Category: WGSJ statements
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New Book Alert! Unmasking Violence: Campus Sexual and Gender-Based Violence During COVID-19
Edited by JJ Wright, Emily Colpitts, and Alexandra Zidenberg. Link to publisher: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1623167 Book abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing social inequities and produced a ‘shadow pandemic’ of gender-based violence, including on post-secondary campuses where rates of gender-based violence are already exceptionally high. The shadow pandemic came at a time…
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New Book Alert! In My Sister’s House: Black Feminisms in Canada and Beyond
In My Sister’s House: Black Feminisms in Canada and Beyond Edited by Ezinwanne (Ezi) Toochukwu Odozor, Janelle Brady, and Njoki N. Wane In My Sister’s House is the initial volume in the innovative new series, In Words of Our Own: Black Women and Being, a four-book collection of original scholarship by and about Black Canadian…
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The Future of EDI at Post-Secondary Institutions in Alberta and Beyond
“Why have Alberta’s PSIs shifted from “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion” to “Community and Belonging”? And what does this change mean within the broader context of a growing backlash against EDI in Canada and the United States? Dr. Shirely Tate (Professor of Sociology, Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Feminism and Intersectionality,…
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Fall 2025 Speaker Series!
I May Never Answer Your Email (and This Is Why): Comics from the Wreckage of Feminist Academia In this talk, artist and scholar Allyson Mitchell shares recent comics from her Substack series I May Never Answer Your Email (and This Is Why), an ongoing visual chronicle of burnout, bureaucratic horror, chronic pain, and…
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We need each other!
March 12, 2025 Dear members We are writing to you all as members of Women’s and Gender Studies (and related) programs across the country to ask for your support by purchasing a WGSJ membership. This is a moment of notable and focused attack on our programs and on the core…
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Indigenous Studies Faculty Response to York’s Suspension of their Program
Originally published February 20, 2025 by the Indigenous Studies Faculty at York University York University’s Indigenous Studies (INDG) program was abruptly suspended via email on Friday evening; INDG is no longer permitted to admit new students in the upcoming academic year. The York administration’s sudden decision is a significant setback…
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WGSJ Statement on York University’s Suspension of New Admissions of 1st Year Majors to Undergraduate Programs
In solidarity with the Programs in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Women’s, Gender and Social Justice Association (WGSJ) calls on York University to revert their decision to suspend 1st year undergraduate major declarations. The importance of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies in this socio-political moment should not be underestimated.…
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“Hatred is fueled…” Statement of Solidarity with Katy Fulfer (Associate Professor, University of Waterloo)
The Women’s, Gender and Social Justice Association (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. We echo Fulfer’s call to pay attention to the larger picture and societal context surrounding…
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New book alert! Diverging the Popular, Gender and Trauma AKA The Jessica Jones Anthology
Diverging the Popular, Gender and Trauma AKA The Jessica Jones Anthology (Eds. Mary Grace Lao, Pree Rehal, and Jessica Bay), a feminist media analysis on the popular Netflix Marvel comics adaptation, Marvel’s Jessica Jones. It is available for purchase via the University of Calgary Press website. We also have an open access version. Book description…