The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is committed to ensuring critical advances in knowledge, democratic communities, and equity in scholarship, research, and teaching.

How hasn’t it been useful? GRSJ kind of helped me understand how I wanted to live in the world, how I wanted to be as a human.

Lau Mehes
GRSJ Alumni

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Transpacific Undisciplined

 
Congratulations to GRSJ's Christopher Patterson on the publication of Transpacific Undisciplined (University of Washington Press). He is co-editor along with Lily Wong, American University and Chien-ting Lin, National Central University in Taiwan.

Translating disaster resilience: How values, world view, and politics complicate interpretation and implementation

 
GRSJ Director, Dr. Nora Angeles and her PhD advisee Dr. Sunya Zaman have co-published in the International Journal of Distaster Reduction. Their paper, Translating disaster resilience: How values, world view, and politics complicate interpretation

Great Fall Reads: May it Have a Happy Ending by Minelle Mahtani

 
Dr. Minelle Mahtani officially launches her new book and debut memoir "May it Have a Happy Ending" in Toronto on Oct. 8. The event features the author in conversation with David Chariandy. If you are in Toronto and wish to attend you can RSVP by
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Upcoming Events

Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

Storying Filipinx Greater Vancouver, or kuwento as vernacular analysis with JP Catungal

November 20, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm


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