Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Upcoming Event: The Politics of a “Holiday”: An open-house reflection about September 30th

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Monday, September 20, 2021

Racialized and Indigenous Faculty Alliance Finds Strong Support on Carleton Campus

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Thursday, September 9, 2021

We’re Hiring a Website, Social Media and Event Assistant!

We want to hire a work-study student as a Website, Social Media and Event Assistant!  Please apply through CUHire by September 20th, 2021. For more information for students on the Work-Study program, please visit https://carleton.ca/awards/students/   Job Description: Website Social Media and Events Assistant Compensation: $15.00/hr + 4%... More

Thursday, September 9, 2021

Dr. Manjeet Birk writing on Critical Race Theory in “The Conversation”

Dr. Manjeet Birk recently published a widely-circulated piece in The Conversation on Critical Race Theory and “Diversity”. In addition to providing a brief overview of what critical race theory actually involves, the article also challenges “diversity” initiatives that fail to address white supremacy in meaningful ways. You can read the... More

Friday, August 27, 2021

Today! We Still Demand: The Past, Present, and Future of 2SLGBTQIA+ Activism

Event Information Activist-scholars will remember the historic protest "We Demand" and draw on their work to discuss past and present 2SLGBTQIA+ activism. About this event Join us for We Still Demand: The Past, Present, and Future of 2SLGBTQIA+ Activism! Hosted by Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD) with support of the Anti-69... More

Monday, August 9, 2021

Recordings from “What Happened to Lesbian and Gay Studies?” symposium now available for viewing

In June 2021, The Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin hosted an online symposium titled “What Happened to Lesbian and Gay Studies?”, which featured a number of speakers and panelists, including Dr. Ann Cvetkovich, Director of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies. The symposium aimed to answer a range of... More

Thursday, August 5, 2021

New publication from Dr. Ann Cvetkovich in Feminist Media Histories’ special issue on Affect

Dr. Ann Cvetkovich has a new piece in the Spring 2021 special issue on Affect published by the journal Feminist Media Histories. The article titled “It Feels Right to Me”: Queer Feminist Art Installations and the Sovereignty of the Senses focuses on how affect theory has been informed by art practice, and develops the... More

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Research Assistant (RA) position available with The Learning with and from the Global South: Opportunities for Engaging Girls and Young Women with Disabilities Across Southern Spaces (ENGAGE) project 

The Learning with and from the Global South: Opportunities for Engaging Girls and Young Women with Disabilities Across Southern Spaces (ENGAGE) project invites applications for 1 Research Assistant at Carleton University in Canada. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2021-24), ENGAGE aims to create decolonial... More

Thursday, July 29, 2021

New publication by Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen on engaging girls with disabilities in the Global South via participatory visual research

Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen, along with her co-authors Marnina Gonick and Tuyen Bui, recently published their latest article Engaging girls with disabilities through cellphilming: Reflections on participatory visual research as a means of countering violence in the Global South in the journal Global Studies of Childhood. This article uses a critical... More

Thursday, July 22, 2021

WGST Faculty Nadia Abu-Zahra, Katie Bausch, and Carolyn Ramzy awarded SOPI Grant

WGST faculty Nadia Abu-Zahra and Katie Bausch, along with cross-appointed faculty member Carolyn Ramzy were recently awarded a SOPI (Shared Online Projects Initiative) Grant for their project Open Educational Resources (OER) on Community-Building and Culture. This grant will help facilitate the creation of critical online resources addressing... More

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Dr. Kelly Fritsch co-authors new children’s book about dis/ability justice!

Cross-appointment professor, Kelly Fritsch has co-authored "We Move Together", a new children's book that "chronicles the experiences of a diverse group of characters as they cleverly negotiate barriers and conflicts that impede their ability to move together. But more than that, We Move Together is a celebration of disability culture, community,... More

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Welcome to our New Profs!

We're thrilled to welcome two new faculty members to our department this year Dr. Manjeet Birk and Dr. Fady Shanouda! Manjeet Birk Manjeet Birk (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work centres the lived experience of racialized and Indigenous girls and women in Canada. Her research focuses on women’s organizing, social justice and... More

Monday, June 21, 2021

Congratulations Class of 2021!

We want to send out our warmest CONGRATULATIONS to all our graduates this year!   Class of 2021 - Master's Graduates Class of 2021 -... More

Monday, May 3, 2021

Prof. Pat Gentile’s book nominated for CHA Best Scholarly Book in CA History!

Patrizia Gentile's book Queen of the Maple Leaf : Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity has been nominated for a 2021 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association.  The prize is given to the non-fiction work of Canadian history that is deemed to have made the most significant contribution... More

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Brittney Bos awarded contract instructor teaching award!

The Office of Provost and VP Academic have announced their 2021 Achievement award recipients, and we wanted to extend our enthusiastic congratuations to Brittney Bos for winning the Contract Instructor Teaching Award.  She states "I always remind learners: I’m formally listed as your instructor, but I’m actually your feminist educator who is... More

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

PhD Fellowship in Critical Disability Studies

We enthusiastically invite applications for a PhD fellowship in Critical Disability Studies at Carleton University. The objective of this fellowship is to provide an opportunity for training a doctoral student in Critical Disability Studies with a focus on working with women and girls with disabilities in Vietnam. The successful candidate will... More

Friday, February 19, 2021

MA Student Caitlin Manuel is nominated for 2020 Favorite Faculty!

