Taq Bhandal
PhD, Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UBC (2022)
MA, Health, Policy & Equity, York University (2014)
BSc Hon, Biology, Dalhousie University (2012)
Biography
My name is Taqdir (Taq) Kaur Bhandal (English) ਤਕਦੀਰਕੌਰਭੰਡਾਲ(Gurmukhi-Punjabi). I am a researcher in the field of health professions education and menstrual health. My ancestors are from the Punjab region of modern-day India/Pakistan, though I was born and raised in Metro Vancouver on Coast Salish Territory. Outside of my PhD work, I run two social enterprises, @imwithperiods and Researchbox.ca. Overall I spend my days balancing research, teaching, organizing (I love a good planner), dog walks, cooking (and eating of course!), sustainability, and attempts at decolonial, intersectional community involvement.
Research
My research interests include:
- Sex and Gender-Based Analysis + (SGBA)
- Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV)
- Gender+
- Social Determinants of Health
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
- Mxnstrual Heath (Mahvari) Research
For more info check out https://www.researchbox.ca
Selected Publications
For more info check out https://www.researchbox.ca
Bhandal, Taq Kaur & MacLean, Emily. (In Progress). A systematic review of menstrual hygiene management discouse, infectious disease, and the pathologization of the Global South. BMJ Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Bhandal, Taq Kaur & Hilario, Carla. (In Progress). Decolonial feminism in mental health research and practice in Vancouver, Canada. Health Sociology Review.
Bhandal, Taq Kaur. (In Progress). Sex and gender in Canadian menstrual health research. BMC Women’s Health.
Bhandal, Taq Kaur. (In Progress). Red and brown blood: Decolonial feminist perspectives on menstrual health. Doty, K & A.J. Lowik (Eds.). Reproduction and Parenting Beyond the Binary. Bradford, CA: Demeter Press.
Bhandal, Taq Kaur & Buddhavarapu, Shruti. (In Review). Period, pain: Anti-colonial discourse in global menstrual health research and activism. Women’s Reproductive Health.
Bhandal, Taq Kaur. (2020). Self-Care Down There: An All Genders Guide to Vaginal Wellbeing. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
Bhandal, Taq Kaur (Ongoing) Short Articles on Mxnstrual Health from Indigenizing and Intersectional perspectives http://www.imwithperiods.com/features
Bhandal, Taq Kaur. (2018). Ethical globalization? Opportunities for decolonizing frameworks for internationalization in Canadian medical education. Canadian Medical Education Journal. 9(2): 33-45.
Bhandal, Taq Kaur. (2016). Possibilities for intersectional theorizing in Canadian historiography: The subaltern narrative of Canadian medical schools. Graduate History Review. 5(1): 46 – 82.
Bhandal, Taq Kaur, Joly, France-Emmanuelle, Cao, Lisa. (2016). Women’s health, wellness, and equity in Vancouver and the Downtown Eastside: An environmental scan for decision makers. Vancouver Women’s Health Collective Report.
Bhandal, Taq Kaur & Ahmad, Farah. (2014). Neoliberal racialized and gendered subjectivities: A case study of employed, pregnant South Asian immigrant women in Toronto. MA Health, Policy, Equity Thesis, York University
Bhandal, Taq Kaur. (2014). Finding gendered inequities in poor women’s experiences of neoliberal health care and labour: perspectives from India. Health Tomorrow. 2(1): 1-26.
Awards
Research Funding 2017/5 – 2020/5 Canadian Institutes of Health Research Doctoral Program – Canadian Graduate Schol. Ranking: Top 8 percent of applicants. Total Funding: 105,000 for 3 years.| Research Funding 2017/8 – 2020/8 University of British Columbia Fellowship for Doctoral Students. Ranking: Top 2 percent of applicants. Total Funding: Tuition funding for 3 years. |Research Funding 2015/9 – 2016/8 University of British Columbia. Social Justice institute Graduate Funding. Ranking: Top 10 percent of applicants. Total Funding: 19,000 for 1 year.|Research Funding 2014/4 – 2014/8 York Univeristy. Lillian Wright Maternal-Child Health Schol. Ranking: Top 5 percent of applicants. Total Funding: 10,000 one time stipend.| Research Funding 2014/4 – 2014/4 York University. CUPE Spring 2014 Research Cost Fund. Ranking: Top 10 percent of applicants. Total Funding: 1000 for research expenses.|Research Funding 2013/9 – 2014/8 York University. Graduate Fellowship Program. Ranking: Top 5 percent of applicants Total Funding: 13,000 for 1 year.|Vancouver City Council Elections 2018 City of Vancouver Independent Council Candidate Ranking: Top 5 independent candidates, 15,474 votes, not elected. | Ubyssey Magazine Awards, 2018 University of British Columbia. Highly Productive People on Campus Ranking: Top student Out of six people chosen alongside UBC Pres. |Vancouver Women’s Health Collective, 2015. Downtown Eastside, Vancouver Board of Directors. Ranking: Chair. Elected to serve as Chair for a one-year term.|Canadian Conference on Global Health, 2012. Canadian Society for International Health Award for Student Presentations. Ranking: Top 5 percent of presenters. Received Certificate and Award.|Honours Distinction, and Dean’s List, 2012. Dalhousie University Student GPA Rankings. Ranking: Top 8 percent of students. Listed on transcript, website, and diploma.|For more info check out https://www.researchbox.ca||https://www.researchbox.ca||2014
Jenn Clark
Education
BA, Psychology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University (2013)
MA, Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia (2021)
Biography
Jenn Clark is a first year MA student at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. Her primary research interests include: the distinct differences between sexual orientation and gender; homophobic humor and its implications; and patriarchal sex practices. Other research interests include: gender, sexual orientation, and stereotyping. In her spare time, Jenn is working hard to provide quantitative evidence toward the female seduction myth.
