Announcement

The Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice undergraduate students, Zoë David-Delves and Emma Kuntz are featured on the George Straight article, Feminism needed more than ever, F-Word conference organizers say. This year’s F-Word Conference aims to centre indigenous voices and will focus on feminism, intersectionality, activism, and anti-oppression and decolonization work. Full article here. The 2015 F-Word […]

CSIS students and faculty now have access to two exceptional examples of early gay literature that share a connection with famed Victorian writer Oscar Wilde, newly available at the UBC Library. It’s long been suspected — but remains unproven — that Wilde may have authored or contributed to the texts. “Even if Wilde didn’t write them, the […]

Students in a recent GRSJ class were tasked with writing letters to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, drawing together new knowledge from their Gender, Race, Sex and Power course, critical thinking skills, awareness of current events and individual advocacy. Below is a small sampling of their letters that were sent to the Prime Minister’s office (names on the letters have […]

GRSJ PhD Student A.J. Lowik has co-authored an article on engaged queer scholarship in a special issue of Scholarly and Research Communication entitled ‘Engaged Queer Scholarship: Probing a New Paradigm of Knowledge Creation.’ The article focuses on the community-based participatory research project undertaken with social justice group Queer Ontario; the project was concerned with developing a theoretical perspective […]

The Globe and Mail published an op-ed by Ayesha Chaudhry,  Don’t Politicize Women’s Bodies.  She is critical of laws in some European countries that demand women remove their veils, and she is proud of laws in Canada – specifically Quebec – rejecting a similar de-veiling model.