The Department of Housing and Residence Life Services sends out a survey to all students living in Residence that gives them the opportunity to submit a nomination for their Favourite Faculty member. This survey simply stated: Who is the faculty member, and why are they so great? Our Masters student, Caitlin Manuel has been... More

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Student Poetry – The 504 Sit-ins: The Wakening

Gagan Dhaliwal is a first-year student majoring in Cognitive Sciences and was taking our DBST1001A course - Intro to Disability Studies. “I took the course on disability studies as an elective and, to be honest, did not think much of it. Many concepts, ideas and definitions were introduced throughout the course, ultimately changing my... More

Friday, January 15, 2021

Former prof Betty-Anne Daviss’s new book – Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier: Speaking Truth to Power

Betty-Anne Daviss (midwife, researcher and former WGST prof) has published a new book - Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier: Speaking Truth to Power. Combined as an academic textbook and essential activist reading, it traces the major highlights of the history of Human Rights and how reproductive rights activists have graduated from... More

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Amrita Hari: Immigrant women are falling behind during the COVID-19 pandemic

"Immigrant women are feeling the brunt of the negative economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic — and it may not get better. The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited public debate on the adverse socio-economic effects on women engaged in both paid and unpaid work. There have been some specific conversations about health-care workers and... More

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

FASS Program Spotlight is on Women’s and Gender Studies!

Megan Rivers-Moore interviews one of our students about why they picked Carleton and Women's and Gender Studies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu-EncCLIHY&list=WL&index=11&t=27s  ... More

Sunday, December 6, 2020

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Thursday, December 3, 2020

Feminist Futures in a Time of Pandemic: “Black Feminism Reimagined” – a Workshop with Jennifer Nash now on YouTube

The Feminist Futures in a Time of Pandemic: "Black Feminism Reimagined" - A Workshop with Jennifer Nash is now available to view on YouTube!... More

Friday, November 13, 2020

Joint Chair Nadia Abu-Zahra and team awarded SOPI Award

Dr. Nadia Abu-Zahra and a team of professors from Carleton University and the University of Ottawa have been awarded $32,000 for their project to co-create open educational resources (OER) about structural inequalities, as they relate to mobility and immigration, learning and education, racism and racialization, social justice, and resistance and... More

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Xuan Thuy Nguyen to give keynote at the Music, Mediation and Disability Symposium

Our colleague Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen is presenting the keynote address at the Music, Mediation and Disability Online Symposium next weekend! Her talk is titled "Towards decolonial disability studies: Engaging theory and praxis from the Global South". The Symposium is Saturday and Sunday, November 21 - 22 Dr. Nguyen's talk is scheduled for Sunday,... More

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Alan Santinele Martino defends his Ph.D Thesis!

Congratulations to our Contract Instructor, Alan Santinele Martino for defending this thesis with the department of Sociology at McMaster University on October 8th! His dissertation is entitled "The Romantic and Sexual Lives of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in Ontario, Canada" Alan's research focused on the romantic and sexual lives of... More

Friday, November 6, 2020

Patrizia Gentile and co-investigator Dan Irving awarded SSHRC funding for their project Learning the Ropes: The Beaver Boxing Club and the Re/Making of Marginalized Subjectivities

Congratulations to Patrizia Gentile (principal investigator) and Dan Irving (co-investigator), who were recently awarded a $65,680 SSHRC grant for the project Learning the Ropes: The Beaver Boxing Club and the Re/Making of Marginalized Subjectivities. Established in Ottawa in 1943 the Beaver Boxing Club (BBC) trained generations of amateur... More

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Manjeet Birk begins SSHRC postdoc Pathways to Inclusion of Indigenous and Racialized Communities: A Comparative Analysis Between Canada and New Zealand

Manjeet Birk will spend this academic year completing a SSHRC postdoc focused on her project Pathways to Inclusion of Indigenous and Racialized Communities: A Comparative Analysis Between Canada and New Zealand. This project involves collaborating with a team in the Department of Public Health at the Auckland University of Technology, in Auckland... More

Friday, October 23, 2020

Dr. Patrizia Gentile’s new book is out TODAY!

Congratulations to our colleague Pat Gentile on the publication of her book "Queen of the Maple Leaf Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity"!  You can order your copy HERE! Book Description: As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty became a business. But beauty pageants were more than just frivolous... More

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Katharine Bausch Book Launch!

Join us in congratulating our colleague Dr. Katharine Bausch on her new book “He Thinks He’s Down: White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era!  We're hosting a book launch for her so be sure to Register Here so you don't miss it! The end of the Second World War saw a... More

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Statement of Support for Scholar Strike Canada

We, the faculty of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, write in support of Scholar Strike in Canada, a call to action in higher education to “protest anti-Black, racist, and colonial police brutality in the US, Canada, and elsewhere.”  For more information, including the strike’s origins in a tweet by Professor... More

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Dr. Megan Rivers-Moore has been awarded the CU COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant!

Megan Rivers-Moore's research proposal "Coronavirus, Sex Work, and Mutual Aid in Latin America" will examine how sex workers in the global south are experiencing and responding to the coronavirus pandemic. This project will explore the ways Latin American sex workers' mutual aid strategies have shifted during the coronavirus and share key... More

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Congratulations to the Class of 2020!

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Friday, May 22, 2020

Three of our Grad Students Nominated for 2019-20 Outstanding TA Awards!

We are delighted to announce that three of our graduate students, Rachel Jobson, PJ Javier, and Noah Rodomar have been nominated for the 2019-2020 Outstanding TA Awards. Rachel and PJ were nominated for their work in WGST 1808 and Noah was nominated for his work in SXST 2101. Congratulations to our students for their... More

Thursday, March 26, 2020

Dr. Natalie Spagnuolo part of new research that shows a decrease in education funding for disabled students

Study results appear in Dr. Spagnuolo’s newly co-authored article, “Neoliberal methods of disqualification: a critical examination of disability-related education funding in Canada”.      ... More

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