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2023-2024 Community Knowledge Alliance Call for Proposals

Deadline: January 15, 2024 Community Knowledge Alliance – Call for Proposals 2023-2024 The Community Knowledge Alliance (CKA) fund is meant to galvanize, encourage, and facilitate discussions across different sites of […]

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WGSI Statement on Palestine

The Women & Gender Studies Institute has adopted the statement made by the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at UTSC. We are resolute in our support for all faculty who speak […]

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In Loving Memory of Dr. Natalie Zemon Davis (1928-2023)

The Women & Gender Studies Institute is deeply saddened by the loss of our colleague, friend, and mentor Dr. Natalie Zemon Davis. We at the WGSI consider ourselves extremely fortunate […]

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Incoming WGSI PhD Student Shalom Brown is one of the Recipients of the Faculty of Arts & Science’s RoE Award

Shalom Brown, one of the Women & Gender Studies Institute’s incoming PhD students is the recipient of the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Recognition of Excellence Award. Shalom completed her […]

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Statement of support for faculty speaking about Palestine/Israel

We are grateful to our colleagues in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at UTSC, which houses Women’s and Gender Studies, for issuing this principled statement of support for faculty […]

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Statement Regarding the Anti-Trans & 2SLGBTQ+ Protests

On Wednesday September 20, 2023, a nationally organized “Million Person March for our Children” is scheduled to take place. One of the locations is Queens Park – in other words […]

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Congratulations Dimitri!

The WGSI community would like to congratulate our Graduate and Undergraduate Administrator Dimitri Thompson as he transitions to a new role at University College. Dimitri has accepted the position of […]

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Former WGSSU President and UofT Alum Azrah Manji-Savin wins at Collision 2023

UofT Alum and former WGSSU President Azrah Manji-Savin recently presented a winning pitch at Collision 2023. The culinary production platform start-up that she co-founded, Syzl has its roots in her […]

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Congratulations to Jordache A. Ellapen – Winner of the Claire G. Moses Award

Congratulations to Jordache A. Ellapen, Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies in Culture and Media has been awarded the Claire G. Moses Award for the Most Theoretically Innovative Article for “Siyakaka Feminism: Intersectionality, African […]

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‘A lot of hardship’ for Caribbean women working seasonally in Canada: WGSI PhD student examines their experiences

WGSI PhD student, Julie-Ann McCausland, was profiles in A&S News for her work on women in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). Read the full profile here.