Friday, November 25, 2022

16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV)

As a content warning, please note that this webpage includes information about gender-based violence and sexual violence. We understand that this can trigger strong reactions and we encourage the community to connect with Carleton University’s  Sexual Assault Support Centre  and/or Health and Counselling Services  for support. Additional... More

Monday, November 7, 2022

Call for Submissions: 2023 FIST Grad Conference

The graduate students of the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation are excited to announce a call for submissions for our 2023 conference titled, “Transforming Our Social World: Radical Practices of World Building & Destruction”. The conference will be held as an in person/online hybrid from March 23-24, 2023. We are inviting... More

Monday, October 24, 2022

New collaborative publication in Anti-Trafficking Review

A 2022 graduate of our MA in WGST, Romeo Joe Quintero, and Dr. Amrita Hari have co-authored a compelling article in Anti-Trafficking Review titled, "Queering Protracted Displacement: Lessons from Internally Displaced Persons in the Philippines." The original article showcases Romeo's impressive fieldwork and makes a novel argument for challenging... More

Monday, October 24, 2022

Launch of National Study Addressing Two Spirit, Trans, and Nonbinary Employment and Un(der)employment

Working for Change – A Two Spirit, Trans, and Nonbinary Employment and Un(der)employment Study launched on September 28th, 2022. The first of its kind in Canada, Working for Change...is a national study using mixed methods (an online survey and interviews) that explore Two-Spirit, trans and non-binary identified people's various... More

Friday, October 21, 2022

New Book Chapter by Dr. Shanouda!

FIST Assistant Professor and Critical Disability Studies scholar, Dr. Fady Shanouda, has a new book chapter titled "Black-abundance, Fat-revolt, and Crip-desire: Intersectionality as Interference in the Life and Death of Rohan Garfield Salmon" in the Handbook of Disability. Check it out! Abstract: "This chapter is an examination of the life and... More

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Final TDKRA Report Released!

Associate Professor in FIST, Xuan Thuy Nguyen, has completed her collaborative research project : Transforming Disability Knowledge, Research, and Activism (TDKRA). Thuy is the Principal Investigator of this SSHRC funded project, co-investigators include: Marnina Gonick, Claudia Mitchell, and Deborah Stienstra. Today, on the International Day of... More

Monday, October 3, 2022

What cool events are coming up?

Psychology Mental Health Day 2022 October 6, 2022 at 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM EST The Department of Psychology in partnership with MeWeRTH, will co-host Psychology Mental Health Day on Thurs. Oct. 6th from 1:30-4:00pm. MeWeRTH has established the ‘Courage to Speak Award’ to recognize the bravery and inspiration of our speakers to share their... More

Friday, September 30, 2022

Orange Shirt Day 2022

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. FIST encourages all members of its community to reflect meaningfully on truth and conciliation and to wear an orange shirt to help raise awareness of the history of human rights abuses and ongoing injustices facing Indigenous peoples today. The... More

Monday, September 26, 2022

Three Recent Publications from Amrita Hari

Amrita Hari, current Director and Associate Professor within FIST, has recently shared three new publications! 1) NEW Book: "Making Sense of Immigrant Work Integration: An Organizing Perspective" ~~ Luciara Nardon and Amrita Hari created this open access book which explores the wicked problem of immigrant work integration, with specific examples... More

Friday, September 9, 2022

Romeo Quintero and Taylor Maudlin complete their MA requirements

Congratulations to Romeo Quintero and Taylor Maudlin who have recently completed all the requirements for their MA degrees! Romeo's thesis is titled “Longing for Homes Where Mangroves Used to Grow: Narratives of Internally Displaced Person in Southern Philippines.” Taylor's thesis is titled “Serving Consumer Expectations: Women Servers’... More

Friday, September 9, 2022

Students as Partners Blog: Pascale LaRiviere

"While we see a pandemic rage throughout the world, and another epidemic on the rise, I’ve been fortunate to get the opportunity to spend time learning more about an older one. Over the past summer, I’ve been at work on the digital archive of the AIDS Activist History Project. My work there was for... More

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Khadija El Hilali’s latest mutual aid initiative of distributing grocery items to 200 families

Khadija El Hilali, recent Carleton University graduate, has 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 Ottawa’s low-income neighbourhoods: Overbrook and... 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

