Don Shafer Selected to Join Climate Teaching Connector Cohort
We are pleased to announce that GRSJ PhD Student Don Shafer has been selected to join a pilot program with fifteen other graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with the Climate Teaching Connector, a partnership between the UBC Climate Hub and the UBC Sustainability Initiative. This pilot project is being designed to bring about greater integration […]
Dr. Becki Ross remembering the legacy of community activist Jamie Lee Hamilton
GRSJ Professor Becki Ross was interviewed in the Georgia Straight remembering the legacy of community activist Jamie Lee Hamilton. Dr. Ross and Jamie Lee Hamilton were long-time friends and comrades before Jamie Lee’s death from cancer at age 64. An advisory body with the City of Vancouver approved adding her name as one of the […]
KaYaMenTA: Sharing Truths About Menopause
GRSJ PhD Candidate and Cree filmmaker Jules A. Koostachin short documentary KaYaMenTA: Sharing Truths About Menopause is now streaming on CBC Gem. The documentary invites Indigenous women to share their experience and insight into “the change” and delves into sexuality, aging, spirituality and healing around menopause. Cree filmmaker @jakoostachin reaches out to the strongest and smartest […]
All Flowers Bloom
GRSJ Assistant Professor Christopher Patterson’s new novel “All Flowers Bloom” published by Westphalia Press written under his pseudonym Kawika Guillermo is available now! — “In a cruise ship stateroom, a soul awakens in the afterlife, still dressed in the Roman servant garbs of his previous life. He can’t remember much, but a silent woman stands […]
SOCIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE STATEMENT ON ANTI-BLACKNESS AND THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD: BLACK LIVES MATTER
The Social Justice Institute at UBC stands firmly in solidarity with Black communities and with movements dedicated to racial justice and to struggles against racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and white supremacy in their systemic, institutional, and everyday manifestations.
Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games
GRSJ Assistant Professor Christopher Patterson’s new book Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games published by NYU Press seeks ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, by turning to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play. Video games vastly outpace all other mediums of entertainment in […]
Dr. JP Catungal Selected as Public Humanities Faculty Fellow
The Social Justice Institute is excited to congratulate GRSJ Assistant Professor Dr. JP Catungal along with Dr. Nicola Levell, Dr. Leslie Paris, and Dr. David Gaertner, winners of the 2020-2021 Public Humanities Faculty Fellows! UBC-Vancouver’s PHH fellowship program supports Humanities scholars in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Allard School of Law, in […]
Congrats on the 2020 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF)
Congratulations on the 2020 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF)! Dr. Bathseba Opini, EDST. Co-applicants: Dr. Annette Henry, Dr. Michelle Stack, Dr. Andre Mazawi, John Yamamoto, Rod Brown, Dr. Shaya Golparian, Dr. Daniel Shiu, Meena Uppal, Ashley House, Dr. Vince White, Dr. Marianne McTavish, Mary Kostandy, Alison St. Pierre, Ogenfeibo Oladipupo. “Anti-racism Education for Teacher […]
Gender and Sexuality: Applications in Society
The second iteration of the MOOC “Gender and Sexuality: Applications in Society” starts on March 11. Led by Dr. Janice Stewart this 6-week online course delves into the complexities of gender and sexuality in today’s society. About this course: Navigating through the complexities of Gender & Sexuality is a necessity in our world, now more […]
“Where Are You From?”: Growing Up African-Canadian in Vancouver
Dr. Gillian Creese new book published by University of Toronto Press “Where Are You From?” recounts the unique experience of growing up in a place where the second generation seldom sees other people who look like them, and yet are inundated with popular representations of Blackness from the United States. This study explores how the second generation in […]