Reading Time: 4 minutesBill 29 prioritizes the comfort of transphobes over the safety and joy of trans athletes
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSaturday’s event featured 12 scientists giving hour-long synopses of their area of research and looked to spark interest in younger generations to pursue futures in science, technology, engineering, medicine and math.
Reading Time: 3 minutesParpart’s lecture, presented by Centre for International Policy Study and the International Theory Network (ITN)’s speaker series, sought to bring nuance to the topics of silence, voice, and how women handle dangerous and gendered situations.
Reading Time: 2 minutesInstead of scrapping the curriculum, maybe it’s time for Doug Ford to educate himself on queer identities, and the issues facing LGBTQ+ youth. Being against this curriculum, it’s pretty obvious he needs it.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen mental illness is turned into a challenge to be overcome rather than a diagnosable and treatable issue, it turns asking for help into a shameful surrender.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Icelandic government will introduce new legislation this month to eradicate the pay gap between all forms of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality.
Reading Time: 7 minutesWith the mainstreaming of feminism, do women still face barriers when entering the labour market? And how has the labour market responded in turn?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlternative Waves features contributions from many of the WRC’s volunteers this semester. The zine has different forms of content, from a list concerning “Consent Culture at Clubs & Parties”, to an essay entitled “Gender and Transformation in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBecause the way nudity is depicted now—as a rigid divide between the genders—is only enforcing regressive ideologies within our culture.
Reading Time: 6 minutesIn the documentary, Kilbourne says ads don’t only sell products. “They sell images, they sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success, and perhaps most important, of normalcy,” she says. “To a great extent they tell us who we are, and who we should be.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesInstead of modelling itself on traditional sport, usually segregated by gender, quidditch has adopted a gender-integrated approach to interuniversity sport.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat do our identities—mine as transgender, femme, Asian, and his as white and cisgender—have to do with it?
