It was so great to see everyone enjoying themselves in Stratford last weekend for the end-of-term GSJ field trip. We had absolutely perfect weather and what a great production of RENT! Thanks to all who joined.
The Department of Philosophy is thrilled to announce that Laura Mae Lindo will be joining us as a new faculty member!
You are invited to join us for a showing of Every Little Nookie, a live performance that pushes the boundaries of conventional notions of sex and love. The play is showing at Stratford Festival Theater on Saturday, October 1st at 2 pm. Transportation will be provided.
Philosopher Jennifer Saul is pushing the bounds of a classical discipline to combat racism, misogyny and the spread of misinformation
From the Bitch Manifesto to the movie Mean Girls and the popularity of the mean girl trope, the right to be mean is the new frontier for white feminist discontent. My work explores how feminism points to gender as if it is resistance in and of itself. Feminist discourses have positioned the white heterosexual mean girl/woman as both the primary problem to patriarchy and the antidote without whom patriarchy cannot be remade. I argue that the white mean girl feminist is the idealistic figure of complaint and the white hetero-patriarchal mark of bourgeois feminist maturity. In this presentation, I will share a brief overview of this book project.
The Steering Committee of the Eastern Division of The Society for Women in Philosophy has announced that past Humphrey Chair of Feminist Philosophy at Waterloo, Professor Ann Garry, will be receiving the Distinguished Woman Philosopher Award this year.
Women's Studies welcome back party
Women's Studies Alumni will share their experiences about how their Women's Studies degrees have impacted their career trajectories.
Refreshments will be served beginning at 5:15 p.m.
All are welcome!
Dr. Karen Stote, who teaches in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Laurier University, gave a talk entitled “Colonialism and the Sterilization of Indigenous Women in Canada.” Dr. Stote’s archival research has helped bring to attention the extent to which indigenous women in the North were subjected to forced sterilizations. She situated forced sterilizations within a discourse of systemic settler colonialism, showing how sterilizations functioned as a cost effective means of erasing indigeneity in Canada.
