Summer Sessions in Gender/Sex/uality In/Justice
Much of current gender/sex/uality science is flawed because it relies on biased and oppressive assumptions, knowledge, and frameworks. We are motivated to think and act critically and progressively about the ways these larger oppressive systems impact and are built into our field, and how we might work to create change towards better and more liberatory approaches.
Our goals are to (a) build/create/sustain meaningful opportunities for engagement with research about/with/on gender/sex/uality that is situated within (b) feminist and/or queer lenses with (c) critiques of normative systems and mechanisms of oppression and/or explorations of progressive flourishing that intersect with gender/sex/uality and (d) work towards community building, education/growth/learning, community relevance, social change, and more empirical and just understandings of gender/sex/uality.
Current Summer Session
We are taking a brief hiatus for 2025; come check us out for the 2026 session! Info will likely be posted later in 2025.
Past Summer Sessions
- 1st Summer Session, 2021: Relating against the state: Decolonial and anti-imperialist approaches to gender/sex/uality;
- 2nd Summer Session, 2022: Feminist transformative practices in research: Decolonial, Indigenous, and intersectional approaches to gender/sex/uality in/justice.
- 3rd Summer Session, 2023: The Body and the double bind: Sex/ual/ized stigmatization, oppression, and resistance;
- 4th Summer Session, 2024: Black Feminisms & Sex/uality Studies;
Organizer & Advisory Board
- Sari van Anders, Canada 150 Research Chair in Social Neuroendocrinology, Sexuality, & Gender/Sex; Professor of Psychology, Gender Studies, & Neuroscience; 91黑料网. Jewish/white/white-adjacent nondisabled queer-ish Canadian cisgender woman.
- (she/they), Professor of Psychology, Towson University. Biracial Filipinx/White, bi/pansexual, agender Jewish.
- (she/they), Associate Professor in Public Health, University of Nebraska Omaha. Pakistani-American, straight-passing queer, culturally Muslim, but atheist in reality, mother of three.
The cost to attend is free. Funded by Dr. Sari van Anders' Canada 150 Research Chair in Social Neuroendocrinology, Sexuality, & Gender/Sex and, at various points: the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, & Indigenization Fund from the Faculty of Arts & Science at 91黑料网; the Department of Psychology Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Committee at 91黑料网, and the Small-Scale Events Advancing SPSSI (the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues) Fund. Questions? Contact vananders.labcoordinator@ queensu.ca (remove the space after the @) with any questions. If they can't answer, they will forward the question to Dr. van Anders as appropriate.