Safiyya Hosein is a 2024-2025 CFR Visiting Scholar. Saifyya Hosein holds a PhD from the joint program in Communication and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University. Her research focuses on Muslim superheroes and Muslim audiences. While she is in residence at the Centre for Feminist Research, she will be working on her upcoming […]
Join us for an evening of celebration and discussion on the intersections of affect, performance and tourism in Thailand's fire dance scene. Launch of the new book with author Tiffany Rae Pollock Remarks by Professor David Murray and Professor Penny Van Esterik Seating is limited so please register in advance at this link : https://forms.office.com/r/YfxiSYwVdi Fire […]
The Medal for Excellence in Feminist Scholarship is awarded annually by the Centre for Feminist Research and honours the outstanding contributions of York University faculty Ena Dua, Bonita Lawrence and Meg Luxton. Through their anti-racist, Indigenous feminist and feminist scholarship, they have transformed our understanding of women's everyday realities and struggles for more just relationships. […]
Dispatch by Julia Fursova “Community participation – with what money and whose time?!” – much tension and frustration are captured in this poignant statement expressed by a research participant during a conversation on benefits and challenges of community participation in neighbourhood-based projects. At the same time research participants described their volunteer commitments as ‘labour of […]
Dispatch by Amanda De Lisio On May 30, 2022, the Critical Trafficking and Sex Work Studies Research Cluster at the Centre for Feminist Research at York University hosted an Asian Heritage Month event. We met to discuss the recent implementation of a new accreditation process in the Town of Newmarket for people in alternative massage, […]
Interview by Elaine Coburn Dr. Ruth Murambadaro, your work is concerned with “echoes of resistance” among women in Zimbabwe, women who are not always able to express themselves directly in the ongoing context of patriarchal authoritarianism. What does the concept of echoes of resistance evoke for you, in Zimbabwe today, and how does this concept […]
Critical Femininities is an emerging field of study that seeks to examine femininity unhinged from “woman” (Dahl, 2012). In addition to elucidating and theorizing feminine and femme identities, Critical Femininities scholars follow traditions in non-academic femme writing and feminist and queer scholarship to understand femininity as subversive (Hoskin & Taylor, 2019), understand femme-ininity as a […]
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Interview by Serena Aprile Your work focuses on the intersections of racialization and criminalization, especially for Black and Indigenous people in social and legal politics in Canada. What inspired you to choose this difficult but important theme as the focus for your research? I am interested in debates about the possibilities and limits of redress […]
Interview by Elaine Coburn Interview with Fazileh Dadvar-Khani, Professor of Rural and Gender Geography at the University of Tehran, Iran, and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Canada. Professor Davdar-Khani writes here from the Secretariat for the academic platform at the Urban Economy Forum and from the Secretariat for the Canada […]