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Calling MA and PhD students studying gender, women, or social justice! We want to highlight you in our new grad student interview series!
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Check out our next Fall 2025 Speaker Series event! Scan the QR code or click here www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-and...
Online Webinar happening October 3: AI, False Responders, and Lessons from 2SLGBTQIA+ Research!
See below for details!
Check out this CFP for "Mobilizing Queer Joy and Challenging Anti-2SLGBTQ+ Hate" Conference at MacEwan University
Hey feminist scholars, artists, and activists! Our Online Annual General Meeting is coming up on June 25, starting at 12:00pm (ET). We have lots of stuff to report on and vote, please make sure your membership is up to date. Members will find an email with links to the Agenda and Zoom Link.
Sunday, June 1, 10:30-12:30 as part of the SSA conference at #CongressH 2025 in Toronto: a public book launch event/discussion for @nataliekt.bsky.social's Reading the Room w/ @wgsj.bsky.social! (200 King St. E, Room 217A)
We've got some #Congressh2025 events happening this weekend in Toronto! These events are open to all WGSJ members!
We will be passing new bylaws, recruiting for a new treasurer, membership engagement coordinator, & conference program coordinator. The Executive committee will offer reports and we hope to have updates from the EDI & Awards committees, and hear from leads of new research clusters.
Save the date! June 25, 2025 12pm Eastern Time for our AGM
Attending #Congressh2025 or just hanging around in Toronto?
We've got a fantastic pre-congress symposium, in collaboration with the Black Canadian Studies Association! Seats are limited! Register on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/wgsj-bcsa-...
EN: 2S/LGBTQ+ Simplified Logo, featuring the outline of a circle that fades between the following colours clockwise: black, brown, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red Text on image says: Community, Professional and Academic Trainees. Join us in 2025-26. Application now available on our webpage. Deadline – May 31, 2025 at Midnight, PT
FR: Logo simplifié 2S/LGBTQ+, présentant le contour d'un cercle qui s'estompe entre les couleurs suivantes dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre : noir, marron, violet, bleu, vert, jaune, orange, rouge Le texte sur l'image dit : Stagiaires universitaires ou professionnel·le·s. Rejoignez-nous en 2025/26. Candidature maintenant disponible sur notre webpage
Our 25/26 call for community, academic, and professional trainees is now available. Applications due May 31st!
Notre appel à candidatures 25/26 pour les stagiaires communautaires, universitaires et professionnel·le·s est désormais ouvert. La date limite est fixée au 31 mai!
tinyurl.com/HH2425
1:30-3:00pm: Keynote address in collaboration with the Black Canadian Studies Association “Against the Romance of Reform: Black liberation in a time of crisis.” By Robyn Maynard
Registration details coming soon!
Save the date! May 30, 2025
Going to #congressh2025 or you’re just hanging out in Toronto? We’ve got a pre-congress event lined up with some amazing speakers:
11:00am-12:30pm: “Palestinian Justice Organizing at Canadian PSIs” featuring Wafaa Hasan, Nadia Abu-Zahra, and Muna Seleh
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We need each other!
Dear members...
wgsj.ca/2025/03/31/w...
Full Professor Mentorship (Online)
March 14th 2pm EST/1pm CST / 11am Pacific)
On Zoom!
Three fantastic Full Professors will share their process at their university and offer advice and tips!
To register, contact Claire (wgsjpresident@gmail.com), who will provide the Zoom link!
Save the date!
Full Professor Mentorship
March 14th 2pm EST (1pm CST / 11am Pacific)
With 3 fantastic guests:
Dr. Irene Shankar, Mount Royal University
Dr. Helen Leung, Simon Frater University
Dr. Rebecca Godderis, Laurier University
Sign up details TBA!
We are all under attack and we are fighting for our universities. This week @tungohan.bsky.social raises the alarm about the neoliberal, right wing attack on higher education in the wake of program suspensions at York U. www.academicaunties.com/episodes/fig...
#AcademicSky #dei #reconciliation
Feminist friends! Consider signing this petition addressed to York University admin regarding the program closures.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Indigenous Studies Faculty Response to York's Suspension of their Program. This statement was originally published February 20,2025 by the Indigenous Studies Faculty at York University.
The full statement is also available on our website:
wgsj.ca/2025/02/21/i...
WGSJ Statement on York University’s Suspension of New Admissions of 1st Year Majors to Undergraduate Programs
Please see our full statement on our webiste: wgsj.ca/2025/02/19/s...
WGSJ reiterates our support and solidarity with Katy Fulfer (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Waterloo) and all students impacted by the hate-motivated attack in a gender studies classroom in 2023.
Read our full statement here wgsj.ca/2025/01/31/h...
Join us this Friday, January 24th 1pm (Eastern Time). Link below!!
The QRITICAL Queer + Trans Research Hub at MRU presents: Joshua Whitehead Queering the Stone: Oji-Cree Epistemologies and Indigiqueer Futures.
March 11, 2025 12pm (MT)
This is both in-person and will be streamed through Zoom.
Register here: forms.gle/qQu3BnsQKjrH...
New year, new WGSJ Feminist Friday Webinar!
Join us for “Messy classrooms: Teaching in Divisive Times”
January 24 1pm EST
Register on eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.com/e/wgsj-prese...
New book alert!!!
Our social media community is growing!! #followfriday
Unfortunately we have to postpone this event for Friday, January 24, 2025. Our eventbrite registration remains the same so you can still reserve your spot.
eventbrite.com/e/wgsj-presents-messy-classrooms-teaching-in-divisive-times-tickets-1076505479869?aff=eivtefrnd&utm_share_source=listing_android
The messiness can appear in a multitude of ways, including but not limited to curriculum design, in-class activities, pedagogical methods, faculty to student interactions, as well as student to student interactions. Please share with faculty and grad students.
are often faced with scenarios that cause “consternation” for both learners and educators.
The webinar’s panelists will discuss how messy moments can transpire around lecture topics, use of language, and the larger geopolitical realities that enter classroom discussions and relations.
