Sexuality Studies Spotlight: Recent Episodes
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Sexuality Studies Spotlight highlights what you can do with your sexuality studies degree. Produced in collaboration with the York University Sexuality Studies Program, these interviews between undergraduate students and activists, scholars, and professionals explore how you can apply a critical sexualities lens to just about anything.
In this bonus episode, York Gender Feminist and Women’s Studies Ph.D. candidates Stephanie Jonsson and Angela Stanley talk about navigating disability during undergraduate and graduate programs. They discuss some of their experiences with accessing accessibility services as both students and workers and the ways that disability intersects with race, gender, and queerness. Angela Stanley’s research is focused on disability, sexuality, queerness, and accessibility, and she mobilizes her research work through her role as an accessibility coordinator for the Ontario Digital Literacy and Access Network (ODLAN).
Get in touch with Angela at:
Email: angela_stanley@live.com
Find Stephanie's work at:
https://odlan.ca/
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Kathleen Cherrington, Keely O'Brien, Helen Martin, and Amanda Selvaggi. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, The Academic Excellence Fund, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations, and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please visit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V3BrcFkvrpG7Lr5Mk90JykCCsw1Mc8yD?usp=share_link
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources:
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
Crisis Text Line- https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/sexual-abuse/#understanding-sexual-abuse-1
In today’s episode, Helen sits down to chat with Fatemeh Gharibi about their work on elevating queer voices through performance. They discussed Fati’s experience as an international student coming from Iran and joining York’s MA and now PhD program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies where they currently research queer international students of colour in Canada. Fatemeh discusses the evolution of women’s rights in Iran and how this influences their academic and activist work here. They conclude by giving advice to anyone considering pursuing a degree in sexuality studies and offer an encouraging message to their fellow international students.
You can find more of Fati’s work at:
Their Instagram: @f.ghariba
Some of their performance and research work:
Performed in Radical Housewives by the Toronto Workers' Theatre Group in May 2022. https://vimeo.com/761416608
PolyRupture with Alireza Gorgani, a Video Performance production, exhibited in: Eco-Art and Media Festival, Environmental and Urban Change Faculty, York University, Mar 7, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB9lL0Cgels
Presented “Queer theorizing through theatre performance within the Iranian closet” at Graduate Conference 2020: Speaking to Power: Feminist Theories and Praxis. Women & Gender Studies Graduate Student Union at University of Toronto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJk_8EqBFC8
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Kathleen Cherrington, Keely O'Brien, Helen Martin, and Amanda Selvaggi. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, The Academic Excellence Fund, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations, and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please visit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V3BrcFkvrpG7Lr5Mk90JykCCsw1Mc8yD?usp=share_link
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources:
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
Crisis Text Line- https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/sexual-abuse/#understanding-sexual-abuse-1
In today’s episode, Amanda is joined by Ph.D. Candidate Evan Vipond. While completing their B.A.H in Theatre Studies at York, Evan took several courses in the Sexuality Studies program and is now a Ph.D. Candidate in the Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies Department. Evan’s research is interdisciplinary, drawing from women and gender studies, transgender studies, and sexuality studies. Their areas of expertise include trans rights and critical politics, neoliberalism, and trans cultural representation. In this episode, they discuss academic publishing, transitioning from undergrad to graduate school and Degrassi.
Find more of Evan’s work here:
Researchgate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Evan-Vipond
JusticeTrans: https://justicetrans.org/en/
Evan’s publications:
Vipond, E. (2023). “Expanding the Repertoire of Trans Masculinities: The Cultural Legacy of Original Plumbing.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 10.2. (Forthcoming)
Vipond, E. (2021). “‘One hundred percent dude’: Straightening Degrassi’s Adam Torres.” TransNarratives. Eds. Carter, Kristi, and James Brunton, 145-164. Toronto: Canadian Scholars and Women’s Press.
Vipond, E. (2019). “Becoming Culturally (Un)Intelligible: Exploring the Terrain of Trans Life Writing.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 34.1: 19-43. doi: 10.1080/08989575.2019.1542813. [Special Issue: Trans Narratives: trans, transmedia, transnational. Reprinted as an edited collection by Routledge in 2022.]
Vipond, E. (2019). “From Surviving to Thriving”: A Needs Assessment of Trans and Nonbinary People in Toronto Based on the Social Determinants of Health (Rep.). Toronto, ON: Toronto Trans Coalition Project. Available at:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Evan-Vipond/research
Vipond, E. (2017). “Producing Trans Economicus: Deploying Market Logic in the Fight for Trans Rights.” Canadian Review of Social Policy/Revue Canadienne de Politique Sociale 77 (Summer/Fall): 17-43.
