Assistant professor Nadia Hasan from the School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies has cowritten an article for The Conversation about a recent attack on a Muslim woman in Ajax, Ontario. The article looks at the ways in which Muslim women’s bodies have become politicized by white supremacy and other racist ideologies in Canada. Attacks […]
Hortense Valerie Anglin graduated from York University this fall at the age of 85. She made the decision to follow her interest in higher education and complete her degree in Religious Studies (Department of Humanities) after her husband passed away. Her completion of the program was made possible through LA&PS’s Bridging Program for Women. […]
Volume 57 Issue 3 of the "Journal of Canadian Studies" features an article from Professor Professor Beauchemin. Opaque Aesthetics of Freedom: Romaine la Prophètesse, the Haitian Revolution, and Black Diasporic Possibilities explores the diasporic and queered possibilities of the Haitian Revolution with a focus on the revolutionary figure Romaine la Prophètesse. The article uncovers the […]
Professor Andrea O’Reilly, renowned for establishing the academic discipline of Motherhood Studies, released her newest book entitled, In (M)other Words: Writing on Mothering and Motherhood 2009-2024. With this collection of work, O’Reilly expands the conversation about the meaning and nature of motherhood which was initiated by Adrienne Rich in her book, Of Woman Born close […]
In the winter months bracketing 2019 two Black mothers were the objects of short-lived media frenzies in the Northern welfare states of Sweden and Norway. One woman, heavily pregnant, is arrested by a brutally apprehending authority that nearly terminates the fetus; while the other has allegedly chosen to end her life and that of her […]
Ways of Witnessing Black Motherhood: Spectacles of Suffering, Mortal Rebellions, and the Tyranny of Love with Jan-Therese Mendes, PhD Please join us for the 2022 Annual Lecture, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies featuring Dr. Jan-Therese Mendes. Date: Friday, March 11, 2022 Time: 11:30 am – 1:30 pm (EST) Dr. Mendes holds a PhD in […]
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is a podcast that highlights what you can do with your sexuality studies degree. Produced in collaboration with the York University Sexuality Studies Program, episodes feature interviews between undergraduate students and activists, scholars, and professionals who demonstrate how you can apply a critical sexualities lens to just about anything. The trailer is […]
Notes on 'Khwajasara Becoming' in Pakistan" with Dr. Salman Hussain Date: February 17, 2022Time: 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm (EST) Dr. Salman Hussain is the 2021-2022 Visiting Scholar in Sexuality Studies and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at York University. Dr. Hussain is a Cultural Anthropologist with research interests in […]
Alison D. Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes are the winners of the 2021 Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide for their book Beyond Repair? Mayan Women’s Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm, (Rutgers, 2019). The Lemkin Book Award committee, composed of an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the field […]
On March 10, 2021, Dr. Jill Andrew (MPP Toronto-St. Paul’s, Ontario NDP Critic for Culture and Women’s Issues) was the featured speaker for the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies’ Annual Lecture. The recording of the event “And Still We Rise: Womxn Opposing Oppression & Proposing Change” is linked for those who were unable […]