “Queer Unsettlements: Diasporic Filipinos in Canada’s World Pride,” Robert Diaz examines the theoretical possibilities of queering Filipino Canadian migration research. He revisits two events that occurred during […]

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Letter from U of T faculty regarding transphobic and anti-Black hate speech and threats

We, the undersigned faculty and members of the University of Toronto, condemn recent on-campus and online incidents of transphobic and anti-black hate speech and threats at the university.  Hate speech […]

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WGS 435 – Transnational Feminism and Digital Media – Podcast Series

Natalie Kouri-Towe had WGSI students produce a podcast series in the Transnational Feminism and Digital Media class over the summer.  It was a class project where students did all the […]

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Something in the Water: Stories and Social Change by Professor Bonnie McElhinny

Vol. 1, Issue 5 – Great Lakes Connection monthly newsletter – IJC – September 2016 features an article on Professor McElhinny’s work with Lake Ontario Waterkeepers. Fishing. Family. Healing. Danger. These and […]

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April 1 – Reparations, Reconciliation and The Politics of Memory – Keynote Address & Reception

Friday, April 1, 2016 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm OISE Library – 252 Bloor Street West Keynote by:  Dr. Verene A. Shepherd on Reparation, Reconciliation & Rehabilitation:  The Politics of […]

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March 31 – Reparations, Reconciliation and The Politics of Memory

Film Screening:  Human Traffic:  Past and Present March 31, 2016 7:00 – 9:00 pm OISE, Room 5-210, 252 Bloor Street West A documentary exploring the realities and fallacies of human […]