Vipond, E. (2015). “Trans Rights Will Not Protect Us: The Limits of Equal Rights Discourse, Anti-Discrimination Laws, and Hate Crime Legislation.” Western Journal of Legal Studies 6.1 (September), online: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/uwojls/.
Vipond, E. (2015). “Resisting Transnormativity: Challenging the Medicalization and Regulation of Trans Bodies.” Theory in Action 8.2 (April):21-44.
Smith, J., P. Cannoot, P. Cloutier de Repentigny, L. Holzer, S. Leung, T. Mhuirthile, E. Vipond, and N. Varman. (2023). “Roundtable on Deregistration and Gender Law Reform Internationally.” Feminist Legal Studies (online). doi:10.1007/s10691-022-09512-7.
Davies, A., E. Vipond, and A. King. (2017). “Gender Binary Washrooms as a Means of Gender Policing in Schools: A Canadian Perspective.” Gender and Education 31.7: 866-85. doi: 10.1080/09540253.2017.1354124.
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Kathleen Cherrington, Keely O'Brien, Helen Martin, and Amanda Selvaggi. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, The Academic Excellence Fund, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations, and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please visit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V3BrcFkvrpG7Lr5Mk90JykCCsw1Mc8yD?usp=share_link
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources:
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
Crisis Text Line- https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/sexual-abuse/#understanding-sexual-abuse-1
Amanda returns with an interview with Dr. Christopher Dietzel (he/him), the 2022–2023 Visiting Scholar in Sexuality Studies. Chris is a research associate on the iMPACTS Project at McGill University, which investigates sexual violence, and he works in the Sexual Health and Gender (SHaG) Lab, which explores gender- and sexuality-related health issues. In this episode, they discuss Chris’ research on older LGBTQ+ adult’s experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and queer community experiences with online dating apps.
Find more of Chris’ work here:
Chris’ website: https://www.mcgill.ca/definetheline/christopher-dietzel
The iMPACTS Project: https://www.mcgill.ca/definetheline/impacts
The SHaG Lab: https://shaglab.ca/
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Kathleen Cherrington, Keely O'Brien, Helen Martin, and Amanda Selvaggi. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, The Academic Excellence Fund, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations, and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please visit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V3BrcFkvrpG7Lr5Mk90JykCCsw1Mc8yD?usp=share_link
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources:
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
Crisis Text Line- https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/sexual-abuse/#understanding-sexual-abuse-1
In this episode, returning host Helen Martin sat down with Ph.D. candidate Kathleen Cherrington to discuss her scholarly activist work on sexuality studies. For fifteen years, Kathleen worked as an outreach worker to marginalized populations, specifically chronically homeless individuals, prisoners, and street-based sex workers. Her research specializations include critical sex work and erotic labour studies; transnational sexualities; scholar activism; gendered labour; women in poverty; sexual rights; creative research methods and methodologies; feminist art activism; and urban sexualities. In this episode, they chat about being a mature student, mental health during the pandemic, and Kathleen’s journey to her Ph.D. in the Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies Department at York. Kathleen talks about some of her major takeaways from her sexuality studies degree and gives some advice for students who are considering a sexuality studies degree or want to get more involved in sex worker advocacy.
You can find Kathleen’s blog at https://cherrykat75.com/
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Kathleen Cherrington, Keely O'Brien, Helen Martin, and Amanda Selvaggi. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, The Academic Excellence Fund, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations, and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please visit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V3BrcFkvrpG7Lr5Mk90JykCCsw1Mc8yD?usp=share_link
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources:
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
Crisis Text Line- https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/sexual-abuse/#understanding-sexual-abuse-1
Welcome back to Sexuality Studies Spotlight! This episode introduces Amanda Selvaggi as our new undergraduate host. Amanda is joined by Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa, a gender nonbinary queer woman of colour and Ph.D. Sociology candidate at York University, community organizer and educator, creative writer and poet. Their research, teaching, organizing, and art converge on topics of race and racism, queer and trans belonging, feminism, the sociology of health, and social justice. In this episode, they discuss Jade’s community and scholarly work as well as their time at York.
