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2024-2025 Events

Happening Soon! If you would like to support our events, please consider making a donation. Sex Work as Resistance Summer Institute Date: Wednesdays, July 16-30, 2025Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm ETLocation: Online Cost: Sliding scale, $25-$250Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/summer-institute-sex-work-as-resistance-tickets-1374784991919?aff=oddtdtcreator How do women and queer people use sex work to resist racial capitalism, colonial borders, and heteropatriarchal marriage? Globally, […]

Registration Open for Generation: The Fourth Annual Critical Femininities Conference

The Centre for Feminist Research at York University is hosting scholars, researchers, activists, and artists for the fourth annual Critical Femininities Conference on the theme of ‘Generation.’ This year’s conference will also include a collage workshop by artist stylo starr and Keynote address by Dr. Gina Starblanket!   Registration is free for all attendees and […]

Women During the Holocaust: How Did They Cope?

The Centre for Feminist Research and the Centre for Jewish Studies invite you to: Women During the Holocaust: How Did They Cope? A conversation and Q&A with Dr. Myrna Goldenberg and Dr. Sara Horowitz Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024 Time: 11:00am - 12:15pm ET Location: On Zoom Registration: https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KcZ0cUOFTd2yQn-Nl7Pg2A Myrna Goldenberg, Ph.D., has published seminal […]

2024-2025 Visiting Scholars

Katherine Hubbard is the 2024-25 Visiting Scholar in Sexuality Studies. Dr. Hubbard is Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey. Her research and teaching are interdisciplinary, including sociological, psychological and historical components. At present, she is centrally focused on research areas pertaining to feminist histories of Psychology, sexuality, and queer studies. Her work takes a […]

Book Launch: Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry: Art, Affect, and Labor

Join us for an evening of celebration and discussion on the intersections of affect, performance and tourism in Thailand's fire dance scene. Launch of the new book with author Tiffany Rae Pollock Remarks by Professor David Murray and Professor Penny Van Esterik Seating is limited so please register in advance at this link : https://forms.office.com/r/YfxiSYwVdi   Fire […]

Kick-Off & Connect

Date: Monday, December 11, 2023 Time: 11:30am - 1:00pm Location: LAS 3033, 3rd floor Lassonde Building--Keele Campus RSVP here This gathering is part of our grassroots efforts, born out of our collective personal and professional experiences with the EDI and WiCSE committees at the EECS department, POLARIS, and active involvement in Canadian Computing Associations like Can-CWIC. These experiences have inspired us to […]

New Parenting in Academia Event

Feminist Dispatch: Community Participation – An Intersectional Feminist View of the ‘Fuzzy’ Concept

Dispatch by Julia Fursova “Community participation – with what money and whose time?!” – much tension and frustration are captured in this poignant statement expressed by a research participant during a conversation on benefits and challenges of community participation in neighbourhood-based projects.    At the same time research participants described their volunteer commitments as ‘labour of […]

Feminist Dispatch: Municipal Bylaws and Anti-Asian Racism From Past to Present

Dispatch by Amanda De Lisio On May 30, 2022, the Critical Trafficking and Sex Work Studies Research Cluster at the Centre for Feminist Research at York University hosted an Asian Heritage Month event. We met to discuss the recent implementation of a new accreditation process in the Town of Newmarket for people in alternative massage, […]

Echoes of Women's Resistance in Africa: A Conversation with Ruth Murambadoro

Interview by Elaine Coburn Dr. Ruth Murambadaro, your work is concerned with “echoes of resistance” among women in Zimbabwe, women who are not always able to express themselves directly in the ongoing context of patriarchal authoritarianism. What does the concept of echoes of resistance evoke for you, in Zimbabwe today, and how does this concept […]