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Panel discussion on Disruption Embraced with Fady Shanouda

Fady Shanouda, Assistant Professor in the PJIWGS, moderated a panel discussion of the documentary short Disruption Embraced following a screening of the film by the Toronto Queer Film Festival. The short includes ten disabled, mad, D/deaf and blind artists reflecting on critical experiences in their lives that stoked their developing passion... More

Friday, April 29, 2022

Critical Race Studies program featured in The Charlatan

A recent article in The Charlatan, the student newspaper at Carleton University, focuses on the PJIWGS’s new Minor in Critical Race Studies, along with other transformations at the Institute.  It features interviews with Institute Director Ann Cvetkovich, Professor Manjeet Birk, and WGST Major Cassie Rodriguez.   Click here to access the... More

Friday, April 29, 2022

Megan Rivers-Moore discusses PJIWGS in FASS Faculty Chats podcast

Professor Megan Rivers-Moore, the undergraduate advisor for PJIWGS, discusses the Institute’s changing curriculum in the FASS Faculty Chats podcast. Click here to access the podcast episode (via... More

Friday, April 29, 2022

Patrizia Gentile’s research featured on CBC Radio

On March 31, CBC Radio’s The Secret Life of Canada featured research originally published in The Canadian War on Queers (UBC Press, 2010), the book Patrizia Gentile, Associate Professor in PJIWGS and Human Rights and Social Justice, co-authored with Gary Kinsman.   Click here to access the article and... More

Friday, April 29, 2022

Fady Shanouda publishes in Weight Bias in Health Education

Fady Shanouda, Assistant Professor in PJIWGS, has published an article titled "Medical Equipment: The Manifestation of Anti‐Fat Bias in Medicine” in Weight Bias in Health Education: Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice (Routledge, 2021). Click here to access the... More

Monday, April 25, 2022

Ann Cvetkovich publishes in On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence

Ann Cvetkovich, Director of the PJIWGS, has published an essay titled, “Hidden Places: The Indigenous Presence in My Affective Turn,” in the collection On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence, edited by Irene Kacandes (DeGruyter, 2021).  Cvetkovich’s essay explores the relation between Holocaust Studies and Indigenous Studies within her... More

Monday, March 7, 2022

WGST MA student Taylor Maudlin presents at Carleton and Univ of Guelph

Taylor Maudlin, a WGST MA student, will present her research at Carleton’s Institute of Political Economy annual graduate student conference, Beyond Resistance on Thursday, March 3 and at the University of Guelph’s Honouring International Women’s Day Conference on March 8.  Taylor’s paper draws from her MA thesis and is titled, “The... More

Monday, February 7, 2022

Fady Shanouda awarded SSHRC Explore Research Grant

Content Warning: the following text discusses suicide. Fady Shanouda, assistant professor in the PJIWGS, has been awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) Explore Research Grant for his project titled “Student, Staff, and Faculty Distress and Suicidality within the Neoliberal University” As the project... More

Monday, February 7, 2022

Megan Rivers-Moore on abortion in The Conversation

Content Warning: the following text discusses abortion, miscarriage.  Drawing on her research in Latin America, Megan Rivers-Moore shares her observations and findings in The Conversation’s article entitled “In Latin America, not only abortions but miscarriages can lead to jail time.” The article highlights the inaccessibility and... More

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Call for Submissions: Communal Conversations: A Roundtable Symposium on the Future of Knowledge-Making

  The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies is pleased to invite creative thinkers to submit proposals for our upcoming event, Communal Conversations: A Roundtable Symposium on the Future of Knowledge-Making, that aspire to move beyond institutionalized (academic, governmental, religious, medical, etc.) methods of... More

Friday, December 10, 2021

Hiring Part-Time Replacement for Assistant to the Joint Chair

The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University is hiring a part-time replacement for the Assistant to the Joint Chair in Women's Studies for the period from Jan 2022-Feb 2023. For further details, see job number J1121-0674 at: https://carleton.njoyn.com/CL2/xweb/xweb.asp?CLID=53443&page=joblisting&lang=1... More

Monday, December 6, 2021

32 years after Montreal Massacre, activists wonder what’s changed?

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