Find more of Jade’s work at:
Jade’s website: https://www.jadecrimson.com/
Erotic Pedagogy: IG: https://www.instagram.com/eroticpedagogy/
YouTube With Erotic Pedagogy Videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/JadeRoseSociology
The People's Pantry (Cofounder): http://thepeoplespantryto.com/
Jade’s ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jade-Da-Costa
New Sociology: Journal of Critical Praxis (Founder and EIC): https://nsjcp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/default
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Kathleen Cherrington, Keely O'Brien, Helen Martin, and Amanda Selvaggi. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, The Academic Excellence Fund, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations, and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please visit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V3BrcFkvrpG7Lr5Mk90JykCCsw1Mc8yD?usp=share_link
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources:
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
Crisis Text Line- https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/sexual-abuse/#understanding-sexual-abuse-1
In this week’s episode, Keely is joined by Stephanie Jonsson, a former sexuality studies undergraduate and current Ph.D Candidate in the York Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies Department. They chat about Steph’s experience at York and her research with 2S-LGBTQ+ older adults and their experiences with remote services during the pandemic. They also discuss Steph’s work founding the Ontario Digital Literacy and Access Network (ODLAN).
Find more of Steph’s work here: https://www.instagram.com/femdemic_creations/
Learn more about ODLAN here: https://www.odlan.ca/
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Angela Stanley, Kathleen Cherrington, Sarah Westerhof, Helen Martin, and Keely O'Brien. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations, and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please visit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lsQg_pH4sS8DRb22h3YRE8W2D3oDWiZ7?usp=sharing
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources:
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
Crisis Text Line- https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/sexual-abuse/#understanding-sexual-abuse-1
Today Helen chats with Natalia Bonczek about feminism, art-based research, mental health, and learning from Indigenous scholars at York University. We cover some of Natalia’s most inspiring professors and classes that led to transitioning from a Psychology Undergrad to a Gender, Sexuality and Women’s studies major and how this led to pursuing a Master’s degree researching Madness (mental health from lived experience). We learn more about how Natalia uses art to build community and think critically about complicated topics. Natalia encourages any curious mind to explore the possibilities of feminism and artmaking and provides practical advice for first-year university students.
Natalia’s work can be found at: www.nebx.ca
Read more about Natalia’s publication “Misster E” at:https://yourreview.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/yourreview/article/view/40698/36990
Links referred to in Land Acknowledgment
https://www.mcgill.ca/indigenous/
https://calgaryfoundation.org/about-us/reconciliation/land-acknowledgement/
https://aboriginal.info.yorku.ca/land-acknowledgment/
https://theeyeopener.com/2021/03/opinion-before-you-state-a-land-acknowledgement-mean-it/
https://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/
https://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/
https://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdf
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Angela Stanley, Kathleen Cherrington, Sarah Westerhof, Helen Martin, and Keely O'Brien. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations, and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please visit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lsQg_pH4sS8DRb22h3YRE8W2D3oDWiZ7?usp=sharing
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources:
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
Crisis Text Line- https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/sexual-abuse/#understanding-sexual-abuse-1
This week Keely is joined by York sexuality studies alumna Alexandra Latter. They discuss Alex’s time at York and her work in virtual healthcare and mental health services during the pandemic. Alex shares how a sexuality studies degree can help in a variety of industries and the unexpected benefits of having a sexuality and gender studies background in tech.
Connect with Alex on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-latter/
Watch Alex’s talk "You've Been Disconnected: Supporting the Right to Access Healthcare for Marginalized People in a Virtual Context” at RightsCon: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11syHWr-ZLyBtC0Pyly-nxkfIVi3gg1gL/view?usp=sharing
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Angela Stanley, Kathleen Cherrington, Sarah Westerhof, Helen Martin, and Keely O'Brien. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations, and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please visit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lsQg_pH4sS8DRb22h3YRE8W2D3oDWiZ7?usp=sharing
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources:
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
Crisis Text Line- https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/sexual-abuse/#understanding-sexual-abuse-1
In today’s episode, host Helen Martin is talking to Lovepreet Kaur who is joining us from Ludhiana in Punjab, India. They discuss Lovepreet's research on the comparison of human rights between India and Canada and Lovepreet’s current position as the 2021-2022 Visiting Scholar at the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at York. Lovepreet discusses her experience at York's Centre for Feminist Research and the support they've provided to her, the pandemic's effect on her work, and her advice for sexuality scholars.
Learn more about Lovepreet’s work here: https://sites.google.com/view/lovepreetk/home
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Angela Stanley, Kathleen Cherrington, Sarah Westerhof, Helen Martin, and Keely O'Brien. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations, and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please visit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lsQg_pH4sS8DRb22h3YRE8W2D3oDWiZ7?usp=sharing
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources:
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
Crisis Text Line- https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/sexual-abuse/#understanding-sexual-abuse-1
Welcome back to Sexuality Studies Spotlight! In the first episode of season two, host Keely O’Brien is joined by York’s Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) coordinator Dr. Andi Schwartz. They discuss Andi’s research interests in femme subjectivities, critical femininities, and the rapidly changing world of online subcultures from Tumblr to Instagram and beyond.
