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Professor and anthropologist David Murray examines homosexuality and hate around the world

Why does homosexuality incite vitriolic rhetoric, hate and violence around the world, and does homophobia operate differently across social, political and economic terrains? Those are just some of the questions examined in the book Homophobias: Lust and Loathing across Time and Space, edited by York anthropology Professor David Murray. Published by Duke University Press, Homophobias looks […]

York-led report shows homeless youths most often victims of crime, particularly young women

Study co-authored by Professor Stephen Gaetz, who leads SSHRC-funded homelessness project Homeless young people are victims of crime at rates that society would consider unacceptable for any other group, according to a new report by researchers at York University and the University of Guelph. The report, Surviving Crime and Violence: Street Youth and Victimization in […]

Inclusion Day 2010 call for proposals: Deadline is August 31, 2010

The Centre for Human Rights at York University is hosting its second annual human rights conference, known as Inclusion Day, on Wednesday, Oct. 6. This one-day conference aims to recognize and respect the different beliefs, perspectives, opinions and lived experiences that exist within the University. This year’s conference will take place on the University’s Keele […]

SSHRC-funded book challenges notions about ‘normal’ sex and the environment

Much of what informs environmental thinking springs from a view that equates nature with sexually straight and queer with unnatural. The editors of a new book Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, turn those notions upside down. Co-editors Bruce Erickson (PhD 09’) and York environmental studies Professor Catriona Sandilands, Canada Research Chair in Sustainability & […]