In this thesis, I bring Afropessimist/Black studies theories of Blackness and social death into conversation with Black feminist, decolonial, and trans studies scholars to think about the experiences of racialized gender violence (anti-Black violence) for Black trans women. To d…
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This thesis investigates components of Black communities’ diasporic activism through a community archives project at La Maison d’Haïti, a Montreal community-based organization founded by Haitian student activists in the early 1970s. The study examines how community archiving and…
This thesis is the first ethnographic attempt to study contemporary dissident activism in Vietnam. As a country that became known and keeps being remembered as a war-torn postcolony by the West, Vietnam has managed to lift itself from one of the poorest to one of the fastest gro…
The past three decades have seen the term ‘trans’ circulate more widely in Britain and the United States, moving from the obscurity of activist and legal discourses in the 1990s into the spotlight of mainstream media, cultural production, and national politics. In popular discou…
In Taiwan, abortion ritual attempts to appease or rescue Yingling (fetus spirits), who are the spirits of fetuses that have died from abortions or miscarriages. Within most contemporary religious discourse, abortion is seen as an inappropriate means of ending a life. Yingling ar…
This dissertation explores how several Arab NGOs in Morocco, Palestine, Egypt and Kuwait practiced human rights from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Drawing on institutional archives and interviews, it argues that these organizations provide new insights into the history of h…
Documentary films play a significant role in promoting activism and socio-political change in Pakistan. Documentaries created by Pakistani filmmakers have received international recognition and critical acclaim through numerous platforms including the Academy Awards, Berlinale T…
This thesis examines the collective memory of Toronto’s Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement (GLLM) in the 1970s and 1980s through queer cultural memory. This queer cultural memory is informed by photographs and articles of protest and violence in the gay liberation magazine, The…
Young American Jews are increasingly diverging from the American Jewish consensus on Zionism, while theoretical arguments for Jewish diasporism have been developed over the past several decades. I argue in this thesis that over the past half-decade, Jewish diasporism has develop…
This qualitative oral study study’s primary purpose is to elicit, preserve, and explore personal stories from individuals who participated in the April 2018 Oklahoma Teacher Walkout. The study also builds understanding of narrators’ experiences of the events surrounding the Walk…
For transgender and gender-expansive people, medical transition is not a single event but a long and complex process involving constant exchanges between people, bureaucracy, and bodies. As patients pursue transition care, they must interact not only with healthcare staff but al…
"In this lively narrative, newcomers to women's and gender studies, feminist politics, history, and sociology explore a refreshing take on a subject matter often loaded with assumptions. Feminist theories are viewed through the critical intersections of race, class, sexuality, a…
"In this lively narrative, newcomers to women's and gender studies, feminist politics, history, and sociology explore a refreshing take on a subject matter often loaded with assumptions. Feminist theories are viewed through the critical intersections of race, class, sexuality, a…
"In this lively narrative, newcomers to women's and gender studies, feminist politics, history, and sociology explore a refreshing take on a subject matter often loaded with assumptions. Feminist theories are viewed through the critical intersections of race, class, sexuality, a…