You’ve just been awarded the inaugural National Medal for Excellence in Feminist Scholarship in Canada. At the same time, we are witnessing a live-streamed genocide in Gaza, where you have personally set foot and created relationships. Can you talk about what it is like as a Palestinian scholar/activist to win this award in the midst […]
Date: Friday, October 31, 2025 Time: 9.30 AM – 10:30 AM Location: Online (Zoom link provided upon registration) Register: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/dlmTUI_mR7mxLdHQB4VlpA#/registration The Palestine Research Cluster (PRC) was established in August 2025 to promote the academic study of Palestine by supporting multidisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary research, teaching, and intellectual collaboration among scholars within York University. PRC is housed within the […]
On October 1, 2025 the Centre for Feminist Research at York University adopted a historic resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. The resolution states: "Be it resolved that, the Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) formally endorses and will honour the call of Palestinian civil society for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions due to their complicity in […]
The CFR is now accepting nominations for the 2024-25 Mary McEwan Memorial Dissertation Award. Named in honour of Dr. Mary McEwan, a feminist psychiatrist, this annual award of $1,000.00 will be awarded to one PhD dissertation produced in the 2024-2025 academic year at York University in the area of feminist scholarship. A committee of faculty […]
The Centre for Feminist Research has an open call for two Graduate Students to join its Executive Committee for the 2025-26 year. Applications are due Tuesday, September 30, 2025. Position Description The Executive Committee is responsible for matters of regular management of the Centre and serves in a consultative and monitoring capacity in relation to the Director (and any Associate Directors). For 2025-26, meetings will take place […]
Interview by Andi Schwartz Katherine Hubbard was the 2024-2025 Visiting Scholar in Sexuality Studies at the Centre for Feminist Research. In April 2025, she gave a talk titled "Me, Margaret Lowenfeld and Margaret Mead: Queer Kinship in the Past and in the Present" about her article "Being Captured by Queer Kinship: Margaret Lowenfeld and Margaret […]
IRREVERENCE Proceedings of the Third Annual Critical Femininities Conference Edited by Hannah Maitland, Andi Schwartz, Kathleen Cherrington, Mackenzie Edwards, Ramanpreet Bahra & Allegra Morgado CONTENTS Justine Wallace, "Queer Migration Beyond Neo-colonial Linearity: The In-betweens and Elsewheres of Afro-Caribbean Queer Migration" Steff(ania) Juniper, "Nothing is Sacred: Femme Subjectivity and the Politics of What Matters to Us" […]
Interview by Hannah Maitland Can you tell me a little bit more about what characters and works that you research? Are you looking at comic books and movie adaptations? Some of my newer work has analyzed Muslim superheroes on TV, like the Ms. Marvel TV series on Disney+. However, my dissertation focused on comic books […]
Recognizing that gender equity and public policy are interrelated, this research cluster brings together academic researchers, policymakers, activists, and graduate and undergraduate students seeking to understand and contribute to the production and dissemination of knowledge that provides a gendered analysis of public policy from an anti-racist and anti-colonial perspective. In doing so, this cluster considers public […]
The Disability Justice Research Cluster at the Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) convenes a dynamic community of graduate students, scholars, activists, policy advocates, and artists dedicated to advancing disability justice as an integral part of feminist thought and practice. Going beyond disability rights, disability justice is rooted in anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer, trans-inclusive, and anti-capitalist feminist […]