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Anachronic: The Moral Lives of HIV in 'Post-Crisis' Barbados
Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology, and Access to Life
Designing Crip Futures
Emergent: coping with complex phenomena
Engendering Public Engagement, Democratizing Public Space
Race, Reparations and Neoliberalism in Canada
Still Poz, Still Queer, Still Here: Long Term HIV+ Queer Men in the Age of Treatment (1996-2018)
Taking Space, Making Space: Digital Maps by Queers of Colour in Toronto
Transgender and Performance Ethnography
Understanding Gladue from the Perspective of Indigenous People
When you hear something wrong it's up to everyone to let people know": The Acceptance of Homosexuality and the Reconstitution of Social Regulation
The Women's Human Rights Forum
Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: LGBT Asylum in Canada
The Inhabitance of Loss: A Transnational Feminist Project on Memorialization
Interdisciplinary Trans Studies Graduate Student Conference 2018
The InterGuianas-Canada Gender Studies Exchange
"Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas: A Symposium in Honour of Marlene Kadar"
Queer Bathroom Monologues
Racialization, Racism and the University
Shifting Paradigms, Enduring Legacies: Reflections on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women at 50
Summer Institute in Sexuality Studies (SISS) 2017
The Study for Judicial Education for Family Law Professionals in Morocco
Transnational Migration Trajectories of Immigrant Women Professionals in Canada
U.S. Homophile Internationalism
Women, Men, and Plants in 19th-Century Canada: New Resources, New Perspectives
Women's Human Rights, Macroeconomics and Policy Choice
Women's Quests for Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Contestations, Complexities, Contradiction
Older Research Projects
Critical Race and Indigenous Feminisms
Feminist Cultural Production
Gender and Public Policy
Girls' Studies York Research Network (GSYRN)
CFR Research Cluster: Girls' Studies Research Network Launch: Snapshots From the Field
Trafficking and Sex Work
Memory and Memorialisation
Sexuality and Gender Studies and LGBTQ Activism
Researchers are interested in exploring issues of critical race, anti-racism and indigenous feminisms. Over the past three decades a large body of feminist research has emerged documenting the persistence of discriminatory barriers in Canadian Universities faced by members of equity seeking groups including: women, members of racialized minorities, persons with disabilities, Aboriginal people. Intimately tied to such discriminatory practices are questions of curriculum. This research cluster encompasses two pan-University groups of faculty and students.
First, a national, multidisciplinary team of scholars, is undertaking a national analysis of Canadian universities. The study will gather data required to make an accurate assessment of the representation and position of racialized minorities within Canadian universities, and will analyze these data to reveal patterns of discrimination and racism, with a particular focus on three questions: 1) How does the pattern of racism vary according to gender, sexuality, ability, age, and different kinds of racializations? 2) Are there any differences between institutions? 3) How do patterns of racialization affect the mission of universities to deliver equitable education and research and thus fulfill their public responsibility?
The second group focuses on questions of curriculum development, particularly on how to construct an interdisciplinary Asian Canadian Studies. In order to do this, members of the cluster have addressed how Asian Canadian Studies in currently constituted and how it is intertwined with other fields, such as area studies, women's and gender studies, professional training, social and community work. This group draws together faculty and graduate students across four Ontario Universities with an interest in developing a feminist, anti-racist and decolonizing Asian-Canadian Studies. Members of the research cluster have met for three years – during which they have organized a monthly seminar series, a monthly reading group on the contemporary interdisciplinary scholarship in Asian-Canadian Studies, and discussed and developed research proposals and ideas. Members of this group have submitted two SSHRC RDI grants and one University of Toronto Jackman Humanities Institute grant in order to generate funds for research and programming. This research group reaches out to more than 80+ people on their informal listserv. A member of the research group has developed a new graduate course at OISE entitled 'Theorizing Asian Canada'. Members have contributed to the launch of "Asian Canadian Wiki", a website dedicated to promoting Asian Canadian community. Through collaborative and individual projects, these researchers contribute to deeper understandings of significant issues and questions in the field.
Members of this research cluster have a number of goals:
To contribute to inter- and multidisciplinary theoretical understandings of the social construction of racialization, racism, equity, and social justice
To explore the discursive, material, and everyday practices of racism
Researching on Asian Canadian Studies
To assist policy makers, administrators, and faculty associations to develop more effective tools to ensure equity.
Facilitating collaboration with scholars nationally and internationally.
2:30 pm CFR Presents: SPOTLIGHT on ISLAM...
CFR Presents: SPOTLIGHT on ISLAM...
SAVE THE DATE! The Centre for Feminist Research is pleased to announce the next event in the Spotlight on Islamophobia Event Series: --- Islam, Sexuality and Islamophobia Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 Time: 2.30-4.30pm Location:[...]
6:00 pm CFR Co-Sponsored: "Disrupting De...
CFR Co-Sponsored: "Disrupting De...
Co-sponsored by the Centre for Feminist Research: Another Story bookshop cordially invites you to the launch of Disrupting Deportability: Transnational Workers Organize When: January 31, 2020 Time: 6-8pm Location: The Centre for Social Innovation, Annex Garage, 720 Bathurst[...]
2:30 pm CFR Co-Sponsored: FILM SCREENING...
CFR Co-Sponsored: FILM SCREENING...
The Centre for Feminist Research and the Sexuality Studies Program present: FILM SCREENING of QueerEdge: From Gay to Queer Liberation (2019) Date: Thursday, February 6, 2020 Time: 2.30-4.30pm Location: Nat Taylor Cinema (Ross North 102),[...]
CFR welcomes CFR Visiting Scholar Dr. Maud Perrier to York University
CFR Newsletter: Upcoming Events and Opportunities, December 18, 2019
CFR Newsletter: Upcoming Events and Opportunities, November 27, 2019
New unified Mach application form, quarterly deadlines for VPRI Funding for Indigenous Scholarly & Scholarly Events & Outreach Activities
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