Mar Pauls Receives Best Poster Award at WISSLR 2025
Congratulations to MA student Mar Pauls, who received the Best Poster Award at the 17th annual Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research (WISSLR) earlier this month.
Mar’s research offers insights into how heteronormative ideologies of gender may be perpetuated in the queer community in Canada today, encouraging future research into the ways in which queer Canadians define themselves.
“Previous analyses that explore the language of queer women explore this gender expression-based divide and its manifestation as butch and femme identities amongst lesbians (Jones, 2012). These identities have been shown to exist along a continuum, and draw on stereotypical ideologies of gender (Bailey, 2020). Gender-based social differentiation has focused on older lesbians (Jones, 2012) and speakers in the United Kingdom (Koller, 2013). This project aims to amplify all queer women’s experiences by examining the portrayal of these subgroup identities within Canada to answer the following research question: How do feminine queer women portray masculine queer women through discourse?”
– Excerpt from Mar’s poster abstract
You can find Mar at the 20th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on April 4, where they will be delivering opening remarks as President of SALaDS and sharing their research.