feminism
  • 6 years 5 months ago

Catfights galor(ified)

Women’s representation in the media is much like a boxing ring. Imagine Taylor Swift in one corner and Katy Perry in the other. The media is both the referee and commentator, egging them on.Continue...
The Rt. Hon. Tricia Marwick, left, gave a Principal’s Forum speech on Scotland’s constitutional journey at Grant Hall last Saturday.
  • 8 years 2 months ago

Rt. Hon. Tricia Marwick gives series of talks in honour of bicentenary

The Right Honourable Tricia Marwick, in the spirit of Sir John A. Macdonald’s work for representative government and political reform, gave a series of lectures at Queen’s on Friday and Saturday regarding the constitutional journey of Scotland and the importance of bringing young women into politics.Continue...

Collective Reflections was present at the open house.
  • 8 years 4 months ago

Third annual Women’s Worth Week concludes

This week, Women’s Worth Week (WWW) aimed to highlight issues of gender-based violence and discrimination.Continue...

Kingstonians protest violence against women.
  • 8 years 6 months ago

Kingston women seek to take back the night

After over 30 years of the annual Kingston Take Back the Night march, the event’s message remains the same.Continue...
  • 8 years 12 months ago

Cease fire

The debate between feminists and men’s issues groups has been extremely toxic these last two weeks.Continue...

Masters students Colin Hasting and Dan Vena created Men Who Like Feminism in response to attitudes about gender on campus.
  • 10 years 5 months ago

Men take on misogyny

When Dan Vena came to do his Masters in Gender Studies at Queen’s last year, he was shocked by what he described as a hyper-masculine campus culture.
Vena approached one of his fellow classmates, Colin Hastings, also MA ’14, and together they created the idea for a new campus group, Men Who Like Feminism.Continue...

In August, multiple Iranian universities changed approximately 80 courses to male-only, which range from BA to BSc.
  • 10 years 6 months ago

Fundamental feminism

The first female scholars admitted to the University of Tehran were in 1934. Reza Shah, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, was successful in implementing the modern values that were previously melded into Persian society by its intellectuals. Now in 2012, almost 100 years after such ground-breaking movements, multiple universities in the Islamic Republic of Iran have closed almost 80 university programs to women.Continue...

Martha Schabas has her Masters in English from Queen's University.
  • 11 years 6 months ago

Schabas on point

A review with Queen's grad and new author Martha Schabas.Continue...

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