Leslyn Stobbs (she/her)

PhD Student

Email: leslyn.stobbs@mail.utoronto.ca

Areas of Interest

• erotic embodiment & knowledge production
• crip theory
• Black & queer aesthetics
• eco-erotics & non-human kinship
• play, pleasure, and meaning-making
• neurodivergent (auto)poeisis

Biography

Leslyn Stobbs (she/her) is a PhD student at the Women and Gender Studies Institute. Her love for the act of untangling, coming up with cheeky acronyms, and incorporating slime wherever possible have propelled her throughout her studies, all the way from the prairies to the Atlantic. Using playfulness and pleasure, her work is able to navigate through settler-colonial sexual ontologies and the violent foreclosure of otherwise routes to meaning-making and liberation. Leslyn takes inspiration from the tiny critters who party in the logs and leaves, her ancestors who loved and made life with the land, and the need to make sense out of everything that can be felt.

Program: PhD 2024

Education

MA, University of Toronto, 2023

BA, University of Alberta, 2020

Dissertation

Supervisor: S. Trimble & Dina Georgis

Selected Works

Black Feminist Genealogies and Theories, WGSSU Academic Seminar, Toronto ON, 2023.

Eating Smart, Eating Sexy, Interdisciplinary Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Undergraduate Conference, Edmonton, AB, 2020.

Scientific Reductionism in Understanding the Evolution of Sex and Gender, Feminist Gender, and Sexuality Studies Undergraduate Conference, Edmonton, AB, 2017.

Honours and Awards