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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 […]

Critical Femininities

Critical Femininities is an emerging field of study that seeks to examine femininity unhinged from “woman” (Dahl, 2012). In addition to elucidating and theorizing feminine and femme identities, Critical Femininities scholars follow traditions in non-academic femme writing and feminist and queer scholarship to understand femininity as subversive (Hoskin & Taylor, 2019), understand femme-ininity as a […]

Racial Injustice and the Limits of Reparative Policies: A Conversation with Carmela Murdocca

Interview by Serena Aprile Your work focuses on the intersections of racialization and criminalization, especially for Black and Indigenous people in social and legal politics in Canada. What inspired you to choose this difficult but important theme as the focus for your research? I am interested in debates about the possibilities and limits of redress […]

Making 'Girl-and-Women-Friendly Cities': A Conversation with Fazileh Davdar-Khani

Interview by Elaine Coburn Interview with Fazileh Dadvar-Khani, Professor of Rural and Gender Geography at the University of Tehran, Iran, and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Canada. Professor Davdar-Khani writes here from the Secretariat for the academic platform at the Urban Economy Forum and from the Secretariat for the Canada […]