Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

GSWS 333 Intersectional Feminist Journal Praxis - Fall 2018

Exciting new course for Fall 2018! Intersectional Feminist Journal Praxis is a project-based course that bridges academic and popular feminism, art and text, feminist practice and theory, scholarship and activism. In this advanced seminar, students will be asked to collectively develop - from start to finish - an inaugural issue of an undergraduate journal. learn more →
Racial Animal Transformations

Racial Animal Transformations: Starring Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog” By: Inoka Jayaweera and Kaarianne Smith, BA Students learn more →
Canadian South Asian Youths Conference: Call for Abstracts

Canadian South Asian Youths Conference: Identity, Gender, Sexuality, Employment, and Activism: Saturday, April 6, 2019 learn more →
LGBTQ Special Initiatives

5th Annual Pride Display in Surrey City Hall In this 5th year the focus is on sexual orientation and gender identity resources for BC schools - otherwise known as SOGI 123. The display will be up for two weeks starting June 5. learn more →
NWSS GSA Zine Workshop

Heather Prost, GSWS Major and Kat Davidson, GSWS MA Alumni discuss the zine workshop they lead with the New Westminster Secondary School Gay Staight Alliance. learn more →
Lissa: a Story of Medical Promise, Friendship and Revolution

Dr. Coleman Nye's new graphic novel. learn more →
Why Study Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies?

Watch a video to find out why you should be taking GSWS Courses! learn more →

Welcome

The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University welcomes students interested in the study of women, gender, sexuality, and feminism. The department’s interdisciplinary degree programs and faculty offer courses in a wide range of subject areas in the social sciences, humanities, natural/applied sciences, and contemporary arts.

Why Study Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies?

Watch the "Why Study Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies?" YouTube video featuring:

Dr. Lara Campbell
Dr. Coleman Nye
Dr. Habiba Zaman

Current Events

September 08, 2018
Rosemary Brown Conference 2018
Women and Politics: Risk and Opportunity September 8, 2018
September 04, 2018
On the Politics of Ugliness
On the Politics of Ugliness, co-edited by Ruth Wynn Woodward Postdoctoral Fellow Ela Przybylo and Sara Rodrigues is now published!

Recent Events

The Rosemary Brown Annual Memorial Conference

Women and Politics: Risk and Opportunity

Sponsored by:

SFU Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and the

Rosemary Brown Award for Women Committee

Special thanks to the SFU Centre for Dialogue for their generous support

September 8, 2018

Simon Fraser University
Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Asia Pacific Hall
Vancouver, BC

8:30 am – 12:30 pm

Annual Rosemary Brown Award for Women Recipient:

Ellen Woodsworth

Panel:

Orene Askew (Band Councillor, Squamish Nation)

Katrina Chen (MLA, Burnaby-Lougheed)

Mobina Jaffer (Senator, British Columbia)

Joy Masuhara (Co-Chair, Women Transforming Cities)

Lynne Quarmby (Professor, SFU, and GPC Science Policy Critic)

Media

Dr. Jen Marchbank is quoted in an article in the Surrey Now-Leader on the Delta community’s first ever Take Back the Night walk.

Delta ‘takes back the night’ in first ever domestic violence walk

Listen to Dr. Habiba Zaman's CBC interview on about invisible labour on The Early Edition:
The interview starts at the 2:38 mark.

Surrey’s Youth For A Change Group co-founded by Dr. Jen Marchbank is featured in Surrey 604

SFU becomes first university to offer asexuality studies! Read The Peak article on Dr. Ela Przybylo's GSWS 333-4 Ruth Wynn Woodward Advanced Seminar: Critical Nonsexualities from the Fall 2017 semester!

Click here for past media coverage.