Joshua M. Ferguson’s feature documentary “They Are Joshua”
‘They Are Joshua’ follows the first person in Ontario to receive a non-binary birth certificate. Joshua M. Ferguson has spent the last years fighting for legal recognition of their gender. In May, after a human rights complaint, they became the first person in Ontario to receive a non-binary birth certificate, denoted with an “X” instead […]
Ayesha S. Chaudhry recipient of 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation fellowship
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation is proud to announce the 2018 recipients of its annual research fellowships. Every year, the Foundation awards up to five fellowships to intellectuals in the humanities and social sciences who are recognized for their productivity, their commitment to communicating their findings to the public, and their ability to devise innovative […]
‘The foundational cornerstone is intersectionality’: Emmanuelle Andrews & Kristi Carey discuss the misrepresentation of race in the media
Ahead of the International Day for Elimination of Racism on March 21, UBC Equity Ambassadors and the African Awareness Initiative co-facilitated a “Realities of Racism” event yesterday at Place Vanier to discuss the misrepresentation of race in the media. The event featured Emmanuelle Andrews and Kristi Carey, two graduate students at UBC Social Justice Institute, […]
Emmanuelle Andrews & Katrina Sellinger guest editors on The Capilano Review
It is uncommon on this unceded Coast Salish land called “Vancouver” to see the radiant faces of so many black people in one room; more familiar are we with those rare, unexpected moments when we see another solitary “i” in this city, as Ian William so aptly notes in “Our eyes meet across yet another […]
Open Letter: Justice for Colten Boushie from Indigenous Faculty & Allies
We the undersigned extend this letter to Universities Canada (especially to the presidents of the institutions they represent), urging your commitment and support in the wake of the trial of Gerald Stanley. We call upon you to take appropriate measures to ensure that Indigenous students, faculty and staff are safe now and in the future. […]
Ayesha Chaudhry featured in “The Sisters Project”
In The Sisters Project, Alia Youssef uses photography to challenge a one-dimensional image of Muslim women. Whether she is a kinesiology student considering medical school, an ESL teacher who eases new immigrants into Canadian life, or the program manager at Ecotrust, working tirelessly to preserve the British Columbian rain forest, each one of these women […]
Ayesha Chaudhry interviewed in Globe and Mail article, “Women need to play a role in ‘restoring’ Saudi Islam”
In her groundbreaking book “Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition,” UBC Professor Ayesha Chaudhry makes it abundantly clear that the “Islamic tradition” – beginning a few centuries after the Prophetic era to the precolonial era – reflected worldwide patriarchy of the times. The hierarchical paradigm was unambiguous: God (or Allah) at the top, followed by men below, […]
“LGBTQ2 apology is a good start, but it’s not enough” by Dr. John Paul Catungal
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to make a formal apology on behalf of all Canadians to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people who have been imprisoned, fired from their jobs or otherwise persecuted in the past because of their sexuality. Some of those who lost their jobs as part of the so-called “gay purge” are seeking […]
JP Catungal and Mary Bryson on the significance of Trudeau’s apology to LGBTQ Canadians
Mary Bryson, professor in the UBC faculty of education, and JP Catungal, professor in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC, discuss the significance of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s formal apology on behalf of all Canadians to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people.