Find more of Andi’s work at: https://www.instagram.com/acafemmeic/and https://andischwartzwrites.com/
Learn more about the York CFR here: https://www.yorku.ca/cfr/
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Angela Stanley, Kathleen Cherrington, Sarah Westerhof, Helen Martin, and Keely O'Brien. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations, and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please visit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lsQg_pH4sS8DRb22h3YRE8W2D3oDWiZ7?usp=sharing
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources:
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
Crisis Text Line- https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/sexual-abuse/#understanding-sexual-abuse-1
In this season’s final episode, Helen is joined by Amy Saunders, a York graduate who currently works as the Director of Communications and Marketing at Diva, the makers of the DivaCup. Amy’s entrepreneurial career has spanned from her own PR and communications firm for films centring on marginalized stories to writing for SheDoesTheCity.com.
Amy's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theprpriestess/
Find more of Amy’s writing here:https://www.theprpriestess.com/
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Angela Stanley, Sarah Westerhof, Helen Martin, and Keely O'Brien. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please go to: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Fd1OU-gN6Jb530wj2wMSP1n8Ko3AEMqv?usp=sharing
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
From social media hashtags to virtual grad school, in this episode Keely O’Brien is joined by Fikiswa Tsabedze, who recently completed a Masters in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies at York with a focus on hegemonic femininity created through social media discourses in Eswatini. Her research considers what type of women are valued and the kind of ‘womanhood’ and ‘femininity’ that’s accepted, and what that means for women who fall short.
Find Fikiswa’s work with Weave News here: https://www.weavenews.org/series/conflicting-emotions
Read Fikiswa’s personal blog here: https://www.fikiswat.com/
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Angela Stanley, Sarah Westerhof, Helen Martin, and Keely O'Brien. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please go to: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Fd1OU-gN6Jb530wj2wMSP1n8Ko3AEMqv?usp=sharing
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
This week’s episode features feminism, filmmaking, and sexuality. Helen is joined by GFWS MA student, Marina Mathieu. Marina is a filmmaker and activist whose current research studies, among other things, the sexual representation of Black women in Quebec television.
Find Marina on Instagram @m2.0.talks
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Angela Stanley, Sarah Westerhof, Helen Martin, and Keely O'Brien. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please go to: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Fd1OU-gN6Jb530wj2wMSP1n8Ko3AEMqv?usp=sharing
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
Welcome to another episode about sexuality, desirability politics, and…zombies? This week, undergraduate host Keely O’Brien is joined by GFWS Ph.D. candidate Bridget Liang, whose research is located at the intersection of trans and autistic people's experiences with their families.
Bridget’s website: https://bridgetliang.wordpress.com/
Bridget’s book, What Makes You Beautiful: https://www.formaclorimerbooks.ca/Book/3083/What-Makes-You-Beautiful.html
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Angela Stanley, Sarah Westerhof, Helen Martin, and Keely O'Brien. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please go to: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Fd1OU-gN6Jb530wj2wMSP1n8Ko3AEMqv?usp=sharing
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
This season’s first official episode discusses discourses and desires across India and Canada. Undergraduate host Helen Martin is joined by GFWS Ph.D. candidate Shraddha Chatterjee, whose research examines how Hindu nationalist sentiment has been mobilized alongside transnational and globalized notions of Queer Liberalism in India.
Shraddha’s website: https://www.shraddhachatterjee.com/
Find Shraddha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shadypoetricks
TRIGGER WARNING: FOR DISCUSSION OF SUICIDE
http://www.suicide.org/hotlines/international/canada-suicide-hotlines.html
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Angela Stanley, Sarah Westerhof, Helen Martin, and Keely O'Brien. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please go to: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Fd1OU-gN6Jb530wj2wMSP1n8Ko3AEMqv?usp=sharing
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources:
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/
Welcome to the preview episode of Sexuality Studies Spotlight - a podcast where we highlight what you can do with your sexuality studies degree. Scholar and activist Dr. Nick Mule is the program coordinator of the York University Sexuality Studies Program.
Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Angela Stanley, Sarah Westerhof, Helen Martin, and Keely O'Brien. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.
For a written transcript of this episode, please go to: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Fd1OU-gN6Jb530wj2wMSP1n8Ko3AEMqv?usp=sharing
Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.
Resources
York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/
Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/