Jules Koostachin
Contact Information
Education
PhD in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, University of British Columbia (2021)
MA in Documentary Media Program, Ryerson University (2010)
BA in Fine Arts, Major Theatre Program, Concordia University (1996)
Biography
Born in Moose Factory Ontario, and a band member of Attawapiskat First Nation, the Ancestral lands of the MoshKeKo AsKi InNiNeWak, Jules was raised by her Cree speaking grandparents in Moosonee, as well as with her mother in Ottawa, a warrior of the Canadian Residential school system. Jules completed her PhD with GRSJ at UBC in 2021, and her research MooNaHaTihKaaSiWew: Unearthing Spirit focuses on Indigenous documentary methodologies. Jules has a number of academic publications regarding Indigenous filmmaking.
In 2010, she completed her masters at Ryerson University in Documentary Media where she was awarded the Award of Distinction for her thesis work, as well as the Graduate Ryerson Gold Medal for highest academic achievement. While in graduate school, she produced her first feature documentary Remembering Inninimowin regarding her journey of remembering Cree. After graduation, Jules was one of six women selected for the WIDC program, where she directed a scene from her feature Broken Angel. Her script was also selected for the TIFF’s Filmmaker lab, as well as the Whistler’s Screenwriting lab. Jules is an ACTRA member, a member of Directors Guild of Canada member, and part of the Blackmagic Collective Breakthrough Initiative in LA.
Jules’ company VisJuelles Productions Inc. has a number of media works in development. Her television series AskiBOYZ co-produced with Big Soul Production is currently being aired on Aboriginal Peoples Television Network in both Cree and English. She has released several award-winning CBC docs: NiiSoTeWak: Two Bodies, One Heart, OshKiKiShiKaw: A New Day and KaYaMenTa: Sharing Truths about Menopause. Over the years, she has released a number of other films/projects including Butterfly Monument about her relation, the late Shannen Koostachin with co-director/producer Rick Miller. Her narrative film OChiSkwaCho premiered at imagineNATIVE and screened at several other festivals worldwide. Jules recently released a short narrative MisTik and her feature drama Broken Angel. She is development with her next features Angela’s Shadow and KaTaWaSiSin. She is in production with her NFB feature documentary WaaPiiKee and Chubby Cree with Soapbox Production.
Jules was the Indigenous Storyteller in Residence with the Vancouver Public Library where she further developed her poetry, and soon after, Unearthing Secrets, Gathering Truths was published. Jules is currently writing her novel Moccasin Souls. She is represented by The Characters in Vancouver, and is the voice of Layla (Mom) on the new PBS Kids/CBC Kids animated series Molly of Denali. Jules is also represented by Lucas Talent for writing and directing. She carries extensive knowledge working in Indigenous community in several different capacities and these community experiences feed her arts practice.
In her Arts Alumni Q&A profile, she talks about how her education was critical for her academic and professional career as a creative artist and filmmaker while allowing her to challenge herself in navigating a colonial system. Read the Q&A
The Right to Maim: debility, capacity, disability
Puar, Jasbir K. The Right to Maim: debility, capacity, disability. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
Puar, Jasbir K. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham: Duke University, 2007. Print.
“Gender and Sexuality in Latina/O Miami: Documenting Latina Transsexual Activists.”
Peña, Susana. “Gender and Sexuality in Latina/O Miami: Documenting Latina Transsexual Activists.” Gender & History 22.3 (2010): 755–772. Wiley Online Library. Web.