The IGSF is launching a monthly newsletter covering news, announcements and upcoming events! All previous and future issues will be available under the "About" section of our website. Please contact the si.yu.li [at] mcgill.ca (administrative staff) about submissions for any upcoming issues.
Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Ketchum from the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) for winning the Prize for Emerging Researchers under the Principal鈥檚 Prize for Public Engagement through Media!
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Save the date! On October 26, 4 - 6PM, at McLennan Library in the Colgate Room | Vernissage (Launch) for the Exhibit on LGBTQ+ Activism, curated by Dr. Ketchum and Jacob Williams (Student, Research Assistant to Dr. Ketchum)听
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Dr.听Yolanda Mu帽oz is featured in a today on the challenges faced by people with disabilities. The article is written by Catherine Roy, Accessibility Advisor at 海角社区. Dr.听Mu帽oz is a course lecturer at the IGSF, and teaches GSFS 303 Gender and Disability. GSFS 303 will be offered in fall 2022.听
IGSF Faculty Lecturer Alex Ketchum's new book, Engage in Public Scholarship!: A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication (Concordia University Press, 2022) is ! A 20% discount code is available: "Ketchum20"听
Professor Maria Hwang (Assistant Professor, IGSF and the Department of East Asian Studies) recently wrote an essay for Open Democracy. The piece is titled 鈥淓xit denied: women losing the right to leave in the Philippines.鈥 This essay explores how anti-trafficking policies harm women workers and curtail their freedom of movement. The full text is available on the .
On August 17, 2021, Prof. Alex Ketchum launched the "What's the Recipe for a Queer Cookbook?" physical and digital exhibit. The is available on Prof. Ketchum's blog.听Since its release, the exhibit has been discussed on听podcasts, online articles, and more:
This exhibit was curated by Dr. Alex Ketchum of the IGSF with special assistance from Jacqueline Lee-Tam. The physical exhibit will be in the hallways of the Leacock Building of 海角社区 from August 18 - December 20, 2021. The digital exhibit will live on
The IGSF is very proud of our graduating students in the Class of 2021.
Since there will be no traditional commencement ceremony this year, we wish to honour the tremendous contributions our graduating students have made to Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at 海角社区 in other ways. We hope that wherever you are headed after 海角社区, gender, sexuality, feminist and social justice studies will continue to support and inform the life and work from here.
The technologies behind open access scholarship, self-publishing website design, and other communicative technologies that humanities and social science scholars use as alternatives to traditional academic publishing in order to communicate with the public raise numerous social justice concerns.
The following is an excerpt from the report听written by Dr. Alex Ketchum. The full report can be found and a听PDF copy of the report is available at听
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听is a new book by Dr. Alexandra Ketchum.听The goal of this handbook is to provide event organizers of all levels with the tools to make their events accessible, sustainable, and exemplify social justice principles. Whether you are new to organizing or highly experienced, this handbook will provide frameworks and practical tips to create inclusive events. There is a special section on online/virtual/cyber events.