Message from the Director, Nora Angeles
The 10th year Anniversary of the UBC Social Justice Institute coincides with the 30th Anniversary of the now defunct Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Relations (CWSGR) and its Women’s Studies (WMST) Undergraduate Program. Celebrating the Institute’s 10th anniversary, alongside launching the Noted Scholar’s Series with an Inaugural Lecture by our former Director Professor Denise […]
GRSJ Ph.D. Student Wajiha Mehdi Accepted into the Public Scholars Initiative
Congratulations to GRSJ Ph.D. Student Wajiha Mehdi, who was accepted into the Public Scholars Initiative for the 2021/22 academic year! The PSI was launched in 2015 to support UBC doctoral students whose research extended beyond traditional/academic disciplinary approaches. Recognized at the Reimagining the PhD Symposium 2017 as ‘revolutionary’, and praised in the UBC Strategic Plan as “a key component” of UBC’s Public […]
GRSJ Ph.D. Student David Ng wins UBC Public Engagement Award
Congratulations to GSRJ Ph.D. student David Ng and his co-winner Henry John (History) on receiving the 2022 UBC Public Engagement Award. The Public Engagement Award is given to individuals who have exhibited outstanding public humanities engagement in the past two years, and whose work has contributed to the expansion of the range of voices in […]
Congratulations to the GRSJ Graduating Class of 2022!
The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice would like to share heartfelt congratulations to all our graduating students! Undergraduate Bachelor of Arts, Major in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Birch Fikar, Katrina Black, Alex Brown, Kaiya Chand, Kriveena Dosanjh, Amneet El-Mikati, Marianne Flanigan, Morgan Fleck, Kate Gavina, Taigen Hirose, Kayley Kumeran, Crisangi Lelievre, […]
The Conversation Lab Podcast with GRSJ PhD Students Don Shafer and David Ng
GRSJ Ph.D. Students Don Shafer and David Ng sit down to talk in an episode of the Conversation Lab Podcast.
Congratulations Class of 2021!
We would like to wish the graduating class of 2021 our warmest congratulations and hope they have wonderful graduation.
Decomp Journal Issue #3 now available
It includes 8 works of #Fiction, 4 works of #nonfiction, 2 art & media pieces, and a whopping NINETEEN poems! Our third e-zine is also our most ambitious yet.Nine Filipin/x volunteer editors curated the zine “TRANSLATE ME NOT: New Filipin/x Writing and Art,” which features 12 poems, 2 pieces of short fiction, one nonfiction work, and 3 mixed media artworks.
Celebrate Pride this year with film screenings by GRSJ PhD Student David Ng and Love Intersections co-founder Jen Sungshine
Celebrate Vancouver Pride 2021 at MOA with an exploration of underrepresented queer stories from Indigenous, Black and people of colour through film! Featuring short films by David Ng (GRSJ PhD Student) and Jen Sungshine.
Student Stories: Khaldah Salih (MA)
Meet Khaldah Salih, one of the new MA students of the 2016-2017 cohort at The Social Justice Institute. This interview took place on the traditional, ancestral, unseeded and occupied territory of the Musqueam peoples. Ine: “Hi Khaldah, thanks so much for taking the time to meet me here today to talk about some of your […]
Student Stories: Jhonelle Nelson (MA)
Meet Jhonelle (Jo) Nelson, one of the new MA students of the 2016-2017 cohort at The Social Justice Institute. This interview took place on the traditional, ancestral, unseeded and occupied territory of the Musqueam peoples. Ine: “Could you tell me a little more about yourself? Why did you decide to apply for the MA program in […]