GSWS Caucus Colloquium 2024
By Cameron Michels
On Saturday March 16th, GSWS graduate and undergraduate students met to share how their research addresses the intersection of gender, sexuality, and power. Ten students presented their work and answered questions from the audience. Presentations covered many topics from sports to romance to making room for the happy trans child amid medical discourse. Dr. Fung moderated a fascinating undergraduate panel on queer fanfiction! The many connections between people’s research topics made for very interesting discussions. A few folks went to happy hour after to continue the festivities. It was a great day for fostering connection and academic curiosity!
Thank you to all the presenters and for the GSWS department for supplying the room and catered lunch!
GSWS Grad Colloquium Presentations
- Cameron Michels, Sport Structures: Manufacturing and Maintaining Inequality
- Dayna Wilson, In Search of the Happy Trans Kid: An Analysis of Canadian Paediatric Society Discourse on Transgender Youth
- Thuy Do, Crossing Borders: Identity, Recognition, and the Presentation of Vietnamese Women in Western Culture and Vietnam
- Kexin Hu, In the Name of Love: Love’s Potential of Liberating and Empowering Women in a Sexist Heteropatriarchy
- Reema Faris, Cracking Patriarchal Imaginaries: Women Readers & Romance Fiction in the 21st-Century
- Maria Kouhi, Anti-normativity in Omegaverse
- Jasmine Yuan ZHU, Praise you by my gender - affective resistance of Nisu fandom under contemporary China’s gender politics
Fandoms, Gender, Sexuality and Justice: Undergraduate Research from GSWS 319 Panel
Moderator: Dr. Carman Fung
- Mika Manning, Remus/Sirius or Wolfstar: An Online Queer Female Space
- Mika Goli, Fans’ Experiments with Queer Desire through the Fans-translated Boy’s Love Game DRAMAtical Murder
- Adam Wisely, No Fats, No Femmes, No Asians, No Yaoi: An Analysis of the Motivations Behind Western Queer Men’s Preference for Bara
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