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Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Khadija El Hilali’s Generosity Reaches 200 Families: Mutual Aid Initiative in Ottawa, Canada

Khadija El Hilali, recent Carleton University graduate, FIST staff member and community activist, recently launched Support Sistem in hopes of continuing her community-building efforts and the activism work she has engaged in for many years.     In July of 2022, Support Sistem offered essential grocery items to 200 families in two of... More

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Congratulations to all 2020-2022 Graduates!

Congratulations to all of the graduating classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022 who finally had the opportunity to participate in convocation ceremonies this year.   The students listed below have been awarded degrees by the Senate of Carleton University. Riwa Abdel Khalek - Bachelor of Arts with Honours, Film Studies and Women's and Gender... More

Thursday, June 23, 2022

New Courses for 2022-23

As part of our ongoing efforts to provide intersectional curriculum that will be relevant for students in all of our Majors and Minors, we will be offering the following new courses in 2022-23: WGST 2812 Trans Feminisms (Dan Irving) WGST 3812 Fat Studies (Fady Shanouda) CRST 3812 Feminist Intersections of Anti-Racism and Indigeneity (Manjeet... More

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Amrita Hari, Incoming Director of PJIWGS/FIST

PJIWGS/FIST welcomes Amrita Hari as our new Director on July 1, 2022. Professor Hari is an Associate Professor who joined Carleton in 2013. She has a BA Hons and MA in Geography from University of Toronto and a DPhil in Geography from University of Oxford, and she was appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at... More

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Recent Publications from Ann Cvetkovich

Ann Cvetkovich, Director of the PJIWGS, has published the following essays recently:  “Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Loneliness as the Affective Condition of Settler Colonialism” in a special issue of Feminist Theory on Feminist Loneliness Studies edited by Shoshana Magnet and Celeste Orr; and “Covid Silver Linings” for a Symposium on 2020... More

Thursday, May 26, 2022

2022 WGST MA Theses

The following students in the WGST MA program recently defended their theses and will graduate in June 2022.  Brenna Egan, “Dragging Out Settler-Colonial Society: Exploring Gay and Queer Drag Scenes in Vancouver as (De)Colonial Spaces” Caitlin Manuel, “Cultivating Death-worlds: Intellectual/Developmental Disability, Sex, and Intimacy in... More

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Patrizia Gentile promoted to Full Professor

Congratulations to Patrizia Gentile, who holds a joint appointment in Women’s and Gender Studies and Human Rights and Social Justice, and has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor, effective July 1, 2022.  Gentile will continue her appointment as Graduate Advisor for the Women’s and Gender Studies MA program next year. ... More

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

PJIWGS at Sexuality Studies Association’s Annual Conference

PJIWGS will have a strong presence at this year’s Sexuality Studies Association annual conference, May 20-22. Current Institute Director Ann Cvetkovich will be presenting a keynote address titled, “Grappling with Care” on May 20, and graduate students Caitlin Manuel and Brenna Egan will be presenting papers. Ryan Conrad, contract instructor... More

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Looking Back on PJIWGS 2021-22 Events

The pandemic has disrupted many aspects of our programming over the last two years, but we have been able to provide a robust roster of events this year. We have hosted Feminist Futures lectures by our new faculty members Manjeet Birk and Fady Shanouda and a discussion in connection with the September 30 National Day of Truth and... More

Monday, May 9, 2022

Manjeet Birk receives CUELF and TLS Grants for teaching

Manjeet Birk, Assistant Professor in PJIWGS, has received grants from the Carleton University Experiential Learning Fund (CUELF) and the Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) Teaching Grants. She will be using the funds for a project to incorporate arts based pedagogies into her Critical Race Studies as an embodies practice of learning to promote... More

Monday, May 9, 2022

Megan Rivers-Moore and Manjeet Birk receive FASS Research Awards

Megan Rivers-Moore, Associate Professor in PJIWGS, has received a FASS Research Award, and Manjeet Birk has received a FASS Early-Career Research Award. Professor Rivers-Moore's project is called "Sex work and mutual aid in Latin America and the Caribbean."  Professor Birk’s research will interrogate race and racism in racialized and Indigenous... More

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Patrizia Gentile publishes in Feeling Feminism

Patrizia Gentile, Associate Professor in PJIWGS and Human Rights and Social Justice, has published an article titled “Tears and Tiaras: Affect, Beauty Contests, and Protests,” in the  the anthology Feeling Feminism: Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave (UBC Press,... More

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