2025-2026 Fall/Winter
WGS337H5S - Special Topics in Women and Gender Studies: Bodies That Matter: Disability, Sexual Subjectivity and the Politics of Desire (Instructor: G. Pelletier)
This special topics course is a primer in critical disability studies with a focus on sex and sexuality. It analyzes the role disability plays in the construction of contemporary sexual subjectivities from within both local and global contexts. The course is organized around five conceptual themes: normality, deservingness, pleasure, technology, and activism.
WGS434H5F - Special Topics in Women and Gender Studies: Pedagogy of Protest (Instructor: B. Bain)
This course focuses on the critical journey and complexities, tensions, and pedagogical possibilities of contemporary forms of resistance to repressive structures, institutions, and practices. The course engages teaching, learning, and various forms of resistance and refusals, such as teach-ins, encampments, blockades, performance, art, poetry, social media, and street protests.
WGS434H5S - Special Topics in Women and Gender Studies: Gender and Extremism (Instructor: V. Tahmasebi-Birgani)
This seminar provides an in-depth examination of contemporary extremist discourses, including alt-right populist movements, far-left extremism, and religious fundamentalism, and will emphasize their conceptual and theoretical foundations through an intersectional feminist lens. By analyzing contemporary online cultural practices and current events within the digital media landscape, the seminar investigates how extremist politics intersect with emerging technologies of governance and communication in the digital era.